No one should pay for slavery because every race and nation is guiltily of encouraging and carrying out acts of slavery during their history. To think that reparations would solve even 20% of the problems is laughable.
So because other people in the past and other nations got away with EVIL i, the people of today and this nation should be able to get away with EVIL too. So its also true that men used to rape women and children without consequences, but today we put them in jail. Thats how terrible and flawed your logic is.
@@tinalove8197 I'm sorry that you've been hurt, or somebody you know has been hurt, that you feel you need to be vindicated. It's painful. I've been there too. You want revenge. You want to return the pain that you've felt. Allow yourself to forgive others. Find peace in your soul, to move forward, forgive and move on. Humans have lived on earth for thousands on thousands of years. If we didn't forgive and move on, there would be no peace. There would only be constant war, hate, and revenge.
There have been reparations paid in the US (Japanese internment, etc). Other countries have done so as well. I encourage you to research the topic yourself.
Stop telling minority kids they're victims but are the masters of their own fate thru hard work and you'll have happier, successful people and you'll extinguish the gap.
so true!! they should just pull themselves up by their bootstrapes, because racism has been elimimated when slavery was abolished surely systemic racism doesnt exist and stifles prospects of a better life significantly, right?
making ppl pay reparations for something they didnt do, for ppl which arent alive anymore, is bs. looks like its all about the money, whilst telling people its about justice.
Another issue... not all American states had slavery. I can trace the roots of my White family from New York all the way back to the civil war. My ancestors fought in the civil war and died in battle to end slavery. I'm sure that was a huge burden to my family during that time. Now hundreds of years later my family would be bound to pay for slavery.... again? That is not justice!
@@kva7922046 Nope, people born today had nothing to do with slaves, if you want a check go to africa since it was their organization that started the whole thing
And education for better jobs and housing. Being allowed to live wherever you can afford, which still isn’t a thing. Equal pay, equal property value assessment, healthcare, etc. It’s pretty much everything.
@@JCB576 If it happened recently yes. But we all have nothing to do with what happened more than a hundred years ago. Stop looking for a free lunch from those who do work and quit the victim/grifter mentality.
@@SuperMerlot I mean in some cases it wasn't even 100 years ago and these folks are still alive. And it does have to do with with folks nowadays, because they are only succesfull by taking somebody elses house/ground etc.
I think that the 3 elderly people who had their property taken should be compensated in a normal legal procedure. But descendants of people who experienced injustice cannot be compensated for acts done by people who are deceased. Unfortunately past injustice is a fact of life and it affects all people. I think that it has to be forgiven or it will lead to bitterness and conflict.
@@MichaelScottRamming It's true that many of the descendants of people who committed injustices benefitted, but it many good things we done by the same people from which we have all benefitted. When the matter goes beyond a single generation the choice is either a long-running feud or lasting forgiveness in my view.
Yes i want reperations for what the japanese did to my indonesian grandma for what the russians did and are doing for my Ukranian grandparents and what Germany did to my dutch grandfather. Than ill pay african americans for something my family had nothing to do with.
Even if the descendants of slave owners paid up today there wouldn't be enough to go around for everyone, many would go bankrupt before everyone got their "fair share".
Reparations are the sort of thing that sound good in theory, but would be impossible to adequately implement in practice and which would cause tremendous problems going forward. It would be a terrible misapplication of a noble intention. The better path forward is to create more opportunities and access to those opportunities for everyone, rather than to dish out large sums of money based on someone's race.
Yeah, but those opportunities never come. I’d take the cash. I am sure Wall Street could be incentivised to create a debt instrument. They sell sun and wind as money.
If descendants of Andrew Jackson, by way of his siblings, are to this very day still given a trust equivalent to the amount of total cost to finish undergraduate and graduate degrees which funds was originally made from slavery then same can be done to former slaves. Yes, Phil Jackson got paid out in 70’s believe he got 50k. My coworker a Jackson got 200k in 90’s. Bo Jackson got nothing. And yes by way of US Census he can trace to a former slave of “Old Hickory.”
Strange it's never complicated for any other group to receive reparations, and that includes people that America didn't even harm like the people in Guam.
I say: "do it!", while I watch from a safe distance. I have given up in trying to convince people of doing the smart thing. But this seems to have good comedic potential for everyone who is far away.
It is true that the pursuit of reparations has faced resistance and opposition from various quarters, predominately from those who benefit from the existing power structures and historical inequalities. White supremacy, as a system that perpetuates racial hierarchies and privileges,has been a barrier to efforts aimed at rectifying historical injustices.
Everyone is descended from people who were treated inhumanly by todays standards. Being compensated for slavery you never experienced or having taxpayers pay off people they (and likely their distant ancestors) never enslaved is creating a new injustice. If there are reparations, maybe the ancestors of those who received reparations will one day have to pay back those whose ancestors paid those reparations? But that should only happen several generations later to ensure that it will be impossible to allocate the reparations for reparations in even a pysdo-fair way.
Well said. Imagine if Europe and the UK had to pay back from all the imperial expansion from the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s... Africa would never be able to move forward from all of their inter border conflicts over the past hundreds of years.. Every country, on every continent would be guilty in some manner..
wtf? slavery made those white families super rich, is not about "inhuman treatments", is about the specific slavery that happened in the US that produced massive wealth for a very long time
If they are to receive reparations, maybe it should be from places in Africa where their ancestors were sold to the white slavers. Europeans did not invent the slave trade, they merely took advantage of it.
@@markhirstwood4190 No, money only exemplifies your attitude. There is a reason many lottery winners go broke. If you can't handle a little, you won't be able to handle a lot either.
They interviewed a bunch of potential reparations recipients in California a few weeks ago. The majority of the responses described pretty much wasting it.
So give money to people who were never slaves to tax people who never owned a slave 🙄. How about the Japanese Americans in interment camps or Native Americans who were murdered in mass and had their lands stolen, where is there check?
You don't know American History do you? The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20,000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II In 1946, the Indian Claims Commission formed to hear the historical grievances of Native Americans and to determine restitution. As a result of the commission's findings, the government set aside $1.3 billion as compensation for 176 tribes and organizations.
@@bobburger7881 I didn't know that so thank you. But I still have a problem with giving money to someone that was never a slave to tax people who never owned a slave. I find that comical at best. This is from the 1860s? So something that happened 160 plus years ago when my dad's, dad, dad wasn't even born yet effects me today? And why you ask? Because after all that time African Americans still can't get it together enough to make it work for them? Is America a more racist place today them the 1950s? No of course not. I don't think throwing money at it will help anything at all. The news story said 20 billion dollars? That's a big number compared to 20k? Where is that money going to come from? You have to tax someone or cut some program somewhere? And as I said the political cost for any republican voting for something like that in today's environment would be political suicide.
@@mikeglenn5212 you didn't watch the video or fully read the quotes I supplied. 1. The video goes on to explain how the lack of compensation or assistance for newly freed slaves had generational effects that are still felt to this day. 2. $20,000 was provided per eligible recipient. 125,000 plus Japanese/Asian people were sent to those camps. I'll let you do the math. Why should I explain systemic racism to someone who doesn't want to learn?
My family never owned slaves. Most of my ancestors didn't even come to the U.S. until after slavery was gone. So why am I paying people for slavery that my ancestors weren't involved in?
Only in a free country can people make demands like this, even if they were not slaves themselves. Maybe it is better sending those, who complain, to Africa and see what real suffering looks like and how much of a gap there is between rich Africans and poor Africans.
I would love to be sent to Africa! Send me! But don't forget, 1) The money necessary to pay for my plane ride 2) The money necessary to re-purchase land that my family lost when stolen from land that belonged to us but now your people are benefiting from by continuing the theft of its resources 3) Any fees for visas, passports, and citizenship applications 4) Don't forget all the free labor that you and others now benefit from. It wouldn't be right to expect work with no pay. You might bankrupt the nation, but this is a moral, free, God-fearing country right? Very soon, reparations won't be an option, it will be mandatory.
Its not just a racial divide, thought the racial minority is on the wrong side of the curve, its a wealth divide in our society as a whole. Too many people dont have enough, while a select few have entirely to much, we need a complete rework of our economic system to balance the wealth in any meaningful way.
@@kevinmccurley4573 Not what I'm saying at all, nobody should have to work 60 hrs and still not have enough to support themselves, and absolutely no CEO works 350x harder than any employee, yet they get paid that amount. I get they have more responsibility so they should get paid more, but the top has gotten so inflated that hard working people are being suffocated.
@thejuize06 I empathize with what you say. But the CEO's can only earn what those companies are willing to pay. The companies determine the value, and their shareholders must agree to the terms.
@@thejuize06 The trouble is it wouldn't affect the top guys it would affect the little guy struggling already to take care of his family! That is how it always works out!
@@edwarddelagarza958 African-Americans whose ancestors came over as slaves can usually trace their lineage back to west africa, around current day Liberia.
One grievously underestimated contributing factor to the “racial wealth gap” is a generalized ignorance regarding basic money management-including basic investing and the importance of savings to future wealth outcomes…. A 2010 study (which is ongoing) comparing the “wealth accumulation” of different groups over time, found that among African Americans, Latinos, and recent Asian immigrants, within ten years, the Asian immigrants had accumulated 15X the wealth of African Americans, and 9X the wealth of Latinos. Particularly striking was the rate of savings between the three groups, with Asians saving, on average, 20% of earned income, Latinos, 12%….and African Americans, less than 2%…. What is important about the above study is that its results mimic other, similar ones….Whatever is decided upon in regards to reparations, serious thought must be put into adding money management courses as a mandatory requirement to a public school education….
You want to help them make schools better make healthcare , make their neighberhoods safe. Free education ,ect. Just giving money to individuals will solve nothing.
Education in the U.S. is totally controlled by the Democrats who seem to have no interest in making schools "equal" for all the kids. During the lockdown, the state made money available for laptops for students that didn't have them. A YEAR later, kids in mostly minority schools were still waiting for their laptops and Zoom classes, while schools in the white areas were up and running the first week. We can and should do better for our kids.
Forcing everybody to be worth the same amount of money is not a legitimate government function. It is also not reparations. Race entitles you to nothing. Race convicts you of nothing. Sharing the race of a victim does not make you a victim. Sharing the race of a villian does not make you a villian. Being related to a victim does not make you a victim. The dead owe and are owed nothing. Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations. Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators. Nobody gets paid reparations for being a race.
That’s not a critical way of thinking about the issue. It’s not a communistic claim , it’s a historical lineage based claim. It’s trillions of dollars for harm done and it’s irrefutable and not the same.
@@Anointed012 Exactly; Prove the harm that has been done to you. Prove who did it. Send the bill. Simple. Being related to a victim does not make you a victim, however.
We payed for both to the effected countries, what they did or didn't do with the money is on them. Don't make false equivalences just because you people aren't able to own up to your faults.
@@00nigirimeshi who's own faults? modern day people were not responsible for slavery, nor are any of the people who migrated to the USA between the end of slavery and today. However modern day people are responsible for their own actions and achievements in life. Throwing money at people isn't going to solve the social issues that are the root cause of the problems. How about you own up to your faults as well.
South Africa created a truth and reconciliation commission after apartheid ended, Rwanda did too after the Tutsi genocide, and Canada did as well when abuse in First Nations residential schools were exposed. The United States really needs to do the same.
Except that in South Africa and Rwanda the directly affected parties were still alive, with Canada it already didn't end well. And now you want to pay reperations to people who were never enslaved to begin with? And do you think things like quotas and affirmative action are?
Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations. Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators. I don't know of anybody who opposes that.
It is very interesting that they 1) They don't demand any reparations from other nations. 2) They completely disregard the effects of slavery trade on African states. 3) They want more money, instead more seats in a senate, or some piece of land with autonomy. 4) They do not demand any compensation actually from some of the African states that participated in the trade and supplied prisoners of war to the market. 5) They do not take into account that the later waves of immigrants did not participated in slavery trade or benefited from it. Although, they may have implicitly benefited from the racial discrimination which is debatable. 6) They ultimate goal is to make another 90% of population to pay them for their education, healthcare, land and financial aid. 7) They do not realize that it may create a dangerous situation where the minority is legally more privileged than majority while this minority is effectively has no power to protect itself from retaliation. It may destabilize the country. Some states may refuse to execute federal order to pay if such is enacted. Moreover the hate may reach the heating point and explode in a social unrest or even civil war. In my opinion, they should act smarter and just ask the federal government for help without mentioning any history. Maybe put in the same line other American minorities that suffer from wealth gap. In general, it seems these guy are more concerned about money than justice and just exploit the past to push their political agenda.
I stopped reading after #1 as it is factually wrong. You need to look outside your own bubble. All over the world people who have been repressed are seeking reparations, including the U.K., Australia, etc. Nations are cutting their ties with colonialist entities that has relegated the UK to what it is, an island of people that have what they have from the backs of others. It is the source of their wealth. The United States is equally responsible. Most of its problems comes because of their bravado to stick their noses where it doesn't belong and dictate to their whims. And they continue to do it today. For example, the problem with the southern border is directly correlated to Iran Contra, sanctions, etc. which are all of US's doing. You want a solution? Take good hard look in the mirror. And you have the gall wonder why people look to the US and other European nations for reparations? Please7
So proud to have a German heritage, German people in general are full of integrity and have atoned for the past ills. Most Caucasian Americans don’t even come close and apparently 80% who oppose reparations are cowards and unintelligent to not be able to understand a simple concept like reparations for their original sin.
OMW....WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO STOP USING THE PAST TO ENRICH THEIR FUTURE...NEWSFLASH....ONE MUST ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN TO GET EDUCATED AND EARN A LIVING.. SICK OF THIS BS ......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s a shame that white slave holders and proponents of Jim Crow didn’t want to work hard use their brains or earn a living themselves. They wanted to cruelly exploit others for their benefit leading to the problems we have today.
It would have a huge negative effect on the economy, making the money useless anyways or creating a huge real estate bubble. If all nations has to pay back for how they have threated others for the last hundreds of years, i think most nation states would go bankrupt because of the huge population boost we have had the last 100 years.
@@tomlxyz Benefitted? Slaves weren't had for free son- further your education please People had to have ships , sail deadly oceans, pay and deal with deadly vicious traders that gathered slaves from African leaders who sold them to these sumarians. Sad but that was the norm, crying don't change that and paying people money now is like paying your kid because you yelled at them instead of really meaning you are sorry, what does that teach anyone? So, anyone that benefited just made a smart business deal, not a world I'd want to be part of but I'd imagine it is somewhat normal but thankfully bitter sweet to many. So- how do you just block out all the slave, abuse and torture going on today, it's happening now, what are you doing to stop it? Pretty cowardly to safely point fingers at people that are dead, why aren't you pointing at the abusers that are 'benefiting' off human suffering now?
Going bankrupt would be a small price to pay considering the repercussions of not repaying. Judgement from the Most High is coming. Repayment is coming either willingly or unwillingly.
The family sold the land back to the city for $20 M? Dumb!!! The family could have kept the land, built buildings on the land, rented the apartments and stores, and made BILLIONS!!!! Dumb!!!!!
What good is reparations without financial intelligence. If reparations are given then it should be in the form of equity or taxes. That is a true way to build wealth.
They are waiting for the 3 survivors to die and turn around and say their descendent can't claim reparation.Yet they had a opportunity to repair the issue when they were alive!
In the meantime, Indian-Americans and Asian-Americans are the highest earners in the US. But one must value education and self responsibility to get the American dream.
mostly because the US selects from the top 5 precent of human capital. Illiterate ones don't get to come here. Almost all that are allowed to come here either have a great high school educations or a secondary education. If the best African Americans are selected to move to say the UK, I am pretty sure they will out earn most demographics in that example.
@@erenyaeger9407 Have you seen who comes across the southern border? An Afghani family moved into my complex. Barely speak english. Took any jobs they could get. Now, they are sending a kid to college.
Both my parents are immigrants. My dad was homeless. Now they live in a 4,000 SQ ft house. It was not given to them. I agree slaves were owed money. No one is born a slave is alive anymore. Too late sadly.
HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
*Amazing❤️🙌Being able to provide all my needs without the help of the Government is really a dream come through and I’m getting $50,000 returns from my 10k investment, Glory to the everlasting God almighty.*
Quite impressive but HOW!!?😊 I know it's possible, my colleague at work always get 40K every week, I would appreciate if you show me how to go about it.
It comes down to laziness and greed, not made up reasons aka excuses. It's no secret that the gap is based on their own lack of motivation and behavior. Give them nothing.
The damage has been done, unfortunately. The American government has favored people of European decent. That's one the reasons why the slave owners were compensated, not the enslaved. Reparations will never happen and anyone who has a bit of education knows it. I feel sorry for anyone who has put any energy into the notion that it will. We can't even get simple humanity. I still feel fortunate to have been born in this country. I would not have wanted it any other way. It's not perfect, but no country is.
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I never stole a thing in my life. It wouldn’t even equal out all the stolen property and land that hasn’t been given back. Get your tears ready tho. Next few years it will happen
@@YeahHeSaidit HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
OH, YOU MEAN LIKE HOW THIS LAND WAS STOLEN FROM THE NATIVES? OR THE INVENTIONS THAT KEMET ASCENT INVENTED IN WHITE STOLE THEIR INVENTIONS AND PUT THEIR NAMES ON IT? AND AFRICAN BEING STOLEN FROM THEIR OWN LAND USED LIKE GARBAGE.I was going to say & treated like dogs but You all love dogs!!! LOOK THIEVES CAN'T TALK ABOUT ANYONE STILLING AT ALL!!!
How does that work? Who should receive that money? People who don't want to work? This is exactly what they want, money without work, that's the reason of the wealth gap...
I suspect that most people are against the idea principally because it means taking money from people who never owned slaves and giving it to people who never were slaves. Injustice today does not undo injustice of the past.
Sure, the people that developed a class system based on skin colors and the people that bought in to this nonsense were the biggest grifters and the beneficiaries/losers of them all
People who spread these lies and try to promote USA hate, fail to mention that the USA would never would have gone to Iraq or Afghanistan if, 2 airplanes smashed into the tallest buildings in New York City, a 3rd ran into the Pentagon, and a 4th targeted the president of the USA. The war started when these planes attacked America first on 9/11.
How would that work, exactly? Rural school districts have much lower costs of living than cities or suburbs. Should rural school districts there get the same funding as districts that have to pay much more for teachers to earn a reasonable living?
Maybe they should just tax the rich the same way they tax the normal person on the street. The unfortunate truth is that the financial system of the entire world is built to benefit only the rich. It is a tale az old as time. I do also think the US can spend a bit less on the millitary and a bit more on programs you mentioned as well. The US has money to make that happen, but they love their overspending on their millitary instead of things that would improve the lives of their citizens.
This is just addressing the pathological victimhood of African Americans. The thought is we, as American taxpayers, should foot the bill for crimes that weren't even crimes at the time, committed by people who have been dead for generations. Why on EARTH would I be in any way responsible today for something that happened prior to 1865?
because it was promised by the government back when those people were alive... then it was taken away or never given in the first place. its a debt never paid
@@xsnap But that opens the flood gates. Depending on how far back you wanna go, my people are definitely owed reparations by the Italians because of the Romans. Reparations would only ever make sense if the direct victims are still alive.
No it can’t. Its hard to play catch up. Throwing cash or whatever won’t fix it because problems have only gotten worse. Giving in to white supremacy and dumping Reconstruction only made things worse. But maybe it can help? I’m not sure how to fix that myself.
150 years ago! Yeah the courts will declare any of this nonsense UNCONSTITUTIONAL! You cannot discriminate and pay anyone for no damages since they are living 150 years after an event! Thats Constitutional Law! Period end of story.
Have you recently read the constitution my friend. Cause I don't see anything about "you cannot discriminate and pay anyone for no damages since they are living 150 years after an even!".
You mean the citizens that benefited from Jim Crow - the legalized apartheid based system that favored whites for over one hundred years after slavery? To argue that white folks that arrived in the us post slavery saw no benefit is absurd
Because we live in a society that based its development on the slave trade and still benefits from the results of that activity. These damages should have been paid out decades ago!
@@Jim-c6eThat was only half of the development. The North was more wealthy for the majority of people than the south which was more beneficial to a few families. Many PoC immigrants come here & do well.
Most people against reparations realize that the best way to close the wealth gap is through education, good parents and work ethic. Free money doesnt solve that.
@@georgejackson2631 That's a joke right? What are the 'biological differences' between African-Americans and Nigerian-Americans for example? Seeing that Nigerian-Americans are the most educated and most successful of ALL races, that pretty much destroys your 'skin color' claim. But on the other hand, the differences in culture are drastically different. Stable households, an understanding of the importance in education and reliance on self responsibility for starters. Your argument is predictable but flawed at it's core.
Yes it does. As soon as you get on Basic Income or get a good change in circumstances, your thinking gets better, you feel better, you can eat better, sleep better, meet better people, on and on. Education has nothing to do with it. No schools can make you prudent. Many bad people had good parents. Work ethic is just one part of what makes people successful. Many other factors come into play, including luck. Working super hard and effectively isn't good if your character is bad, if you have bad intentions, if you're not emotionally intelligent to some degree, etc. Reparations are exactly what's needed.
@@markhirstwood4190 No it doesnt. And that is just a cheap excuse. Sadly many people are buying into those lies. I wont waste my time detailing your flawed opinions.
I wonder how the 300 years of white slavery that they suffered through that somehow they overcame the effects that slavery caused for generation and somehow we never blamed or played the victim hood mentality....
Now, do a story of the destruction trying to free slaves and how the whole world benefited from the America's slave trade. Let's talk about how the Indians benefited from slaves.
What i don't like is how this perspective completely ignores that POVERTY effects EVERYONE every race Nowadays. Of course i care about the pain of our past. If we are going to truly grow, we need to address poverty as a whole.
@@benmcreynolds8581 I do, I just didn't want you to have to feel guilty about past pain because the past is done and tomorrow is what matters, I'm completely on your side friend and like your passion to help people to help themselves- because no one can directly help someone that will have any real longevity
What about all other people who are discriminated against by other people. Chinese, Japanese, Irish, German, Italians. So, everybody pays everybody 😂 that’s a joke.
This is very American Progressive thinking. Take COVID for example, free money has been given to people, less people are motivated to go to work which causes labour shortage; it will cause inflation; it will in turn raise interest rate which means government will pay more on interests and less on public services and welfare and then negotiate another debt ceiling terms much quicker because reparation must come from somewhere (although currently debt ceiling is suspended) and then it will decrease the credit rating of the bond causing any borrowing more expensive to repay due to higher interest rate, and then loses dollar dominance in the world. Btw when the US is printing a lot of money, the whole world will pay the price, that is the consequence.
My ancestors actually arrived after the civil war so I guess any immigrants that arrived after the fact are also punished having to pay for the transgressions of the previous southern slaveholders. Also, the amount they're talking about would cause higher inflation. Which means higher rates by the Fed which of course would have a global impact as well I'd imagine.
Any "reparations" should also take into account the lives and treasure spent to end slavery in the United States during the Civil War. You should probably subtract all the taxpayers' money spent on welfare and other programs over the last 150 years. I think the "reparations" would turn out to be a negative amount.
Yes that is correct you should know one of two things either compensation would eventually have to take place or karma would eventually occur on the US to correct the wrong that has been done. Now the pathetic truth is that you were not educated on all the mess that the US was doing but basically it will be paid one way or the other and because you are here you are caught in the middle of it.
@@swissmiss-rj4pq Now imagine we hold all other countries responsible for their past. Seeing as how they have much, much longer histories, should be good. Get the popcorn ready.
@@swissmiss-rj4pq HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
all you gotta do is be a slave your whole life and live in deplorable conditions, have your family stripped away watch your children be sold like meat and then hey your great-great-great-grand kids will get a payday easy peasy....
HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
Anyone who is remotely related to the African tribes who engaged in the slave trade must pay reparations. Government should make interest free loans to help those families pay their reparations bill.
Pay. Your. Dues. It is FALSE to say that you "can't afford" to pay. Or that it would be any detriment to society. Reparation paid for theft does not go to China. It stays in the community and builds it. Justice breeds justice.
@@automnejoy5308 Compensation is paid to individuals who suffered the loss. Not a gift to people who didn't. I really don't understand your level of education and thought processes. If someone crashes into your car causing you loss, are you proposing that the compensation for the damage to your car is paid not to you, but to some body chosen by the person who crashed into your car?
That isn't how any of this works. Its not like the federal government is gonna slide up to you at the bank to take the money you were going to spend on dog food. The government is just going to borrow money to make the payments. Then spend the next 50 dollars or so to pay off what they borrowed. A very small bit of the taxes collected from your second job and your first job will help to pay for it. And then when your 3 kids grow up. A small amount of the money collected from their jobs will pay for it. That's how it works. You won't even know what was taken.
No one should pay for slavery because every race and nation is guiltily of encouraging and carrying out acts of slavery during their history. To think that reparations would solve even 20% of the problems is laughable.
Well said.
So because other people in the past and other nations got away with EVIL i, the people of today and this nation should be able to get away with EVIL too. So its also true that men used to rape women and children without consequences, but today we put them in jail. Thats how terrible and flawed your logic is.
@@tinalove8197 I'm sorry that you've been hurt, or somebody you know has been hurt,
that you feel you need to be vindicated.
It's painful. I've been there too.
You want revenge.
You want to return the pain that you've felt.
Allow yourself to forgive others.
Find peace in your soul, to move forward, forgive and move on.
Humans have lived on earth for thousands on thousands of years.
If we didn't forgive and move on,
there would be no peace.
There would only be constant war, hate, and revenge.
There have been reparations paid in the US (Japanese internment, etc). Other countries have done so as well. I encourage you to research the topic yourself.
Stop telling minority kids they're victims but are the masters of their own fate thru hard work and you'll have happier, successful people and you'll extinguish the gap.
Ah, like the residents of Greenwood Avenue, Tulsa. If only they’d not made their white neighbors so jealous of their success!
Sure, keep saying racism doesn't exist, maybe it will go away.
But you forgot about that occrs today.
so true!! they should just pull themselves up by their bootstrapes, because racism has been elimimated when slavery was abolished
surely systemic racism doesnt exist and stifles prospects of a better life significantly, right?
Oh no you can't use the word master anymore. The woke police banned it
they need to start paying reparations for all the crimes they are committing
Its all about resources. remember when you didn't have anything, you went from continent after continent to murder and loot.
there are more "massage" parlors in Manhattan than there are Starbucks locations. You not concerned about crims
@@AddisEngine Um.. i suspect he wasn´t alive during that time so how can he remeber it?
You aint gettin no reparations boy.......Now get back to work !!!
@@DavidChavez-gf2omwhy do you fear equality?
making ppl pay reparations for something they didnt do, for ppl which arent alive anymore, is bs. looks like its all about the money, whilst telling people its about justice.
I used to think like this, but I feel you missed the point of the documentary.
Yeah, but the state that is complicit with slavery is still the same state that exists today, namely United States of America.
Another issue... not all American states had slavery. I can trace the roots of my White family from New York all the way back to the civil war. My ancestors fought in the civil war and died in battle to end slavery. I'm sure that was a huge burden to my family during that time. Now hundreds of years later my family would be bound to pay for slavery.... again? That is not justice!
If anything, make Germany pay for it since the USA has paid for their defense for 75 years.
@@khust2993 my state never allowed slavery and fought to free them. Do we need to pay?
You would do better combating modern day racism if you focused on building out modern infrastructure such as metros and healthcare.
Yes, but those things never come.
Cut the check.
@@kva7922046 Nope, people born today had nothing to do with slaves, if you want a check go to africa since it was their organization that started the whole thing
@@priapulidaWhat does that mean?
And education for better jobs and housing. Being allowed to live wherever you can afford, which still isn’t a thing. Equal pay, equal property value assessment, healthcare, etc. It’s pretty much everything.
@@priapulida no one talks about Asians out earning whites while being a minority
I mean in that case is Turkey going to pay Greece for slavery?
Basically all slavic people and half of the Europe shloud have reparations from Turkey in that case ;-)
How about Egypt pay those decedents that built the pyramids?
They did fight a whole war over independence. Not analogous to chattel slavery and Jim Crow for so many reasons
@@petrbelohoubek6759 Mongolia as well, remember Genghis Khan?
min 10:05 California = Always ahead by a century
Short answer is no, they just want money
Seriously, that's so weird
Of course you would want some form of reparation if somebody bombed your house, wouldn't you?
@@JCB576 If it happened recently yes. But we all have nothing to do with what happened more than a hundred years ago. Stop looking for a free lunch from those who do work and quit the victim/grifter mentality.
@@SuperMerlot I mean in some cases it wasn't even 100 years ago and these folks are still alive. And it does have to do with with folks nowadays, because they are only succesfull by taking somebody elses house/ground etc.
Pay up!! Instead of giving it to non citizens
I think that the 3 elderly people who had their property taken should be compensated in a normal legal procedure. But descendants of people who experienced injustice cannot be compensated for acts done by people who are deceased. Unfortunately past injustice is a fact of life and it affects all people. I think that it has to be forgiven or it will lead to bitterness and conflict.
Agreed 💯. And imminent domain exists within the law with procedures for recompense
Descendants of people who committed injustice still benefited from what they inherited from their unjust ancestors.
@@MichaelScottRamming It's true that many of the descendants of people who committed injustices benefitted, but it many good things we done by the same people from which we have all benefitted. When the matter goes beyond a single generation the choice is either a long-running feud or lasting forgiveness in my view.
Yes i want reperations for what the japanese did to my indonesian grandma for what the russians did and are doing for my Ukranian grandparents and what Germany did to my dutch grandfather. Than ill pay african americans for something my family had nothing to do with.
Even if the descendants of slave owners paid up today there wouldn't be enough to go around for everyone, many would go bankrupt before everyone got their "fair share".
Reparations are the sort of thing that sound good in theory, but would be impossible to adequately implement in practice and which would cause tremendous problems going forward. It would be a terrible misapplication of a noble intention. The better path forward is to create more opportunities and access to those opportunities for everyone, rather than to dish out large sums of money based on someone's race.
Yeah, but those opportunities never come. I’d take the cash.
I am sure Wall Street could be incentivised to create a debt instrument. They sell sun and wind as money.
If descendants of Andrew Jackson, by way of his siblings, are to this very day still given a trust equivalent to the amount of total cost to finish undergraduate and graduate degrees which funds was originally made from slavery then same can be done to former slaves. Yes, Phil Jackson got paid out in 70’s believe he got 50k. My coworker a Jackson got 200k in 90’s. Bo Jackson got nothing. And yes by way of US Census he can trace to a former slave of “Old Hickory.”
Strange it's never complicated for any other group to receive reparations, and that includes people that America didn't even harm like the people in Guam.
Agreed
I say: "do it!", while I watch from a safe distance. I have given up in trying to convince people of doing the smart thing. But this seems to have good comedic potential for everyone who is far away.
Better not. This is complete BS.
It is true that the pursuit of reparations has faced resistance and opposition from various quarters, predominately from those who benefit from the existing power structures
and historical inequalities. White supremacy, as a system that perpetuates racial hierarchies and privileges,has been a barrier to efforts aimed at rectifying historical injustices.
There is no white privileged. If there was, there would be no poor whites or homeless whites. Stop spreading lies.
Everyone is descended from people who were treated inhumanly by todays standards. Being compensated for slavery you never experienced or having taxpayers pay off people they (and likely their distant ancestors) never enslaved is creating a new injustice. If there are reparations, maybe the ancestors of those who received reparations will one day have to pay back those whose ancestors paid those reparations? But that should only happen several generations later to ensure that it will be impossible to allocate the reparations for reparations in even a pysdo-fair way.
Well said.
Imagine if Europe and the UK had to pay back from all the imperial expansion from the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s...
Africa would never be able to move forward from all of their inter border conflicts over the past hundreds of years..
Every country, on every continent would be guilty in some manner..
You don't "pay back" reparations; they're reparations
wtf? slavery made those white families super rich, is not about "inhuman treatments", is about the specific slavery that happened in the US that produced massive wealth for a very long time
@@dazza2350 Reparations paid by people who were never perpetrators to people who were never victims.
If they are to receive reparations, maybe it should be from places in Africa where their ancestors were sold to the white slavers. Europeans did not invent the slave trade, they merely took advantage of it.
It’s not about it solving “racial gaps” it’s about paying back the people that ensured your successes
Money doesn't solve problems, if you don't change your attitude
Having money changes your attitude, that's the whole point.
@@markhirstwood4190 No, money only exemplifies your attitude. There is a reason many lottery winners go broke. If you can't handle a little, you won't be able to handle a lot either.
They interviewed a bunch of potential reparations recipients in California a few weeks ago. The majority of the responses described pretty much wasting it.
That money going to make me feel good😊❤😊❤
@@KingZR-OTv Because you're going to spend it on drugs?
I'm pretty sure they did a comedy skit about this on the Chappelle show
They did, and it is an hillarious skit. I recommend it! Dave Chapelle always had his finger on the pulse of society.
YOU PEOPLE ARE NO GOOD!!!
It must feel relieving to blame all your failures on things that happened before you were born.
Not as relieving as inherenting stolen wealth 😅
@@YourTamedLion Must suck to have the only ancestors incapable of stealing from anyone. Maybe failure runs in the family.
@@YourTamedLion Horse****. I've worked hard for everything I have. Try again.
@@zinjanthropus322 Now, hold on a minute. That's not fair. They steal from big box stores very well.
@@automnejoy5308 Lol.
So give money to people who were never slaves to tax people who never owned a slave 🙄. How about the Japanese Americans in interment camps or Native Americans who were murdered in mass and had their lands stolen, where is there check?
Japanese got reparations. Native Americans got land and tax breaks.
You don't know American History do you?
The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20,000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II
In 1946, the Indian Claims Commission formed to hear the historical grievances of Native Americans and to determine restitution. As a result of the commission's findings, the government set aside $1.3 billion as compensation for 176 tribes and organizations.
Just because one community is fighting for justice, doesn't mean another should be denied. So yes ofc they should be compensated.
@@bobburger7881 I didn't know that so thank you. But I still have a problem with giving money to someone that was never a slave to tax people who never owned a slave. I find that comical at best. This is from the 1860s? So something that happened 160 plus years ago when my dad's, dad, dad wasn't even born yet effects me today? And why you ask? Because after all that time African Americans still can't get it together enough to make it work for them? Is America a more racist place today them the 1950s? No of course not. I don't think throwing money at it will help anything at all. The news story said 20 billion dollars? That's a big number compared to 20k? Where is that money going to come from? You have to tax someone or cut some program somewhere? And as I said the political cost for any republican voting for something like that in today's environment would be political suicide.
@@mikeglenn5212 you didn't watch the video or fully read the quotes I supplied.
1. The video goes on to explain how the lack of compensation or assistance for newly freed slaves had generational effects that are still felt to this day.
2. $20,000 was provided per eligible recipient. 125,000 plus Japanese/Asian people were sent to those camps. I'll let you do the math.
Why should I explain systemic racism to someone who doesn't want to learn?
My family never owned slaves. Most of my ancestors didn't even come to the U.S. until after slavery was gone. So why am I paying people for slavery that my ancestors weren't involved in?
Same. And I bet a LOT of today's Americans are in the same boat. (pun)
They want revenge. Against whites. It is sheer vindictiveness without reason.
Because you are white 😅
Only in a free country can people make demands like this, even if they were not slaves themselves. Maybe it is better sending those, who complain, to Africa and see what real suffering looks like and how much of a gap there is between rich Africans and poor Africans.
I would love to be sent to Africa! Send me! But don't forget, 1) The money necessary to pay for my plane ride 2) The money necessary to re-purchase land that my family lost when stolen from land that belonged to us but now your people are benefiting from by continuing the theft of its resources 3) Any fees for visas, passports, and citizenship applications 4) Don't forget all the free labor that you and others now benefit from. It wouldn't be right to expect work with no pay. You might bankrupt the nation, but this is a moral, free, God-fearing country right? Very soon, reparations won't be an option, it will be mandatory.
If reparations happen, I'm opening a store selling gold chains.
Love this comment 😂
Its not just a racial divide, thought the racial minority is on the wrong side of the curve, its a wealth divide in our society as a whole. Too many people dont have enough, while a select few have entirely to much, we need a complete rework of our economic system to balance the wealth in any meaningful way.
Because capitalism. White supremacy, patriarchy, racism, etc. are all simply tools; control mechanisms if you will, in the service of capitalism.
You you want to take what someone has, and hand it out to those who don't, without earning it in any fashion? Based off of skin color?
@@kevinmccurley4573 Not what I'm saying at all, nobody should have to work 60 hrs and still not have enough to support themselves, and absolutely no CEO works 350x harder than any employee, yet they get paid that amount. I get they have more responsibility so they should get paid more, but the top has gotten so inflated that hard working people are being suffocated.
@thejuize06 I empathize with what you say. But the CEO's can only earn what those companies are willing to pay. The companies determine the value, and their shareholders must agree to the terms.
@@thejuize06 The trouble is it wouldn't affect the top guys it would affect the little guy struggling already to take care of his family! That is how it always works out!
My ancestors were enslaved by Vikings. I'm still waiting 1200 years later. Get in line.
Keep on waiting we wont give you a dime 🤭
I am an African-American. This is a bad idea.
what part of Africa are you from?
@@edwarddelagarza958 African-Americans whose ancestors came over as slaves can usually trace their lineage back to west africa, around current day Liberia.
No no it’s not
It's always about money, always
but ya love it, as always
Money, not at all
Money is the catalyst to trick the greedy that are convinced they are due but control is what it's really about
@@pigjubby1 Then they will say they didn't get there fair share and want more. It just a money grab.
YOU RIGHT, THEN GIVE UP YOUR POSITION & COMFORT IF YOU ARE NOT ABOUT MONEY!!!
Just give me my god damned money! I will decide what I want to do with it!
What is owed is owed.
Lmao nobody owes you anything.
One grievously underestimated contributing factor to the “racial wealth gap” is a generalized ignorance regarding basic money management-including basic investing and the importance of savings to future wealth outcomes….
A 2010 study (which is ongoing) comparing the “wealth accumulation” of different groups over time, found that among African Americans, Latinos, and recent Asian immigrants, within ten years, the Asian immigrants had accumulated 15X the wealth of African Americans, and 9X the wealth of Latinos. Particularly striking was the rate of savings between the three groups, with Asians saving, on average, 20% of earned income, Latinos, 12%….and African Americans, less than 2%….
What is important about the above study is that its results mimic other, similar ones….Whatever is decided upon in regards to reparations, serious thought must be put into adding money management courses as a mandatory requirement to a public school education….
You want to help them make schools better make healthcare , make their neighberhoods safe. Free education ,ect. Just giving money to individuals will solve nothing.
Education in the U.S. is totally controlled by the Democrats who seem to have no interest in making schools "equal" for all the kids. During the lockdown, the state made money available for laptops for students that didn't have them. A YEAR later, kids in mostly minority schools were still waiting for their laptops and Zoom classes, while schools in the white areas were up and running the first week. We can and should do better for our kids.
No good People will always be no good!!!
Forcing everybody to be worth the same amount of money is not a legitimate government function.
It is also not reparations.
Race entitles you to nothing.
Race convicts you of nothing.
Sharing the race of a victim does not make you a victim.
Sharing the race of a villian does not make you a villian.
Being related to a victim does not make you a victim.
The dead owe and are owed nothing.
Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.
Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators.
Nobody gets paid reparations for being a race.
That’s not a critical way of thinking about the issue. It’s not a communistic claim , it’s a historical lineage based claim. It’s trillions of dollars for harm done and it’s irrefutable and not the same.
Yes we’ve been victims and you can’t make us stop talking about it! # Reparations
@@Anointed012
Exactly;
Prove the harm that has been done to you.
Prove who did it.
Send the bill.
Simple.
Being related to a victim does not make you a victim, however.
@@Anointed012
The ones who seek to take what someone else has bear the burden of proof.
Hi miss what about 65 an UP WE like get paid we r not going back to school an we dio not when r going to die so paid $25 2 $34 Million
Maybe today’s German people can pay reparations to individual families impacted by world war 1 & 2 while we’re at it.
We payed for both to the effected countries, what they did or didn't do with the money is on them. Don't make false equivalences just because you people aren't able to own up to your faults.
@@00nigirimeshi didn't Germany just finish paying the reparations for WWI in like 2014 or something?
They have. That’s the thing, they put a price tag on it and they paid.
@@00nigirimeshi who's own faults? modern day people were not responsible for slavery, nor are any of the people who migrated to the USA between the end of slavery and today. However modern day people are responsible for their own actions and achievements in life. Throwing money at people isn't going to solve the social issues that are the root cause of the problems. How about you own up to your faults as well.
min 11:10 NOT BY A LONG SHOT! Total US reparations = Estimated at $50 TRILLION. Total European global reparations = $800 TRILLION
South Africa created a truth and reconciliation commission after apartheid ended, Rwanda did too after the Tutsi genocide, and Canada did as well when abuse in First Nations residential schools were exposed. The United States really needs to do the same.
Yea and look at South Africa now it's a racial utopia /s.
Mmm South Africa such a model of a functional society we should copy...
Learn the US Constitution. It's UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Total US reparations = Estimated at $50 TRILLION
Except that in South Africa and Rwanda the directly affected parties were still alive, with Canada it already didn't end well. And now you want to pay reperations to people who were never enslaved to begin with? And do you think things like quotas and affirmative action are?
Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.
Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators.
I don't know of anybody who opposes that.
Of course, make people who have never owned slaves pay people who have never been slaves
Basically
Brilliant karma
No.. It's been over 150 years, get over it.
Woah not gonna happen 🙅🏾♂️
You can't pay based on skin color since there have been so many immigrants since slavery.
You are talking about racism rather than slavery
If you can enslave people based on color, you can pay damages based on the same idea
It is very interesting that they 1) They don't demand any reparations from other nations. 2) They completely disregard the effects of slavery trade on African states. 3) They want more money, instead more seats in a senate, or some piece of land with autonomy. 4) They do not demand any compensation actually from some of the African states that participated in the trade and supplied prisoners of war to the market. 5) They do not take into account that the later waves of immigrants did not participated in slavery trade or benefited from it. Although, they may have implicitly benefited from the racial discrimination which is debatable. 6) They ultimate goal is to make another 90% of population to pay them for their education, healthcare, land and financial aid. 7) They do not realize that it may create a dangerous situation where the minority is legally more privileged than majority while this minority is effectively has no power to protect itself from retaliation. It may destabilize the country. Some states may refuse to execute federal order to pay if such is enacted. Moreover the hate may reach the heating point and explode in a social unrest or even civil war.
In my opinion, they should act smarter and just ask the federal government for help without mentioning any history. Maybe put in the same line other American minorities that suffer from wealth gap. In general, it seems these guy are more concerned about money than justice and just exploit the past to push their political agenda.
I stopped reading after #1 as it is factually wrong. You need to look outside your own bubble. All over the world people who have been repressed are seeking reparations, including the U.K., Australia, etc. Nations are cutting their ties with colonialist entities that has relegated the UK to what it is, an island of people that have what they have from the backs of others. It is the source of their wealth. The United States is equally responsible. Most of its problems comes because of their bravado to stick their noses where it doesn't belong and dictate to their whims. And they continue to do it today. For example, the problem with the southern border is directly correlated to Iran Contra, sanctions, etc. which are all of US's doing. You want a solution? Take good hard look in the mirror. And you have the gall wonder why people look to the US and other European nations for reparations? Please7
Why would the majority care besides being emotional about it?
@@locman6228 Well, If you prefer to live in a fantasyland, where nobody cares, that is your choice.
Total US reparations = Estimated at $50 TRILLION. Total European GLOBAL reparations = $800 TRILLION.
@@CantHandleThisCanYa yeah dude, its a hefty bill...wreck the world.
So proud to have a German heritage, German people in general are full of integrity and have atoned for the past ills. Most Caucasian Americans don’t even come close and apparently 80% who oppose reparations are cowards and unintelligent to not be able to understand a simple concept like reparations for their original sin.
THANK YOU SWEETHEART!!! WHAT YOU SAID IS SO TRUE!!!
Africa should also pay up on reparations. It was Africans who help put their own people in slavery. I don’t want anyone to forget that. That’s Facts.
OMW....WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO STOP USING THE PAST TO ENRICH THEIR FUTURE...NEWSFLASH....ONE MUST ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN TO GET EDUCATED AND EARN A LIVING.. SICK OF THIS BS ......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s a shame that white slave holders and proponents of Jim Crow didn’t want to work hard use their brains or earn a living themselves. They wanted to cruelly exploit others for their benefit leading to the problems we have today.
Why should I pay for something that happened when I wasn't alive when my family wasn't in the country?
u r not paying the govment is
@@Etaoinshrdlu69 Are you 10 years old?
Because you benefit from it anyway 🙂
Because all immigrants benefit from slavery
@Bahtriq Al-Bahtmani nah that's not how taxes work.
Thank you DW for this story and bringing to Americans an in-depth explanation, we don't get on our news!!!!!
It would have a huge negative effect on the economy, making the money useless anyways or creating a huge real estate bubble. If all nations has to pay back for how they have threated others for the last hundreds of years, i think most nation states would go bankrupt because of the huge population boost we have had the last 100 years.
Well technically if you want to make it good you'd have to take from those who benefited from it, then it would even out
Who benefited from it?
@@tomlxyz
Benefitted?
Slaves weren't had for free son- further your education please
People had to have ships , sail deadly oceans, pay and deal with deadly vicious traders that gathered slaves from African leaders who sold them to these sumarians.
Sad but that was the norm, crying don't change that and paying people money now is like paying your kid because you yelled at them instead of really meaning you are sorry, what does that teach anyone?
So, anyone that benefited just made a smart business deal, not a world I'd want to be part of but I'd imagine it is somewhat normal but thankfully bitter sweet to many.
So- how do you just block out all the slave, abuse and torture going on today, it's happening now, what are you doing to stop it?
Pretty cowardly to safely point fingers at people that are dead, why aren't you pointing at the abusers that are 'benefiting' off human suffering now?
Going bankrupt would be a small price to pay considering the repercussions of not repaying. Judgement from the Most High is coming. Repayment is coming either willingly or unwillingly.
@@breadforzion what do you mean by unwillingly? How would that be enforced?
The family sold the land back to the city for $20 M? Dumb!!! The family could have kept the land, built buildings on the land, rented the apartments and stores, and made BILLIONS!!!! Dumb!!!!!
What good is reparations without financial intelligence. If reparations are given then it should be in the form of equity or taxes. That is a true way to build wealth.
They are waiting for the 3 survivors to die and turn around and say their descendent can't claim reparation.Yet they had a opportunity to repair the issue when they were alive!
In the meantime, Indian-Americans and Asian-Americans are the highest earners in the US. But one must value education and self responsibility to get the American dream.
mostly because the US selects from the top 5 precent of human capital. Illiterate ones don't get to come here. Almost all that are allowed to come here either have a great high school educations or a secondary education. If the best African Americans are selected to move to say the UK, I am pretty sure they will out earn most demographics in that example.
@@seriuac Wrong. It's about valuing education and strong family values.
@@buzzcrushtrendkill Its about both
@@erenyaeger9407 Have you seen who comes across the southern border? An Afghani family moved into my complex. Barely speak english. Took any jobs they could get. Now, they are sending a kid to college.
Will 1 check make a difference? NO! They want enough to live a luxury life till they die, got to keep up with the Jones' ya know.
So people who never owned slaves should pay money to people who never were slaves.
Both my parents are immigrants. My dad was homeless. Now they live in a 4,000 SQ ft house. It was not given to them. I agree slaves were owed money. No one is born a slave is alive anymore. Too late sadly.
Reparations would fix the economy overnight.
HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES
NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM
MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
Will Germany pay Poland the $1.2 trillion in reparations? Do a program on that too please.
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+1
I hope they never give up and get their rightful reparations that they deserve
Get your check from beyonce
It comes down to laziness and greed, not made up reasons aka excuses. It's no secret that the gap is based on their own lack of motivation and behavior. Give them nothing.
The damage has been done, unfortunately. The American government has favored people of European decent. That's one the reasons why the slave owners were compensated, not the enslaved. Reparations will never happen and anyone who has a bit of education knows it. I feel sorry for anyone who has put any energy into the notion that it will.
We can't even get simple humanity. I still feel fortunate to have been born in this country. I would not have wanted it any other way. It's not perfect, but no country is.
HEY, TALKING THE WAY YOU ARE TALKING IS JUST WHAT THEY LIKE TO HEAR. BELIEVE ANYWAY JUST TO MAKE THEM WRONG. BELIEVE & DON'T STOP BELIEVING OKAY?!!!!
what has it always been about
Some blk elders
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Fear of the blk planet
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On the illegals issue (Google)
Dr Claude Anderson
Does it count the value of all the "free" stuff taken from stores? That would level out the difference quite a bit, I think.
I never stole a thing in my life. It wouldn’t even equal out all the stolen property and land that hasn’t been given back. Get your tears ready tho. Next few years it will happen
@@YeahHeSaidit Hold your breath.
@@YeahHeSaidit HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES
NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM
MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
OH, YOU MEAN LIKE HOW THIS LAND WAS STOLEN FROM THE NATIVES? OR THE INVENTIONS THAT KEMET ASCENT INVENTED IN WHITE STOLE THEIR INVENTIONS AND PUT THEIR NAMES ON IT? AND AFRICAN BEING STOLEN FROM THEIR OWN LAND USED LIKE GARBAGE.I was going to say & treated like dogs but You all love dogs!!! LOOK THIEVES CAN'T TALK ABOUT ANYONE STILLING AT ALL!!!
@BabyDWash Hahaha! Even Commiefornia has decided they don't have the money for it.
How does that work? Who should receive that money? People who don't want to work?
This is exactly what they want, money without work, that's the reason of the wealth gap...
That how white wealth was built. They don’t want to work. Indeed they even fought to keep free labor in their farms.
Very weak argument
I suspect that most people are against the idea principally because it means taking money from people who never owned slaves and giving it to people who never were slaves. Injustice today does not undo injustice of the past.
they are already paying for it 😏just not in money 😏😏😏
no, destroyed cities cost money....
Such evil 😈 people then and now...
Race grifting is big business in the USA.
Sure, the people that developed a class system based on skin colors and the people that bought in to this nonsense were the biggest grifters and the beneficiaries/losers of them all
America has lot of money for unwanted things to do
Like war in Iraq and Afghanistan
People who spread these lies and try to promote USA hate,
fail to mention that the USA would never would have gone to Iraq or Afghanistan if,
2 airplanes smashed into the tallest buildings in New York City,
a 3rd ran into the Pentagon,
and a 4th targeted the president of the USA.
The war started when these planes attacked America first on 9/11.
No, we don’t “get to pass down a fight” 🙄 some of y’all choose to teach your kids your woe is me mentality
Simply abolish things that reenforce the wealth gap, like making school funding depend on what area you live in
The "wealth gap" come from people not working.
How would that work, exactly?
Rural school districts have much lower costs of living than cities or suburbs. Should rural school districts there get the same funding as districts that have to pay much more for teachers to earn a reasonable living?
exactly! things like colleges and medical treatment not being free also significantly reinforces the gap
Maybe they should just tax the rich the same way they tax the normal person on the street. The unfortunate truth is that the financial system of the entire world is built to benefit only the rich. It is a tale az old as time.
I do also think the US can spend a bit less on the millitary and a bit more on programs you mentioned as well. The US has money to make that happen, but they love their overspending on their millitary instead of things that would improve the lives of their citizens.
@@ArnoSnyman007 yeah the US military spending is equal to the next 10 highest spending countries combined xD
which is just... insane
min 11:10 NOT BY A LONG SHOT! Total US reparations = Estimated at $50 TRILLION. Total European global reparations = $800 TRILLION
This is just addressing the pathological victimhood of African Americans. The thought is we, as American taxpayers, should foot the bill for crimes that weren't even crimes at the time, committed by people who have been dead for generations. Why on EARTH would I be in any way responsible today for something that happened prior to 1865?
Victimhood my butt!
because it was promised by the government back when those people were alive... then it was taken away or never given in the first place. its a debt never paid
@@xsnap But that opens the flood gates. Depending on how far back you wanna go, my people are definitely owed reparations by the Italians because of the Romans. Reparations would only ever make sense if the direct victims are still alive.
@@wekurtz72 well u need to talk to the Romans about your ills bud
@@marvin469 I have. They're not picking up my calls anymore.
1:38 The thing is , this is a field order made by a general on his own.
So what happens when you mixed? Which part is the oppressor and which part was the slave? How can we fix this
You oppressed yourself then😂
Victimhood is a lucrative business in the US...
You went on a world tour of genocide and now you're surprised there were victims? 😂
No it can’t. Its hard to play catch up. Throwing cash or whatever won’t fix it because problems have only gotten worse. Giving in to white supremacy and dumping Reconstruction only made things worse. But maybe it can help? I’m not sure how to fix that myself.
Reparations can help
I’m white and 30. Why do I have to pay you money? I never owned a slave.
@@Anthony-zw1qb you are not paying it. and I'm caucasian.
@@phaedrussocrates7636 then you go ahead and take food out of your families mouth and give to free loaders
It could also raise the question about “reparations “ for the relatives of Union soldiers who lost their lives trying to free Slaves ….
150 years ago! Yeah the courts will declare any of this nonsense UNCONSTITUTIONAL! You cannot discriminate and pay anyone for no damages since they are living 150 years after an event! Thats Constitutional Law! Period end of story.
Have you recently read the constitution my friend.
Cause I don't see anything about "you cannot discriminate and pay anyone for no damages since they are living 150 years after an even!".
I dont understand why modern Americans, most of whoms ancestors definitely came here after the civil war would have to pay for this?
You mean the citizens that benefited from Jim Crow - the legalized apartheid based system that favored whites for over one hundred years after slavery? To argue that white folks that arrived in the us post slavery saw no benefit is absurd
Because we live in a society that based its development on the slave trade and still benefits from the results of that activity. These damages should have been paid out decades ago!
@@Jim-c6eThat was only half of the development. The North was more wealthy for the majority of people than the south which was more beneficial to a few families. Many PoC immigrants come here & do well.
Most people against reparations realize that the best way to close the wealth gap is through education, good parents and work ethic. Free money doesnt solve that.
Wealth gap exists because of biological differences.
@@georgejackson2631 That's a joke right?
What are the 'biological differences' between African-Americans and Nigerian-Americans for example? Seeing that Nigerian-Americans are the most educated and most successful of ALL races, that pretty much destroys your 'skin color' claim. But on the other hand, the differences in culture are drastically different. Stable households, an understanding of the importance in education and reliance on self responsibility for starters. Your argument is predictable but flawed at it's core.
Yes it does. As soon as you get on Basic Income or get a good change in circumstances, your thinking gets better, you feel better, you can eat better, sleep better, meet better people, on and on. Education has nothing to do with it. No schools can make you prudent. Many bad people had good parents. Work ethic is just one part of what makes people successful. Many other factors come into play, including luck. Working super hard and effectively isn't good if your character is bad, if you have bad intentions, if you're not emotionally intelligent to some degree, etc. Reparations are exactly what's needed.
@@markhirstwood4190 No it doesnt. And that is just a cheap excuse. Sadly many people are buying into those lies.
I wont waste my time detailing your flawed opinions.
But somehow getting free land solved your problems? 😂
I wonder how the 300 years of white slavery that they suffered through that somehow they overcame the effects that slavery caused for generation and somehow we never blamed or played the victim hood mentality....
Justice is coming America!
NO I DON'T WANT THERE MONEY/// GIVE IT BACK TO THE TAX PAYERS YOU STOLE IT FROM
Was Tulsa the worst? What about Wilmington, NC; Rosewood, FL; Thibodaux, LA; etc.? 12:42
Now, do a story of the destruction trying to free slaves and how the whole world benefited from the America's slave trade. Let's talk about how the Indians benefited from slaves.
How can you send my people? My ancestors back to a continent they've never been to, nor their ancestors, Tell that truth
Rome Empire had a lot ofvslaves. Is it time for Italy to pay up?
DW pushing propa-ganda as always
but ya love it! as always.
What i don't like is how this perspective completely ignores that POVERTY effects EVERYONE every race Nowadays. Of course i care about the pain of our past. If we are going to truly grow, we need to address poverty as a whole.
F the past stop being false guilted, tomorrow is all that matters and complainers are not meeting the bill for progression
@@gbh5912 If you realized, i agreed with you in some ways.. i said sorta what you did, just in a different way.
@@benmcreynolds8581
I do, I just didn't want you to have to feel guilty about past pain because the past is done and tomorrow is what matters, I'm completely on your side friend and like your passion to help people to help themselves- because no one can directly help someone that will have any real longevity
What about all other people who are discriminated against by other people. Chinese, Japanese, Irish, German, Italians. So, everybody pays everybody 😂 that’s a joke.
They already got paid or put under the white umbrella.
Is a joke? Thats ancient history at this point
This is very American Progressive thinking. Take COVID for example, free money has been given to people, less people are motivated to go to work which causes labour shortage; it will cause inflation; it will in turn raise interest rate which means government will pay more on interests and less on public services and welfare and then negotiate another debt ceiling terms much quicker because reparation must come from somewhere (although currently debt ceiling is suspended) and then it will decrease the credit rating of the bond causing any borrowing more expensive to repay due to higher interest rate, and then loses dollar dominance in the world.
Btw when the US is printing a lot of money, the whole world will pay the price, that is the consequence.
My ancestors actually arrived after the civil war so I guess any immigrants that arrived after the fact are also punished having to pay for the transgressions of the previous southern slaveholders. Also, the amount they're talking about would cause higher inflation. Which means higher rates by the Fed which of course would have a global impact as well I'd imagine.
Any "reparations" should also take into account the lives and treasure spent to end slavery in the United States during the Civil War. You should probably subtract all the taxpayers' money spent on welfare and other programs over the last 150 years. I think the "reparations" would turn out to be a negative amount.
Yes that is correct you should know one of two things either compensation would eventually have to take place or karma would eventually occur on the US to correct the wrong that has been done. Now the pathetic truth is that you were not educated on all the mess that the US was doing but basically it will be paid one way or the other and because you are here you are caught in the middle of it.
@@swissmiss-rj4pq Now imagine we hold all other countries responsible for their past. Seeing as how they have much, much longer histories, should be good. Get the popcorn ready.
@@swissmiss-rj4pq HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES
NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM
MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
I'd love to get some free money, too.
The slave owners are the one who enjoyed "free money" not the slaves or their descendants. Reparations are an award for damages done, not free money
all you gotta do is be a slave your whole life and live in deplorable conditions, have your family stripped away watch your children be sold like meat and then hey your great-great-great-grand kids will get a payday easy peasy....
We’ve tried everything….. now less try giving the money this country promised the descendants of slaves
HOW ARE DESCENDANTS OWED ANY MONEY? AND WHY? I DONT GET IT? IF A GREAT-GRANDFATHER DIES AND HAS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000 UNDER HIS BED WHEN HE DIES
NOT EVERY GRANDKID GETS 2 HOUSES AND $100.000!! AND THEIR KIDS GET 2 HOUSES ETC !! LOL THEY SPLIT IT UP !! LOL.. THESE REPARATIONS CRAZIES ARE ASKING FOR CURRENT TAXPAYERS TO GIVE THEM
MONEY THAT THEY DIDNT WORK FOR AND ARE NOT OWED ANYTHING.. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE OF SLAVERY WE WERE BORN IN ONE OF THE BEST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. WE ARE JUST LUCKY THAT WE WERNT BORN IN SOME HUT IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE.. AND NOW WE ARE ASKING THESE HOSTS TO GIVE US MONEY? WHEN WE CAN GO TO SCHOOL !!? OWN A BUSINESS!! ? EVEN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME THE FREAKIN PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY !!?? IT'S EMBARRASSING TO BE PART OF THIS WOKE. BLM ETC CRAZY IDEA !!!!
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Can't wait. Europeans who were taken to prison in Australia and left there need reparations, too.
Anyone who is remotely related to the African tribes who engaged in the slave trade must pay reparations. Government should make interest free loans to help those families pay their reparations bill.
Most slaves were kidnapped by white settlers and shipped off
Pay. Your. Dues. It is FALSE to say that you "can't afford" to pay. Or that it would be any detriment to society. Reparation paid for theft does not go to China. It stays in the community and builds it. Justice breeds justice.
Then that money should go DIRECTLY to community programs and schools. Not individuals.
@@automnejoy5308 Compensation is paid to individuals who suffered the loss. Not a gift to people who didn't.
I really don't understand your level of education and thought processes.
If someone crashes into your car causing you loss, are you proposing that the compensation for the damage to your car is paid not to you, but to some body chosen by the person who crashed into your car?
No.
Give us our money 💰💰💰💰💰
I have 3 kids a dog and a wife to feed and a mortgage. I’m not giving anybody my hard earned money. They can go get a second job like I did.
That isn't how any of this works.
Its not like the federal government is gonna slide up to you at the bank to take the money you were going to spend on dog food.
The government is just going to borrow money to make the payments. Then spend the next 50 dollars or so to pay off what they borrowed.
A very small bit of the taxes collected from your second job and your first job will help to pay for it. And then when your 3 kids grow up. A small amount of the money collected from their jobs will pay for it.
That's how it works. You won't even know what was taken.