And we black people till this day have no compensation not saying we should be handed everything but our ancestors built America and never saw anything for it but to crop share😡
It is very hard to watch. The reluctance to make things right is so bold and barefaced. The racism is so strong. The disrespect, and non acknowledgement that blacks have been wronged is overwhelming & painful. The bottom line is that they should be compensated.
Why do folks act like 100 years ago is so damn long ago. Like it's biblical times and the Jews even claim land from biblical times but that's OK. There are individuals who live to be 100. It's only one generation maybe two but descendants are not hard to find, it's simple look for their children or grandchildren. They want to wash feet and say they sorry. Naw, that won't do we need our money and justice. Those that had to fled and died had to endure discomfort but the ones who profited don't want their comfort disturbed. There must be a reckoning. It is written.
As I did my research paper on reparations, I drove through the Wards where most of the Black Community lives and was taken aback that there were no Black Cemeteries around. The city built over them. High rises and businesses now stand over those graves.
@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 actually, bodies go back to the dust they're made of and the REAL YOU, goes on to be with the Lord if you're saved. If you're not, you go to a place called he'll, until it us swallowed into the lake of fire. / Peggy
I hate when people (white and black) say that money can't change the past or take away the pain as if the only damage we've suffered is emotional. The money/land/protected-class status, etc. that we seek is not just for the emotional damage, but for the financial damage of having wealth and resources stolen from our ancestors...wealth and resources that would have otherwise been invested and passed down through subsequent generations.
Thank you Robert and Producer Marcos Williams for your excellent production and insight into the much needed discussions of the many realities of our ancestry in America. ADOS Strong
42:08 Is this wench crazy? Her heart may genuinely be in the right place, but she has absolutely no right whatsoever to ask anything of this man. Let him bring his family home. Disgusting!
i wish oppressor groups would understand that their saying that they as a community have "changed" means nothing unless it translates or actualises itself into tangible change- one that is visible and actually brings difference in the lives of the people they have historically oppressed.
They don't want to do right. Nor addmitt the wrong.Afraid they will have to pay.Plus they gonna pay by God.and their families will also pay for their wrong.Thay mayor ain't shit
I’ve been looking for this documentary for a long time. I used to watch it often just because I always gained something else out of it after each watch. I need to find a way to purchase this as well
I think a solution could be to find the oldest living relative of a family that was banished, and the government should award them an equal amount of property that was taken from their ancestors. Or relocate the current owner, but the relative of the banished should have first choice. Yes the current owner could be losing out but it’s a lot better than what happened to the family that was run off their land and given no compensation at all.
53:35 This man owes no apology and should have no thoughts of whether or not has offended anyone...given the terror his family suffered at the hands of these people and the difficulties he faced removing his ancestor's remains. But I love that they turned the table on the city...chess move indeed!
@Hairless Tongue She wouldn't feel anything. Her parents immigrated to the UK. She is Nigerian. Most black people against reparations are not American Negros.
I'm in high school live in a small town in Iowa I am half black there has only been one teacher to ever show me real life footage and voice recordings from ex slaves you are a awesome teacher for showing this
The same that this are the children of the ones that suffered these horrible atrocities , So are some politicians the children and grandchidren of the ones who committed them. Thats why there is little change on the conditions of black people. We still see the injustices committed in the name of the law which is applied according to the skin color or nationality. Unless there is change from within in each one of us nothing is going to change.
@ 42:20 its these people that crack me up. She doesn't want him to relocate his ancestor just like the openly racist women did not want to let him do so. This is what is meant as being on code. One is straight up racist the other is Just as racist but not as up front about it...
Heartbreaking. Some of the reactions of the whites in this video make me so mad. At least the old guy who said he retired to Harrison because there were no blacks, hung his head in shame, if only for a minute.
I have been researching and one question that bothers me is, what is the necessity to have 'a caste system/ is it because they believe the whole 'preserve 'our' race theory or what' ": and if so what's the reason it's done in places where the people are extremely basically the same?
To be honest I believe it is too late. The Most High has given our nation hundred of years to repent . Man look on the outside but, God ( The Most High) looks on the heart. You can hear in their voice that the heart has not changed. We said our prayers and sorry and just move on. God keep records too. Still I feel sorry for those folks many of them look like they are soon going to be standing before The Lord, I have no doubt it will not bode well for them. But, they will have all eternity to reflect on that. Ezekiel 35:5 KJV
I enjoyed this Educational Documentary Very Much....Its sad but true....Only God"s Kingdom will solve the selfishness, Cruelty, Arrogance, Jealousy and Hate that causes Hardworking Black and Brown People to be Banished from their Land here in America....But in the Meantime we Should Use the Little Freedom that we Have to Continue to Work Toward A Better Life in the Paradise Earth, where ALL Mankind will b e Treated Equal as Promised in the Bible......
Black brown yellow red and vanilla .. Jah loves all and seen all the suffering that man has done to man .. I would think that you would include all .. the kingdom is for all that have suffered from the beginning until now .. not just black and brown people !! Satan is behind all of this and causes division.. yes we must seek the kingdom first while dealing with this world full of injustices.
Funny business. After all those years those Europeans who ran those Afrikans American off there land. That’s when those Europeans cooked the books😡😡😡😡😡
Im sorry this stuff makes you very angry and it takes a lot to not act out. And then on top or of that you got to hear about whites that don't care . How the hell you people expect us not to be mad.
Thanks for posting this. I've been directing people to this documentary because it's one of the most compelling explorations of reparations that I've ever seen.
I wrote Phill Bettis an email and he wrote back about how he has asked God for forgiveness. He acknowledges he was wrong and how he had to live in solitary after all of this aired because of threats to himself and family.
As I sit here, at this moment, I literally just got back from Forsyth County Georgia. My work carries me all though the northern Atlanta suburbs. I can tell you Forsyth County and all of the other northern Atlanta suburban counties are becoming more and more ethnically diverse and more "Blue" everyday. Yes, there are more Trump/Pence banners in front yards, yes there are Make America Great Flags on front lawns there. But you are just as likely to see Black Lives Matters posters on people's property. as you are to see Rebel Flags in today's Forsyth County.
You all got the nerve to talk about America being a great country. Where is the greatness ?. You also got the nerve to talk about God bless America. God does not bless EVIL.
We complain everyday about gentrification but the hood is on sale and no one sees value in the hood accept others and then we are pissed stop being pissed and start being active by up the hood
If you're a study of the bible at all or God's commands you would be shaking with not only anger but terror, because so many wicked acts have been committed. God keeps perfect records!!!! Hatred and murder are just 2 sins. We have to make things right and tell the truth ,ask forgiveness for being involved in evil. You have to change your hearts and minds and mend your ways.It must be from the heart .Even if it hurts you . Once we are dead our time here is up. After death is the judgement..
Will and French Godley are my direct ancestors. I found this documentary on PBS in 2011 after a 2006 genealogy search that had some missing information. The puzzle was complete with this documentary. I just thought to look and see if it was on YT today in light of recent events.
Robert Williams? Are you the Son of Robert F Williams, who led the armed struggle in the 50s and 60s in Marion, NC and co-founded the Republic of New Africa with my late Professor Dr. Imari Obadele?
Why the heck has no one done a title search that would the boundaries of the particular property it's recorded at the register of deeds it's there you can go back look see what it was and then be reparated for it go back and read the newspapers they basically said we did it hell in 87 they wouldn't let you March through there again and no one knows what happened from the biracial committee's perspective bureaucracy can't come to an agreement on how we repair it the first thing is to know and to acknowledge and to accept that it happened now when the land was taken when Sherman went through Atlanta and given by field order to ex slaves who had been freed to ex Union soldiers who have been freed and fought for the freedom you kill the president and the vice president pardons and restores lands and title and displaces those people they go further west they get displaced again further west they get displaced again they run up north they don't want you there either but no one says that hey you got to start and you arrived at that start and you need to be compensated for that start that was taken from you you also need to be compensated for the fact of being enslaved you also need to be compensated for the fact of being subjugated to such white supremacy that's right there in front of you screaming and yelling with flags full regalia and you have nothing you can say to it because the first amendment that throwing rocks that's assault the fact that they're yelling and screaming obscenities and trying to intimidate and threatening violence is communicating a threat the fact that they blocked a public Street or highway based on race which is a public accommodation and races are protected class they violated civil rights where was the law who got arrested Jim Bob them name mean nothing back we supposed to believe that Jim Bob told you what he meant by what did he do anything he threw a rock I ain't see it I did what press charges go on square One Jim Bob's brother and fellow clan member it's the Magistrate try it in front of a jury of those people that were out there screaming at him they're using their white supremacist ideology for intimidation that's a hate crime it's in violation of 1866 civil Rights act 1964 civil Rights act ....smdh.....#but the police are there to serve and protect Homeland security the same thing FBI CIA same thing you follow the hell out of a man that was looking for true equal opportunity can't never seem to find clan members and neo-nazis even though they come out with the faces out with the real young spewing their hate nothing wrong with that though but if I say black lives matter woo I am an extremist racial identity group that the FBI must put me on the list funny how you can find me but you can't find the real problem with America
It’s all very sad. I don’t know what the answer is, but it would be great if they could find a fair one. Stealing the land from the new owners to give to the descendants of the old owners is not the answer.
I believe the reason your ancestors were persecuted, was that they refused to abandon their tribal customs and identity. The goal was to intellectualize blacks, because for thousands of years, you guys had not accomplished a single thing. For colonists, a necessary process of conversation needed to take place to help blacks become full fledged Americans. The brains of black people were fried from living in hot conditions, enduring malnurishment, and practicing tribal customs, for thousands of years. The road to becoming an intellect, requires an individual to abandon all ties to ancestrial lineage, and all things tribal or archaic. Blacks simply refused. As a result, they were punished and and held back, so as to prevent them from continuing practices that encouraged scientific ignorance. The few that did convert, were rewarded with inhertance, legal protections, and education, and were able to progress in American society. We see the effects of intellectual deficiancy and scientific ignorance in black communities, and black culture, to this day.
Forsyth county owes lots of money!
Make them remember and upset their quiet corrupt life.
And we black people till this day have no compensation not saying we should be handed everything but our ancestors built America and never saw anything for it but to crop share😡
File the law suit for Reparations.
You didn’t build America
You ain't in no cotton field are you ?? We aren't the only group that built this country .
I've learned a lot, some I knew , but I've learned a lot from this video 🤔.
To think this was less than 40 years ago, let's you know why we're still facing problems today.
Fuck I cried and I don't cry over shit but this pissed me off
It is very hard to watch. The reluctance to make things right is so bold and barefaced. The racism is so strong. The disrespect, and non acknowledgement that blacks have been wronged is overwhelming & painful. The bottom line is that they should be compensated.
Why do folks act like 100 years ago is so damn long ago. Like it's biblical times and the Jews even claim land from biblical times but that's OK. There are individuals who live to be 100. It's only one generation maybe two but descendants are not hard to find, it's simple look for their children or grandchildren. They want to wash feet and say they sorry. Naw, that won't do we need our money and justice. Those that had to fled and died had to endure discomfort but the ones who profited don't want their comfort disturbed. There must be a reckoning. It is written.
Yes, there must be a reckoning.
As I did my research paper on reparations, I drove through the Wards where most of the Black Community lives and was taken aback that there were no Black Cemeteries around. The city built over them. High rises and businesses now stand over those graves.
Black people weren't allowed to be buried in cemeteries. That's why a lot of old black churches have cemeteries on the property.
Y O U do not know where black people rest our elders. Old tired black bodies
have gone to live with God.
@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 actually, bodies go back to the dust they're made of and the REAL YOU, goes on to be with the Lord if you're saved. If you're not, you go to a place called he'll, until it us swallowed into the lake of fire. / Peggy
I hate when people (white and black) say that money can't change the past or take away the pain as if the only damage we've suffered is emotional. The money/land/protected-class status, etc. that we seek is not just for the emotional damage, but for the financial damage of having wealth and resources stolen from our ancestors...wealth and resources that would have otherwise been invested and passed down through subsequent generations.
@Пётр Рус Not the ones who were enslaved...GURL!
And the slaves that was deeded land from their owners, who were fathers and grand fathers of those slaves.
Yawn
Absolutely!! The stress of not having enough and not being able to rest is damaging
Slavery still exists today right here in America today.
Watching from Tulsa Oklahoma...Greenwood massacre site..former black wallstreet.
It was alot Blacl Wallstreets also Durham Hayti is one also
An Outrage and Sad
All Ethnic, and/or Racial cleansing against anyone is wrong, and inhumane.
The Mayor though , STILL can’t get it 😫🤦🏾♀️ if he was White and wanting his Grandfather moved there would be no question!
Thank you Robert and Producer Marcos Williams for your excellent production and insight into the much needed discussions of the many realities of our ancestry in America. ADOS Strong
They wasnt all slaves
42:08 Is this wench crazy? Her heart may genuinely be in the right place, but she has absolutely no right whatsoever to ask anything of this man. Let him bring his family home. Disgusting!
The Black Experience in America....
Betts is a criminal.
i wish oppressor groups would understand that their saying that they as a community have "changed" means nothing unless it translates or actualises itself into tangible change- one that is visible and actually brings difference in the lives of the people they have historically oppressed.
File the petition for Reparations. Sue them racist British bastard's.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
In regards to what here?
F their apology.
The evils of sinful men. Racism is just one of them. Humans will never right these wrongs. Only God will do this.
They don't want to do right. Nor addmitt the wrong.Afraid they will have to pay.Plus they gonna pay by God.and their families will also pay for their wrong.Thay mayor ain't shit
I’ve been looking for this documentary for a long time. I used to watch it often just because I always gained something else out of it after each watch. I need to find a way to purchase this as well
This is my family...#StricklandClan
Phil Betts is a deer caught in the head lights!
A very important documentary!
They need to close the entire town down. If they don't get it corrected..
Google Anderson Willis Fairfield Texas...our family land was taken aswell...they shot up alot of our tombstones in the cemetery aswell
I think a solution could be to find the oldest living relative of a family that was banished, and the government should award them an equal amount of property that was taken from their ancestors. Or relocate the current owner, but the relative of the banished should have first choice. Yes the current owner could be losing out but it’s a lot better than what happened to the family that was run off their land and given no compensation at all.
Our "Govts" of today is really not much different than those of the past. Hence the reason repatriation will never be a thing.
53:35 This man owes no apology and should have no thoughts of whether or not has offended anyone...given the terror his family suffered at the hands of these people and the difficulties he faced removing his ancestor's remains.
But I love that they turned the table on the city...chess move indeed!
@Hairless Tongue She wouldn't feel anything. Her parents immigrated to the UK. She is Nigerian. Most black people against reparations are not American Negros.
The same thing happened in 1980s and 90s in Crown Heights.
I'm teaching a high school course on social justice and I will show this documentary. Thank you.
I'm in high school live in a small town in Iowa I am half black there has only been one teacher to ever show me real life footage and voice recordings from ex slaves you are a awesome teacher for showing this
Are they being taught about the origins of race?
Great keep up the good work. Make sure our history is not forgotten
@@wesleytheanonymous3751 thanks for incriminating yourself on the world wide web
Puke
The same that this are the children of the ones that suffered these horrible atrocities , So are some politicians the children and grandchidren of the ones who committed them. Thats why there is little change on the conditions of black people. We still see the injustices committed in the name of the law which is applied according to the skin color or nationality. Unless there is change from within in each one of us nothing is going to change.
@ 42:20 its these people that crack me up. She doesn't want him to relocate his ancestor just like the openly racist women did not want to let him do so. This is what is meant as being on code. One is straight up racist the other is Just as racist but not as up front about it...
25:53 he can't handle the truth.
Terrible absolutely terrible.
Heartbreaking. Some of the reactions of the whites in this video make me so mad. At least the old guy who said he retired to Harrison because there were no blacks, hung his head in shame, if only for a minute.
Season 3 of Atlanta episode 1 brought me here
I have been researching and one question that bothers me is, what is the necessity to have 'a caste system/ is it because they believe the whole 'preserve 'our' race theory or what' ": and if so what's the reason it's done in places where the people are extremely basically the same?
To be honest I believe it is too late. The Most High has given our nation hundred of years to repent . Man look on the outside but, God ( The Most High) looks on the heart. You can hear in their voice that the heart has not changed. We said our prayers and sorry and just move on. God keep records too. Still I feel sorry for those folks many of them look like they are soon going to be standing before The Lord, I have no doubt it will not bode well for them. But, they will have all eternity to reflect on that. Ezekiel 35:5 KJV
and to think we're still fighting for reparations and equality
Cry more
I enjoyed this Educational Documentary Very Much....Its sad but true....Only God"s Kingdom will solve the selfishness, Cruelty, Arrogance, Jealousy and Hate that causes Hardworking Black and Brown People to be Banished from their Land here in America....But in the Meantime we Should Use the Little Freedom that we Have to Continue to Work Toward A Better Life in the Paradise Earth, where ALL Mankind will b e Treated Equal as Promised in the Bible......
Black brown yellow red and vanilla .. Jah loves all and seen all the suffering that man has done to man .. I would think that you would include all .. the kingdom is for all that have suffered from the beginning until now .. not just black and brown people !! Satan is behind all of this and causes division.. yes we must seek the kingdom first while dealing with this world full of injustices.
Funny business. After all those years those Europeans who ran those Afrikans American off there land. That’s when those Europeans cooked the books😡😡😡😡😡
Im sorry this stuff makes you very angry and it takes a lot to not act out. And then on top or of that you got to hear about whites that don't care . How the hell you people expect us not to be mad.
Thanks for posting this. I've been directing people to this documentary because it's one of the most compelling explorations of reparations that I've ever seen.
I wrote Phill Bettis an email and he wrote back about how he has asked God for forgiveness. He acknowledges he was wrong and how he had to live in solitary after all of this aired because of threats to himself and family.
write him back try and get his address and post it in these comments..thanks
@@wesleytheanonymous3751 🤔
As I sit here, at this moment, I literally just got back from Forsyth County Georgia. My work carries me all though the northern Atlanta suburbs. I can tell you Forsyth County and all of the other northern Atlanta suburban counties are becoming more and more ethnically diverse and more "Blue" everyday. Yes, there are more Trump/Pence banners in front yards, yes there are Make America Great Flags on front lawns there. But you are just as likely to see Black Lives Matters posters on people's property. as you are to see Rebel Flags in today's Forsyth County.
That's good to know. File for the Reparations suit.
Stunning and brave
Only 2k views black people need to wake up. It is time to test your black heroes send them this link.
When are people going to lrean you cannot negotiate with thieves
38:40 - Searching for a word other than the one she usually uses.
she wanted to say n***er so bad
This is evil
He said cleansing was offensive but murder and theft doesn’t bother him. SMH
You all got the nerve to talk about America being a great country. Where is the greatness ?. You also got the nerve to talk about God bless America. God does not bless EVIL.
We complain everyday about gentrification but the hood is on sale and no one sees value in the hood accept others and then we are pissed stop being pissed and start being active by up the hood
File the petition for Reparations.
@@gigigiseleworld stop waiting and do for self
@@brotherman1363 I am ... Take a seat. Keep supporting White Supremacists.
Buy up the Hood with what? Dr. Jared Ball's book dispelled this Myth
@@cme1713 with the same f****** money we spend on Jordans and on bbl's etc
👀 from Austin TX
im from the eastside 02💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾‼‼‼
And they were all sworn Eurocentric Christianitans who served, worshipped, and loved their self-created white Jesus.
If you're a study of the bible at all or God's commands you would be shaking with not only anger but terror, because so many wicked acts have been committed.
God keeps perfect records!!!!
Hatred and murder are just 2 sins.
We have to make things right and tell the truth ,ask forgiveness for being involved in evil. You have to change your hearts and minds and mend your ways.It must be from the heart .Even if it hurts you . Once we are dead our time here is up. After death is the judgement..
Thank you for posting this
good work
Will and French Godley are my direct ancestors. I found this documentary on PBS in 2011 after a 2006 genealogy search that had some missing information. The puzzle was complete with this documentary. I just thought to look and see if it was on YT today in light of recent events.
Where did ethnic cleansing of African American communities occur in the United States?
everywhere. there are tons of books that literally list each location.
Everyone think we African when we bee here
If your property was stolen take it back by any means necessary!!!
Robert Williams? Are you the Son of Robert F Williams, who led the armed struggle in the 50s and 60s in Marion, NC and co-founded the Republic of New Africa with my late Professor Dr. Imari Obadele?
Why the heck has no one done a title search that would the boundaries of the particular property it's recorded at the register of deeds it's there you can go back look see what it was and then be reparated for it go back and read the newspapers they basically said we did it hell in 87 they wouldn't let you March through there again and no one knows what happened from the biracial committee's perspective bureaucracy can't come to an agreement on how we repair it the first thing is to know and to acknowledge and to accept that it happened now when the land was taken when Sherman went through Atlanta and given by field order to ex slaves who had been freed to ex Union soldiers who have been freed and fought for the freedom you kill the president and the vice president pardons and restores lands and title and displaces those people they go further west they get displaced again further west they get displaced again they run up north they don't want you there either but no one says that hey you got to start and you arrived at that start and you need to be compensated for that start that was taken from you you also need to be compensated for the fact of being enslaved you also need to be compensated for the fact of being subjugated to such white supremacy that's right there in front of you screaming and yelling with flags full regalia and you have nothing you can say to it because the first amendment that throwing rocks that's assault the fact that they're yelling and screaming obscenities and trying to intimidate and threatening violence is communicating a threat the fact that they blocked a public Street or highway based on race which is a public accommodation and races are protected class they violated civil rights where was the law who got arrested Jim Bob them name mean nothing back we supposed to believe that Jim Bob told you what he meant by what did he do anything he threw a rock I ain't see it I did what press charges go on square One Jim Bob's brother and fellow clan member it's the Magistrate try it in front of a jury of those people that were out there screaming at him they're using their white supremacist ideology for intimidation that's a hate crime it's in violation of 1866 civil Rights act 1964 civil Rights act ....smdh.....#but the police are there to serve and protect Homeland security the same thing FBI CIA same thing you follow the hell out of a man that was looking for true equal opportunity can't never seem to find clan members and neo-nazis even though they come out with the faces out with the real young spewing their hate nothing wrong with that though but if I say black lives matter woo I am an extremist racial identity group that the FBI must put me on the list funny how you can find me but you can't find the real problem with America
THIS WAS CANDY COATED AS USUAL . WE WILL SOON KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH. XD
Forgiving? Nope.
It’s all very sad. I don’t know what the answer is, but it would be great if they could find a fair one. Stealing the land from the new owners to give to the descendants of the old owners is not the answer.
It’s not stealing, it’s returning.
Glo Gloyper
Powerful!
Greetings Robert, I am trying to reach you and Marco please
Insane.
Thanks for posting!
Bring back the good old days
Bring back nat turner and his valiant deeds 😁
🪶
I believe the reason your ancestors were persecuted, was that they refused to abandon their tribal customs and identity. The goal was to intellectualize blacks, because for thousands of years, you guys had not accomplished a single thing. For colonists, a necessary process of conversation needed to take place to help blacks become full fledged Americans. The brains of black people were fried from living in hot conditions, enduring malnurishment, and practicing tribal customs, for thousands of years. The road to becoming an intellect, requires an individual to abandon all ties to ancestrial lineage, and all things tribal or archaic. Blacks simply refused. As a result, they were punished and and held back, so as to prevent them from continuing practices that encouraged scientific ignorance. The few that did convert, were rewarded with inhertance, legal protections, and education, and were able to progress in American society. We see the effects of intellectual deficiancy and scientific ignorance in black communities, and black culture, to this day.
BLKS invented everything you use azzhl !!!! Goggle that idiot!!!!
Elliot jaspen lying already
Write a rebuttal book
NATIVE! BLACK!!!!! AMERICANS! BATTLE!!! TO! HAVE! HUMAN!!!! RIGHTS! COUNTIUES! UNTIL ! THE! LAST!STANDING!
SPAM !!!