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- Calls for reparations have grown louder in recent years, with an increasing number of cities, states and universities considering compensation in some form to descendants of slavery.
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#Reparations #MTP #Documentary
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.
@@user-gu8fg7ft5b 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
@@user-gu8fg7ft5bactually 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.
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‽
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.
@@user-gu8fg7ft5b
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.
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.
Prison Industrial Complex, Underfunded Schools - Low Job Prospects = Poverty
Crack Epidemic
School to Prison Pipeline
and other targeted attack policies against a segment of Americans.
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
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
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.
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
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!!!!
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!!!
@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
@@user-gu8fg7ft5b 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!
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!!
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
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.
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
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.
I don't think these people on the committee should receive anything. Its a conflict of interest.
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."
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
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.
That small handful of southern democrats that owned slaves should pay dearly
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.
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 😮!!!!!!!
Biddy Mason was one of those slaves. She went on to become the largest female real estate owner in the state of California.
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.
A reminder of that one episode of Dave Chappelle
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.
Not worried about persuading the majority. Black people are sick of the Democratic Party. I'm not voting for them unless they put reparations on the table. If they don't let the Republicans win and watch the US implode just like that submarine that they've been searching for. That underwater vessel with the ultra wealthy on board trying to sight see the wreckage of the unsinkable Titanic. What an approriate analogy for where the US is headed. The global majority has had enough of the western world's shenanigans.
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.
This has gotta be a joke bro. I can barely feed myself as it is
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!
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. 😂😂
No one in this story is Native to this land.
There’s no statute on murder and that’s what happened to the blacks their history was murdered
Reperations for people who were never slaves in a state that was never a slave state. Outrageous
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!
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?
Black people were asking for reparations in some fashion before 1865. They keep getting ignored.
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.
Reparations are Biblical. Argue with GOD!
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 😂😂
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.
Thanks
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
The world owes you nothing. Stop playing victim.
The quality of content is very good I'm always happy when this channel losts content thanks for it have a good day
Let's just say reparation for all,everyone great great grandparents suffer in their times.
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.
Want some cheese with that whine?
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.
Psalm 137:1-6 KJVS
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. [2] We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. [3] For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. [4] How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? [5] If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. [6] If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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
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...
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.
That Dave Chappelle skit dude pulls up with a semi of menthol 😂
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 .
@@user-gu8fg7ft5b
From either side.
If you take that useless college course, just be sure to pay off your student loan!
I have not agreed to have a "religious leader" represent me in any form or fashion. Religious leaders have no say in this conversion!
Another hand out for doing nothing
Just like food stamps, unemployment, welfare, etc…
There’s a future out there for all that dream it. Use your energy to earn it.
Sorry about the past which we cannot undo, however we can overcome it
We have not Discussed the Prompt Payment Act.Interest can be Charged and Will be Charged.
Why does everybody at NBC make smacking noises when they start to speak? Is this new, in addition to vocal fry and upspeak , which has also taken over Australia? Any linguists out there that could help me with this question?
I’ve observed this in other public speakers, as well. It’s totally obnoxious. Yes, along with vocal fry and upspeak.
There's know one truly talking for us. Ask the right people. The black people on the battle field.
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!
Currency means nothing if you still ain’t free -Tupac Shakur
Tracing my root back to kali should be hard. My great grandmother was born in 1890 or 1910
The families that took the land in the beginning now want the people who are fighting for reparations to add them.
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!
To the woman at 13:00 their struggle was not unique, it was simultaneously widespread and targeted
Cornell Brooks a Sterling Young Gentleman Leader.. Thank You
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.
I think being born in America is blessing enough. Some do require reparations like the family in CA that got their beach front properly taken away…BUT…with HBCU’s and every possible ability to get ahead, I don’t think this is needed. But y’all will cry and demand things rather than work for it.
As if white folks in this country haven’t received numerous hand outs and leg ups… Furthermore my ancestors did work for everything they had and others whom didn’t look like them came along and either took it or burnt it down!!
Coleman Hugh's is not one of us he's a tether.
Everyone who disagrees with you is a “tether”
If they disagree on #FBA getting what is ole us yes.or a 🦝🦝🦝...
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! 😒
I want my football day's back when guy walked off team & returned two days later to start Saturday. This because the coach didn't want to be called Racist!
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.
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.
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.
I don't think Coleman Hughes gets it. A verbal apology from congress is not enough!
Why do you have a person or persons speaking about reparations for Foundational Black Americans...Our language is so tight it will not allow them to receive anything from reparations... Please interview the grassroots people who can make it make sense....
Pay up!
YOU CANNOT MOVE FORWARD IF YOU HAVE NOT CONFRONTED THE PAST!!!
Didn't Cali continue after the war? As a non involved polish descent arriving in the early 1900's and residing in NY i think NY fought for them and who should pay?, And pay who? the great great grandson of the dude who make a claim? Chump change for some. All or none and as a New Yorker I question the value of those claims coming from a southern state. People live in shacks.
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
I need my check
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) .
From the 1970's to the 1990's, black families worked for the opportunity to get out of the ghetto's and small country towns which the majority of black people lived from 1865 to around 1950. The gap that persisted from 1950 to 1970 was the biggest change that occurred in America than at any other time in this country and the first time in American history that black people had advancement, out of 400 years. The black children of the black families that grew up in the 1960's and 1970's were the air apparent of a black heritage that mostly lived in black communities and ghetto's which changed from the wave of a changing society. During the 1970's and 1990's black kids experienced the closest and same level of what white kids had a chance to experience since the inception of this country. Black kids during that time were able to go to school with other white kids more comfortable and confident than their parents. There was a embolden attitude that young black decedents of former slaves that experienced the first opportunity that no other generation experienced before and shocked white people. When white people began to realize that the black kids were nothing like their parents, white people began to flee out of the slowly growing neighborhoods of black families in the 1980's. The more black families that moved into a white neighborhood in the 1980's and 1990's, the more what families would move out of the urban areas and move to the suburb and eventually building new houses and developments. The black and brown families inherited the homes that were formerly owned by white families as bank capitalized off of the transfer of wealth through an unfair loan agreement that benefited financial institutions. At this point, the US Federal government should have collected enough taxes from the banks that earned a profit from the transfer of equity and mortgage loans toward the development of affordable housing rather than leaving black families in ghetto's and inner city impovished areas. The equal financial gains from banks should have been equally gained between both groups, but the Federal Government held the advantage to white families and did not enforce the same terms as black families. It was a one sided profit gain from banks and financial institutions. How much did banks and the early 1980's corporate investors gain during that period and still gaining wealth from the foreclosures of the same properties that they gained when they brought that same property back 30 years later. During the same time where did that profit come from to build a new suburbia for white families and there was no money to help support and invest into a new growing community that would have allowed black families to do the same as their predecessors. Instead, black families were slowly pushed out of industries and jobs that allowed them to purchase properties in the first place and then crack accelerated the addiction problem that pledged the black community. Crack paved the way for the gentrification of the black community as the kids of the 1970's and 1980's began to earn money in alternative ways. By the 1990's the 70's and 80's babies were influenced by gangsters, athletes and hustlers due to the liberation from money and fame. There was no more influence from working a full time job and going getting an education to get a good job which lead to a high pregnancy rate and a high rate of incarceration of minorities of mostly black males. A entire generation of black males were misled and misguided by the desire to not be poor or live better than their parents who failed to accomplish their dreams and lost focus by a system that caused or allowed addiction and marginalized their parents by different barriers. Parents did not reach their goals because of the failed investments that the Feredal Government could have done to prevent poverty. Equality paying the same taxes as every group in America but not getting the same representation as other groups, is what destroyed the black family in America. The fault of the offspring of slaves and the aboriginals of America , should be repaired by the Federal Government for the unequal representation over the past 40 years that exceeds the amount of time which reparations should have been paid by about 100 years. Slavery, brutal treatments, and the Jim Crow laws is similar to what the Jews experienced during the 1900's but lasted over 300 years longer and still to this day. Jews were also repaired for what they experienced from Germany and repaid with a independent country, while black people, especially foundational blacks have been on a continuous bottom caste of American society.
Please stop using the description 'Black people'. We are talking about African Americans, not all Black people. Maybe it's time to put the focus on where it should be. People who commit most of the crime, with parents who dont care or dont teach responsibility, and with zero emphasis on getting an education, can not keep blaming the evil White man for imaginary oppression in today's America.
And how dare you compare slavery to the Holocausts. That is disgusting. 188,000 out of millions of slaves were brought to America. 6 million Jews were exterminated, and their families had everything taken from them. And GERMANY paid direct survivors.
America has done more to protect ONE RACE than any other COuntry in history, but you can't even help yourself. WOuld you like proof? If all Black people faced the same impossible hurdles, then why are Nigerian-Americans, many who immigrated here in the 60's and 70's with nothing, the most educated and most successful of all races?
I had a hard time digesting all the drivel, half truths and blame playing in your comment. But suffice to say, clean your own house first if you want to have a good discussion about unequal treatment.
If you think blacks are the bottom caste, try being an atheist in the Bible belt. Skipping over the reality that no few whites came here as "ndentured servants" and their heirs seem to mostly be "indentured" to some financial institution for their entire adult working lives even now ... Reality: IF reparations are paid by the federal government, that nation debt will be repaid by whom? all taxpayers, including the heirs of those that receive it? Taxpayers who are not heirs of any slave owner? There is no ending to the twisted economic issues -- and that isn't even considering the fraudulent claims of those demanding money that are not the heirs of US slaves.
ONE idea might be first identifying the heirs -- proven -- and having them get a written acknowledgment and apology from the then president of the US ... and... then what?... a college or trade school scholarship at a state owned institution for all the current heirs of each slave that are interested ... in the state in which their ancestor was enslaved so both state and federal restitution? a highly collectible federal gold coin for each heir ... a coin that eventually might be worth payment denied for the labor of the slaves?
The most important thing we can do now is to get the present in order and keep the future on tract to ensure individual liberty, equality of right and justice for all as well as more equal opportunity. That requires voting for every Democrat on the ballot at every opportunity AND staying involved to influence the policies of those officials in leading the nation in the correct direction.
Oh lawwwwwd well today we be burnin down da thangs ✊🏿🏀
Evil rules America then and now. Love over hate forever.
There seems to be "evil" people in every large group but there are even more ignorant and even willfully ignorant people.
Welfare…
Cut the check
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.
Yes! This is exactly what our comunities were on track to be before violent thieves and looters burned, flooded and lynched the people who occupied those communities. Some people can not win unless they stack the deck in their favor because they know that they don't measure up. Either way we are going to implode. Just like that submarine with tourist viewing the ship wreck that was the Titanic. How approriate an analogy. The people who have been oppressed are the global majority.
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.
Evanston outside of Chicago is one of the richest white neighborhoods. And it's like this guy is mocking. The red line is one of the main traits 🚉on the South side besides the meta traits 🚆that has mainly a lot of black community.
You mean "trains"? Evanston is a wealthy Black suburb. I agree. So?
Alot of black people don't want to be anywhere near white people! They are racist! They chose to segregate themselves!
Aotearoa, New Zealand and Aotearoa New Zealand are all official names for my country.
Kia Ora (Be well) is our official greeting. Our anthem is sung in Māori and English. NZ currency has Māori and Pākehā shown on the notes.
Even once apartheid South Africa, has now been ruled by dark brown for 39 years and has an anthem containing several local languages.
This is how two countries outside the US deals with diversity and integration compared to 'stuck in the past, racist colonial America'.
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Reparations begin at home.
All of you men that used women and then left the resulting children fatherless are the problem, not unrelated sins of the past.
So are you saying that all black men do this or are you speaking from your experience?
Y’all just say anything lol
😂 And you're serious too.
@@martinmarty6317 the majority of them do. Look it up
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.
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
Another Great One sided story
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!
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
Reparations, will those reparations ALSO come from the AFRICAN families and countries that aided and abetted the slave trade, to include enslavement of their own people?
Don't bash, it's more cash!