The way I see it is that reparations will boost the economy in all types of ways, spending, manufacturing, home sales, some of the homes that the banks are holding for instances, and more. But mostly closing the wealth gap!! Mic'2023
"Missed?" He's speaking as if it were an innocent oversight. They deliberately made the decision that Black pain was inconsequential thus not deserving of recognition.
@@sportsactuary8574 And you don't think there have been white slaves? You don't think European history isn't pretty brutal? Everyone has suffered, cry more
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2mactually many black Americans especially in the south have at least one full blooded Indian grandparent.. I have multiple that means I'm owed double according to what you are saying.
I agree with you. Interest on top of interest is owed, yes indeed. The American government stubbornly clutched its pockets intentionally to delay reparations. As there is no way with America being that racist, would ever want to see a black family prosper in those times. Look how long it took them to observe Juneteenth as a federal holiday. That speaks volumes about how long America has been in a stubborn state of mind concerning matters of ADOS.
I disagree . Black Americans got the greatest reward in the USA. They got USA citizenship. That the cost of 600000. American soldiers lives. Plus it is written in the 14 amendment, that federal government will not be liable for slavery. And Liberia was created for the free slaves to return to Africa of their own free will. Now like 160 years later , black Americans want money for slavery? I say no. Too much blood and destruction was caused by freeing the slaves.
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m Respectfully, Nope! Black people served and lost lives, too, during every war, like other Americans with a bonus birthright. Never have we been compensated equally for our lives lost, but rather mistreated like animals, even still. You’ve grossly misinterpreted any amendment that claim that black peoples are not owed reparations. New comers are benefiting from our unpaid services as well. Like I said, with interest. She owes it, she knows it. ❤️
@paulthomasbranda7591 74 million Republicans voted for Donald (the first potential Hitler in American history) Trump. Anything goes, is the understatement of the 21st Century.
Shall I mention as justifications for reparations the fact that America Indians and Japanese Americans were compensated for harms done by the United States Govt.
Don’t forget to mention how most indigenous people (the term American Indian is offensive and refers to the the Americans of 🇮🇳 Indian descent) and Japanese Americans didn’t receive the reparations and when they did most people only received 1k-5k. That’s not enough money to lift a whole race out of oppression
And our tax dollars shouldn’t go to Ukraine, Afganistán or Israel, which has nothing to do with the United States but, they are!!! You need to have that same energy for them! At least, this would be something that would uplift this country directly and boost the economy as a whole!
Well, You better say something about your Tax dollars going to a lot of others ' money, investigate because more of your tax dollars are going to those other outlets daily. Those avenues you should be concerned about are just a matter. Your tax dollars are going out while Reparations are working to be paid. By the time Reparations are paid more of your money has gone out in many other ways that You are not aware of!!!
This was not a political Debate when Slaves were tortured to do the work. They had to do it or else. No Butts no back talk no debates. America quit stalling no more asking other groups or Freeloaders what they think. Just simply Cut The Check
@@MrNovatherebel y'all ain't getting sheeeeit....get over it. How long have y'all been begging‽ It simply is NOT going to happen. We don't cry about anything because we're privileged that way.
Just turn the money machines on and print some more money.. what harm would putting a few more trillion dollars into into play do? It’s not like we’re on the gold standard anymore anyways.. just make sure the Native Americans aren’t forgotten about. Oh, and don’t forget us veterans. We deserve some money too, don’t we? I’m pretty sure everyone can prove they’re a victim. Let’s just give everyone a million dollars. Problem solved.
In 1965 yt folks like you were saying black folks didn't deserve anything. You use single motherhood but if we were all in 2 parent homes you would still oppose it.
Is always a big issue when it comes to ADOS people, no one has fought hard then ADOS. Their been others receiving reparations with out much of a fight!! Thank you!! Mic'2023
Nobody points out that Jewish descendents are getting reparations! So sick of this bigotry & oppression being played on my people! Enough is enough! We are expected to just get over it but those so-called white Jews are not told the same! I wonder why not and why is my tax dollars going to them & countries like Ukraine we did nothing to them but they have no problem giving to them because they are white it’s only a problem when comes to us!
@22:20 I disagree with Coleman Hughes about the statutes of limitations. You can't casually compare a mass crime such as slavery to any other corruption committed in 1865. I disagree with his opinion as a reason to use the statutes of limitations to oppose reparations. Why? Back then the legal and political fields of the country were racist and corrupt as a whole. Communities, government, and individuals helped perpetuate racism which in turn helped suppressed and delay reparations in a stubborn, arrogant, and nasty way. So casually saying a mass crime such as slavery and racism is past the statutes of limitations in legal terms you got to ponder some things. First of all, it's the SCALE of the crime on a mass level we are addressing and also the perpetuation of that crime after slavery was abolished. Even though it was abolished, crimes against the dignity of those people were in a perpetual state of racial tension and distress that lasted for generations. Also, we are addressing the restorative nature, that was deliberately delayed by white supremacists (past and present). If a man can't see It was their intent to use the statutes of limitations to get away with this crime and avoid paying for the use of free slave labor...then that man is a blind man to the subversive tactics white supremacists use on black Americans several times over generations.
The statue of limitations was written in the 14 amendment. Section 4 of the 14 amendment says that the federal government will not be liable for slavery
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m Even if you were right about the government not being liable for slavery (because it says so in the amendment)...It would be a fickle contradictory arrangement. Why? Because if you say that African Americans were awarded citizenship, then What about the OTHER AMENDMENTS that were not honored by the American federal government in the treatment of ADOS after slavery? I say not honored as they allowed things to happen and sat idly by as white mobs, racist individuals, and white supremacist groups, at state and local levels treated black people like garbage and were never brought to justice. There are too many amendments that were broken, or personal boundaries of African Americans that were crossed by white supremacists and bigots that governed with legal and political power. Remember Jim Crow? That was a shameful incident in history that got your opinion looking like a contradiction. Many other things were done to African Americans during, but specifically, AFTER slavery that was unconstitutional and contradicted some of the Amendments based on ADOS treatment in America. Even if you were half right about the 14th amendment, Jim Crow laws and racist horrific treatment of black Americans AFTER slavery was unconstitutional and didn't honor all the other amendments. You know it. The point you made about the statutes of limitations that are somehow in section 4 as a clause to keep America from being responsible to pay the debt of slavery only proves my point that I disagree with Coleman Hughes in the video above. American government back then intentionally put that there for a reason...Yet when it comes to paying reparations or compensation to other groups of people in America that went through distress such as The Japanese, Native Americans, and other groups there is no problem. Why are Black Americans getting these delays to be compensated for their legitimate hardships? Therefore, reparations would be owed for slavery and incidents after slavery as they are treatments that targeted the humanity and livelihood of black Americans. Also, it's not a new thing for the Constitution to be revised by Congress.
And he didn't mention the harms that the Crack epidemic caused on the ADOS community's that we are still feeling the effects of!! Thank you Mic'2023 ps if Coleman doesn't like the idea of reparations, he can opt out!!
Israel receives *BILLIONS OF OUR TAX PAYER MONEY* and nobody complains. Even though they should take it up with Germany 🇩🇪. BUT AMERICA STILL PAYS REPARATIONS TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY. It is time that we should get *REPARATIONS*
At 8:10 she references Proverbs 14-9 which actually reads "Fools mock at sin: This is in the nature of fools and their folly. They think sin is a light thing, worthy to be mocked. Their mockery of sin is connected with their lack of the fear of the LORD."
This is ignorant. Some Blacks owned slaves. Many other nationalities have also served basically as slaves or indentured servents. How about indentured textile workers who burned in fire in unsafe buildings? MANY immigrants arrived AFTER slavery ended - inculding Blacks ! How in God's name could you even figure out who is owed and who should pay on such a large scale? Injustice occurs to ALL people. If "the nation" owes any "group" it should be the indigenous people. But how many have not fallen in love with someone of another race and no longer 100% indigenous. The same is true of every other race. So. To be fair first you would have to prove a "slave" lineage, loss and percent of ancestry. In Short this is all racist BS BUT This is Who We Are
But you could vote for Donald Trump's Extreme Racism, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate, and still consider yourself a Christian !? Do you want to talk about complicated things, some more ?
Many white immigrants also were given home, small business and college loans that free, tax paying Black American citizens were denied and NEVER given fair opportunities to compete for.
Genealogical studies, census records and family trees can absolutely determine who are the descendents of slaves. Although indentured servitude is indeed horrible, nothing compares to chattel slavery. That is why it is the central scar in USA history. Pretending that it wasn't so bad just means that you weren't paying attention in social studies class.
I dunno about that. Begging for trillions of dollars in 'reparations' is not what most would consider resilient. A few other choice words come to mind, though.
@@MrCharliebbarkin benefiting from trillions of dollars of inhumane slavery torture and inhumanity while whinning about a conversation to correct it sounds about right.
You didn't listen to the program. They specifically mentioned that although California was considered a Free State, southerners who came to California for the Gold Rush in 1849 brought their slaves with them. So there were enslaved people in California.
Im still searching for all that white priviledge and generational wealth I keep getting told I was born with. So far, no luck but I havent looked under my couch coushions yet so theres still hope!
How many white people were slave's? How many white people had their property seized by black people? How many black people were running around and hanging white people? The Answer to these questions is None! White privileges still exist! Yes 3.6 % of Black people were able to overcome white privilege out of 41.6 million black people! That's 1,497,600 out of 231,900,000 white people!
Did you believe Donald Trump's obvious intentional Racist Birther Lie, in the form of a question ? Did you listen to Donald Trump's Intentional Lies, that the first Black President in American history is the founder of ISIS and a Socialist and a Secret Muslim ? Did you vote for Donald Trump's Intentional Lies and Extreme Racism ? George W Bush fired all the Iraqi Army Officers who led ISIS. Leaving them with no jobs, no income and no respect. If any American President is the founder of ISIS, it is Republican George W Bush. I ask again, did you vote for Donald Trump's Intentional Lies, Conspiracy Theories, Extreme Rhetoric, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate directed at the first black President in American history ? If you voted for Donald Trump, even once, then you may not be an unbiased opinion, on anything to do with race relations in the USA
Have you been harassed by police unwarranted ? Were your Grandparents denied mortgage loans in nice neighborhoods regardless of credit? Were you ever turned away for jobs you were qualified for and later found out they went to lesser qualified? Did you ever receive an inheritance (business, money, property) passed down from relatives who profited indirectly from segregation and racist banking and hiring practices?
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.
Slavery has been a universal institution for thousands of years as far back as you can trace human history. And what we are looking at is if slavery is something that happened to one race of people in one country when in fact the spread of it was around the world. In 1776, which is when Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations as well as the United States got started,he said that Western Europe is the only place in the world where there is no slavery. And even the Western Europeans had vast numbers of slaves in the western hemisphere but not in Western Europe itself. And so if you’re going to have reparations for slavery it’s going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth because the number of whites, for example, who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that put together. But nobody is going to North Africa to ask for reparations because nobody is going to be fool enough to give it to them. These people have to take a chill pill, digest the facts and realities, and move on instead of blaming all their troubles on a stupid idea that someone owes them anything for picking cotton for free.
What does slavery in Europe with caucasians enslaving their own caucasian ppl. That has nothing to do with chattel slavery in America. Stop including the whole world in what yall caucasians did in America and not just America but everywhere. Thats your way of trying to deflect and not be held accountable. Y’all kidnapped another nation of ppl from thousands of miles away and kept them as property and slaughtered them and treated them less than human.
Last time I checked California didn’t have slavery. If anything reparations is for the descendants of slaves, not for people wronged in America. If that’s the case everyone in America 🇺🇸 needs reparations matter fact all over the world 🌎!!!…❤❤❤
Check further and dig deeper. Your research is limited. If your point was correct there would NOT have been a task force that the legislature of the State of California approved and signed by the Governor to develop recommendations.
@@cgcade1I did do my research that’s why I said what I said. I don’t speak unless I’m correct. The government can’t be trusted so I’m not sure why them signing anything makes a difference on the facts. But once again the devil seems to always come for the truth. Be blessed…❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Reparations is supposed to be for the descendants of slaves that’s a fact. That is not the reparations this video was talking about so I’m not sure what much digging deep needs to be done.
@@cgcade1 and if it is true and they signed it I guess that proves my point that they are not to be trusted, but as always they want to come for the people that are trying to help instead of go to the problem. JUST BECAUSE THEY PUT A BIG FANCY BOW ON IT AND CALLED IT REPARATIONS DOES NOT MEAN A THING, IT JUST MEANS THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE CALLING IT TO MAKE YOU PEOPLE HAPPY AND STALL TIME. WOW no wonder they called y’all, THAT WORD… ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 😂 😂 😂
@Rahsim a lot of people haven't caught up to our conversation yet. They think we are talking about flat blackness. They have no idea of what we are actually talking about.
That's because the natives have their own system set up on the reservation they take care of themselves whatever profit the tribe earns all members get a piece of it
They were given land, tax exemption, and pretty much their own laws and government. I am about 75% Indian and 25% Irish! These Indians can travel anywhere across the United States, and Canada! They have a great life in Democratic states! Maybe not in republican states!
Even if you just calculate lost wages, there is clearly money owed. If you worked at McDonald's for minimum wage, you know you would demand that they pay you your last check when you quit, right? So what would a "field hand" be paid in 1864? Now, multiply that by a lifetime for their work. So a ridiculously low annual wage, multiplied by 60 or 70. The lifespan can be determined by census records and genelogical studies. Honestly, even if you didn't add interest and punitive damages for the cruel physical punishment visited upon those enslaved workers, those lost wages are a sum of money that no one can dispute. In a country as wealthy as ours, an apology without a monetary award is hollow and insulting.
"As wealthy as ours" were literally broke do you not remember the whole debt ceiling debate from a few weeks ago... Where's all this money going to come from add it to the trillions of dollars we already don't have as a nation
Talented historians and genealogists are able to trace who benefited from the slave trade and slave ownership in California. The descendents of those entities should pay into a fund to repay the free labor upon which their families built their wealth. That process can then be repeated state by state.
@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 who's going to pay for these talented genealogists and historians? You must live in some kind of communist fantasy land...So say the people who "benefited" (generations ago) family all went broke in the late 1920s you know in that Great depression thing that happened... And their offspring are poor or even struggling to maintain middle class lifestyles living paycheck-to-paycheck You're going to make them pay into a fund for something they didn't really have any part in?
@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 furthermore how are they going to enforce anyone paying? same way the IRS does with threats of violence and imprisonment?
But you have also factor in the cost of the civil war, the value of the USA citizenship and Creation of the Liberia and cost of 600000 soldiers who died in the civil war. And then the next question do the freemen , the slaves who got their freedom before the civil war , should their families be owed reparations.
Don't just bring up reparations on Juneteenth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day, we should be bringing this up everyday. Cut the check because we're done talking.
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.
@@witnessforjesus6492 Prove you own it. Prove who has it. Take it. Simple. I personally have created all of the wealth I posess, myself. So; it doesn't apply to me; nor to the vast majority of people.
Yes you are innocent, but you participate in a system that generated its wealth from a crime. The crime was never justified, just delayed... Generations of slaves that built the foundation of America's economic powerhouse, which then allowed for many immigrants to benefit and if not for those 240 years of free labor you or your ancestors would not be here...
The guy against reprerations doesn't speak for any of us 😢 my great-grandfather was lynched we got no reparations from it I went to buy a house and was just simply told no 😢
no question that the descendants of slaves are owed reperations from the centuries of cruelties committed against black folks in this county....England , France Portugal, The Netherlands and many others who took part in the slave trade...we built the world and wasn't paid a dime!
How can anyone say the time for getting any type reparations have passed when we weren't able to enjoy or truly partake in the laws of this land until the late 60s early 70s? Who was going to speak for the freed slaves and their descendants when they were still being murdered and lynched with impunity? Not being to buy homes, being attacked for trying to get an education, the bombing and drowning of whole town after mass murders etc... America owes a debt it should pay like they'd others around the world
And just how is money going to resolve anything? It won't. I don't owe anyone anything. I'm not at fault for the actions of other people. Just because I'm white doesn't mean I had ancestors that were involved in slavery, and I don't have any such ancestors like that. I don't appreciate being more or less punished for something I didn't cause. Keep living in the past pal, you obviously didn't learn from it, two wrongs won't make it right.
We want candidates that will stand up for black 🐈⬛🖤 people reparations for passed injustices and slavery like the Biden Administration keep sending our tax money 🤑💰 to help Ukraine with billions of dollars to fight against 🪆 Russia and Putin.
The Black folks and the Hawaiian folks would have become wealthy if our lands were not taken from us by europeans! We are due financial reparations, NOT just an apology!
I think it’s disgraceful for people that are so far from understanding,knowing or being directly involved with what these men and women suffered is insanity. They need to talk to the African sellers for money. But to ask for money for the suffering and sacrifice of men and women in a time of ignorance is ignorant. With that said, eminent domain is socialism and i totally support payment for this thievery, but for slavery. Sorry but no, talk to the African governments for selling their own people.
Germany paid Jewish descendants reparations and they also outlawed hate speech toward Jews while also erecting monuments acknowledging the humanity of those the Government was complicit in oppressing, harming and murdering.
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.
@@seensay2132if it is not paid God will pay. The argument that it was so far long ago voting rights were just impacted 60 years ago not even a full human life span. 😂😂
Colman Hughes's statement, "Unfortunately, the opportunity was tragically missed to pay it [reparations] to the slaves themselves or their immediate families," is a deeply disingenuous statement. When African slaves were freed, they actively fought for reparations, only to be systematically denied and ignored by those in power at every turn. To suggest that the opportunity was "tragically missed" implies that the enslaved or their descendants somehow failed to seize the moment, rather than acknowledging the relentless resistance and exclusion they faced. This framing is not only misleading but profoundly insulting.
Be grateful of the wonderful contributions of the black community and their culture to our society. Their peaceful Non-Violent generous nature and articulate speaking skills makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture. Their rational and logical thought toward circumstances coupled with their innate capability to de-escalate situations is to be envied and coveted. Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real estate values are fueled by the influx of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, as an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation. Upvote if you agree.
This is trolling at its finest. A surface level critique of a people who have been unjustly marginalized and told I’m sorry in response to the brutality, yet through it all we are expected to be the model of excellence and grace, expected to honor and respect a community that has yet to extend us those same values. We as a community, in acknowledging our flaws are simply reflecting back to the world a pain, a disdain, and anguish in which we have been burden to carry as a result of the pain we continue to endure. Our homes have been burned down fathers slung from the oak and children gunned in the street, all because we are mistreated, misguided, and ultimately misunderstood.
@maez3014 Cry more, you deserve nothing for what happened in the past. You like the sound of it because it means free money, meanwhile the majority of people are broke af rn 💀
@maez3014 a surface level critique? People come from literal warzones after decades of political oppression, and still don't act like animals. Yet AAs have been living here for how long? In a first world country, and they still can't seem to overcome it. After all that society has given them. Sad asf
@@Deadassbruhfrfr you're absolutely right. Immigrants from all of these other countries and black immigrants from Africa all do better within one generation than black Americans are doing. Yet, they all black. So where is the racism in that? It's culture more than anything.
Nobody ever talks about how the United States felt entitled to impose slavery jim crow systemic racism or whatever just how the people who were hurt by these policies are acting entitled.
As a black man in America with 2 children I just want my children to have a better life I work everyday and don’t want a hand out we have had our ppl generation after generation put down I just want to live in the great country we say it is let’s be that super power
Reparation are needed but people should not be thinking about a check. The money needs to go to damage that has been done to black people and their communities: slavery, segregation, and discrimination. The USA the ended these practices to then come up with new ones like RED LINING. We clearly see the results of RED LINING you cant not see it. Funding is needed to pull these area targeted by RED LINING to make these areas livable, Healthcare, places of recreation and learning to swim, access to job training facility, Funding for community activism to keep liquor store and businesses that do not support a community out. Funding for parental and community centers for daycare and adult care. Funding to make up for lack of community resources impoverished areas namely the schools. I look and see they are about to get rid of affirmative action so that small number of college students getting in to higher learning center is jeopardy due to a system that they have little control over. Its not their fault they were under challenged in their school district.
EVERY SINGLE FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN, AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF US CHATTEL ENSLAVEMENT, FREEDMEN SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR REPARATIONS. "We have No friends"- Dr.John Henrik Clarke . #FBA #ADOS #FREEDMEN #B1 #CUTTHECHECK #REPARATIONS #ECONOMICJUSTICE #DONTVOTEBLUEorRED
How ignorant do you gotta be to believe that you're getting millions of dollars in reperations payments? You'll never get one red cent in reperations payments. Hahahaha
very dangerous ground, there are many groups that could also demand reparations...it should be a case by case, such as the beach property in Southern California...Russell City residents should check to see if the property was illegally seized and if so then seek restitution & resolution
If they have strong cases backed by historical accounts, have at it. But don’t deny the Overwhelming reparations case of Black American Descendants of Slavery.
@@brombromsmuva9215And The Jewish & The Native Americans & The Japanese, For WW2 Camp’s. Everyone, Gets To Be Made “WHOLE”, Except Black People. We Are The Only American Citizens, That Our OWN Government, Dropped Bombs 💣 On!!!! No NATIONALITY, Has Suffered at The Hands Of The Very People Supposedly Protecting………… NEVER, For It’s Black INHABITANTS, In This Country 👈🏾😳🤔🙄
Wait how are pensions being insured like reparations? Agree we can do something reparations but that argument isn’t going to persuade a majority of this country.
Trust and believe 50 years from now when the U.S. government opens the roll on the knowledge the government had concerning the vaccine and the harms it would do to americans who some voluntarily and others forced to take the vaccine for work reasons and the government will be discussing a way to repair survivors(children) .
SO SAD THAT THEY ARE GIVING HOPE TO PEOPLE TO GET REPARATIONS MONEY!!!! OUR COUNTRY AND STATES ARE BROKE!!! WHATS THE SOLUTION INCREASE TAXES ?? WE NEED TO FORGET AND KEEP ON GOING FOR A BETTER FUTURE!!!
We’ve Given Ukraine A Trillion Dollars!! How, Are We Broke?? Chicago FOUND 51 Million, To Spend On Immigrants…..AGAIN…..How Are We BROKE?? We Have Money For FOREIGNERS, But NOT, People Born Here!! Makes No Sense!!!!!
This subject is probably impossibly complex to fit into 28 minutes. However, it is brave to attempt to start the discussion. Our nation will never heal if we can't face these issues. Just try to really listen. Try.
@@dragonknight9016 Please look in the mirror and question your need to prejudge strangers. I am not directly impacted by reparations. However, I know enough U.S. history to understand that chattel slavery is the central scar in our history. We must be brave enough to examine this horror, to discuss it rationally, then roll up our sleeves and do the repair work. Pretending that this is someone else's problem is irrational at best.
This guy Coleman Hughes can't be serious when he says apologies which Congress and the Senate gave should be enough to heal the wounds from over a hundred and something years of slavery,lynching, Jim Crow Laws ,Black Codes and Mass Incarceration. I understand NBC News wants to differing point of views but to have the opposing view to come from a black person just blows me away. Could he be adopted by a white family so he knows nothing of his history ,the pain and suffering his family experienced all because of the color of their skin or could he be one of those Islanders who don't support reparations because their not descendants of American slaves
100 Trillion would still be insufficient, but the fact we can talk about it is part of healing. You can't authentically say I'm sorry without discussing how you will correct what was done. While we can never make right the wrongs of the past we can allocate money and more importantly effort to a here and now that stops the generational trauma.
Congressmen Kiley said investing in education is the single best thing that we can do, so where is the nationwide call to 'refund public education' by both sides of the political divide? Every day Black children fall further behind in educational ability/achievement while little to nothing is done to change that trajectory. Why haven't all the tradition courses that were taught in public schools been reinstituted, knowing how vital they are to the process of producing well-rounded healthy members of society? Where is the national public campaign to stress the importance of education? Why is even parenting been instituted as a course in schools. It is the most difficult jobs perform, certainly a most important one. Surely, we all can agree on what the basics of good parenting are irrespective of our varying beliefs and ideologies. Why can't first get the gains possible in the areas we can agree on instead of ignoring them just to repeatedly arguing over what we disagree on? Maybe we might find that those gains were a big part of the solution, if not the solution itself.
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Money was made money should be paid.
The way I see it is that reparations will boost the economy in all types of ways, spending, manufacturing, home sales, some of the homes that the banks are holding for instances, and more. But mostly closing the wealth gap!! Mic'2023
It’s that simple
@KevinGloverpost24 car sales has declined in the last few years as well!! Thank you!! Mic'2023
You didnt make it!
@@thebossman3894 they didn’t either
"Missed?" He's speaking as if it were an innocent oversight. They deliberately made the decision that Black pain was inconsequential thus not deserving of recognition.
Every group received pain , but some groups overcame their obstacles better than others.
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m Some groups experienced more pain than others.
@@sportsactuary8574 yep like the native Americans, every group just have over come their struggles
@@sportsactuary8574 And you don't think there have been white slaves? You don't think European history isn't pretty brutal? Everyone has suffered, cry more
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2mactually many black Americans especially in the south have at least one full blooded Indian grandparent.. I have multiple that means I'm owed double according to what you are saying.
Hold it... I thought "reparations" was for slavery. This video wasn't about that at all. It's about stuff that happened relatively recently.
We would have preferred America to have have paid the slaves after Juneteenth, however she did not. Now, she’s in arrears and interest is also due.
I agree with you. Interest on top of interest is owed, yes indeed. The American government stubbornly clutched its pockets intentionally to delay reparations. As there is no way with America being that racist, would ever want to see a black family prosper in those times. Look how long it took them to observe Juneteenth as a federal holiday. That speaks volumes about how long America has been in a stubborn state of mind concerning matters of ADOS.
I disagree . Black Americans got the greatest reward in the USA. They got USA citizenship. That the cost of 600000. American soldiers lives. Plus it is written in the 14 amendment, that federal government will not be liable for slavery. And Liberia was created for the free slaves to return to Africa of their own free will. Now like 160 years later , black Americans want money for slavery? I say no. Too much blood and destruction was caused by freeing the slaves.
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m
Respectfully, Nope!
Black people served and lost lives, too, during every war, like other Americans with a bonus birthright.
Never have we been compensated equally for our lives lost, but rather mistreated like animals, even still. You’ve grossly misinterpreted any amendment that claim that black peoples are not owed reparations. New comers are benefiting from our unpaid services as well. Like I said, with interest. She owes it, she knows it. ❤️
Blood was lost because President Lincoln was ignored.
dbabe3, well said. Thank you.
It will never happen. No politician anywhere will ever vote for a budget item that is so open ended.
They will in California and the Taxpayers WILL pay for it.
California is not gonna pay reparations.
Anything goes these days….
@paulthomasbranda7591
74 million Republicans voted for Donald (the first potential Hitler in American history) Trump.
Anything goes, is the understatement of the 21st Century.
@@boagBut You Don’t Mind Funding UKRAINE, Billions Upon Billions!!!!
Shall I mention as justifications for reparations the fact that America Indians and Japanese Americans were compensated for harms done by the United States Govt.
Don’t forget to mention how most indigenous people (the term American Indian is offensive and refers to the the Americans of 🇮🇳 Indian descent) and Japanese Americans didn’t receive the reparations and when they did most people only received 1k-5k. That’s not enough money to lift a whole race out of oppression
Do you believe that black should receive compensations
Yes
My tax dollars shouldn't go to reparations for what colonizers did to their ancestors.
And our tax dollars shouldn’t go to Ukraine, Afganistán or Israel, which has nothing to do with the United States but, they are!!! You need to have that same energy for them! At least, this would be something that would uplift this country directly and boost the economy as a whole!
Well, You better say something about your Tax dollars going to a lot of others ' money, investigate because more of your tax dollars are going to those other outlets daily. Those avenues you should be concerned about are just a matter. Your tax dollars are going out while Reparations are working to be paid. By the time Reparations are paid more of your money has gone out in many other ways that You are not aware of!!!
This was not a political Debate when Slaves were tortured to do the work. They had to do it or else. No Butts no back talk no debates. America quit stalling no more asking other groups or Freeloaders what they think. Just simply Cut The Check
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I saw that ..cost..
I migrated to US 20 years ago, should I also pay more taxes toward reparations?
Did you believe Donald Trump's obvious intentional Racist Birther Lie, in the form of a question ?
Why not? You willingly chose to move to a country that was built by enslaved Black people
Yes. You chose to come here and be a tax paying American citizen, right? Our tax system isn’t a la carte.
Ha!! Ha! right that's a really good question !!
@@seensay2132 From what I see, it is.
13:29 Stop it! The struggles are not the same.
Cry more!
Blacks do more harm to each other and continue to do so. Majority love victimizing themselves.
@@ossoduro7794How about you and yours cry less! “Nooooo please don’t give them reparations!” 😢
@@MrNovatherebel y'all ain't getting sheeeeit....get over it. How long have y'all been begging‽ It simply is NOT going to happen. We don't cry about anything because we're privileged that way.
Just turn the money machines on and print some more money.. what harm would putting a few more trillion dollars into into play do? It’s not like we’re on the gold standard anymore anyways.. just make sure the Native Americans aren’t forgotten about. Oh, and don’t forget us veterans. We deserve some money too, don’t we? I’m pretty sure everyone can prove they’re a victim. Let’s just give everyone a million dollars. Problem solved.
SPOT on with your COMMENT!
Thank you for being one of the only logical people in this comment section
Before 1965, for black women, the single motherhood rate was around 20%, and now, in 2023, it's a whopping 77%. What happened?
Males running around impregnating women increased.
they're a defective culture.
Democrats.
In 1965 yt folks like you were saying black folks didn't deserve anything. You use single motherhood but if we were all in 2 parent homes you would still oppose it.
Biden became president
how to get people to stop filing taxes ever again 101
Okay then just go to jail then?
@@raulsalome7038 Y'all know quite a bit about that, don't you‽
@@ossoduro7794 your ma knows even more about bjs
Reperations for people who were never slaves in a state that was never a slave state. Outrageous
Is always a big issue when it comes to ADOS people, no one has fought hard then ADOS. Their been others receiving reparations with out much of a fight!! Thank you!! Mic'2023
Nobody points out that Jewish descendents are getting reparations! So sick of this bigotry & oppression being played on my people! Enough is enough! We are expected to just get over it but those so-called white Jews are not told the same! I wonder why not and why is my tax dollars going to them & countries like Ukraine we did nothing to them but they have no problem giving to them because they are white it’s only a problem when comes to us!
"Without much of a fight"?.... It's like a couple of them didn't even have to ask for operation
@tmac_3055 we need to charge a Civil Rights Tax!! Mic'2023 ps Coleman needs to Opt out!!
It's time we demand this
And we reject it. Get a job.
@bidhrohi12 go troll somewhere else
@@Chidimmaaa How long have you been waiting for the handouts‽ Just shut up and take it to the grave!
@22:20 I disagree with Coleman Hughes about the statutes of limitations. You can't casually compare a mass crime such as slavery to any other corruption committed in 1865. I disagree with his opinion as a reason to use the statutes of limitations to oppose reparations. Why? Back then the legal and political fields of the country were racist and corrupt as a whole. Communities, government, and individuals helped perpetuate racism which in turn helped suppressed and delay reparations in a stubborn, arrogant, and nasty way.
So casually saying a mass crime such as slavery and racism is past the statutes of limitations in legal terms you got to ponder some things. First of all, it's the SCALE of the crime on a mass level we are addressing and also the perpetuation of that crime after slavery was abolished. Even though it was abolished, crimes against the dignity of those people were in a perpetual state of racial tension and distress that lasted for generations.
Also, we are addressing the restorative nature, that was deliberately delayed by white supremacists (past and present). If a man can't see It was their intent to use the statutes of limitations to get away with this crime and avoid paying for the use of free slave labor...then that man is a blind man to the subversive tactics white supremacists use on black Americans several times over generations.
If slaves didn't get paid, so how did 300,000 freemen got their freedom before the civil war?
The statue of limitations was written in the 14 amendment. Section 4 of the 14 amendment says that the federal government will not be liable for slavery
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m Even if you were right about the government not being liable for slavery (because it says so in the amendment)...It would be a fickle contradictory arrangement. Why? Because if you say that African Americans were awarded citizenship, then What about the OTHER AMENDMENTS that were not honored by the American federal government in the treatment of ADOS after slavery? I say not honored as they allowed things to happen and sat idly by as white mobs, racist individuals, and white supremacist groups, at state and local levels treated black people like garbage and were never brought to justice.
There are too many amendments that were broken, or personal boundaries of African Americans that were crossed by white supremacists and bigots that governed with legal and political power. Remember Jim Crow? That was a shameful incident in history that got your opinion looking like a contradiction. Many other things were done to African Americans during, but specifically, AFTER slavery that was unconstitutional and contradicted some of the Amendments based on ADOS treatment in America. Even if you were half right about the 14th amendment, Jim Crow laws and racist horrific treatment of black Americans AFTER slavery was unconstitutional and didn't honor all the other amendments. You know it.
The point you made about the statutes of limitations that are somehow in section 4 as a clause to keep America from being responsible to pay the debt of slavery only proves my point that I disagree with Coleman Hughes in the video above. American government back then intentionally put that there for a reason...Yet when it comes to paying reparations or compensation to other groups of people in America that went through distress such as The Japanese, Native Americans, and other groups there is no problem. Why are Black Americans getting these delays to be compensated for their legitimate hardships? Therefore, reparations would be owed for slavery and incidents after slavery as they are treatments that targeted the humanity and livelihood of black Americans. Also, it's not a new thing for the Constitution to be revised by Congress.
And he didn't mention the harms that the Crack epidemic caused on the ADOS community's that we are still feeling the effects of!! Thank you Mic'2023 ps if Coleman doesn't like the idea of reparations, he can opt out!!
Well said!
Israel receives *BILLIONS OF OUR TAX PAYER MONEY* and nobody complains. Even though they should take it up with Germany 🇩🇪. BUT AMERICA STILL PAYS REPARATIONS TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY. It is time that we should get *REPARATIONS*
March 2024 New York gave Jews $183 million!!!for the holocaust. Obama did the same 2016.And crickets 🦗. Cut the checks. Stop the BS.
At 8:10 she references Proverbs 14-9 which actually reads "Fools mock at sin: This is in the nature of fools and their folly. They think sin is a light thing, worthy to be mocked. Their mockery of sin is connected with their lack of the fear of the LORD."
Black people were asking for reparations in some fashion before 1865. They keep getting ignored.
This is ignorant. Some Blacks owned slaves. Many other nationalities have also served basically as slaves or indentured servents. How about indentured textile workers who burned in fire in unsafe buildings? MANY immigrants arrived AFTER slavery ended - inculding Blacks ! How in God's name could you even figure out who is owed and who should pay on such a large scale?
Injustice occurs to ALL people. If "the nation" owes any "group" it should be the indigenous people. But how many have not fallen in love with someone of another race and no longer 100% indigenous. The same is true of every other race. So. To be fair first you would have to prove a "slave" lineage, loss and percent of ancestry.
In Short this is all racist BS
BUT
This is Who We Are
But you could vote for Donald Trump's Extreme Racism, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate, and still consider yourself a Christian !?
Do you want to talk about complicated things, some more ?
Many white immigrants also were given home, small business and college loans that free, tax paying Black American citizens were denied and NEVER given fair opportunities to compete for.
Those of you who arrived later and probably have been able to be further ahead then most blacks who have been here bc of the systems in place.
Genealogical studies, census records and family trees can absolutely determine who are the descendents of slaves. Although indentured servitude is indeed horrible, nothing compares to chattel slavery. That is why it is the central scar in USA history. Pretending that it wasn't so bad just means that you weren't paying attention in social studies class.
Stop this ignorant pushback! Money was made, money should be paid
BS….
Was Coleman sweating!! Thank you!!Mic'2023 ❤
Money was made, money should be paid
@@MrNovatherebel - paid by who and why?
@@MrNovatherebel That makes no sense at all. Now go get a job because your fantasy about reparations will never ever happen.
@@billbillards569 its about to happen. Stay mad with your sorry a$%
There’s no statute on murder and that’s what happened to the blacks their history was murdered
NO!
I refuse to be taxed for being white!
You’re being taxed for natives Americans Israel and Ukraine’s reparations why aren’t you raising sand about that
You should've been saying no to the benefits your people got off the backs of slaves. While you hollering no, sucka
No thats exactly why you should be TAXED just for being a NEANDERTHAL b1
But Black people have been repeatedly taxed for being Black
Black people are a VERY VERY resilient people. We've always had to be...always.
I dunno about that. Begging for trillions of dollars in 'reparations' is not what most would consider resilient. A few other choice words come to mind, though.
@@MrCharliebbarkinthats what your community owes. Pay up
@@MrCharliebbarkin benefiting from trillions of dollars of inhumane slavery torture and inhumanity while whinning about a conversation to correct it sounds about right.
@@BirdPlanGod will bring justice
Black people belong in ships bound for Africa!
California had some local issues with seizing of land and those should be paid by California but cash "reparations" for slavery -- not practical.
because there was no slaves in California
@@B86432 Exactly -- California wasn't even a state subject to US law prior to the Civil War? or not for long?
There were more than 2,000 enslaved black people in CA.
You didn't listen to the program. They specifically mentioned that although California was considered a Free State, southerners who came to California for the Gold Rush in 1849 brought their slaves with them. So there were enslaved people in California.
There are examples of those “local issues” all across the country.
Im still searching for all that white priviledge and generational wealth I keep getting told I was born with. So far, no luck but I havent looked under my couch coushions yet so theres still hope!
How many white people were slave's? How many white people had their property seized by black people? How many black people were running around and hanging white people? The Answer to these questions is None! White privileges still exist! Yes 3.6 % of Black people were able to overcome white privilege out of 41.6 million black people! That's 1,497,600 out of 231,900,000 white people!
Did you believe Donald Trump's obvious intentional Racist Birther Lie, in the form of a question ?
Did you listen to Donald Trump's Intentional Lies, that the first Black President in American history is the founder of ISIS and a Socialist and a Secret Muslim ? Did you vote for Donald Trump's Intentional Lies and Extreme Racism ?
George W Bush fired all the Iraqi Army Officers who led ISIS. Leaving them with no jobs, no income and no respect. If any American President is the founder of ISIS, it is Republican George W Bush.
I ask again, did you vote for Donald Trump's Intentional Lies, Conspiracy Theories, Extreme Rhetoric, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate directed at the first black President in American history ? If you voted for Donald Trump, even once, then you may not be an unbiased opinion, on anything to do with race relations in the USA
Have you been harassed by police unwarranted ? Were your Grandparents denied mortgage loans in nice neighborhoods regardless of credit? Were you ever turned away for jobs you were qualified for and later found out they went to lesser qualified? Did you ever receive an inheritance (business, money, property) passed down from relatives who profited indirectly from segregation and racist banking and hiring practices?
@@seensay2132 I get a kick out of these racists! They are all talk until you throw some facts at them. Then they have nothing to say! What a joke!
Then That’s On YOU!!!! You Have a 500 Year Head Start & Still Aren’t WiNNING……..Sounds Personal, To Me 😮!!!!!!!
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.
We pay native Americans Israel and Ukraine reparations and the US had nothing to do with the holocaust or Ukraine. Where is your opinion on that?
Slavery has been a universal institution for thousands of years as far back as you can trace human history. And what we are looking at is if slavery is something that happened to one race of people in one country when in fact the spread of it was around the world.
In 1776, which is when Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations as well as the United States got started,he said that Western Europe is the only place in the world where there is no slavery. And even the Western Europeans had vast numbers of slaves in the western hemisphere but not in Western Europe itself. And so if you’re going to have reparations for slavery it’s going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth because the number of whites, for example, who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that put together. But nobody is going to North Africa to ask for reparations because nobody is going to be fool enough to give it to them.
These people have to take a chill pill, digest the facts and realities, and move on instead of blaming all their troubles on a stupid idea that someone owes them anything for picking cotton for free.
What does slavery in Europe with caucasians enslaving their own caucasian ppl. That has nothing to do with chattel slavery in America. Stop including the whole world in what yall caucasians did in America and not just America but everywhere. Thats your way of trying to deflect and not be held accountable. Y’all kidnapped another nation of ppl from thousands of miles away and kept them as property and slaughtered them and treated them less than human.
Jews running full destabilization ops now.
No one cares about none of that! Money was made, money should be paid
@@MrNovatherebelMcDonald's is hiring where I'm at 19.00 dollars starting pay
Every black human should get millions in reparations. Just my opinion
Don't you have a recording studio to go mumble at?
I'm not african american, but I believe in justice. Reparation is not a bad idea to help the descents of slave in coping with the cost of living.
Last time I checked California didn’t have slavery. If anything reparations is for the descendants of slaves, not for people wronged in America. If that’s the case everyone in America 🇺🇸 needs reparations matter fact all over the world 🌎!!!…❤❤❤
Check further and dig deeper. Your research is limited. If your point was correct there would NOT have been a task force that the legislature of the State of California approved and signed by the Governor to develop recommendations.
@@cgcade1I did do my research that’s why I said what I said. I don’t speak unless I’m correct. The government can’t be trusted so I’m not sure why them signing anything makes a difference on the facts. But once again the devil seems to always come for the truth. Be blessed…❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Reparations is supposed to be for the descendants of slaves that’s a fact. That is not the reparations this video was talking about so I’m not sure what much digging deep needs to be done.
@@cgcade1 and if it is true and they signed it I guess that proves my point that they are not to be trusted, but as always they want to come for the people that are trying to help instead of go to the problem. JUST BECAUSE THEY PUT A BIG FANCY BOW ON IT AND CALLED IT REPARATIONS DOES NOT MEAN A THING, IT JUST MEANS THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE CALLING IT TO MAKE YOU PEOPLE HAPPY AND STALL TIME. WOW no wonder they called y’all, THAT WORD… ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 😂 😂 😂
I don't know why Coleman Hughez is there he is black Latino. He doesn't come from American slavery!
You sure about that? Technically he is half black....So according to most arguments for reparations wouldn't he qualify?
Exactly what I said
@@nobodysfriend876is he just 1/2 black? Or ADOS. I don’t think he’s ADOS OR FBA
@Rahsim a lot of people haven't caught up to our conversation yet. They think we are talking about flat blackness. They have no idea of what we are actually talking about.
I don't think these people on the committee should receive anything. Its a conflict of interest.
The Indians getting $11,000.00 a month are y'all serious
That's because the natives have their own system set up on the reservation they take care of themselves whatever profit the tribe earns all members get a piece of it
Well they tried to white out my ancestors bloodline I'm African, European, and Indian DNA!
What about reparations for our First Nation Americans? This country belongs to THEM.
They were given land, tax exemption, and pretty much their own laws and government. I am about 75% Indian and 25% Irish! These Indians can travel anywhere across the United States, and Canada! They have a great life in Democratic states! Maybe not in republican states!
Even if you just calculate lost wages, there is clearly money owed. If you worked at McDonald's for minimum wage, you know you would demand that they pay you your last check when you quit, right?
So what would a "field hand" be paid in 1864? Now, multiply that by a lifetime for their work. So a ridiculously low annual wage, multiplied by 60 or 70. The lifespan can be determined by census records and genelogical studies. Honestly, even if you didn't add interest and punitive damages for the cruel physical punishment visited upon those enslaved workers, those lost wages are a sum of money that no one can dispute. In a country as wealthy as ours, an apology without a monetary award is hollow and insulting.
"As wealthy as ours" were literally broke do you not remember the whole debt ceiling debate from a few weeks ago... Where's all this money going to come from add it to the trillions of dollars we already don't have as a nation
Talented historians and genealogists are able to trace who benefited from the slave trade and slave ownership in California. The descendents of those entities should pay into a fund to repay the free labor upon which their families built their wealth. That process can then be repeated state by state.
@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 who's going to pay for these talented genealogists and historians? You must live in some kind of communist fantasy land...So say the people who "benefited" (generations ago) family all went broke in the late 1920s you know in that Great depression thing that happened... And their offspring are poor or even struggling to maintain middle class lifestyles living paycheck-to-paycheck
You're going to make them pay into a fund for something they didn't really have any part in?
@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 furthermore how are they going to enforce anyone paying? same way the IRS does with threats of violence and imprisonment?
But you have also factor in the cost of the civil war, the value of the USA citizenship and Creation of the Liberia and cost of 600000 soldiers who died in the civil war. And then the next question do the freemen , the slaves who got their freedom before the civil war , should their families be owed reparations.
Reparations are due... it's the right thing to do..
That small handful of southern democrats that owned slaves should pay dearly
Yes pay the black americans
Don't just bring up reparations on Juneteenth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day, we should be bringing this up everyday. Cut the check because we're done talking.
Good. Stop talking.
Not from my money.
MLK was a crooked immoral pos, why else would his family refuse to release the tapes.
🤣 cut the check hilarious...whatever want money then work for it
@@jpete3027666😂😂it's always you illiterate 1s with the most to say 😂😂
Reparations are Biblical. Argue with GOD!
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.
What about the generational wealth that was stolen?
@@witnessforjesus6492
Prove you own it.
Prove who has it.
Take it.
Simple.
I personally have created all of the wealth I posess, myself.
So; it doesn't apply to me; nor to the vast majority of people.
Yes you are innocent, but you participate in a system that generated its wealth from a crime. The crime was never justified, just delayed... Generations of slaves that built the foundation of America's economic powerhouse, which then allowed for many immigrants to benefit and if not for those 240 years of free labor you or your ancestors would not be here...
The guy against reprerations doesn't speak for any of us 😢 my great-grandfather was lynched we got no reparations from it I went to buy a house and was just simply told no 😢
no question that the descendants of slaves are owed reperations from the centuries of cruelties committed against black folks in this county....England , France Portugal, The Netherlands and many others who took part in the slave trade...we built the world and wasn't paid a dime!
Only hater’s don’t agree
How can anyone say the time for getting any type reparations have passed when we weren't able to enjoy or truly partake in the laws of this land until the late 60s early 70s? Who was going to speak for the freed slaves and their descendants when they were still being murdered and lynched with impunity? Not being to buy homes, being attacked for trying to get an education, the bombing and drowning of whole town after mass murders etc... America owes a debt it should pay like they'd others around the world
They can’t.
And just how is money going to resolve anything? It won't. I don't owe anyone anything. I'm not at fault for the actions of other people. Just because I'm white doesn't mean I had ancestors that were involved in slavery, and I don't have any such ancestors like that. I don't appreciate being more or less punished for something I didn't cause. Keep living in the past pal, you obviously didn't learn from it, two wrongs won't make it right.
We want candidates that will stand up for black 🐈⬛🖤 people reparations for passed injustices and slavery like the Biden Administration keep sending our tax money 🤑💰 to help Ukraine with billions of dollars to fight against 🪆 Russia and Putin.
Reparations are long overdue!!! Yes, to Reparations!!!
FREE THANGS ✊🏿🏀
The Black folks and the Hawaiian folks would have become wealthy if our lands were not taken from us by europeans! We are due financial reparations, NOT just an apology!
That'll nvr happen
Want some cheese with that whine?
I think it’s disgraceful for people that are so far from understanding,knowing or being directly involved with what these men and women suffered is insanity. They need to talk to the African sellers for money. But to ask for money for the suffering and sacrifice of men and women in a time of ignorance is ignorant. With that said, eminent domain is socialism and i totally support payment for this thievery, but for slavery. Sorry but no, talk to the African governments for selling their own people.
Germany paid Jewish descendants reparations and they also outlawed hate speech toward Jews while also erecting monuments acknowledging the humanity of those the Government was complicit in oppressing, harming and murdering.
@@seensay2132 nice let’s do some editing lol
USA, Can Do For People From Everywhere, Coming To AMERIKKKA, Just Not For Black People BORN HERE, For 500 Year’s.
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.
@@seensay2132if it is not paid God will pay. The argument that it was so far long ago voting rights were just impacted 60 years ago not even a full human life span. 😂😂
Colman Hughes's statement, "Unfortunately, the opportunity was tragically missed to pay it [reparations] to the slaves themselves or their immediate families," is a deeply disingenuous statement. When African slaves were freed, they actively fought for reparations, only to be systematically denied and ignored by those in power at every turn. To suggest that the opportunity was "tragically missed" implies that the enslaved or their descendants somehow failed to seize the moment, rather than acknowledging the relentless resistance and exclusion they faced. This framing is not only misleading but profoundly insulting.
Be grateful of the wonderful contributions of the black community and their culture to our society. Their peaceful Non-Violent generous nature and articulate speaking skills makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture. Their rational and logical thought toward circumstances coupled with their innate capability to de-escalate situations is to be envied and coveted. Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real estate values are fueled by the influx of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, as an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation. Upvote if you agree.
This is trolling at its finest. A surface level critique of a people who have been unjustly marginalized and told I’m sorry in response to the brutality, yet through it all we are expected to be the model of excellence and grace, expected to honor and respect a community that has yet to extend us those same values. We as a community, in acknowledging our flaws are simply reflecting back to the world a pain, a disdain, and anguish in which we have been burden to carry as a result of the pain we continue to endure. Our homes have been burned down fathers slung from the oak and children gunned in the street, all because we are mistreated, misguided, and ultimately misunderstood.
@maez3014 Cry more, you deserve nothing for what happened in the past. You like the sound of it because it means free money, meanwhile the majority of people are broke af rn 💀
@maez3014 a surface level critique? People come from literal warzones after decades of political oppression, and still don't act like animals. Yet AAs have been living here for how long? In a first world country, and they still can't seem to overcome it. After all that society has given them. Sad asf
@@Deadassbruhfrfr you're absolutely right. Immigrants from all of these other countries and black immigrants from Africa all do better within one generation than black Americans are doing. Yet, they all black. So where is the racism in that? It's culture more than anything.
I thought I was supposed to be judged by my character 🤔
Nobody ever talks about how the United States felt entitled to impose slavery jim crow systemic racism or whatever just how the people who were hurt by these policies are acting entitled.
The world owes you nothing. Stop playing victim.
Black people should incorporate. Then they could sue.
They already belong to unions. Maybe the unions should pay the reparations, since the unions stole from so many Americans of all races.
As a black man in America with 2 children I just want my children to have a better life I work everyday and don’t want a hand out we have had our ppl generation after generation put down I just want to live in the great country we say it is let’s be that super power
Wake up bro, your people have been saying that for probably the last 7 generations in the UsA. It's time for the US to pay.
These people hate us so much. Our ancestors are owed a debt and one day we will get it. The debt will just continue to grow.
It hasn't timed out, we are still suffering and our ancestors was not paid for their work.
It's kind of funny; isn't it‽
Everyone struggles these guys just don't want to work, they want a handout.
White struggle is nowhere near blk struggle.
yep
Very powerful, this is a whole college course gotta be very careful b/ c history repeats itself especially if there's emotions involved
they dont teach pre 1776 where slavery originated so they can intentionally blame the white man ....its a farce
Reparation are needed but people should not be thinking about a check. The money needs to go to damage that has been done to black people and their communities: slavery, segregation, and discrimination. The USA the ended these practices to then come up with new ones like RED LINING. We clearly see the results of RED LINING you cant not see it. Funding is needed to pull these area targeted by RED LINING to make these areas livable, Healthcare, places of recreation and learning to swim, access to job training facility, Funding for community activism to keep liquor store and businesses that do not support a community out. Funding for parental and community centers for daycare and adult care. Funding to make up for lack of community resources impoverished areas namely the schools. I look and see they are about to get rid of affirmative action so that small number of college students getting in to higher learning center is jeopardy due to a system that they have little control over. Its not their fault they were under challenged in their school district.
Or logic or greed or pride or lack of caring .
@@ShockwaveSoundwave-z2m
From either side.
If you take that useless college course, just be sure to pay off your student loan!
Well in this case if they start paying for them people's labor. Then how about paying the natives for the stolen lands.
You an agent
They need to pay American Indians back rent for 400 yrs
The Spanish the Portuguese the Dutch the French and the English
They’re been paying Native Americans reparations since 2001
Amen
EVERY SINGLE FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICAN, AMERICAN DESCENDANTS OF US CHATTEL ENSLAVEMENT, FREEDMEN SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR REPARATIONS.
"We have No friends"- Dr.John Henrik Clarke . #FBA #ADOS #FREEDMEN #B1 #CUTTHECHECK #REPARATIONS #ECONOMICJUSTICE #DONTVOTEBLUEorRED
This is no negotiation we are boycotting government no reparation no vote.
You giving it to Ukraine for no reason
No reason? It is an enormous humanitarian crisis. Millions have been displaced, their homes, in ruin.
@@MrCharliebbarkin So? The U.S. isn't Ukraine but the U.S. is Israel.
@@MrCharliebbarkinyour point so what Ukraine has been displaced
How ignorant do you gotta be to believe that you're getting millions of dollars in reperations payments? You'll never get one red cent in reperations payments. Hahahaha
Biddy Mason was one of those slaves. She went on to become the largest female real estate owner in the state of California.
very dangerous ground, there are many groups that could also demand reparations...it should be a case by case, such as the beach property in Southern California...Russell City residents should check to see if the property was illegally seized and if so then seek restitution & resolution
If they have strong cases backed by historical accounts, have at it. But don’t deny the Overwhelming reparations case of Black American Descendants of Slavery.
And we should pay them too..like we did Japanese
@@brombromsmuva9215And The Jewish & The Native Americans & The Japanese, For WW2 Camp’s. Everyone, Gets To Be Made “WHOLE”, Except Black People. We Are The Only American Citizens, That Our OWN Government, Dropped Bombs 💣 On!!!! No NATIONALITY, Has Suffered at The Hands Of The Very People Supposedly Protecting…………
NEVER, For It’s Black INHABITANTS, In This Country 👈🏾😳🤔🙄
Like who ?
Then let those groups make their case for reparations. There has still not even been an official apology for slavery and it's racist aftermath.
I have not agreed to have a "religious leader" represent me in any form or fashion. Religious leaders have no say in this conversion!
No one in this story is Native to this land.
Wait how are pensions being insured like reparations? Agree we can do something reparations but that argument isn’t going to persuade a majority of this country.
Yeah let's not forget about the hundreds of thousands of white boys who fought and died in the civil war to free the slaves. Any reparations for them?
A reminder of that one episode of Dave Chappelle
Trust and believe 50 years from now when the U.S. government opens the roll on the knowledge the government had concerning the vaccine and the harms it would do to americans who some voluntarily and others forced to take the vaccine for work reasons and the government will be discussing a way to repair survivors(children) .
That Dave Chappelle skit dude pulls up with a semi of menthol 😂
I was enslaved by obamacare fines till trump reversed that extortion..when do i get 40 acres and a mule?
YOU CANNOT MOVE FORWARD IF YOU HAVE NOT CONFRONTED THE PAST!!!
This has gotta be a joke bro. I can barely feed myself as it is
Feelings. Who cares about feelings. Just pay for everything you stole.
Wasn't California taken from Mexico? Maybe California should just give the state back.
May as well, nothing but illegal trash piling up in that state.
There's know one truly talking for us. Ask the right people. The black people on the battle field.
To the woman at 13:00 their struggle was not unique, it was simultaneously widespread and targeted
The families that took the land in the beginning now want the people who are fighting for reparations to add them.
Reparations must be calculated from when the first slaves landed. Then reparations should begin plus compounding interest until now.
SO SAD THAT THEY ARE GIVING HOPE TO PEOPLE TO GET REPARATIONS MONEY!!!! OUR COUNTRY AND STATES ARE BROKE!!! WHATS THE SOLUTION INCREASE TAXES ??
WE NEED TO FORGET AND KEEP ON GOING FOR A BETTER FUTURE!!!
We’ve Given Ukraine A Trillion Dollars!! How, Are We Broke?? Chicago FOUND 51 Million, To Spend On Immigrants…..AGAIN…..How Are We BROKE?? We Have Money For FOREIGNERS, But NOT, People Born Here!! Makes No Sense!!!!!
Did You Have That Energy, When Everyone Else Got “REPARATIONS”??
I Think 🤔 NOT!!!!!
What?? Did I have that energy?? Please explain!
@@chillsillego9599 who else got reparations?
@@wyattcole5452 right! Some people just reply without even knowing what the situation is! 😒
Awful presentation.
Superficial.
This subject is probably impossibly complex to fit into 28 minutes. However, it is brave to attempt to start the discussion. Our nation will never heal if we can't face these issues. Just try to really listen. Try.
@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 maybe you should take a good look in the mirror first, and ask "who's really keeping me down?"
@@dragonknight9016 Please look in the mirror and question your need to prejudge strangers. I am not directly impacted by reparations. However, I know enough U.S. history to understand that chattel slavery is the central scar in our history. We must be brave enough to examine this horror, to discuss it rationally, then roll up our sleeves and do the repair work. Pretending that this is someone else's problem is irrational at best.
Ain’t gonna happen but in the states the Democrats push it through in they are giving the best gift Republicans could ever ask for.❤️
Yup!
😡 REPERATIONS NOW!!!!!!!!
Cornell Brooks a Sterling Young Gentleman Leader.. Thank You
This guy Coleman Hughes can't be serious when he says apologies which Congress and the Senate gave should be enough to heal the wounds from over a hundred and something years of slavery,lynching, Jim Crow Laws ,Black Codes and Mass Incarceration. I understand NBC News wants to differing point of views but to have the opposing view to come from a black person just blows me away. Could he be adopted by a white family so he knows nothing of his history ,the pain and suffering his family experienced all because of the color of their skin or could he be one of those Islanders who don't support reparations because their not descendants of American slaves
We have not Discussed the Prompt Payment Act.Interest can be Charged and Will be Charged.
I don't think Coleman Hughes gets it. A verbal apology from congress is not enough!
What about my indigenous brothers and sister ? We were the the first victims of systemic genocide and colonization!
They were given reparations 22 yrs ago
But-whatism
You’ve got migrants in this country already working. Reparations to Blacks 😂🤣😂🤣
Pay up!
Cash reparations should not happen but investing in job training and education should. #noreparation
100 Trillion would still be insufficient, but the fact we can talk about it is part of healing. You can't authentically say I'm sorry without discussing how you will correct what was done. While we can never make right the wrongs of the past we can allocate money and more importantly effort to a here and now that stops the generational trauma.
Level the playing fields
Exactly. And Canada has already acknowledged and apologized for their harm in Slavery including paying reparations.
@@sonyajohnson9311 You'll be broke in a year
I'm not sorry!
Coleman 🤡 Hughes go sit down somewhere!! And don’t you try to twist Dr Kings words!!!😡😡
Michael King Jr. wasn't a Martin, a Luther, or a doctor; he was a commie fraud, among other things.
Congressmen Kiley said investing in education is the single best thing that we can do, so where is the nationwide call to 'refund public education' by both sides of the political divide? Every day Black children fall further behind in educational ability/achievement while little to nothing is done to change that trajectory. Why haven't all the tradition courses that were taught in public schools been reinstituted, knowing how vital they are to the process of producing well-rounded healthy members of society? Where is the national public campaign to stress the importance of education? Why is even parenting been instituted as a course in schools. It is the most difficult jobs perform, certainly a most important one. Surely, we all can agree on what the basics of good parenting are irrespective of our varying beliefs and ideologies. Why can't first get the gains possible in the areas we can agree on instead of ignoring them just to repeatedly arguing over what we disagree on? Maybe we might find that those gains were a big part of the solution, if not the solution itself.