The History of Reparations
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In 2014, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article for The Atlantic “The Case for Reparations” went viral. Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing discrimination of the 20th century, Coates made the case for financial reparations for the descendants of those who were enslaved in the US. However, the argument for reparations extends back much further than 2014 and also has significance beyond the Black American community. Today Danielle talks about one of the most controversial topics moving through American politics for over 150 years.
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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission barely scratched the surface of what the apartheid government did to our parents, grandparents and our ancestors
Saw a Vice video/documentary about the government making so much drugs to flood townships that they still had a stockpile when Apartheid ended. Saw another on Netflix called Fire in the Blood about global handling of HIV/AIDS. Also, a new film was made about Venus Hottentot/ Sarah Baartman- saw that streaming on Tubi. Yes- there seems to be a plethora of damage.. globally.. to either slavery or colonization.
Mandela sold out
@Fedora McTippington including murderers who were working for the special branch, national security Council and police who did the same thing, so that's not reparations it was a compromise between the two sides
If you want reparations, don't wait 150 years.
@@dude999642No one lives that long
Video after video, Origin of Everything just keeps knocking it out of the park. I’m so glad this project exists.
Yup
To see a white man say this literally brings tears to my eyes
They just ended it
@Lawrence Hess Not to me, I don’t need Nor do I want sympathy from them. I have my reasons and that’s it.
White people also was slave in barbary slave trade
Reparations is like you loan somebody some money and when it's time to pay up they say they don't have it but you see them wearing new clothes.
@Fedora McTippington it’s still owed. Don’t matter if it’s 3,000 years later. Fool
@Fedora McTippington the most ignorant post of the week goes to you sir. Take a bow. You earned it.
You clearly don't know American history if you can proudly post. that.
@@kassdremusic
Try to accept reality, slaves were paid for not stolen
Horrible it seems now but it's still happening now-
What are you doing about it?????
Reparations should cover all those injustices that Black people suffered and still do in some instances. Black Africans were brought to America and forced to work with no pay. Black Africans free labor made this country wealthy that it benefits from today and they should be compensated with money and the resources to help their families and communities . Reparations for Black African Americans is Justice .
ADOS
Danielle Bainbridge is so awesome, always thorough and well-spoken.
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Thank you Danielle and your team for making history, real history, accessible. I just noted that you sound different in this video, not your usual self as a host. I hope you are ok, please take care.
There was a pretty cool resettlement program in the Houston area. Never knew this because I'm white, even though I lived between two freedmen's resettlement areas. Yeah, I went to kids school with black kids from Carverdale and west county. I had older black teachers teaching history and social studies who used to teach at Carverdale. We learned about the Civil Rights movement and we never knew that they used to teach in a segregated school located in a resettlement community. I never knew to ask. I had the whole history in the classroom and they could not speak and I did not think to ask.
Here's how badass Carverdale was in its dying days in the 1980s. There was a family from there named "Citizen". Never thought about how that happened. There was just that girl named Citizen. There has to be a badass story behind this.
Despite living among this history, I never learned any of it until my mother mentioned that Helen Kirby used to own the land where Prairie View A&M is located. Found out she operated a boarding school there before the Civil War there, and actually approached the reconstruction board to sell the land and convert it into a college for black people. The area near Prairie View was also a resettlement area and is to this day a locus of black cowboy culture.
All this history where I lived and I never knew it. I never knew about the events in the movie "The Strange Demise of Jim Crow" about a conspiracy of silence that desegregated Houston minimal violence. I guess that means it worked. Seriously, this is an interesting story. Negotiated desegregation coupled with an absolute local media blackout so that no white folks would get riled up.
Reparations for Slavery starts with land and money first. Damn your hypocritical apology. We can buy our own education. According to this video, EVERY civil & criminal court case is reparations. Thus, she muddies the water for Slavery Reparations, and puts non-tangibles like education to the forefront as payment. Reparations for SLAVERY is not the same for other examples here; because this horror expand over 300 years!
I think certain people associate reparations with “cheating”. They’re so blind to the fact that they’re privileged, they see any attempt to equalize things for others as them being given an unfair or unearned advantage. They automatically assume that everyone starts out on a level playing field without considering things like inherited circumstances (like social class and access to resources) and societal prejudice. Any reparations are therefore “discrimination”. This is really similar to the debate around the disabled people and accommodations
@Bassie B did you even watch the video, or did you just search “reparations” and scrolled to a random comment
Has always amazed me how we act as though reparations aren’t a real thing that our country and countries around the world have done. It’s been mythologized to be something that it isn’t.
Name one example so far back and with so hard to define criteria of who is eligible. Who should be eligible?
@@hardc00re10 JT it’s only “so far back”
Because we as a people decided to do nothing. People that are directly descended from slaves should be recipients. Not every black person is a descendant of a slave. I’m not saying it’s easy but it’s never too late to do the right thing.
@Fedora McTippington you sound just like Bakke in his case against affirmative action:
“I don’t owe a black a thing”
Black since MLK | PBS ruclips.net/video/MK2fYn2E3Zw/видео.html
@Fedora McTippington clicking on you, RUclips shows you’ve commented on this video like 10 times. This reparations topic really grinds your racist gears, huh?
But Will finding out that your tax dollars funds the military industrial complex the most, and an Audit of pentagon employee shows some of your tax dollars is funding gambling and escorts, cause more of a concern?
www.politico.com/story/2015/05/pentagon-credit-cards-escorts-gambling-inspector-general-report-117696
@Fedora McTippington We should pay because the US as a whole and White people especially have benefited from and continue to benefit from the unpaid labor that the enslaved people did and from the economic disparities that continue to this day. The descendants of people who had literally nothing, including no education, no literacy, no training in a trade, no support network, no collateral, no homes, no tools, no jobs, and families that had been ripped apart by slavery are at a distinct disadvantage against the descendants of those who had education, literacy, trade training, support networks, collateral, homes, tools, jobs, and intact families. Those disadvantages have rippled down the 2-4 generations since slavery, compounded by institutional racism. We as a nation, as a society, as an economy, owe the descendants of slaves a great deal.
What i hate about political discussions is that people speak thru emotions rather than intellect
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement
People generally do not want to talk about religion or politics because both reveal how they feel about other people.
What do you mean by this?
@@GuliversTravelocity people use emotional manipulation and personal emotive stories to give credit to whatever standpoint they feel is right or furthers their political agenda instead of comparing facts to decide which is the better option/ options
@@GuliversTravelocity let's say a politician was lobbying for a new legislation that makes it iligal for people to leave their car parked at the side of the road, because his or her daughter was killed when she crossed the street and the oncoming car didn't see her because if a car parked at the side of the road.
That's an emotional statement, your automatically more inclined to agree with it. Poor person to lose his er her child in such a way. This could be my child and his legislation could stop this.
This politician in invoking an emotional response to get support.
Not facts. Data could suggest that it's beneficial to not have cars parked at the side of the road or it could suggest that it doesn't make a difference.
The point of this example is that politician use this strategy all the time to garner support from the unsuspecting.
It's easy to be manipulated when you don't know that you are.
That's how horrible people can get elected into positions of power.
The USA paid slave owners reparations when they lost slaves😐but here we are still to this day without reparations
@LaDiosa
Who pray tell benefited the AST other than whites and the people they bought slaves from?
Native Americans actually recieved reparations and are still receiving them from the government to this day.
What? You think reparations are just for slavery? There are living survivors of Jim Crow that are advocating for reparations. Reparations is for slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, unethical scientific experiments, razing of towns, and various other atrocities that were committed to us well into the modern era.
Many view reparations as it is our inheritance and is needed to repair the community from 4 plus centuries of the socioeconomic damage the government and White citizenry inflicted upon our people.
@LaDiosa
My argument is not ridiculous nor fictitious. I'm not playing victim as I'm actually apart of a marginalized that is actually dealing with the intergenerational damage caused by 4 centuries of racial discrimination and terrorism. The current socioeconomic state of the black community today is due to the policies and practices White Americans created and implemented.
Reparations would not make crime and the community worse. Reparations were paid to Japanese Americans who were survivors of internment camps and their descendants. Reparations did not make their communities worse.
Why is that White Americans can give every other group they wronged reparations so that they can have capital to rebuild and heal their communities but not black Americans?
Why is it that you people can invest in rebuilding Europe and Japan shortly after WWII yet avoid helping the subset of American population you terrorized and exploited as if they were some 3rd world country in the Middle East?
Reparations in the case of Black America is long overdue. Reparations is essentially returning wealth that was essentially destroyed or stolen due the barbaric policies and practices of the white community and the white ran central government back to the black community.
@LaDiosa
"Natives are the only ones deserving and we still don't do enough...." Natives have actually recieved reparations and still do to this day. They have actually recieved some form of compensation while Black Americans have received squat.
What!? Are you actually implying that my grandparents, aunts, and uncles who lived through Jim Crow in the rural south are not deserving of reparations? This statement alone tells me everything I need to know about you. You're a gross individual.
Black people don't have equal opportunity. The government does not provide special minority grants to black people. These grants are produced by the small private sector within the black community. Black people most certainly don't recieve special home loans, business grants, and etc I dont why you believe this nonsense especially when white people fought tooth and nail to avoid compensating the survivors of slavery and are fighting to avoid compensating the still living survivors of Jim Crow.
The black community has been working on lowering violence within our communities for decades.
The "big bad white guys" made the policies and practices that destabilized the black community on the first place.
You're just an anti-black bigot that enjoys gaslighting black people.
@LaDiosa Look at the wealth gap between black and white people and tell me how both have equal opportunities
If done right reparations would be cash payments over time, land, along with. Government policy. Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore are the only ones seriously talking about this right now. #ADOS
@Bassie B I don't know which one you are!
You know that’s right
I agree.
Here in the UK they paid the slave owners for loss of "property" around half the UK's GDP.
I don't think we can move forward as a nation until we address the horrors of our past, including slavery, reparations and telling the truths of our history; not what we wish it would be.
if reparations are paid out they will give it right back to the people they hate, bmw, louis vitton, nike, rolex, houses in white neighborhoods, ect.... which race owns those companies?...ill wait
@@jessicaalvarez2314 what does that have to do with anything?
I want my 40 acres tax free
To go along with all of the privileges and benefits you receive every day through the state-sanctioned system of racial and gender preferences called "affirmative action"? The same racist and sexist system that requires me to go to the end of every line (or to stay the f*** out of the line if I dare think it's a line I could be in) because I happen to have the "incorrect" superficial physical characteristics?
@@AlumniQuad the Affirmative Action that unequivocally benefits white women more than anyone else?
@@adaminflux I dispute the "white", but I can't argue with the "women". I'd say the affirmative action I've witnessed has been used to advantage people who happen to be women (of any variety of the superficial physical characteristic we call "skin color") nine times out of ten. I literally do not know how it's possible that people can claim that "women make 70% of what men do" without counting a significant number of men as "nonpersons unworthy of including in our study".
@Blaqu3 Gwad You're confused. I'm not the one -asking for- demanding money from the Federal Government based on my superficial physical characteristics.
@Blaqu3 Gwad Is the debt owed to the descendants of the inhabitants of Bono State, Oyo Empire, Kong Empire, Imamate of Futa Jallon, Imamate of Futa Toro, Kingdom of Koya, Kingdom of Khasso, Kingdom of Kaabu, Fante Confederacy, Ashanti Confederacy, Kingdom of Dahomey who allowed, encouraged, and grew rich from the slave trade?
You are not a slave and never were a slave.
Are you even descended from people held as slaves in the United States? If so, name them, who sold them into slavery, who held them as slaves, where they were enslaved, how long they were enslaved, and provide details of what they actually endured. Stop crying.
Thank you for this informative and nuanced presentation, Danielle. Great work!
American Descendants of Slavery: so now can we have our reparations?
American people: get over it!
Also American people:Civil war reenactment Confederate monuments
if reparations are paid out they will give it right back to the people they hate, bmw, louis vitton, nike, rolex, houses in white neighborhoods, ect.... which race owns those companies?...ill wait
The exact content I was looking for. Thank you!
I loooove learning from this channel!!
I seriously want to thank everyone responsible for this channel. I value the information presented and everytime I watch I learn something new
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Reparations can be included in a CLASS ACTION lawsuit.
Thanks for your great work and research Danielle!
are we able to have access to the transcript in another language?
Thank you for this video. It cleared up some misconceptions I had.
Very excellent presentation! Very informative and inspirational! Personally, the idea of giving people land and teaching them how to survive on it and so forth would be an excellent way to help! People could use their skills and or learn new skills and have such fulfillment and purpose in their life beyond what the world has to offer otherwise. Just my own personal opinion. And would imagine could keep it simple and consequently the greedy ones would be less enabled to get their mitts on things so to speak. Just a thought. Thank you so much for this appreciate the hard work effort etc. involved in this! Look forward to more, keep up the great work, stay well have a beautiful day!👍🙏
Thank you for this video!!!
I agree that reparations are due. Over-due. If it helps at least the most enterprising get ahead, that is a start. And, honestly? As a white man, I have no concern what anyone does with their share. If they spend every bit of it on sneakers or speakers, who cares? Mind your business.
Great video! Thank you!
Thank you Queen, for sharing this information with those who aren't familiar with America's His- Story. Love, Light & Peace...Be Blessed. & Be A Blessing.
if reparations are paid out they will give it right back to the people they hate, bmw, louis vitton, nike, rolex, houses in white neighborhoods, ect.... which race owns those companies?...ill wait
I love listening to your show. I’m keeping your membership in “the smart black girls club”.
Wtf?
Black Americans are NOT looking for apologies! Cash, land and tax exemptions, IMO.
04:36 In South Africa, a generation after apartheid ended, land still has not been returned.
Because of land theft, South Africa and Namibia are the most unequal countries in the world by Gini coefficient.
Landreform in Zimbabwe took only 3 years. In South Africa, they have had all kinds of initiatives in order to prevent landredistribution. Of course that was followed by economic sanctions that are still in effect, and have cost the Zimbabwean people over $42 billion dollars, estimated years ago.
For context: in the UK, 1% of the population own 50% of the land.
In Zimbabwe before landreform, 1% of the population owned 43% of the land.
In Namibia, 6% of the population owns 70% of the land.
If France is still collecting reparation from struggling Haiti and Nigeria America can pay these families what was promised centuries ago.
All of Europe and those imposters from Africa have and will pay. Justice. One Love
This was a very helpful video and really well-designed, well-written, informative and clear. Thank you!
Haaa, some ding bat taking bull has you impressed??
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Revelation 13:10 - KJV - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
This vid presupposes that this craziness HAD to happen. Like Oakland evicted them. They should have had this figured out if they were competent when they decided to first explore "parallel paths." And DEFINITELY when they announced last April that they entered into "binding agreement", which turned out not to be binding or even an agreement.
Utah is likely the best avenue because Fisher can get stuff that would needed to built for a park there to host major league team without him to have to dip into his pockets, like he would to renov Sac or LV AAA parks or the Giants park in SF.
This is a dumpster fire (its actually worse than one, dumpster fires are usually contained) solely because Fisher set this franchise on fire. No other owner has screwed up a relo THIS badly even if you land in a city with no new digs yet. This vid makes this all sound rational and like all the options supposedly better than this were any better and made sense.
This is an option ONLY because Fisher wont spend the money on a proper temp home or cant find a temp home he can afford that wont cost him his bay area tv deal money.
If he blows up the team, then hes proven the bs from his team prez abt "ramping up" they payroll in the interim yrs was just that b.s. It also would make the roster obliteration they did in 22 and 23 worthless, because the last remaining pieces that were brought in will also now be on other teams faster than his usual roster churn, and he will indeed take a minor league roster into whereever this team lands. Aint no FA signing on for this long term or for an owner who had to cease operations to make anything work.
The USA tries to lecture every country about human rights like China for instance. Can you imagine the US trying to lecture other countries about human rights and crimes against humanity while paying reparations for centuries of slavery? Like a Florida, they rather teach children it’s ok to be a slave as long as your slave owner teaches you a skill.
Cut the check 🙌🏿
This video needs to be shared and momentum added.
This comment section is so upsetting. The cognitive dissonance and plain ignorance of all the racists asking why they should give back generational wealth their families are sitting on as a direct result of slavery and the multi institutional racial bias that followed it which left blacks in their disadvantaged situation is ridiculous. You sound just like the British museum refusing to return the artifacts they stole from around the world.
They think because some time has passed that everything is okay now. Lol.
America’s wealth comes from it’s technological advancements not from Black Slaves.
Slavery today is higher then ever around the world, China, India, and other countries have more slaves than the colonies ever did during the 89yrs of slavery in this Country. So maybe be thankful that it was ended, and realize that 89yrs is relatively a short period of time when you consider other than slavery has been around for over 2000yrs. England and America were the first countries to abolish slavery and should be the last to pay anything, which they won't, because it goes against common sense. You think the whole world would not only agree to end slavery today, but also agree to pay the descendents of all the slaves the past 2000+yrs. Some people would end up having to pay for reparations and also receiving them. It would be a global nightmare trying to figure that out. Now, if you're just talking about African Americans and don't care about anybody else's ancestors, then that in of itself is racist. Every ancestor is equal no matter if it was 100 or 1000 years ago they we're enslaved.
But it’s not a direct result. Only part. There is now way the country of the USA was just built of the backs of slave labors. While this video talks about reparations . Its broad talk is seemingly used as a blanket to why the USA needs to do this too black in America.
I did not see anything about the Irish.
The indentured servitude wasn’t just work to pay back coming to America or other countries. The govts and companies extended the contracts sometimes several generations. And they couldn’t just leave police would put them in jail and their children would have work of fines and debts. All of these made up. The world
(Europe Russia and America ) owes the Irish. I don’t know if any reparations were ever paid right this second or if the Irish asked for them. But they don’t bang on about it either.
The video doesn’t expand its research through this topic. It seems to only site what is for and not against . Only siting books and articles on pro not con. Or on legally why and why not.
Because so much scan directly be traced to non slavery and slavery here in the states the only way to get it right is a non biased approach. This video at the end is biased.
I think I can say that European people would have sailed here regardless of slaves and would have stayed regardless of slavery. As for the African tribes that willingly sold Africans to European and other Africans I guess we will talk to the Africans who have done studies and wrote history down.
You all are amazing. This is such an amazing channel.
40 acres a tractor and no tax that simple.
great job
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Book by A. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr.
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Pay up America and make the others involved pay up that's a good start
Between this programme and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, I am both reminded and comforted that 1 + 1 does = 2 since we are facing an especially prolific drought of fact-based information these days.
There is unfortunately a pattern of monetary reparations not being paid to Black people. With Germany's ORIGINAL Holocaust in Namibia (the first genocide of the 20th century) and The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, both were either completely historically ignored or not actually involving real reparative work that includes compensation.
Agreed. It's like a unwritten rule for these ppl...
Well why don’t we get reparations from the Barbary pirates?
Thank you
It's really disappointing that I never saw any new videos and I wonder if the algorithm drowned it last summer.
The next time they have a hearing about hr 40 this video should be played
Ezekiel 18:20 - "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him."
It's not really an area I put much study into it, but I've always felt that if we haven't discussed back-wages for workers that weren't paid, we haven't really discussed the issue. I don't think the conversation should end there, but it should at least start there. If the conversation *about* back wages didn't end up in exactly a specific amount of money, that's fine. I was in a back-wage dispute at a previous job and we didn't get "what we wanted" or what "we were owed," but *we* decided to take what was most fair because *reasons* but pretty much all of us were happy with the decision.
But for blacks people in America, our ancestors were kidnapped and enslaved for FREE labor, stripped of our culture, language, and identity. It’s more than back-wages. Apples 🍎 and Oranges 🍊 here
@@YESHOYAHU No analogy is perfect, but in the back wages dispute I was involved in free labor was exactly the issue under discussion. We were expected to report to our job at 5:00 for our 5:30 shift, and then often expected to stay until 6:00. Yet we only got paid for twelve hours. (They were twelve hour shifts, theoretically 5:30 to 5:30.) That's an hour of unpaid labor every day for ten years for some people. We wanted the money for all that unpaid time.
Like I said, no analogy is perfect and I'm not saying that this captures everything. I'm saying that if we're not at least starting with this kind of acknowledgement, that it was unpaid labor and that's owed, then we haven't started the conversation at all. I'm also not saying that it is all cut and dry. In the case of the labor dispute I was involved in, by the letter of the law they "should" have paid everyone two hours for every day that they worked under that system. That would have been hugely complicated to calculate because over ten years there had been raises and promotions and people had moved on or retired and blah blah blah. We didn't have a real good way of knowing what number we were asking for, and the company of course didn't want to pay any of it. So we did some back-of-the-envelope calculations and they did some back-of-the-envelope calculations, and we both brought our numbers and our reasons why this number should or shouldn't count, and we got a number that everyone was willing to settle with. When we're dealing with multiple generations multiple generations back with inconsistent exchange rates and blah blah blah, I certainly don't see that being less complicated, nor do I see it being the whole picture. But it's one thing that's objective, it's true, and whether it's been addressed or not is borderline tangible. It feels to me it hasn't. And when you've got something that kind of objective, it can be a springboard for other less objective things. When we were in our wage dispute, we were also able to bring up some workload distribution concerns and vacation allocation issues, things that were a lot more touchy-feely and that it was hard to get any kind of consensus on what we were really looking for.
If I were saying that it was just that or that this would solve it all without anything else, I would say you have a point. But since I very specifically said that it's not all there is to it and that it's not all there needs to be, then it sounds like you don't even want us to try to do right by it. And if that's the community super-majority decision, that's fine. It's not like I woke up saying, "Hey, you know what would be fun? The massive inflation that would occur by injecting $5 billion into the economy to try to fix one part of this problem." What I am saying is, "I'm willing to take a personal hit and experience some personal discomfort in the name of serving justice." If you say that there's nothing that can be done and you're just going to consider it something that can never be forgiven no matter what, then I'll just not do anything and walk away. My direct ancestors weren't a part of the problem anyway: I'm descendant from abolitionists, not plantain owners.
@@sthelenskungfu No one is asking for perfection; that is a straw man argument to deflect from your erroneous comparision of slavery to free employment. Slavery is a felonious crime that carries the death penalty. Dishonest wages carries a civil suit punishable by garnishment of wages. With slavery you lost everything like life, soul, spirit, dignity, justice, culture, land, women, children, freedom, including wages. With dishonest wages, you lost some money but you still had the freedom and justice to fight back and win in court.
Your direct ancestors may not have been the problem, but your ancestors benefited from this corrupt U.S. government through the centuries that still owe back land, resources, and money from the free labors that our black ancestors were due to pass down to their descendants (us) to this very day. And your ancestors used benign neglect to ignore the debt due to my ancestors descendants, putting us into an inheritance of perpetual debt.
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Afro Caribbean Blacks people were also enslaved, they WERE part of Africa to Carib islands slave trade connection.
Agreed.
Reparations need to be paid to address the harm, damage and abuse.
Before we ever start the discussion about money, we have to begin discussing and dismantling the corrupt and lazy thinking systems (racial stereotypes) that were designed to make this happen.
Or we are just allowing the oppressors to write a check and go back to what they were doing.
No my friend, money won’t fix anything. By your logic everyone no matter what race needs to get reparation for the pain their ancestors went through. People have to stop looking at the state expecting to get money out of it for “repairing” a history that they didn’t go through.
Not to mention the fact that it will allow politicians to steal and manipulate the people.
@@rocionorby3562
This may be true...
Except , when race is written into the law, intentionally.
In the late 1800's the Democratic slogan was that this country was built for white men and let white men rule.
In 2019, Minnesota removed racial covenants from their State constitution.
Sorry, you didn't get the memo.
How about getting reparations from the people who made it all possible: the African tribal chiefs who sold their own people into slavery?
@@spideraxis
That’s like blaming the Mexican drug cartels
for making a profit on the U.S.’s drug addiction 🙄
How do remember all this information with out messing up your speech
17,000,000,000 trillion dollars is owed to
ADOS.
That's right... Cut the check 📬❤️
At the very least.
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There is no price for freedom, don't appreciate it and you'll lose it
Although Japanese Americans did not go through as much as the Black Americans I'm pretty damn sure $20,000.00 too each descendent of Black Slaves in the U.S would go along way one can not even buy a home with $20k however starting and maintaining a business would be alot easier or simply using that money as a down-payment for land would be nice $20k would for sure help those of us Black Americans get to a place in life where we felt equal however cash payments isn't the only way too give too those of us who are descendents of Slaves maybe add protection clause on property directly pearches with that money like if I put it towards land then make it so that land has the same rights as an Indian reservation
If ya think about it.....Twenty thousand is peanuts compard to blks have been through for over 400yrs.
Make that 20 million and then we can talk
1#. HEIR. At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law , to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the death of his ancestor, by descent and right of relationship. The term “heir” has a very different signification at common law from what it has in those states and countries which have adopted the civil law. In the latter, the term is indiscriminately applied to all persons who are called to the succession, whether by the act of the party or by operation of law. The person who is created universal successor by a will is called the “ testamentary heir; “ and the next of kin by blood is, in cases of in testacy, called the “ heir at law,” or “ heir by intestacy.” The executor of the common law in many respects corresponds to the testamentary heir of the civil law. Again, the administrator in many respects corresponds with the heir by intestacy. By the common law, executors and administrators have no right except to the personal estate of the deceased; whereas the heir by the civil law is authorized to administer both the personal and real estate. Story, ConfI Laws,$$ 507, 508. EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S, FOR REPARATION, AND REPATRIATION. AMEN 2# TANGIBLE PROPERTY. property which may be touched; such as is perceptible to the senses; corporeal property, whether real or personal. The phrase is used in opposition to such species of property as patents, franchises, copyrights, rents, ways, and incorporeal property generally. EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S. TANGIBLE PROPERTY. property which may be touched; such as is perceptible to the senses; corporeal property, whether real or personal. The phrase is used in opposition to such species of property as patents, franchises, copyrights, rents, ways, and incorporeal property generally. EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S. FOR REPARATION, AND REPATRIATION. AMEN 3# HEIR AT LAW. He who, after his ancestor’s death intestate, has a right to inherit all lands, tenements, and hereditaments which belonged to him or of which he was seised. The same as “ heir general.” EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S, FOR REPARATION. AND REPATRIATION. AMEN.
why did you turn off comments for the video titled "Did Europeans Enslave Native Americans?"
Where's my check
If there was reparations for Black Americans and Canadians would people of carribean decent still be apart of reparations since they still endured slavery or would they be left out.
Should be left out.
@@ertfgghhhh and what about all the millions of black people spread across South America? They still endured slavery and suffer from similar systematic racism as Black Americans albeit less televised and less talked about. So should the case of reparations only be designed to help Black Americans specifically or should it help all black everywhere since the US wasn't the only country to participate in slavery among Black people. Oooh I just love discussions like these.
A big point of contention is who qualifies. That has led to #ADOS and other concepts. Generally from what I’ve seen the focus would be reparations for those who descend from Africans enslaved in the United States and not individuals who arrived after slavery was abolished.
Another idea I’ve seen thrown around is tiered reparations by breaking people up into groups according to impact. Descendants of enslaved Africans in the US > Descendants and victims of Jim Crow and segregation > Descendants and victims of unfair housing, education, etc. And then by proportion of impact, so if say a person was able to trace half of their ancestry to slavery and the other half came from elsewhere (Caribbean, Europe, a different racial group within the US), the reparations/benefits granted to them would be adjusted accordingly.
Firstly, there needs to be a push to actually do it. So far, much like all other subjects related to this country’s past and present sins against black folks, there isn’t much motivation on the part of the white community in particular to tackle this issue.
I would say if anyone received them, they should as well. Even if their ancestors were not slaves in the united states, if they are here they are still suffering the after effects to one degree or another.
Onne way to handle that particular problem would be to form a coalition of the countries in the Americas and Caribbean to determine their role, the current standings of African descendants, etc. Of course, the more different governments are involved, the more complicated things can be, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be done.
@@aarronobsidian5597 they should be left out. We as black americans are influential but are not responsible for the entire african diaspora. Let them put in work like we do.
Germany also paid reparations in other countries after WWII, such as Greece.
Yes, reparations to victims still living.
where can one give reparations/contribute to equity if one wants to?
Were there reparations for those stuck in the Jim Crow south or Black Wallstreet massacre in Tulsa OK
Most recently, Native Tribes have started to successfully reclaim land.
Reparations can help to equalise
The state sanctioned system of racial and gender preferences known as "affirmative action" was put in place to do just that 50+ years ago. Sounds like you want more and more equality beyond the superior treatment you already are afforded in education, corporate hiring and promotion, government assistance to businesses, etc., etc., etc.
@@AlumniQuad what the hell are you smoking?
@@mrsmiley707 Racism
....man, reparation is always a hairy topic no matter which one you are talking about 🙀.
As someone who come from a formerly colonized country (guess where 😛) I always agree to reparations in principle, but once you get into the details (ie. the realization of it) one always comes onto a stumbling block and then the talk just stalled 🙀, and then there's also the usual excuse "...but that kind of reparation is not feasible to do!" coming from the party who is supposed to do the repairing 🙀😒🙈. I acknowledge that monetary reparation is not always feasible to do, but sometimes (after the acknowledgement of the reality of the pain/harm done to the victim) it feels like it is the very least one can do...
Speaking of the enslaved people's reparation in the USA, I too only have cursory knowledge of it, and I could only say that there are so many things that need to be considered to execute the plan properly, when one proceeds with the reparation process. IMO a ruling to prohibit housing discrimination for black people might not be seen as a part of the original reparation plan, but it could definitely be a start. (Just my 2¢)
Thanks again for the great video 👏👏👏
But it was feasible to pay billions of dollars of reparations to immigrants and non-citizens like Ukrainians and Afghanistans. No years of study was needed. #CutTheCheck.
Now it's REAL‼️💯
So I guess we will have to take WHATS our starting December 21st
I just never understood the thing about last August. The article had someone talking about reparations. But how was anything considered reparations when the rioters terrorized the Ronald Mcdonald house with cancer kids inside? How is that reparations? The poor kids could die any day. They're not hurting anyone!
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Maybe we can start with the department of agriculture to give low interest loans and/or grants to the African American community to buy land and farm equipment to those already in farming. Currently discrimination exists in securing what is needed in the African American farming communities. Maybe if the govt starts there we can expand the reparations to more people who are interested in securing land. What we must not forget is the African American community includes women too! And we know what happens when we support women of color .. Things happen and get done
"Maybe we can start with the department of agriculture to give low interest loans and/or grants to the African American community to buy land and farm equipment to those already in farming. " thats an odd statement. why farmers? black farmers are almost nil since most farms are owned by corporations and white people. why start to the less affected blacks? shouldnt it be blacks living in the cities be the first priority?
Reparations for Slavery starts with land and money first. Damn your hypocritical apology. We can buy our own education. According to this video, EVERY civil & criminal court case is reparations. Thus, she muddies the water for Slavery Reparations, and puts non-tangibles like education to the forefront as payment. Reparations for SLAVERY is not the same for other examples here; because this horror expand over 300 years!
People need to remember field order 15 wasn't not made out of the kindness of Sherman's heart it was war tactic to force surrender that is why he initiated the invasion of Georgia, the destruction including the destruction of Atlanta was imense and it was coercive to the South, surrender or burn, and the idea that they not only would-be striped of their slaves but also their land was too much. Sherman personally didn't care about the faith of the former slaves.
Black people in America are fully aware that NO ONE has ever cared about doing what's right for Black Americans. ALL racial groups enjoy the benefits from past enslaved labor, but are firm in saying that Black citizens should NOT enjoy those same benefits nor receive reparations.
Barbary pirates
Give every family 40 acres and no land tax for 100 years
We need to have a serious talk about black American reparations after all that has come to light. Enough is enough lets all progress together as humans.
Reparations will not be paid in currency but in gold without brand or writing.......
#Cut the check!!!!
My civics teacher made watch this 💀
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The countries that were taken over for slavery eg, the Caribbean island should have their national debt wiped, and descends of the slave triad should have grants for collage/ universities for part or all of their tuition, maybe less tax taken from their pay or for any housing for older people.
Reparations for Slavery starts with land and money first. Damn your hypocritical apology. We can buy our own education. According to this video, EVERY civil & criminal court case is reparations. Thus, she muddies the water for Slavery Reparations, and puts non-tangibles like education to the forefront as payment. Reparations for SLAVERY is not the same for other examples here; because this horror expand over 300 years!
The ppl need cash money in their hands... The Slave holders had cash in their hands and so do their descendants so the ppl need cash in their hands in order to be made whole.... everyone isn't college material...give them money so they can control their destiny...they did that for the Jews so they can do it now....
@@deejay5102 I do agree, but how much? the amount owed to the descendants of slaves and/or their countries is so large it would bankrupt any country. That would never happen.
Debts that countries or students may owe as well as easier access to housing is a little different I think and a far more likely to happen. Investing in people in this way is also a good way to start wealth.
@@sylverwicca I used to think they would go bankrupt too but I think now if they pay in installments they could avoid bankruptcy...but you right the debt would be astronomical and if they really wanted to do the right thing they would have to turn over the majority of the country, if not the whole country.
Very well done. I would point out that the reparations to the Japanese were limited to those alive at the time reparations were approved. I have to believe that was done for the specific reason that congress wanted to put a limitation on possible reparations. They saw that if it extends to previous generations, there would be endless legislative proposals and litigation on wrongs done since the country was born and before. The police chief was an employee of Chicago and therefore acting as an agent of the city. Therefore the city was responsible directly, acting through it's agent. Just as cities are often sued for the acts of the Police officers. It's not reparations. Indian Nations were just that, foreign nations up until the 20th century when they were made US citizens. The restorations were, I believe, based on their status as nations. Nations that the US government had treaties which they repeatedly violated. If any legislation comes out of this, which I doubt, There will be immediate legal challenges and probably a proposition in the next election to cancel it. Eventually it would end up in front of the Supreme Court.
What do you think the chances are that the law would be upheld? (Hint-None)
Rapes lynching sodomizing beatings kidnappings murders tortures all the crimes committed against black folks . Why should we forget ???jewish people getting paid reparations. From the US for the holocaust that was done on a whole different continent.
Reparations we're paid to the Indians, the Jews, Rebuilt Germany, the Japanese, the Slaveholders, etc. I don't care what you think the chances are, we deserve reparations and they will be paid in this life or the next, or both
Yes, the video tried to make a case that other reparation efforts are analogous to the "slavery reparations" case - but it only works for those who come with that personally-biased perspective.
You,, Jeff Smith, pointed out the reasons why the "analogy" was in name only.
The Japanese and Jewish Holocaust reparations were paid to survivors or children of the families who suffered, weren't they? If you use that as the analogy, then slavery-based reparations should have been paid back as soon as slavery was abolished, and the Civil War was over.
Now, since that wasn't done, the question really turns on, "What is the appropriate thing to do 160 years later?"
It certainly isn't to pay every black resident $5 Million like the San Francisco Reparations Task Force has concluded. (That doesn't include the free housing, and guaranteed $90K/yr income for life they also are pushing.)
The easiest way to determine how much the "free-money, cash-grab" aspect is at work here is to consider how "community-based initiatives" (like entrepreneurial support, subsidized or free college education, etc.) are embraced.
Note that you don't hear any people clamoring for that in San Francisco. It's all about the Benjamins there...
America doesn't have the kind of money to pay blacks for the suffering caused to generations. But since our ancestors suffered from and didn't get for their labor, made their descendants live at a disadvantage. The American Government should pick up the bill for the descendants for 400 years. Let me make that clear to INTELLIGENT people. A check is an insult! How much is your mother's life worth to you? Our ancestors were trashed for their dignity, labor, intelligence, and wages. Slaves descendants STILL suffer from status, respect, public image, and employment opportunities. The Government should pick up the bills for our needs like cars, homes, land, businesses, medical and protection if needed. A dog would understand this.
Within one generation the distribution of wealth will be exactly as it is now. Some cultures are just better than others.
Exactly, well stated. There are certain ethnic/ racial groups that can’t seem to make it better for themselves. They have no self control and are also not as bright as the others. We all know who they are without me saying so. I ‘d be curious to find out what the response to this comment is.
40 acres was only for the equivalent of a war crime against several hundred people, NOT payment for hundreds of years of involuntary servitude rendered under threat of violence by millions of people. There's absolutely no comparison.
But don't also forget to subtract (in monetary value?) what was taken during the attack on Ronald Mcdonald House in Chicago last August. Cancer patients, CHILDREN inside who could die any day. And they have to deal with hammers coming through the door, ransacking. And the spokesperson in the article said "Reparations". Hah?
We need checks that's it
Nah dog I’m already payin fo dat social security sheeeeit
So the the historical reparatrions were paid directly to those who suffered, not their ancestors looking a hand out, makes sense
Where is our DAMN reparations 🤬😡
I hope and pray reparations will be given
Or maybe we should focus on the slavery that’s happening today? But no, it’s not white people doing it so no one cares
@@xHe11houndx we can’t expect to have a clean house when we have swept things under the rug for so long.
@@user-fp4dr1ne7z So we are just gonna tax people who had nothing to do with slavery and give it to people who were never even slaves? Thats not gonna solve anything. It would be like vacuuming the top of that rug to make it appear clean then calling it a day
@@xHe11houndx short answer is yes. Giving money doesn’t even come close to repaying what was done. It’s a start. The focus should be creating a future where we invest in people and lift each other up, and expand/grow the pie so we can have even more to go around. The “pie” is not finite. It can grow if we create a world where we can innovate and grow as people.
@@user-fp4dr1ne7z and we can grow that pie without making random people pay for things SOME of their ancestors did.
According to the description "In 2014, writer Ta-N*a*hisi Coates’ article for The Atlantic “The Case for Reparations” went viral."
It's actually spelled with an "e": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta-Nehisi_Coates
I was yelling in the street about reparations and a white man said "who's going to do our work?!!!"
We wuz KANGS and 'Jipshunz an sheet! We demanz our APERASHUNZ!!!
You missed namibia
🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 🇳🇦 Africa !!!!
Yes. Reparations from Germany for genocide in Namibia
Will there also be reparations for Europeans from Turks, Mongols, Tatars and Arabs? They enslaved us far longer than Africans were slaves in USA.
I was thinking this same thing.
No one is stopping Europeans from pursuing it if they want 🤷🏽♀️still has nothing to do with this topic at hand
African Americans are always told to 'get over slavery.
At the same time there are are Confederate Monuments all over the South, and many white Southerners fly the rebel flag.
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Let them
I'm assuming in America nobody wants to South African reparations