Its more complex than that. Lets say your ancestors were originally from the US but sent to the Caribbean and you have proof. How could you not qualify ?
@@Jeff-xv6gk If your ancestors built America during slavery and were sold like commodities to another plantation outside America you dont deserve reparations ? What is the logic here ?
You say N!GG2r and its ok. you say us and its OK let someone white in public say you people and you get all skunk ape over it. How about you get a job and stop with the hand outs. Its like going to a zoo where the Giraffe come running over because they know free food handouts are coming. Learn to fix the rot that is black culture. Learn to rely on yourself and not handouts. Learn to act like normal humans and stop Burning Looting and Murdering. Just learn to be good people.
If you feel strongly about your people's suffering, than definitely create a coalition or join current organization and go for it. Who is stopping you?
So I wonder why nobody mentioned Native Americans, their descendants definitely get reparations. Seems very dishonest for nobody to not mention them at all. 🤔🤔
@bettyboopsie9836 discrimination is discrimination whether native American, Asian, Black etc, don't think anyone should put a monetary value on it. What happens if these people want more when they blow through it, it's a bad precedent to set 👎
There have been several government policies throughout history that disproportionately excluded or disadvantaged black Americans, limiting their access to wealth-building opportunities. Here are a few examples: 1. Slavery and Jim Crow laws: Slavery itself was a government-sanctioned institution that denied black Americans their freedom and economic opportunities. Even after the abolition of slavery, the implementation of Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation and perpetuated systemic inequalities. 2. Redlining: In the 1930s, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) implemented a practice known as redlining, which systematically denied mortgage loans and financial services to predominantly black neighborhoods. This discriminatory practice hindered black Americans' ability to purchase homes and build equity, contributing to long-term wealth disparities. 3. Discriminatory lending practices: In the mid-20th century, practices such as "racial zoning" and "restrictive covenants" prevented black Americans from buying property in certain areas. Additionally, discriminatory lending practices, such as predatory lending and racial bias in mortgage lending, further limited black Americans' access to credit and fair loan terms. 4. Exclusion from New Deal programs: Some New Deal programs implemented during the 1930s, such as the Social Security Act and the National Labor Relations Act, initially excluded agricultural and domestic workers-occupations predominantly held by black Americans. These exclusions limited access to crucial social safety nets and worker protections. These policies and practices, among others, contributed to the racial wealth gap and hindered black Americans' ability to accumulate wealth and access economic opportunities. ✂️👉🏾✅
@@rack9458Obama was born in Kenya and is a puppet for symbolism. He's not a Foundational Black American and doesn't know our struggles, which means he doesn't represent Foundational Black Americans! I'm 36 years old and own multiple successful businesses in Los Angeles, and the majority Blacks I know are doing well. With that being said, my group of Foundational Black Americans are still owed reparations and we will get the reparations!
@@menewsome I'm black and the last thing I or anyone in my family needs is reparations! If you think race relations are tense now after all the BLM crap, just wait till reparations are paid!
@@rack9458 Are you a Foundational Black American? If so you and yours don't have to receive the reparations and if your aren't a Foundational Black American you have no say so. Black Americans don't care what these people do when we get reparations, there's literally nothing they can do that they haven't already. You keep living in fear, I can show you better than I can tell you what I'm about.
In 2005, JP Morgan Chase, currently the biggest bank in the US, admitted that two of its subsidiaries - Citizens' Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana - accepted enslaved people as collateral for loans. If plantation owners defaulted on loan payment the banks took ownership of these slaves. JP Morgan was not alone. The predecessors that made up Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are among a list of well-known US financial firms that benefited from the slave trade.
You realize that democrats were the pro-slave and republicans fought for their freedom right? I say this because most vote democrat and yet nobody talks about it.
This is the same Chase Bank (the boat was registered to them)that a couple years ago had a ship, seized at a port with the payload of 300,000,000 pounds of cocaine on it!!!?? 🤦🏽♀️ that sure blew out the headlines real quick!
Thanks Chuck Todd, good interview, Black were given Land that was taken back, Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule, never received it, someone should be accountable.
@@teamamerica5987 Apparently you also need a civics class. General William T. Sherman DID promise some freed slaves plots of land of no more than 40 acres. Read Special Field Order No. 15. Abraham Lincoln was in agreement, but was not re-elected. Andrew Johnson, the next President, reneged.
@@leftway5282 Oh child. Military authority is subservient to civilian authority. Now go read about the history of the field order (40 acres and a mule stupidity) and get back to everyone.
When the checks are being dispersed, make sure that i receive this guys check!! He's so out of touch with black America 🇺🇸. Reparations are due! Let my people go, Pharoah!!
Reparations are not going to happen. Floating it like it’s actual idea only serves to make more than half the country mad, and makes them turn off to hearing any other requests or arguments. By pushing for this you are shooting yourselves in the foot. It might sound fine in certain circles, but more broadly, even on the left, it’s a non-starter.
Ending slavery and getting civil rights made more than half the country mad, and we got it done ANYWAY. The white majority will always be on the immoral side of history. We don't care about your racist feelings.
I live in California. It’s already been promised. If black people asked for equity based on what most white American wants, black people would still be living in 80% poverty, educated by inferior outdated text books, and legally banned from voting in the segregated South.
Simple question but why is nobody asking for reparations from the people that actually enslaved these people and sold them into the slave trade, I find it strange that this is never mentioned and black African Americans seem to just accept and are even proud of their African brothers whose ancestors enslaved them in the first place, It is odd when you think about it particularly with the amount of hatred towards whites for simply being white. Why is there never any mention of reparations for the direct descendants of the white people that fought in the civil war to end slavery particularly those that were killed for the cause and why don't Black Americans love these same decedents instead of thinking that they are the enemy
@dorothywashington In what world would someone pay for what they haven't done to people that it wasn't done to. The people you want to pay are the decedents of those that fought and died for freedom. Reparations are a joke and making a division and by the way check your history those Africans that had been enslaving other Africans for hundreds of years before a white man had even seen Africa knew exactly what they were doing, guess they just wanted a bit of money for nothing, ring any bells ??????
It's interesting that there is 2 black people representing opposite sides when the vast majority of black people are on the same side on the issue. The disagreement is between black and white. Let this be a lesson on how they do things.
It shouldn't be a disagreement between blacks and whites. It was black Africans that sold fellow black Africans into slavery. First point of call for reparations is Africa.
Of course black people are on the side of more free stuff without having to earn it 😂 Fun fact: only 8-10% of black Americans have slave ancestors the rest came after slavery was ended. Only 3% of America owned slaves out of that 3% over 7,000 slave owners where black. Out of the 2 million slaves in America at the time over 300,000 of them were white. But if this is the route we want to go African Americans owe me a lot of money because my ancestors are Irish so if you are Muslim or African decent I want my reparations for the centuries of slavery and genocide on my people they committed
@@Snowstorm1200 If it had happened less than two years ago you could have sued and got your reparations.. But let’s be clear, what if they not only stole your bike but stole your entire family, sold them into slavery and you never saw them again.. Now, that’s something to hold onto…
@@Naesman1167that's ridiculous...you never experienced this...😂...you witnessed nothing ...were not damaged only live in freedom... sorry...I'd go get a better income ..
@@HERMETICSUBROSA You mean like the one you’ll be getting at 65 or 67? What about the handout to send your kids to school? What about the appropriations for project funding in your district to make fHsure you and yours have a place to live? FHA subsidy’s, handouts.. You’ve been taking handouts all your life.. Do whine to the Federal Government about the billions they send to Israel or Pakistan, or places like Urkraine.. You don’t believe in handouts right?
God is in control and he is on our side. He is a God of Justice and knows reparations is just, the labor of our families is owed, and had the right to leave thier inheritance like any human being. The 1866 Treaty and Sherman Field Order 15 needs to be honored. God nor I don't care about polls or some TV commentator opinion. James 5:4,"Behold, the pay of the Laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld by you, cries out against you; and the outcry of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of armies.
When ever Black people say the word Reparations all of the other Communities say what about us when ever the subject is on Black people we got to change the subject right? Come on man there is no other Race that have went through what Black people went through y'all can say y'all understand about you don't To thus day it is still a crime to ve Black in American a country many call Great
@PakalChicxulub From those who enslaved Americans, but not from Americans in general. A large percentage of American's ancestors were not even in America during slavery like mine. It should go without saying that we should not have to pay.
@@bay5005 You obviously don't know that slavery in the United States hasn't ended. It might look different, but it's still there, and it's not just "black" people any more.
@PakalChicxulub Police are (state and local) government supported entities so it's clearly not a genuine comparison. Slavery was conducted by private citizens and not the Federal Government. There was a Civil War over this issue because it was never supported on a National level. Therefore, the plaintiff would sue the private entity and not the Federal government.
The American dollar isn't backed by the gold standard any more, it's based on housing mortgages. They're getting dealt like stocks on the American stock market, another financial concept that should never have become a reality. What high finance did in 2008 has filtered down to residential housing. All Americans should have worried when they were told they didn't have to pay rent in the pandemic.
I guess we could say that about the prices of anything now a days, ever since Covid and the shut downs the prices are on steady up climb, I’ve started taking pictures of the prices I pay so I can compare from week to week. Getting really hard to be retired on a fixed income. It’s all just big buisness, the banks going under, the over building of homes and banks lending to people that down understand a mortgage or lending practices and in 24 months or less they see they can’t afford it. Moderation america, people it’s a matter of supply and demand, don’t buy what you don’t need, change expensive habits, use and reuse what you have, don’t be wasteful and it will help your dollars and lower big business million and billionaire take home pays.
Sadly, the "normal" involved is boundless greed and corrupted government that is providing "oversight" of greedy corporations. These specific aspects of that come to mind: Companies have been underpaying for assets taken from public lands ... legally "stealing" from taxpayers when, in fact, much more of the profits from use of public assets should be used to pay government expenses. More recently it has become even more obvious than ever that fuel companies have been price gouging, with increased fuel charges having a domino effect on prices across the entire economy resulting in inflation. Businesses have "unions" (though, generally they oppose for workers) ... it's just that business "unions" are called "trade associations" instead. This includes financial institutions. Banks, that get money from the supposed government/private "partnership" of "the Fed" at a very nominal interest rate meet to CHOOSE to inflate their profit, gouging individual and business consumers and increasing the inflation. Monopoly and near monopoly. The greediest of the wealthiest pursue monopoly because controlling supply enables the control of pricing. The ever widening economic gap will continue to grow ever wider unless and until the wealthy cease to be able to use their wealth as political power to write the economic laws and commerce rules that keep that our corrupted capitalism self serving for the rich.
It's not just the cost of the house in reality. The real issue and the one everyone ought be angry about is the amortization scheme that applies to homes. The one thing we need most, scammed by the loan sharks. ...and the...gubment, let's it happen and encourages it for the sake of business and tax money. It's as if they really don't want to BUILD up the country, nor it's people. Just a percentage.
The first question should be, we're slaves owed repairations for their enslavement. If the answer is yes and they never received it, then that compensation should be made to their descendents. If not, then please explain why.
Because too much time has passed, and a great proportion of black people today can't trace their ancestry to a specific documented slave due to things like lost records, broken families, abandoned children, the foster care system.
They are still at it. They went and got this New York City Public Transit Subway Pole Dancing Puerto Rican (he was in his underwear, I might add) to chime in on whether the FBA should get reparations. This immigrant wouldn't be eligible for lineage-based reparations. And what makes him an authority on the subject? It's like they fetched this guy out of thin air. Never mind going to the thought leaders in the black community on this subject. No, go get this person to give his worthless opinion (objections) to reparations to the former slaves of the United States of America. NBC News. Interesting. I think I'll put you on the same shelf as Fox News. These people have no shame (or dignity).
No. No slaves alive today and no slave owners alive today. It would be the innocent paying money to someone who has had no crime committed against them. Totally ludicrous.
Reparations was paid to japan reparations was paid to victims indirect victims and and victims descendents if that can happen why can't they pay blacks reparations
@@Keys-gj1yi i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
And this might sound crazy but in a way reparations is sysytemic oppression against whites. (similar to slavery). It might not be as bad as slavery but it is similar in the sense that you are forcing one race of people to give another race of people free stuff. Like slaves had to work for free and make their owners rich. Well, reparations is just that forcing modern day whites who had nothing to do with it make another race rich.
If there's still a former slave out there then that person deserves reparations for having endured slavery. However all former slaves are long dead. Just as their spouses & children. The current generation can't claim to be a victim of and have suffered damages due to something that ended many generations ago. Claiming that is woke nonsense.
Coleman Cruz Hughes (Born: 1996) is a child and has no real idea about discrimination in America. If his parents grew up in America then they would have a deeper understanding of what is discrimination in this country.
Every society is history, including African ones, used slavery for thousands of years. European societies were the first in history to morally oppose slavery and abolish it in their own nations. We cannot tear ourselves apart trying to relitigate what happened in the past and we cannot continue acting like one group of Americans is inherently more guilty than the others. Reparations was paid in the blood of the hundreds of thousands of European Americans who died to free the slaves in this country and make it one of the first anti-slavery nations in human history
No, European societies were not the first to morally oppose slavery. Complete nonsense. Many societies globally did so independently, including African ones. Even during the slave trade there were ethnicities that refused to engage morally.
BLACK AMERICANS ENDURED SYSTEMIC SLAVERY UNTIL THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS, AND BLACK AMERICANS FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR AND ALL WORLD WARS ALSO, THE DIFFERENCE IS, THEY WERE TREATED LESS THAN GARBAGE....PAY UP
Reparations should’ve been paid to Black Americans decades ago. Because the anti Black American racism was so vicious when payment should’ve been paid we are at this point.
Statue of limitation for a crime is a double standard since there is a thing called a “RECORD !” Which means that people are held accountable for their crimes/actions centuries after they initially claimed another story
THEY DON'T WANT THAT LOL THEY WANT $$$$$$$$$$$$ SO WHY THE US?? $$$$ NOT THAT THEY WOULD GO AFTER THOSE THAT SOLD THEM LOL AFRICAN BASED !! IT'S ALL A JOKE
exactly ! move on !! i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
@@salamjihad3449But you have to think! The oppression didn’t end at slavery!! We as black people have been racially discriminated against any numerous ways since forever. So do some research before you try to "embarrass “ or talk down on a group of people dealing with a traumatic issue.
The national government needs to provide training and funds to help white, African American, and minority farmers to maintain permanent ownership of their farms.
If we held previous generations accountable for all atrocities against all people, not many societies would be free from debt. As far as equity, both of my parents' families were immigrants in the early 1900s. My wife's family was mostly from Germany and arrived between the mid 1600s and 1900. Some were indentured servants in the slums of NY. None had anything to do with slavery. Some of her relatives also died in the Civil War - fighting for the North. Why should any of my taxes or my children's taxes go to pay for repirations, when we had nothing whatsoever to do with it and even lost family to help end the worst of the atrocities towards Black people? What about people of color who immigrated here after the fact? Does an immigrant from Upper Volta get reparations? If we go back to Native Americans, the Lakota killed off most of the Pawnee... should members of the Lakota tribe be found to pay reparatoins to the ancestors of the Pawnee tribe?
Yeah, it's a impossible "policy" to implement. It's only here to divide, and is probably the singular issue that the GOP can win on if the Dems take the bait and run with it. Chuck Todd is a very sketchy individual for having this debate on his show.
Why are we still talking about reparations? Couldn’t we just have every state creat a “Reparations Task Force” and let them “talk about it” for the next 20 years so we don’t have to. Reparations ain’t gonna happen.
That’s the goal… keep talking about it until it’s so far out whites will actually be able to say no one lived during times of legalized racial inequity. My parents were children in the degraded South and it most certainly determined the path of their life, my life, and their young grandchildren’s lives.
Tell me @ninadaly7639, WHY DIDN´T YOU PROTEST AGAINST THOSE OTHER GROUPS THAT RECEIVED REPARTIONS FOR WW2 AND THE NATIVE INDIANS. Repartions ain´t gonna happen? Scared that if it does, and it will, you will have to compete and pull yourself up by your own boot straps to make a living instead of having everything given to you and stop living off YOUR SYSTEM who you get your PRIVILEDGES and PROTECTING FROM THE LAWS DUE TO SKIN COLOR? Go back to sleep or better yet KICK ROCKS.
@@KL-cy1wcjanuary 6 would be a joke compared to all the riots from many other protests you people pretend never happened. However you want reparations for your ancestors pain and suffering? Im sure they'll roll over in their graves about that but heres how you can get it go see your relatives in africa because slaves were first sold by their own people in Africa because they were that poor. Or you could always pay yourself
@@KL-cy1wc Weird how you people always bring up Jan 6th when the blm riots were the MOST damaging riots in US history. There's places that still haven't recovered and probably never will. Over 3 billion dollars in damages.
I hate how they always set us up to be divided. If the young man thinks he doesn't need or want what we as a people are owed he can just leave it on the table!!! More for the rest of us.
How are we supposed black people supposed to unify when you cant even tell who is black? Coleman Hughes is a hispanic person he is NOT a descendent of American Chattel Slavery. There is NOT a divide because he is not one of us. Be smarter than this. A simple google search would have told you this.
@@sageex3931Evil ideas. Your talking about a social credit score that needs to include DNA, ancestory and lists of other criteria to asign reperations, educational priority and diversity hiring. Disgusting.
President Reagan, in 1988, issued a formal apology for Ex. order 9066, and paid reparations to surviving Japanese Americans….President Clinton, in 1993, formally apologized for the US role in overthrowing the Royal Monarchy of Hawaii. (1893)
No other group in America has had genocide, like black Americans! Slave owners were given reparations, because they were loosing their free labor! Let's start after slavery, no voting rights, lynching, Jim Crow, discriminated in education, health, and housing, towns flooded, burned and bomb! These things took place and still going on! Jews, Japanese, Indians, Israel still get reparations, and no one says anything about that. Your tax money goes to ALL of those, and it cost BILLIONS with my tax money! I don't want my money going to those groups either! Don't want an apology, cut the check, like the Government do for those other groups!!
They are still at it. They went and got this New York City Public Transit Subway Pole Dancing Puerto Rican (he was in his underwear, I might add) to chime in on whether the FBA should get reparations. This immigrant wouldn't be eligible for lineage-based reparations. And what makes him an authority on the subject? It's like they fetched this guy out of thin air. Never mind going to the thought leaders in the black community on this subject. No, go get this person to give his worthless opinion (objections) to reparations to the former slaves of the United States of America. NBC News. Interesting. I think I'll put you on the same shelf as Fox News. These people have no shame (or dignity).
Millions of black Americans would have to pay reparations as well since there were 3000+ black slave owners in early America, cut to 1800s there'd be tens of thousands..if any of your ancestors benefited you'll pay too, LaVar Burton, Sonny Hostin ect. Reparations will never happen because that would be discrimination against people who never hurt anyone..and don't say the government will pay because that would end up being taxpayers.
Government sends billions of dollars yearly to Ukraine and Israel. Reperations would cost less than that. There’s really no argument against reperations except jealousy
@@Chief-et6xk majority of non-color Americans in the United States today majority of their families come from Europe after slavery was abolished that’s why majority of white Americans can trace the roots to Italians, Irish, and so on…. Modern African-Americans today were never slaves. They don’t deserve a dime from those who never own slaves.
That phrase comes from the Bible which is the book that Europeans used to justify and convince itself of their right to commit genocide and uphold slavery of human beings...
Our family came to USA with about $80 in 1980’s and now we make our living here. You tell me we will have to give money some other people for what happened to their ancestors 300 years ago… No!
The Consitution was written in 1776 and their descendents are still following this document in 2023! I guess Coleman hasn't heard of the Seminole War, and Rosewood. Many of the descendents received Reparations!
If youre African American, as in Black American, and YOU do NOT want reparations... THEN DO NOT ACCEPT THEM! The rest of us WILL GLADLY accept them. Also, what does this guys mean by, "What do reparations look like in today's 21st century?" Like bruh, what do you mean? Money. OBVIOUSLY MONEY!
As a White brother I don't think your gonna get it. Maybe African cheiftains have some cash for you? Or Liberia has a spot for you? I dunno man. You got good streets, a roof, a cellphone, university, library's, good public transport, jobs, comedy clubs, a decent multiculturalism going down? Stop thinking about being black all the fuggin time? It's driving you racist crazy lol
Highly divisive, not founded on a justifiable basis, will do more damage than good undertaking. You throw the "where would you be had you been left alone" - "then go back to your own country" door wide open. Will only cause more resentment and hatred.
ONLY if they pay the Indians for their slavery, torture, genocide, and theft of their land first! YOU ALL ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS ON OUR NATIVE INDIAN LAND!!!
We're not united anyways and Foundational Black Americans aren't immigrants! We were here before it was America and it was nothing but vegetation all over the place. Immigrants have a home they can go to.
Why didn’t Asians getting reparations for Asian hate bother you? It was created based on “projections” that never happened but the money was swiftly paid just like it is and will be when they give it to the illegal immigrants that are seeking reparations. Why isn’t THAT a public debate?! They aren’t even citizens?!
There is no statute of limitations for murder. Only when that promise is fulfilled uninterrupted it doesnt matter how long ago it happened. It still happened and was never repaired. There children benefited back then and some still today from the works of slavery which they are trying to continue with prisons system.
@ninobrown724 You must be speaking for yourself. Never is a strong word. Have you ever heard of modern day slavery? I agree with you that yes we need to work like everyone else. But even that statement is easier said than done. Because 9 times out of 10 you are going to work for? Who is your boss right now that hired you. As far as never owning slaves is the narrative they try to push. It's been swept so far under the rug ever since. It's like a game of Monopoly. You start off with a few 500 dollar bills and a few 100 dollar bills to get you started in this game of life. But for Black's in America the majority never got to start off with any money and was forced to roll the dice anyway and landed on go directly to jail. No inheritance. Yes there are a few who made it but that percentage of the overall majority is very small. Their are other nations of people who have received reparations. Blacks were promised 40 acres and a mule and where did that end up going? You can't honestly sit here and say that white people haven't benefited with a wild head start from slavery which even after the emancipation proclamation was passed slavery took on a new form in the prison systems. Why do you think there was a Civil Rights movement in the 1st place? It never got repaired. They gave welfare programs and made people dependent on the government instead of setting them up to be self sustainable. Now I'm not saying slavery is like the way it was before but if you don't understand the new form it took then maybe that's something you should check into.
@@ninobrown724 well then by your logic why should young Jews still get reparations even tho they never experienced the holocaust?also white Americans won't be paying the reparations
Not only with the prison system, but, many other tactics been, and being practiced long before we and many ancestors were born. They are masters of many types of manipulations. But, God is bigger than these people and their even schemes and plans. 🙏.
@@ninobrown724 fact yu right I probably don’t but I can probably bet your great great grandfather burned down the city my people was in where they don’t have any documentation of who they are so they can’t get the money out the bank meanwhile your family can get loans wit my people money so yeah yall owe & I work hard out here didn’t nobody leave me nothing & I’m not saying all Europeans are bad people but they did genocide an group of people just for land
@@ninobrown724 every other race or color of people get reparations except the BLACKS OR AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM USA so who really wrong when the police still shooting us and we unarmed in our bed sleep yea USA owe us it’s Hard for a black to get a loan. an European credit score is 750 at the age of 2. Meanwhile I’m being raised in an environment where the rent $25 & people getting shot every night as an kid & yu being raised on a farm yea America 🇺🇸 owe me
@@ninobrown724 look at the history of the way we was treated and you don’t think that is wrong. The USA paid Japan for the bombing they did to them & still paying for it. They paid Iraq 🇮🇶 for the destruction we did to them. I’m not saying you should pay me anything & yes I pay taxes & has an business & yes I do need my reparation from the USA because the euros are wrong for what they did now just pay for it mfs been waiting for years for it but the pentagon can send 6.4 billion to Ukraine 🇺🇦 when that’s the 4th check Biden sent to them. But we can’t get reparations. When Yu kno it’s gonna help the economy cause most of us is stupid and gonna go get a Cadillac instead of CREDIT so just let it fall through. Ukraine 🇺🇦 ain’t did nothing for USA 🇺🇸 REMEMBER THEY WAS PART OF USSR
@@clarkmacgowan5114 ... What I'm saying is that they have family members like yourself who will vote for them against reparations. The Macgowan's owned slaves for sure. Thanks for your smart a$$ wyt guy 👦 comment 👍 per usual
slaves are not supposed to get paid !! thats what " slave : means !! and the people who are asking for reparations are the ones benefiting from slavery!
The dumbest comment ever lol!! We might as well pass a bill to eliminate nepotism and passing inheritance down to those who are born into wealthy families since they were not alive when the wealth was created
0:18 ofc they would be supported by the black community. They’re the only ones who would get the reparations 😂😂😂 what about the Ireland people who were sold to the 13 colonies. Or what about the European men/woman sold to South Africa. If you pay 1 race, you gotta pay them all ❤️
I was born in arkansas in 1959 and jim crow was very much alive and enforced in my home town of helena, arkansas, one can never forget things like stepping iff side walks when whites were passing through, no eye contact with whites especially white women, being called various animal names, white babies pulling up your shirt tail because their parents told them we had tails.
I feel bad that you went through that. You are someone who actually does deserve to be compensated for Jim Crow laws since you actually lived through them. People now a days think they have it bad but really the system actually doesn’t favor anyone. It favors those who work hard. I’m glad you are out of that.
Why is Coleman Cruz/ Hughes being given a platform to speak on Reparations? He isn't FBA. MTP needs to speak to people like TBA, Prof. Black Truth, Rizza Islam & Vicki Dillard about this. Bet you they won't.
Im sorry for the way their families arrived here and were treated before and after the civil war... If your going to go for reparations, then go after the people who were the slave owners.... Not just any white folks ... Just because youve decided your owed... Many Blacks also had slaves and it was oyther africans that captured the progenerators of those familes whose beginnings here in america 4:29 were slaves... Further America wasnt the only country that had slaves and many European countries continued to have slaves after 1865, hidden in the jungles of South America... So where would you cut off the reparations...
@@scinnyc No Fool I'm denying blaming those families That had NOTHING to do with it... Blaming a whole country and race for something only a few were involved in is the same nasty habit of. RACISM, and Racial Profiling or for that matter STEREOTYPING a whole group for a few bad apples.
I was removed from my job at HACLA because someone decided to give it to a younger white woman. That not only impacted my lifestyle while I workef but also my returement. It was common knowledge that I did my job extremely well while the white woman's only qualification was her skin. I was forced to leave California when I retired because my pension would not allow me to survive there. That's only one example of how I have been treated because of my heritage. I deserve reparations from the government, not some individual white persons who have no problems with giving Ukrainians billions and who never complained about giving housing vouchers and Social Security checks to russian jews living in west LA and beverly hills. Their handicap: they didn't speak english. If you can give billions to Ukrainians and others, you can give me and mine millions. Look how much is being spent on illegal aliens in NYC today. The stupid hatred of my skin is enough to justify reparations. That hatred has been used to deny us housing, jobs and freedom. I sat in.the court room watching Harold C Brown find EVERY Black person who appeared before him guilty while exonerating every white boy, even one who admitted he was guilty.
@@marianlincoln9008 😆🤔How am I a fool? The U.S. government was 💯% complicit in slavery, not just individual slave owners. The European countries that owned slaves in the Caribbean, South and Central America should pay reparations too. They sure had zero problem giving slave owners their reparations after the Civil War. Yes, many countries had slavery. But how many countries had slaves that helped build the most powerful nation on Earth without getting so much as a dime, while their descendents still faced unfair laws and policies for over a century afterwards as well as persecution until this very day?
Two years ago, I had a client who’s in High School had a history project regarding to Reparations, as well as the Wealth Gap when it comes to Black people compared to other races. The project was basically how should reparations be divided when it comes to plans for Economics, as well as education. With the money should it be divided for Black people to have their own businesses/homes, as well as educational opportunities. As a 41 year old Black female with 2 college degrees. As a Mother to a 9 year old Daughter. I never had a project like that in school before, which was an eye opener. I didn’t know that Blacks were almost 300 years behind white counterparts when it comes to the wealth gap. It makes sense! A lot of white people had generational wealth from slavery; while slaves had strive and struggle from nothing to get ahead after slavery was over. The fact that Africans was stolen from their land and brought over to America to be slaves and be treated worse than an animal. Even though, slavery ended, but it was also Jim Crow and segregation. The thing about reparations is I support reparations! However, are we ever going to see it! That’s like in this country hate crimes are still being done towards black people and we’re still seeing this today, which is the New Jim Crow!
@@ralphz1238 Which tribes? Who are you going to return it to? The tribes that were there before Europeans came? Or before they were conquered by other tribes?
You really think Africa would be comparable to Europe if they hadn’t sold each other into slavery? Not just to the US, but the parts of Europe that still had slavery, not to mention South American slavers, as well as Arab slavers. You aren’t a victim of anything but your own hubris. Your own desire to be one. Because nowadays being a victim gets you social cred.
It's a nice "high school debate class" topic. Personally, I can't wait until it's a college level debate class" topic titled, "Could you have survived the 20th century?"
I really would like to know what tangible benefits would encompass reparations that’s different from food stamps, Medicaid, SSI, free phones, free housing, heating assistance, furniture vouchers, free transit, free clothing, free education, free programs, and everything else you get when you’re living off the system.
@@wilburgordon7606 I have learned, that they will not try putting nor doing anything beneficial for us if it does not benefit them...not all of them, but, perhaps most of them to say the least.
@@FirstLast-dy4gt That's exactly why the Rednecks kidnapped my people and brought them over here, and to other places, against their wills, ...For CASH...nothing but satanic. Not to mention the rapes and other inhumane treatments of our fathers, mothers, and children. Put up or shut up clueless ones
This is where we go wrong… there is no reason to even debate this on national television. This displays our weakness as a people. We need to learn about optics.
For anyone comparing what happened to blacks with ANY other race living in America (or anywhere else in the last 300 years) show me ONE other race (in the last 300 years) that was enslaved by another race for countless generations... Show me one other example (in the last 300 years) where basically an entire race throughout the entire country was enslaved... Had their children enslaved. Their grandchildren enslaved. Their great grandchildren. Their great-great grand children.... Show me another country (again, in the last 300 years) that was 100% economically successful because of a slave race (black) while the controlling race (whites) were made the most wealthy and powerful race on the planet (which they still are today). If you don't agree with reparations... That's fine... But comparing the enslavement of blacks with what happened to the Irish, Chinese, your granddad, or anyone else, is disingenuous af... I'd even argue that African Americans got it worse than Native Americans... Native Americans: Wrecked by disease, followed by a pretty one sided "war" with the whites, that they ultimately lost. Followed by the stealing of all of their lands, followed by their placement into reservations. Followed by... Wait for it... Reparations... Flash forward to today. The country is still ruled by white men, but... They LOVE Native Americans. White people can't wait to tell you how they're part (insert tribe here). Compare that to being a slave your entire life AND knowing that your children (and all your descendants for hundreds of years) will also be slaves (you are also forced to breed)... Then fast forward to today where a large percentage of the people who run this country (still white men ofc) secretly, or openly in the comment section, hate you.. Imho, it's not even close who got it worse.
The Chinese really don't deserve anything because 1: no one told them to come here and 2: they actually got paid. They easily could've just stayed in China. African slaves on the other hand were forced to come here and work for free
Chinese haven’t fought in every war the country has had. When P Harbor was attacked that was Asian people doing it. When did blacks attack the country by planes and bombs?? Never and still they were hung and put in trees no matter how much racist don’t wanna pay they’re gonna pay one way or the other kick the can down to the next generation. If your alive in 25 years from now your gonna see a bill being passed for reparations because blacks and Latinos will have the majority scientists say by 2050 America is no longer majority white if you think what let’s say 150 million people to 175 million people aren’t gonna have the power to make it happen your highly mistaken. That’s gonna get passed so fast like a budget bill. Kicking it down the line not addressing it now will force them to do it. You can bet on it.
The best form of payment to a slave owner for their slaves labor was MONEY…not economic or social or educational policies. So, in that spirit…pay Black American descendants of enslaved persons the MONEY they’re owed.
@@sistahb5159hey already got reparations. >Natives have special zones >Jews got a safe community with no red lining from professions >Japanese were paid by Reagan
He sure is that’s why all these talks and, studies are taking place. America must atone for one of its original sins of slavery through reparations & in different forms of compensation. They’re going to fight it tooth and, nail but I’m afraid it’s out of their hands!
How dare you bring Coleman Hughes on here to discuss this matter? He wouldn't even qualify. He has nothing to do with this. He doesn't speak for US!! Also Coleman Hughes you didn't answer his question about Germany and statue of limitations only applies to civil and criminal legal proceedings.
YES I DO !! NO WELL BROUGHT UP PERSON WILL ACCEPT OTHER PEOPLES HARD EARNED TAX MONEY JUST BECAUSE SOME OF OUR RELATIVES WERE SLAVES !! HOW MUCH LOWER CAN WE GET !!!?? @@Randy.lorenzo
Of course they should. However, the trillion of dollars, land and resources owned would only be acquired through war. The oppressor will never give it up voluntarily.
@ninobrown724 , because the government is still the government, and they were and are still involved in the enslavement of millions of Black people to this very day. The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bans slavery or involuntary servitude, EXCEPT when it is used as punishment for a crime. Unfair sentencing and unequal distribution of resources. It's systematic, not individual based. The US owes trillions of dollars and land to Black people. We all know this.
The hustle is in the question. Though I believe you can, one doesn't have to go back to slavery to make the case for reparations. Just look at the constitutional violations in the 40's, 50', 60's that robbed Blacks of generational wealth, spawned the street gang culture that's pervasive in low-income Black neighborhoods, etc. All you have to do is read The Color of Law (also available as an audio book) to learn why reparations are deserved.
i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?
@@Ashley10E what? No I didn't. Segregation was only in the South in the years AFTER the Civil War. States like Vermont outlawed slavery 10 years before they even joined the U.S. & signed the Constitution in 1789. Prove it. Anyway what do you think Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad was about?
@@c.rutherfordThe opinions of the descendants of plantation owners are irrelevant less repossess the possessions that originated from the plantation a****** You're against that too I'm sure!
As a Hispanic of Mexican descent whose ancesters helped build up Texas; I would not have my taxes pay for reparations as none of my ancesters owned slaves. What about Native Americans and other immigrants that came to the U.S. after slavery ended?
My DNA is part English, part Irish, part Nigerian, part North African, part Iberian, part Baltic, part Finnish, and part East European. I'm going to owe myself a heck of a lot of reparations if this idiocy is followed to it's illogical conclusion.
i would feel so embarrassed to ask the taxpayers of 2023 to give me their money because I had slaves in my background in the 1800s..or at any time for that matter! there are single women with children working just to feed their children! and you think you deserve their money? why again? because some slave from Africa didn't save his money to give it to you for your generational wealth?@@salaam4771
We as a people have to constantly stand in front of the unjust judges of our nation and stand and stand and fight and fight in the court room , on our knees, day in day out to get those things that belong to us. Those who do not want their reparations send your check back to Uncle Sam when it comes but me I want mine.
what planet are you living in !! we have all the same laws and opportunities as any other American. we can all go to school and become whatever we want..if we work for it,,why should we deserve other Americans' tax money who had nothing to do with it? just as we had nothing to do with it? if someone won't hire you because you are black then take it up with the proper authorities as any other race would do! there are laws put in place for that, we are living in the 1800s son !!
How many courtrooms have you been on your knees in? You just want money you didn’t earn and don’t deserve. You didn’t suffer in the cotton fields but expect payment for someone else’s suffering. It’s disgusting, earn your own money.
what belongs to us is what we work for !! what we build ! what we earn !! we dont want tax payers hard earned money who are in the same situation we are in ! we wont take their money !
give a man a loaf of bread or a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to bake or how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime... The same goes for money (reparations) give a person $50,000 or $100,000 and you support them for a year or two, give them the means to make that money themselves by providing school, college, equal opportunity and you thus support them for a lifetime.
