"The Cost of Inheritance": Meet the Descendants of Enslavers and Enslaved Fighting for Reparations
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We look at The Cost of Inheritance, a new documentary that examines the growing movement for reparations for Black American descendants of people who were enslaved and addressing the historical injustices they have faced. While some of this is being done by city and state commissions tasked with studying reparations, others are attempting to address systemic racism at the local and personal level, as detailed in the film. "It's pretty incredible, the pace in which we see reparations moving," says filmmaker Yoruba Richen, who is hopeful that this work will eventually push the federal government into action. We also hear from Lotte Lieb Dula, a descendant of an enslaver in the Mississippi Delta, and Randy Quarterman, whose ancestor Zeike Quarterman was held in bondage, about how they are addressing the legacy of slavery in their personal lives.
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The Black Church has lost all credibility with many in our communities because of acts just like this. Instead of standing for what is right, they choose glitter and glitz or some other meaningless showing.
Its weird to me because if they want to make this a race issue, Africans in Africa still have slavery today in 2023, as well as many other horrors like FGM, child marriage, child labor, witchcraft, poor treatment of women and there are dozens of tribal, religious and ethnic conflicts and wars.
The other thing is, The US and Europe already pays reparations. They have been doing it for decades. They pay billions every year to most African countries and most poor countries around the world. Many poor countries rely on western aid to survive and eat because most African countries dont produce enough food
80% of all infrastructure and investments in Africa come from the west.
More than 50% of African hospitals are still run by western NGO's and church groups like the catholic church.
The west funds most of the health programs for things like malaria, HIV, and vaccination programs.
You can look up online how much poor countries get in western aid, and its billions every year.
@@tubester4567 The U.S. and European countries do not pay "reparations" to African countries. They are bribing their way to Africa's resources. I understand that one could be under the impression that it actually is charity or reparations but it is absolutely not. Even when the money actually benefits the people, it's just to make their theft of resources look more acceptable.
@@tubester4567well stated , it's a damn joke . Indians had slaves also .
@@tubester4567reading your comment sound like you don’t understand our situation most won’t you’ll probably say you do but you don’t
@@tubester4567you’re very gullible
Everytime we talk about it every other race says why should I care my people didn’t come till after and than some that say what about all the other races shit kills me everytime it never fails when they are talking about African people enslaved in America
My ancestor died to free your ancestors. That's enough "reparations" I think. If you want more, ask the Rockefellers and the VanDerBilts and the others who were able to evade the draft by buying "substitutes". It was a rich mans' war and a poor man's fight. Now you wnat to make the poor man pay. Again.
I am exactly who you are targeting. My family has been here for hundreds of years. I feel no shame for crimes I didn’t commit. Take your racist grafter A and go get a job like everyone else.
I saw your other comments. You have a crazy view of history. Google Barbary Pirates. Or maybe look up who ended the African slave trade.
Your argument is based on BS. Even if it wasn’t I wouldn’t care. I’ve done nothing to you. Get a life. Stop blaming other people.
Even though others came to the USA after the end of Slavery, they have enjoyed the benefits of the back breaking work of our ancestors whose unpaid labor in the cotton fields brought in the funds that built this country making it " The American Dream" for others to come and enjoy while most of the slave descendants experienced Jim Crow racism, the KKK murderings, and government discrimination in housing, schooling and education.
Most white people are in denial of the facts of slavery and its importance to the successful development of the USA that they now enjoy and experience. Whites enjoy priviledge l over the slave descendants who built the country into what it is today, a Capitalist country.
Power is taken, not given. Stop worrying about what others say and stay focused
I am a white guy and I really feel that America needs to pay these reparations. These reparations should be not only for slavery but also for the 100 years after slavery when Blacks were lynched and lived under Jim Crow conditions. it's so unfair that we whites are still in denial.
You’ve been duped
@@Daffy310 no, you've been duped and brainwashed.
@@user-ou8qk6mo3y go cry about it
Thank you 🙏🏽 for understanding and speaking out
No offence but Screw your FEELINGS !!! Deal with reality not your feelings !! So will they start asking the African tribes who enslaved Africans and sold them to others into slavery ?? Will they also ask the relatives of Blacks who owned slaves in America to also pay reparations ?? Will America be able to end affirmative action when reparations are paid, and end the reverse racist action towards whites that has gone on far too long now ???? I'm sick of the Race and Victim card being pulled everyday !! If people of color can't make it today there is something wrong with them, Not the system !!!! The system caters to people of color far more than whites !! And who in the hell are you people, asking whites of today's generations to pay for things that happened LONG ago in another generation ?? Start with the tribes in Africa FIRST !! They are the key to slavery then, and are still doing it today !! And Stop voting for the Liberal illusion of Freedom and reality of peaceful enslavement every election !! Enough with this Liberal circus and clown show that keeps races divided and fighting with each other, We All bleed red !! It's the Democrats who backed slavery, founded the KKK, enforced Jim Crow laws and allowed lynchings, the Democrats !! But people of color keep voting Democrat ???? WTF is wrong with you people, Wake Up for Christ sake !!!!!!!!! Open your eyes, Democrat States are the worst states in the Union, poverty, homelessness, crime and filth are rampant in Democrat States, Far more than Republican States !! Note: This is my opinion, it's not intended to offend anyone in any way.
A commission to establish a study. That means nothing.
Good
@@andreww35937 RU OK? What's really bothering you?
@@The.End.Begins24they are so bothered 😂
Meanwhile, the illegal aliens flooding the border receive cash gift cards with no paperwork or identification.
If you inherited the loot, you owe the people.
no one owes anyone anything. Find gratitude.
@@sandralarsen3550 Then why did the Jews get reparations? Why does the US continue to give Israel 4 Billion per year plus extras? They get Universal Healthcare and free college and university. Why did the Japanese get reparations? Maybe Jews and Israel should find gratitude and stop asking for money and support from countries.
Some of the people you think are owed something their own ancestors were slave owners. Some were never slaves. You need to prove that there was slavery in your family. We don't just hand out money because your black or because you say so.
@@annmhmoore0771 tell that to the Jewish whites
@sandralarsen3550 you can't stop it. Save your stinking breath.
You can’t undo the past, but you can start the healing process now.
I would love to see either Yvette Carnell or Antonio Moore of the ADOS foundation on this show to talk about slavery reparations..
💯🎯 They have been at the forefront of this conversation for YEARSSSSS!
@@sammyD62 Yes indeed..
Nope. The New Black Media, Tariq Nasheed, Professor Black Truth, Jason Black have pushed Black Americans to be codified on the subject. Thats why reparations are even on Democracy Now.
We are not ADOS we are FBA we are connected by lineage that ADOS has been hijacked by to many other nations. So no stop using that we have no connection to that we are a bloodline nation of ancestors who have been enslaved on our own homeland.
They don’t want these powerful freethinking minds unleashed on this Jewish platform 😂
Wow! Very nice. We need more intelligent people like this lady working with Reparations committees. She is knowledgeable and truthful. Thank you very much.
I am a 36yr college graduate, college was a live changing experience but that can't be top on the list when it comes to reparations... We need cash payments and land, that's top priority, those 2 things can really change lives
Cash payments would destroy our communities. We see what happens when we put money into peoples hands who lack money skills. We need to invest in our communities with skills and trades and education that can be passed down and last.
We don't lack money skills that's a damn stereotype rooted in white supremacy. Actually black americans are known on surviving with less & making a way. We make lemonade out of lemons. Plus, it's a debt owed & it has nothing to do with community or class. Beyonce gets it as does the Black american janitor at the hospital. It's a debt owed for theft of generational wealth. Plain & simple.
What about Mexicans we want land too lol
@@EPUEPUEPUEPUstfu trick you don't know what Black Descendants NEED... They already have established skills and trade and due to systematic racism they have been denied opportunities Jim Crow 1875-1975 just ended and they are still fighting to be =with their former enslavers and the 'invitees' brought to compete with them. Catch-up duncehead or don't post rhetoric thar implies defeat.
Scholarships, small business and home loans. Tax exempt status for up to 5 generations? There’s literally PLENTY of ways for America to make restitution by specifically Black descendants of Slavery. But debt is definitely unpaid and will have to be paid.
I wonder if this will ever happen not only in America but in the Caribbean and in Africa as well.
You have to start. Somewhere. It's a good place to start.
The people on the continent of Africa and the Carribean have to fight for themselves. UK and France etc
No , and it shouldn't happen .
HYON
@@kenj.8897 Why not? African states enslaved and conquered weaker states and enslaved their fellow people of colour , they also played a significant role, in providing their fellow Africans for the slave market, it's an historical fact!
Amy - as usual you’re on top of it! You never cease to amaze me. Thank you is not enough for all the years you have been with us. Please forgive me if this seems out of place - but I’ve not been able to stop wondering if the young white man that died with the young black man many years ago when Blacks were trying to establish voting rights - was he related to you?
100% she is!
EminantDomain initially meant to abscound the Indigenous land. Meanwhile Homesteading for European peasants. A form of AffirmativeAction...
Confiscating of Indigenous Lands, must be countered by perpetual land leases especially by developed land masses.
Anything less would be acknowledging Europeans were here first. They dont even make that claim.
Can we have a Reparation march in the Summer?
@gloriaashby9439....you don't need to ask. Go ahead and organize it
What about Federal reparations?
Whenever I see an American black speaking on reparations on a major platform it’s never the people that I’ve seen speaking on reparations all day every day on social media for years. Where do yall dig these folks up from?
That's why they need the black community to stand together but it sounds like your still trying to divide. Or either you're probably a white person trying to infiltrate and cause the division on this platform Amongst those within the black community.
How can a people who support and believe that you have no right to inherit anything, believe that you have a right to inherit your ancestors suffering?
They may claim that there is no right to inheritance but those rich f**ks sure do a good job of handing it down, regardless. Not to mention the vast amounts to coddle their little princes and princesses throughout their lives. Many of the current Congress members are legacy rich.
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How can people who believe that they have an inherent "god given" right to North America point fingers at Zionists for claiming only a sliver of land in Palestine?
It’s a grift
Who is this writer talking about?
Your Brain On Liberalism: Slavery=Bad+Evil, Capitalism=Fair+Good
People who come from the lineage of Slavery in the United States would have been a more clear description
Why did you not have Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore? This is a weak interview.
She has a hard time calling those of us who ancestors was slaves in America Americans. She didn't use Americans at all.
Emotional ❤
Sure is😢😢!
Thank-you "Democracy Now" for spotlighting this movement. Please continue to do this. 😊❤
Or not….
I'm surprised Sandy Darity is not part of this conversation. He's the most formidable proponent of reparations i've heard to date.
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- PaulTeich-©️10/31/2023
When random acts of kindness are trending through the land
When kind becomes the magic word
And the thing we do is lend a hand
We won’t worship a bird of prey, but one of peace and love
When kindness is trending, instead of snuggies and skittles
Everyone will have homes
No one will be starving for vittles
There will be full bellies at dinner tables instead of bombs
If our minds move in the direction of our most dominant thought
Peace, love and kindness is, perhaps what we ought
Steering away from bread and circuses
Rather to help the needy with health and human services
Brothers and sisters we are all one
Separation is painful from the real and the unicorn
And it is surely not as much fun
As to live in a democracy, not in need of agrarian reform
The trend today it’s for the rich not to share
Poor people are not vulgar we need to learn to care
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When the wall came down in Germany, East Germany was a lot poorer and underdeveloped. West German citizens have been paying high solidarity taxes ever since in order to create equality in the country. As some here in the comment section claim, they have been burdened with the aftermath of Slavery.....well think about it, the reparations are a form of creating a better future with more equality in the country, and believe it or not, that is good for all Americans.
Nope. But hey have fun or your made up moral high horse
You can leave " equality" OUT of the lexicon or you muddy the waters.
Not even comparable. Those taxes aren't paid to individuals but to authorities that build infrastructure and create opportunities. Give these black folks cash or land, and find them spending it all on stupid shit and drugs. You can't make a poor man rich by giving it money. Independent of race.
@@andreww35937 well, I suppose you can always spend billions on weapons instead: you may find that moral🤣
Humanity LIVES. Shedding tears over here for sharing family history together IN THE PRESENT. Let us learn from the past.
Bless you, much gratitude for beginning the reparations process to restore justice to humanity. We can not undo the past by repeating it, we can transcend it by opening our hearts and paving a new path. Much love and respect for the great work you are doing.
You want to give money to people who weren’t hurt for something you didn’t do? Well have fun, go out there and hand out cash if you feel bad.
I’ll keep my money and sleep like a baby
@@andreww35937what part of repair-rations ' are you having difficulty with? 😊
@@andreww35937 Education is worth more than any lotto, and THIS is a prime example of it in this comment.
@@jamesregiste960all of it, the entire idea is garbage 🗑️
Curious whether an excavation of Native American title to the lands being looked at in this region ties into these stories… slavery was a grave sin in American history, but not the original sin. This reparations discussion is long overdue, it is vitally necessary to see reparations paid- however, it doesn’t get to the root of all that requires investigation, atonement & repair.
Has nothing to do with preparations for for Black American descendants of people who were enslaved
Stop
@@The.End.Begins24 Making amends for Americas crimes & making things right means getting *to the root.*
That means addressing both communities with reparations to achieve full rights and justice. Stolen people & stolen lands. Justice requires parity of esteem for both wrongs.
To talk about both does not take away from the specifics of either case, what it does is recognize the multiple wrongs this settler-colony is based upon.
@@ag225-ml if you think harder about it you’ll find you are not remotely correct. These things are intimately twinned.
@@jessd4048 again. Reparations are for African American injustices. It is deeply racist to imply that nothing can be done about the specific needs of Black People.
Thank you, "Amy Goodman." 🌹
Reparations should be paid in the "Form" of Free Education for all Descendants..(4 years)
(Education not $$$.. )
Education allows an Individual to compete on an Equal Playing Field...
Education is the "Key" to Equality!!!
What if there are BDOAS who are already educated? So, they get nothing according to this theory, correct? This would leave yet another inequal imbalance. It is best to be the UN's Reparations policy which addresses all areas of proper repair for the injustices of slavery.
We have plenty of poor educated Black folk. What would the 70-80yr olds do with such a repair solution? It needs to be cash, land and free therapy or community based programs.
Cash. And we can decide whether or not, and what type of education to pursue for ourselves. We're not looking for a coupon.
In the roughly three decades leading up to the most recent recession, looking at the officially measured poverty rate, educational upgrading and overall income growth were the two biggest poverty-reducing factors, while income inequality was the largest poverty-increasing factor.
Thank you for this piece of information.
That throat clearing speaks volumes.Shame pasted on from ancestors.Heavy,Heavy burden to bare.The truth will set us FREE!😢
So beautiful to see these steadfast and courageous people revealing these brutal truths of our collective history and moving towards co-creating something new.
May we all be liberated and share peace despite our cruel history.
xo
Peace,
M
There will be no more peace on this earth. Our Elohem will restore his chosen children here on the Earth only. Our peace comes from our Mother Wisdom not man
It's ABOUT TIME, AMY. WAKE IT UP AND HAVE ADOSAF ON!
I owe nothing to no one but God
you will pay...pray about it...hahahah hahahah hahaha
If you talk about this you have to show the whole picture without taboos, including the fact that African rulers sold black slaves to Europeans, and the fact that in Africa today there are black people enslaved by other black people.
Descendants of enslavers can be the most helpful by lobbying Congress to pay reparations instead of placing the debt of slavery on their own inheritances. The debt belongs to the federal government, the Treasury, some central banks in Europe. It's too massive to be handled locally or by enslaver descendants unless they're in Congress. In that case many are in Congress or are local lawmakers. Maybe that's why there's been no progress.
1000% wrong. The government does not have any money. The government has no assets. You are asking people who had nothing to do with slavery to pay people who were never enslaved. Descendants of slaves should be allowed to sue the specific people who enslaved their ancestors if those people still have money from slavery, and corporations that benefitted from slavery. All the banks, the insurance companies, the Universities, etcetera. NOT taxpayers who are just trying to get by in life.
@@venturetedMan please! The same ppl who enjoy all the liberties and luxuries that the institution of slavery has afforded this country should pay. The wealth that was amassed through slavery has compounded over time to afford us all a certain level of luxury. And for that everyone should pay.
@@AB1B1 literally EVERYONE has experienced the same benefits. Every culture and race in the world has been enslaved at some point. Do THEY get reparations? Again, if you're going to seek reparations, seek it from those who did the enslaving. AFRICA.
So you're saying they're demanding more than what the guys who actually inherited and (according to others) grew that wealth over many generations have? Like more than what has been inherited? How is that mathematically possible?
Wrong.
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We must not forget our past, but we can’t let it dictate the future either, otherwise we will never be free.
Tell that to Ho loc au st survivors and their descendants. Black people are, despite of 400 y. slavery on dehumanizing basis being justified by perpetrators with the argument they belonged to a so called superior race, always the ones who should forget quick and move on... In order not to be "driven by their past". Interesting, isn't it ? Well, if people could step in other's shoes, our world would be different. It must change anyway.
@@frederiqueleno5415 I am not putting the suffering down, but I am neither allowing it to perpetuate and pave the way for a ruined future. In the end, one must acknowledge that the battle is won and slavery doesn’t exist like it used too. If it wasn’t the case, one would understand the urge for resistance and accountability. Now tell me, who is gonna pay? Who is going to be held responsible? No one. So what will any complaint cause now? Nothing, except spreading awareness. But why be angry? Why hurt yourself more, when it’s clearly over? All of Balkans were slaves and vassals to the ottomans for 400 years up to 1900, do you hear them complaining? In the end of the day, we are all consciousness; not a colour, a body, a mind, or a name. You are conscious of it. You are inside the body. You are formless, nameless, colourless, and beautiful. You are life. Get over yourself.
Omg stop bringing up the one in Evanston it was not reparations it is only for people who still live in Evanston it was not for the descendants that are still living there that rent and not own
No words only a million tears.
Free education please part of the catch up process.
And mental health care
Smacks of another okie doke.
Studies are straight cap.
REPARATIONS is justice...Cut the check...
Repressions is not a word. Stop asking for handouts, get educated, learn a skill or trade and get to work. How are you not embarrassed asking for charity like this? Man up, chump.
I committed no crime. I owe you nothing. Your “check” comes from hard working people no different than you.
But hey you want your check? You can come get it out of my cold dead hand
@@andreww35937 Who asks you to pay ??? This is a government issue..Reparations is justice ⚖
@@jonathantoymaker Where do you think government money comes from genius?
@@mattthacker9120 A printing machine you genius 👏
"There is only organized power against organized power; I see no other remedy, as much as I regret it."Albert Einstein
So to beat racism you’re going to become racist….. cool. Good job. I’m sure that’s what Einstein meant…
More than any other kind, we need _class-based_ reparations. The very existence of staggering wealth inequality and "lower" classes is a direct result of systemic injustices that go back to the very beginnings of the nation.
nope. go home.
@@Billiepippen Nope. You go home.
Why do so many on the Left always want to expand definitions and make words meaningless. Its like you cant separate any 2 concepts. Everything you know is just in a giant kludge in your mind.
Many economic efforts were made to lift poor working class whites out of poverty. Affirmative Action doubled household incomes of white families, which is 1 out of 1000's of policies and practices. Benign neglect (1960's) is a policy currently in effect that prohibits helping those whose ancestors were enslaved and used as currency. US Reparations for Slavery is about profit sharing. Millions of enslaved Americans built wealth that's controlled the globe 3 centuries+. Wealth created for US and European elites and governments (taxes).
1776 US/Europe banned ("to end slavery")bringing African POW labor into the colonies due to insurrections. 1808 termination date meant the 'domestic breeding' industry had 32 years to produce the next line of laborers. Girls as young as 8 were captured for that industry. Class-based reparations does not address crime against humanity. Repair is mandated.
The US continues unfair treatment towards that American lineage. In order to get it to stop, protections are needed. Only monetary repair can change that. 4 quadrillion+ in labor cost was saved using enslaved labor. Imagine if those people were paid and those dollars were circulating amongst laborers. Maybe more than 1% of us would be sharing the wealth.
@@anpdm1 The unfair treatment of the lineage is also expressed in hiring practices and in media. Most of the black actors that get put on in major productions are not from the enslaved lineage. The production companies seem to go to the ends of the earth to avoid ADOS (American Descendents of Slaves) and hire black people of other origins. Most of the slots at the Ivy League filled by black students are African nationals, not ADOS. It's almost as if there is an implicit agreement to target ADOS and deny them any opportunity whatsoever. It's not just a passive continual denial of the importance and fairness of inheritance for ADOS but some kind of active targeting and disdain.
Great piece, but we cannot form bonds of repair with people who deny slavery’s role in American and Western wealth….
For Nicke Haily to stand there like a deer in headlights about the question of slavery and the civil war tells you everything….
Their story and our story are 2 totally different thing’s….no one would want the evilness of what these people did to surface. It brings a whole new way of looking at who the savages were and are today. Pale people are the only people in history to go all around the world killing robbing raping other people, in the name of Christianity, and all along calling those they kill- the savage
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My thoughts on reparations are simple: " It's my 💵 and I want it now!!!!" When you owe some one something you pay them what you owe, you don't turn around and ask the person you owe money to. Well if I pay you back what do you plan to do with those funds.....It's mine & I want it, it really shouldn't matter if we all decided to spend it, burn it, or 🚽 flush it, it's ours 😡
I knew the comments would be full of level headed, totally not racist remarks. 🙄
Yeah yeah, feel free to ignore all the racism you advocate for. Aren’t you such a nice and moral person 🙄🥱
QUIT YOUR GRIPIN GET YOURSLVES A HOBY ITS TIME TO HEAL
you are now OUR hobby...buckle up.
So people who never owned slaves should pay reparations to people who never were slaves?
Even people who never owned slaves still benefited from slavery.
@@justmyopinion9883 Absolute rubbish. How much have you benefitted from Roman slavery?
@@darkgalaxy5548 I don’t live in Rome. I am speaking of the USA. Everyone who lived in the USA benefited from slavery. The USA would not be the wealthy first world country it is today if not for 243 years of free labor and 100 more years of Jim Crow oppressed labor.
The U S Gvmnt owes. Their plan, their debt owed.
Your thinking guarantees the ✅'s will be perpetual.
@@justmyopinion9883total bull
Without ADOS YVETTE AND Antonio Moore this show about reperations would not exist. They avoid talking to them at all cost. The people they have speak os using wrong language and verbiage . This resperation movement is flaw without ADOS YVETTE CARNELL AND ANTONIO MOORE . THEY need to be at the head of any of these disscussions if they are to be successful.
Please discuss the last 3000 years of slavery which includes all races and nationalities throughout the entire world.
*Has the United States, the current global hegemon, or the current capitalist economy existed for 3000 years? No. Chances are you benefit from both.*
What about the Vikings
Right now we’re talking about slavery in America, go fight for your ancestors rights against and country that committed atrocities towards them but don’t try to diminish our plight with your what aboutism because we have the balls to care and stand up for ours
Obviously this makes you uncomfortable so you need to deflect. But we're not going anywhere. We will continue to remind you of your ancestors' crimes against the Black race.
@@MARTIALnoart Slavery 2024? What kool aid did you drink?
South Carolina was the richest state in the union only because it owned the most slaves and it was the first southern state to succeed
If your aunt had balls she’d be your uncle. What does that have to do with anything today?
Yep, with a BLACK MAN owning the highest number of slaves while being considered by most to be one of the most brutal slave owners...GOOGLE THAT SH*T....
I don't owe anybody nothing...
@Democracy Now! Ms. Amy I think you should consider interviewing Yvette Carnell concerning the REPARATIONS topic.
THE MOST HIGH YAH WILL HANDLE IT ! IT IS OUT OF THE HANDS OF ANY LEADER AT THIS POINT! PRAISE THE MOST HIGH! HALLELUYAH! PSALM 148:14 & 1PETER 2:9
All reparations should go to stop current slavery. All reparations should go to help current slaves.
What about the Native Americans that were originally kicked off ALL of the US land? Talk about a good case for reparations!
We need to start there first, with those first enslaved Wampanoag people.
They have ALREADY received reparations.
Really? That is why they are about the poorest people in the US? @@flyyygirl87
Native Americans got they reparations what about us black Americans
I would love to hear what the Native Americans have got. They are consistently some of the poorest people in the country. Both should get reparations. @@bookiedaleo1694
As a matter of fact I would say you should be thankful that even though slavery was a horrible thing that happened to many people not just Africans.. Today blacks benefit the liberty and good life here in America.. That other people from other countries which they could benefit from ....That through that horrible act hundreds of years ago has brought you blessings here...Don't you all think so...I mean you could still been in Africa picking up water from the rivers like 3rd world countries still do....
Isaiah 14:21-22
[21]Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
[22]For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
Spades have been getting gibs and other special treatment for decades while at the same time destroying everything they come into contact with.
We also need to talk about reparations for soldiers' families who were drafted while rich men were allowed to buy "substitutes."
Perhaps it would be most fitting if the descendants of people who actually benefitted in any financial or material way from the war to pay the reparations, rather than asking descendants of union soldiers who were drafted, while Rockefellers, Astors, VanDerBilts (Hi Anderson Cooper!) and others profited.
I will be eagerly awaiting the reparations check for my ancestors' sufferings.
The US govt should pay reparations. And perhaps you forget -- many Black men were drafted into wars, and placed on the front lines. So should their descendants get double reparations. My point --- let's focus on getting the descendants of the enslaved in The US their reparations. Stop muddying the waters.
You can have that talk somewhere else
You keep talking about that. All you folks keep talking about this dumb shit, instead of getting a skill or two in the mean time, and actually making money for your descendents...
@@loriannrichardson7644lol 😂
Land and money way overdue 😳
Thank you professor black truth
It’s about time!!!
Long overdue.
What was the cause of the Civil War?
Love you, Amy
The Pursuit of Happiness
Paul Teich©️12/25/2023
The end of deaths life
To see my mother again
To be with my wife and children
And bake our birthday cakes
When will Life’s life start again?
For the oppressed life’s life never started in the first place
When we see American actors on TV they remind us what this means
And it’s not very nice
But so everyone can understand
Our actors on TV on our advertising talk shows that are teaching us what shows we like and actors we like, as if we didn’t know or couldn’t decide ourselves
Our actors tell us now that I have had my first movie, and my life can begin
And what they mean
And what they are snobbishly, distainingly and looking down on us to say is that now that they have millions of dollars their life could start
Their letting us know that they feel they had no life before these millions of dollars and fame
And now that they have millions of dollars and fame their life can start
In retrospect, they are letting us know, in an underhanded and superior narcissistic way that our lives have never started. We are beneath them and we don’t have the money or access to the right people to even consider that we have a life.
Many people have spoken of this kind of laughing, chuckling self importance and pride of joining the one percent
What are they telling to people who are truly poor?
What are they telling to people that are under occupation?
What are they telling to people that are bombed and not for Christmas
by corporations who decided they’re going to make munitions and billions of dollars and are they complicit in millions of peoples death as well
The only people that are not complicit are the oppressed are the bombed
When will Life’s life start again?
For the oppressed, life‘s life has never started
End the wars
End apartheid
End all occupations
End disparity
Share
Peace and love brothers and sisters
Reparations for colonialism
At the height of slavery 1.6% of the population owned slaves. The very idea, the demand that people alive today who had absolutely nothing to do with slavery take their hard earned money and give it to people who never experienced slavery is absolutely abhorrent. This is the rich and corporations passing off their debt to the poor and others who have zero responsibility for those acts. America inherited slavery from European countries and ended the practice within 1 generation. Seek your money, your reparations from the corporations that still exist today that benefited from slavery. Banks, insurance companies, all the Universities. Seek your reparations from the actual enslavers in Africa. In Europe. Citizens alive today have zero responsibility or guilt for those actions and owe nothing.
If African Americans think they deserve "reparations" only those from slaves should locate and find the families that owned slaves and file civil suits against them. That is the only fair and equitable way. Otherwise, it is simply trying to find a way to steal tax revenue and money from the poor who never owned slaves and give it to their friends. Rich people don't pay taxes, only poor people do.
Go after the existing companies and families that took part in slavery.
"Teach a man to fish and he'll never go hungry."
"Educate a man and he'll cease to be poor."
EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO EQUALITY!!!
Listen, this has nothing to do with fishing. You need to have protections when you were brought here by kidnappers who own banks.
My ANCESTORS did all fishing, but they never got to keep their fish. They were caught..It were taken from them & giving to someone else. 😢
In the roughly three decades leading up to the most recent recession, looking at the officially measured poverty rate, educational upgrading and overall income growth were the two biggest poverty-reducing factors, while income inequality was the largest poverty-increasing factor.
Take none of these convo serious if its no mention of ADOS MOVEMENT,YVETTE CARNELL AND ANTONIO MOORE
What a bunch of crap .
I think all the slaveowners should pay reparations to those they enslaved. Not very practical, though, since they're all dead. Oh well. Never-were-slaveowners don't owe anything to never-were-slaves.
31% of black people live RIGHT ABOVE the poverty line
Blacks own 1% of wealth in this nation.
92% of black people call a white man or woman boss
- [ ] US paid reparations to Germany in 1952
- [ ] Japanese Canadians in 1988
- [ ] Eskimos in 1988
- [ ] Jews in Austria 1990
- [ ] Seminoles in FL in 1985
But none for Foundational Black Americans
Thanks, Amy Goodman
Nope. We never had slaves and fought a Civil War. That's all you get.
either way it goes...you will pay...
Dr. Claud Anderson has done this study long ago. However, the local level seems the way to go because we only get excuses on the federal level.
Kerner Commission also Buried in Bitter Waters
The government literally makes money. Pay them.
So you have no basic concept of macro economics…. Cool. You should definitely keep sharing your opinion in public. Good job😂
If these people want to pay other people, let them. But leave the rest of us out of it. I do not owe any debt.
I’m from the large number of immigrants who came to America long after slavery was abolished.
In my opinion, those rich families who benefited from slavery should be the ones to pay reparations. Those of us who arrived poor (and continue to struggle) should not be funding reparations through our taxes. So take the land inherited by the descendants of slave owners and take the businesses developed on the backs of slaves and use that to pay reparations.
You're still benefiting from exploitative systems, and slavery has never really been abolished.
@@heavymetalhomesteading Who will have a right to decide who is entitled for reparations and who is going to pay on a personal level? You know there was some black slave owners?
@@VadimBolshakovy’all folks love using that did know it was black slave owners know some of them freed their people and and some stay and worked on the lands that they provide
@@heavymetalhomesteading I work for minimum wage. How exactly am I "benefitting from exploitative systems?"
BTW: I have ancestors who died in the ACW - drafted by the Union army because they could not afford the 300$ fee to purchase a "substitute".
Go ask Anderson Cooper for reparations. And while you're there, ask about reparations for the poor men who died in this rich man's fight.
was your ancestor paid? if so why would they receive reparations ?@@Polit_Burro
❤powerful
Lol im not paying a single penny hahaha
This is our lives everyday. Everyday I’m not being paid reparations says it’s ok to treat people this way you can get away with it. They wonder why we just can’t get it together work hard and is all you have to do African American. Well my people worked the hardest and have nothing. I just took out a loan to help my daughter have a house a place to live in. I shouldn’t have to do that I have the money it’s just with the wrong people. I need my reparations over due.
I’m doing extremely well with my education. This does not change the fact that I am owed my reparations. Many are not doing well and they are owed their reparations as well. Thank you
Drmocracy now does not hire black people. Marinate on that.
Propss for covering the struggle.
Wait, so the liberals that use your animosity for political purposes don’t really care about you?…
Go on. Tell me more😂
According to 23 and Me, I'm 1% Native American. I demand reparations from the American government for the land stolen from my ancestors by the early settlers!
That's not enough to receive tribal benefits.
The early settlers were English, French and Spanish subjects
@@purpleglitter9596 How much is enough? 5% ? 50%?
@@purpleglitter9596 no shit Sherlock
Go try to enroll in a tribe if that's what you want
It is time
We need reparations put into a black bank where people can draw from 60% of reparations should help black ADOS to build infrastructure creating busineses not schools let government repair and open closed schools that America dismantle.. black America needs infrastructure to create towns that were destroyed roads and hospitals lost wages lost hope that needs to be restored
ADOSAF SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THIS SHOW. WE CREATED THIS MOVEMENT!
this movement has been around since 1865. No one needs credit what we need are results. Once that happens I’ll give credit to whomever wants it.
Created no. Presented it to a new generation, yes.
Unfortunately ADOS had the wrong people heading it. calling themselves leaders and setting up chapters, ego and entitlement was the death nail that sealed it's Doom.
ADOS fell off and FBA hit the ground running.
@@The.End.Begins24never going to happen
@@AmphibiousCarbine816 lol......with his "The Art of Mackin" bestseller.....you are jokers
@@The.End.Begins24 I did not ask your opinion. Every "advocate" since the 70's for reparations have been a waste and counter productive up until ADOS. PERIOD. WE MADE THIS A REASONABLE DISCUSSION.
I’m not paying people for being slaves when they were never slaves and I never owned a slave.
Why not divide it up between the Federal Government and each State as slave states should be involved in an agreement that could include reparations of both land and money also education… ✌🏾
Not "slave" states. All states, including the northern states which also held slaves, but also processed raw materials generated by slavery.
@@McQueenPress all states institutions are corporations who profited…
WOW
Benefits of investment & costs of deprived income should be emphasized when the reparations subject is covered, lest tax- burdened non-black voters' "exhaustion" cause them to impulsively tune out(?).
We really don't hear the gibberish when reparations are paid to Holocaust survivors, Asians, Siberian Native Americans, white farmers, DACA recipients, Ukrainians, Afghanis, illegals aliens flooding the border. The checks just go out and everyone acts like nothing happened.
White Americans, by comparison, own more than 98 percent of U.S. land amounting to 856 million acres with a total worth of over $1 trillion.
CNN founder Ted Turner alone owns over 2 million acres of land according to Forbes magazine. In other words, one person owns nearly a quarter of what all black Americans combined own in rural land.
Im from the Island where slaves were taken to...My Island was enslaved almost 400yrs.. My ancestors work as slaves and I dont go around saying who owes me because the sins of hundreds of years ago... These people just want money...
Where do any of you think the money is supposed to come from? The estimates START at 14 trillion and go way up from there, depending on what "group" you talk to. This country is 34 trillion in debt right now. The financial devastation would be catastrophic if this were ever to pass. The stock market would crash and your reparations would not be worth the paper it's printed on. And before somebody responds with the "Jim Crow" thing... you were free to leave this country a long time ago.
31% of black people live RIGHT ABOVE the poverty line
Blacks own 1% of wealth in this nation.
92% of black people call a white man or woman boss
- [ ] US paid reparations to Germany in 1952
- [ ] Japanese Canadians in 1988
- [ ] Eskimos in 1988
- [ ] Jews in Austria 1990
- [ ] Seminoles in FL in 1985
But none for Foundational Black Americans
@@therapheal_2278 Those "reparations" were paid in real time... not 150 years later. Not to mention all those "reparations" you mention don't add up to a fraction of what this would cost. Lastly, if its so bad here... feel free to leave.
Road up on me? What you say lady ?
People playing the victim for something that didn’t happen to them is pathetic