Ta-Nehisi Coates: Reparations Are Not Just About Slavery But Also Centuries of Theft & Racial Terror
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- On the heels of Wednesday’s historic hearing on reparations, we speak with renowned writer Ta-Nehisi Coates on the lasting legacy of American slavery, how the national dialogue about reparations has progressed in the past five years and his testimony in favor of H.R. 40, which took direct aim at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Coates says, “It is absolutely impossible to imagine America without enslavement.”
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Black Labor White Wealth by Dr. Claud Anderson
Wealth to global elites are ppl literally and wealth to the oppressed is materialism and a false sense of superiority.
@Yen Feng What on earth is a black supremacist?
@Yen Feng 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@@jwalker4647 anyone challenging the white supremacist indoctrination they gives as facts. We know what he saying. Problem is the term by definition and origin belongs to them. The devil is a lie.
@@DSmith365 But want to put their shame and the faces of sed shame on us. FOH. These things tryto be something we know they're not, humans.
Shout out to Dr. Claude Anderson and his profound work "Powernomics"
Kareem Smith Black Labor, White Wealth is another great book by the great Dr. Anderson
@@hankroberts1751 I'm white and I won't celebrate the 4th of July until Congress and the nation celebrates the passage of Juneteeth.----Oh say can you see / by the drone's early flight / what so proudly we heil / at eternal wars streaming. / Doctor Strangelove's red glare / riding bombs everywhere / gave proof through the night / that our MIC was still there. / Oh say does that star-swasted hammer yet wa-ve / o'er cycles of bigotry-ee / and the wealth of the depraved.--As MLK once said, a country that spends more money on the military than it does on social uplift, approaches spiritual bankruptcy
why do we need to protest congress for a study of reparations?...why leave that up to them?...why not come together and privately fund a study on our own, figure out what we need/want then take it to congress or the supreme court or better yet the International court and demand it..
.why do we continue to let these people and this country give us what they want to give us instead of demanding what we know is rightfully ours
My thoughts exactly!!!
Johnny Smith let’s raise the fund
great idea!
Because reparations folk don't want to pay for anything themselves they would rather collect from generations who had Nothing to do with slavery. Idiotic idea, it will never happen.
@@tiw2572 Oh it will happen in one way or another. Rev 13:10
Dr. Claude Anderson has done the most extensive analysis of the subject.
Yeah...I credit my awakening/knowledge
on this subject to him
(one of my mentors)
Thank You for all
you do....
Dr. Claud Anderson ❤
This is simply not true. Others have been working on this for far longer and have concluded COLONIALISM is the overarching ongoing crime with slavery playing an abrupt and brutal transitional role. Dr. Anderson also makes the terrible argument that reparations is a U.S. issue but the data proves a global approach is necessary to cover all the crimes, not just those committed on U.S. soil.
#ADOS keep the pressure on. We're here for the long haul!!
Demitri Tyler you better be ‘cause it might be a while. Hang in there.
ADOS hasn't done and isn't doing shit other than scam the gullible on youtube. The real work for reparations are done by people like Ta who ADOS and its affiliate cons are against.
@Yen Feng STFU forever. Don't you have international pride march coming up? FOH
@@718Philo Who are the gullible?
Demitri Tyler in for the long haul LMAO
and still the terror continues....... 🤢
@@mikemaloney1289 -- Who is 5%?
@@hisbeautifultruth5931 google that statistic and see for yourself.
@Alset Alokin -- You should look at the actual statistics. Might be enlightening. (FBI crime stats 2016)
@Alset Alokin does trump promote and uplift?
@Alset Alokin -😁😁 You're funny. A political ideology did not wield a whip. It did not rape a man's wife. It did not feed babies to alligators. It lynched no one, burned down no towns, homes or businesses. It didnt rape grown men to "buck break" them. Political affiliation did not conduct medical experiments on or give syphilis to black man for 30 years and leave them untreated. People did that! White people!
Ta- Nehisi Coates, thank you for your presence and your voice👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Coleman Hugh’s IS NOT ONE OF US🤷🏽♀️
Give the credit to the B1 brigade for this conversation. Cut the check..Also talk to Dr. Claude Anderson on this subject....
He been on it for yrs
I have heard some persons argue for reparations. Although this violates due process completely and requires persons of today to pay for the sins of centuries past, I am actually willing to pay reparations to put this bullshit completely behind us once and for all. I think we should pay $500….no, let’s make that $1000. You just need to show me the scars on your back where your master beat you with a bullwhip and the money is all your’s. That’s $1000 per scar. Agreed? Do you know who broke that promise of a mule and land to the newly freed slaves? I am thinking it’s the same people, of the same political party, that fought to keep them as slaves in the first place and who continue trying to keep them as slaves to this day. It’s the same party that has pushed racist policies in action and deed since it’s founding through today.
Shout out to Yvette Carnell of Breaking Brown for creating the ADOS movement which got this bill a hearing! #ADOS
And remember Angela Rye tried to dismiss that movement as being run by russian trolls.
Zorro455 yup, and I’m glad it blew up in her face.
Isn't she a right wing Trump supporter?
Thats right 👊
The ADOS understanding of reparations is very different from Coates. ADOS seems to think reparations is due only to black descendants of slaves, and no other black victims of racial crime. It’s clear that Coates is talking more broadly about systematic racism.
👀👀Stop the rhetoric and pay the Debt To #ADOS ...Restitution, Restorative Justice, Reparations for #ADOS
trena1122 I believe that’s what this video was all about. What rhetoric are you referring to?
This will go on and on, and on........people need to stand up and demand a debate on this same issue, not to cause more discussion but to delineate to the AMERICAN electorate, who's for and who's against. Preferably between the 2 presidential candidates, I'd love for the people to see TRUMP's response.
If I didn't enslave you then I'm not paying
Nigroes always have their hands out to the white man looking money
OH, and I am totally for REPARATIONS. FOX NEWS TV COMMENTATOR Bill O'REILLY stated BELOW, and was corrected :
"Slavery reparations is a far-left favorite because it does a number of things.
It reinforces the ( radical belief ) REPLACE WITH THE WORD TRUTH ......that the United States was founded by racist white men who installed a system whereby white guys would run everything and blacks, women and others would be exploited.
@Black American They would have done anything viable with the land just look what happened in South Africa and Zimbabwe
How come dr. Claud Anderson wasn't there to speak on behalf of reparations
Probably, because he realizes the futility of trying to reach a "moral center" in whites.
Why doesn’t anyone ask him if he wanted to be there?
Because. He's too Smart. Know all the. Facts history and that's dangerous... To them
ettekamba6969
Funny claim- considering there was a handful during the hearing.
Their afraid of Dr. Anderson.
An economic problem needs an economic solution. Tangibles is the only answer. CUT THE CHECK!!
Leonard Smith cut the check cut the check brother just hollering cut the check ain't gonna get it
Facts
Are you serious?! Their lives were worth more than a simple pay check! We contributed a hell of a lot more than just mere money! I can think of about 100 things that are just as important as a check for reparations! It will take much more than money to fix this fucked system that has gotten us in this predicament in the first place!!!
@@gospelsoulman What the hell else are they gonna give us more apologies? I say cut the damn check!!
@@gospelsoulman Actually black people having the money to afford proper representation in the legal system as off opposed to have to rely on public pretenders would help that a lot. Like I have been saying. CUT THE DAMN CHECK!!
A moral person doesn’t want stolen goods, an immoral one doesn’t want to take responsibility to DO THE RIGHT THING.
Stacey Taken Alive DROPS MIC 🎤 & WALKS OFF! 💯
And who gets to define moral
@@manuelv9494 You must be confused or just stupid if you do not KNOW that THEFT, RAPE, ENSLAVEMENT and MURDER of People IS IMMORAL...DUUUUH
GO READ A FKN BOOK NOT JUST THE INTERNET! 😒
@@privatenineNaturalWoman I agree, but morals are inherent, either you have them or you don't. It's all due to nurture and life experience. The golden rule is to treat others in a way that they themselves want to be treated. You don't need to read a book and search the internet for something that should be common sense.
@@trulyblessed5254 then some Americans haven't learned their lesson yet. What goes around eventually comes around. No other race of people have went around went the mind set of steal, kill, and destroy.
Redlining went on after the civil right act, TURTLE!!!!
When I read Haiti had to pay France, started my research on what they don't teach you in school.
Sad
lady4real75 Look how much money goes to Africa and Haiti just to try to keep them from starving!
@Herbal Shaman THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING THE WILLFULL IDIOT!!!
Look up how many assets of African nations are still tied up in French banks. France is a parasitic nation that is springed up by west African nations.
Damn Skippy! That red beast need a wake up call.
Ta-Nehisi Coates - I could sit and enjoy a long discussion with this man.
His is a voice(and mind) worthy of an audience.
Excellent video.
She said for the international viewers that may not know about this history.... 👀 like wasn’t there international involvement?
As a matter of fact, most of the people taken from Africa into slavery were taken into countries other than the United States. The US gets most of the attention because of the violent brutal way in which they treated human beings. And still do.
Yes. The British succeeding in stopping The Atlantic Slave Trade, which was the process of powerful sub saharan kingdoms selling sub saharan Africans to Europeans who then sold them in the Americas.
Way to go TaNahesi ♥️ it’s time to #CuttheCheck for #ADOS
Checking the check is a derogatory and trivial term that wont advance the serious cause this movement is.
@@dustyhotep4196 you killing me with that nonsense. You making way too many ASSumptions that all blacks that qualify for repirations will use that money EFFICIENTLY. Im not saying that we shouldnt use Cash payments as part of the PACKAGE, but it would be stupid as hell to make every ADOS a millionaire overnight when we as a group know only how to spend, not make it FLIP. But you would be the token fool to buy some overpriced Yeezys and a house for all your family members as soon as that check is cut. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
@@edhooper1421No more trickle down economics. If you fund it through government programs and things of that nature they will just find away to offset it immediately afterwards. Tangibles is the only white supremacist proof solution some may go and spend it up like fools but it doesn't mean that they are not entitled to it. Reperations is a debt, not a handout. Fuck the dumb shit. CUT THE DAMN CHECK!!!
@@edhooper1421 : if they miss spend their money......that's on them!
trena1122 you think just hollering cut the check is going to get you reparations don't be silly
“poverty was not accidental”
The problems is they want repair the wrongs so many years yes is progress repair wrong to black people America has money for war machines but doesn t have money repay slavery
Amen!!!
Poverty for blacks in America was engineered from the time they put us on boats.
Remaining in poverty in the richest country on earth is not accidental either.
Is everything a conspiracy? Don't you have any control over your life?
I can not for the life of me understand how social scientist, Dr Joy Degruy, wasnt also at that hearing to present her amazing breakdown of the various effects of slavery that we see today. She should be in every major discussion regarding reparations.
Right...
I can. This was a hearing more or less to make the case for the study of reparations (not like we really need one IMO, but I get how these things are done and this is a first step). Usually it is during the study and presentation of the results in latter meetings when we sees the heavy hitters and the research. What we have to do is keep the pressure up that this doesn't just stop or is procedurally slowed down as it winds through a ridiculously slow process which in many cases is when these things have a tendency to go away.
TheVuduYuDu I for one will not surprised to learn that this will be the one and only hearing on this subject.
@@Aduhwan ikr. (Love your profile pic btw. I'm a slight bit of a trekkie)
@@Aduhwan I wouldn't be either. SMH.
It's not just about slavery they know it just like we know it.
But they will keep saying it so no one will focus on the fact that it’s really only been 55-60 years that we as native black Americans have been free!
@@Black_unity597 Huh?
Charles Jones and I- these people have a cognitive dissonance that gives delusional a run for its money. making terms fit their own narratives, and labeling others with their own versions of pejorative meaning, so its a wonder that anybody knows whats going on post trump.
if you have any idea what youre talking about when it comes to racial dynamics, you will then be labeled a victim, or a sjw, and last but not least , a flaming liberal. any of these terms could brand you for life, even though some of them you havent participated in. like victim...blacks victimize themselves now and are more racist than they say whites are. in the word victim, there is a solid inference to a victimizer. victimizers victimize victims, in all realms except this one.
a lady told me that my reparations were having a job, and being able to work it and gain wealth like all other americans.
i hate to say it, but i came to this point kicking and screaming, a lot of the problem in the country is a great deal of whites are un-redeemable.
when the time is to deescalate and proceed forward carefully and diligently, especially after the last inflection point where entire cities ended up ash and rubble. these people mash down harder on the pedal, to make sure its emphasized where they stand, and where even in todays times, we dont stand, and they could give 2 fks.....
@@KarlaBedminister We were still living under Jim Crow laws, share cropping which was worse than slavery because you did all the work and ended up in debt. We couldn't go certain places, or be in certain professions. We were told we would only get a job that no white person would ever want. You had to ride on the back of the bus or go to the back door, if you went to the store you were only served after the whites in the store even if you were there first. Even those that lived up north had to fear if you went out of your neighborhood. If you spoke against your oppression you would be killed usually lynched or burned. We were put in jail even if you were innocent and you didn't get a fair trial and we often still don't get a fair trial. We were often cheated and kept in poverty. Some of us were still kept on plantations with someone with a gun to kill you if you tried to leave, (just like slavery). We did all the work and couldn't afford to buy enough to eat and had to live in raggedy run down housing or project slums in the north. We were killed for nothing or sometimes to keep fear high or just for fun. The list of offenses is long. All of our leaders that tried to stand up for us were slandered as criminals, plotted against and some were killed. Our organizations were destroyed or neutralized. We still lived under conditions that were just like slavery after 1865. The medical professionals did cruel experiments on us. I remember reading about an interview done of a former slave a few decades after slavery. She was asked about what it was like during slavery and her response was, "just like it is now."
@@arlenemuhammad9853 Damn, what century are you living in? Pretty much everything you just said doesn't exist anymore. How is it like that today? Except that racism is skyrocketing. Stop imprisoning yourself by believing that B.S.
Perpetration is not only Money it's Land and to be treated as human.
*Did you mean " REPARATIONS" ?*
And equality.
What do you mean?
Treated as a Human?
What mistreatment are you talking about? I really want to know because I think most of you are doing well in America.
@@christopherhillman3551 Well, that shows how little you know about America. Where would I start Chris? We've got it pretty good? Where are you from? Do you know America's history against African Americans; slavery, racism, Jim Crow, civil rights, redlining, unfair treatment, poverty and justice to be specific. Educate yourself! You may gain some insight and maybe a different perspective.
@@barbarawashington8318
The Slaves did not free themselves the Republicans freed them.
*For any claim of damages caused* *by Slavery, please contact the*
*Democrat Party at 1 800 Plantation.*
Good book to read about what we did and continue to do to African Americans THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK.
Good thing Trump is helping as promised
@gogirl7382-you shouldnt have mentioned a book they will surely ban.but that was a great comment! thank you!
@@georgemckenzie1824 why would they ban it?
EXACTLY 💯 💯 💯
THEY OWE US REPARATIONS BECAUSE YOUR STILL BENEFITTING FROM OUR PAIN...PERIOD
Exactly. They have gotten and still remain rich from the wealth they built off African Americans
The Slaves did not free themselves the Republicans freed them.
*For any claim of damages caused* *by Slavery, please contact the*
*Democrat Party at 1 800 Plantation.*
Keep voting Democratic they want to keep you in slavery
@@briank1671
I agree. The Democrats don't really want people to live a Independent life.
What pain?
Knowing your ancestors were bought and sold?
I'm sure if you research it, you will find that black Americans have more incentives than anyone else.
And that many people suffered injustice at the hands of the old country.
You will guarantee the entire black population will join the rest of society and cease the victim mentality if paid reparations?
The confederate statues were torn down. What happened after?
Nothing.
LIKE I SAID TO MY DAUGHTER ABOUT HER KIDS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY GROW UP AND STILL TRYING TO FIGHT THE SAME BATTLE OKAY GENERATIONS THAT'S WHAT RAPARATIONS IS ABOUT GJMJ
Pay #ADOS REPARATIONS shout out to @tonetalks@breakingbrown
I love what he said about Joe Biden, so true! Biden's been on the wrong side of every major issue since the 1970s. He shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. We need a real progressive president (and Congress) for once.
@Kathy Garner Good grief, NO ONE could be this ignorant. Sanders has explained 100 times why he voted for that bill and it was a damn good reason, so you're either being disingenuous or your just too lazy to do basic research...or you're just brainlessly trolling. Either way, those of us with a brain like to dig a lot deeper than one vote to define a public servant, we look at their ENTIRE record, which for Sanders is 40 years long.
Also progressives don't have any legislative control, which is something you kind of need to pass legislation! If you don't like the way things are going, you damn sure can't blame progressives. Look no further than the corrupt corporate crony establishment Rs and Ds you love so much if you want to assign blame. A real progressive hasn't been in the White House since FDR (Kennedy was a progressive, but he didn't last long), so you can't blame progressives for shit! They're the only ones with actual plans to fix the mess this country has become. Please get your head out of your ass and learn some things...and learn how to write a sentence!
He's been pt of everything that's wrong with America, doesn't get more establishment than Biden.
@@dlg5485 I've been a fan of Sanders for a long time, but I don't understand his lack of support for a black agenda.
@Fanta Graham Do you?
@@jwalker4647 Because Sanders is also a racist. He gets very angry and his face gets beet red when he talks about reparations for Black people.
A debt does in fact accrue interest.
I never thought about the Interest.Good idea
And the white people of Northern Europe are counting too !!
I made the same scenario. If I was rich and passed away my kids would inherite my money. Regardless of if they deserved it.
EXACTLY ! EVEN IF YOU ARE BLACK AND YOU DIE YOUR KIDS WOULD INHERIT YOUR WEALTH !! WE DON'T WANT ANY REPARATIONS !! WE ARE PROUD PEOPLE !! WE LIVE IN THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, AMERICAN BLACKS ARE THE MOST WELL-EDUCATED AND WEALTHY OF ALL BLACKS IN THE WORLD !! WE WERE NEVER SLAVES. NONE OF US PICKED COTTON !!! WHAT THE HELL DO WE DESERVE REPARATIONS FOR?
The United States is $32 trillion in debt. How can Reparations be paid? There's a reason why Zimbabwe 1 trillion dollar bills are being sold for $5 USD. It's called hyperinflation.
Forget, music and all that junk, ADOS have been cheated out of their inventions and intellectual property.
Mitch McConnell is reprehensible. “We freed the slaves, isn’t that enough?”
We need to apologize for healing to take place. Slave labour gave us a leg up to have our advantage in the global economy. Epigenetic public health impacts span generations. I have a hard time imagining getting payments for what Stalin did to my relatives.
coreycox, you would have to move to Russia, first of all
@@audie2064 I never knew the relatives who were starved to death. It is abstract to me; time and distance. I once tried making reparations personally to see what it would feel like. It was a few months after I read Mr. Coates compelling article in the Atlantic. I sent two thousand dollars, I believe in helping with early childhood support and development in Chicago. I felt happy about it. It's abstract, though.
@@coreycox2345 the south was destroyed so no gain from slave labor. Most didnt own slaves. Only the wealthy. Reparations would be in part making the poor today pay for the rich of many generations ago.
McConnell is probably referring to the fact that Black Africans were sold to the Europeans as slaves by other West Black Africans who ran an extensive slave trade business making Black West Africa one of the worlds biggest slave traders. So in order to assign blame to the Black African slave trade you have to include the West Black Africans who originated the slave trade by enslaving other Black Africans.
The people who disliked this video are clearly incapable of understanding and processing logical arguments. Steer clear of such people .
There is nothing "logic" about wealth redistribution schemes by calling it "reparations".
Thanks to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Democracy Now for this discussion. One point that can’t be emphasized enough is that slavery begat racism, and right now, as I’m writing this, racism impacts every major institution. We can’t name an institution that does not consistently, annually, produce racially disparate outcomes: Education. Finance. Employment. Criminal justice. Economics. Health care. Politics. Law. Entertainment. Mental health. And so on.
In fact, this is how we’ve been able to have “racism without racists,” as Eduardo Bonilla-Silva wrote. So long as we have fundamentally “nice” people, who don’t make the connection between historical racism and modern systems (which came to be via policy, voting, pseudo science, unconscious bias, etc.), we’ll continue to create racist outcomes that we simply don’t see.
Truth and reconciliation are places to start. Keep your humanity and your humility.
Coates has said he is mainly a journalist and has not really studied reparations. However, no group receivimg reparations in
this country has foregone financial justice in the form of cash payments to individuals.
Coates apparently believes American descendants of slaves need to have more study on the wealth gap when we have men like Dr. Sandy Darrity who has already done extensive study and was ignored by this commission to apparently do a study.
My People the MOST High is watching and coming on his way, AND like he said, AND I AGREE I'll take mine in blood like the MOST High SAID. PEACE I'm out.
Ta'Neshi Coates when you said we don't want a check. Who is we?
Exactly!!
He didn't say that. Coates said people shouldn't throw shade on cutting a check. Watch the hearing.
@@Fnubee I saw the whole hearing and all of them said we don't need a check. At the end he did a half ass I am not against a check but don't need one. Troll your ass somewhere else. No photo means you can't stand behind what you say.
It was the other youngin Hughes who said that he don’t need reparations, maybe he don’t but I do. My grandparents and parents were effected, this is not faraway like they want you to think. Don’t cut a check, cut many checks for all heirs of southern black folk.
What victim chooses to be a victim, by definition victims did not choose victimization.
khyre edwards-definitions in the dictionary, are based on how the word is used in society. many times nothing to do wit origin, or entymology.
for every victim, here must be a corresponding victimizer/s, except with blacks.
blacks are labeled victims simply for recognizing the oppression and continued efforts to maintain it.
they call us racist as if blacks for over 150 years been screaming racism at the top of our lungs because whites call us names? now blacks are the racist, and victimize themselves, and there is the problem in a nut shell from their prospective.
a lady commenter asked how many times are blacks supposed to get reparations, she was judging jobs that immigrants get the minute they arrive here , as reparatons. f the damage, and the weight of exisiting under the constant guardianship ad litums from karens and her male counterarts. living in militaristic zones where they can kick down your door, or pull you over and eradicate your life.
yet god loves us??
No reparations no vote
That's not better than cutting off your nose the spite your face. If the Democratic nominee doesn't run on reparations, and a large group of people don't vote because of that, then it'll all but ensure a win for the next Republican nominee, and your wish for reparations would be denied. With a Democrat you have a chance to have reparations, but with a Republican you'll never get them.
That being said, I absolutely agree the US should have reparations. Throwing away another election isn't going to get us closer to them though.
@Carla D. Black Americans have also voted for other Black Americans with the same outcome, basically shit to show. It's the politicians banking on the fact that you go back to sleep when Jesus doesn't save you. It's your vote and one bought in the blood of your ancestors. All I'm saying is be strategic in terms of how you use it. Stop falling for the okeydoke. Educate yourself on how your particular jurisdiction's electoral systems works and field candidates on the state and local level to move your agenda forward. If you want people in place to move on reparations when the time comes then you've got to cultivate and get those people in place beginning now. Acting, voting and holding feet to the fire are the only ways you can do it.
Coats is a great spokesman for this topic. His ideas are on point.
Brilliant brother.. His arguments cannot be debated!!! The James Baldwin of our time!!!
RIGHT ON
keep running for office
You must be jocking, you people need to go to work like everyone else and stop expecting other to pay your way in life. I will not shape 1 penny of my own taxes for lazy blacks who won't work.
@@sudansalaam588 on what ? on crack LOL
Did you miss Coleman Hughes statements?
If a corporation can be sued for stolen wages, then the USA can be sued for unpaid labor that carried on for generations. Not to forget the genetic damages done by forbidding education, learning, mental development, and centuries of plantations breeding the slaves for selective traits like muscles, strength, physical agility. These had to have very negative consequences. Reparations is a very complicated subject, because it concerns compensating for many multiple layers of damages.
I propose that people like Coleman Hughes be given the option to opt-out.
Watch how fast he exercises his option.
#OptOutNegro
I am willing to bet that Coleman wouldn't take any money. I don't think Huges is going need or want any racial indulgences, he'll do just fine without them.
@@s3tione I'll take that bet when the time comes...because he could've advocated for the opt-out instead of no reparations at all.
@@gevdarg Yeah I was really confused by that. HE doesn't feel like a "victim" (stockholm syndrom much?), so nobody should get reparations? I lost it.
@@tyiffpeijc8702 Word! As my wife said, "Don't speak for me."
Coleman has integrity. So your dreams that he will betray his own opinion is just that... a dream. I know its hard to imagine that someone who disagrees with you has integrity, but Coleman does. The fact you think he doesn't says something about your view of the world more than his.
So tired of racism.
I HOPE THE POWERS THAT BE, DONT KILL HIM BECAUSE IF WHAT HE IS SPEAKING BECAUSE THATS WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS & THEN TRYING MASSIVE COVER UPS
WHY WOULD THEY KILL THAT CRACKPOT?? HE DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT !!
@@gladtob6391 EXACTLY !! WHY WOULD ANY GOOD MORAL BLACK PERSON TAKE TAX MONEY FROM PEOPLE WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVERY!!
@@whitekaren7742go away bigot
Reprations could not come close to paying the debt that is long past due.
I calculated the reparations owed to Native Americans by using the price of the Louisiana Purchase, the total indigenous population then & now, and the stock market since 1803... and came up with EVERY individual living Native American due more than $200 million. This includes nothing for wrongful death damages or breach of contract punitive damages. Just birthright land inheritance
No wonder none of the courtiers to the kkkleptocracy want to talk about reparations.
Calculating reparations to African-American slave descendants is much more difficult, but is likely to also amount to many $$$ millions each.
And this is why this policy is a waste of time. It will never be enough and it will solve nothing.
@@julieannmyers8714 HOLY FUCK. That's incredible research lol Ugh. I wish they'd get it, too.
Cut the check for ADOS!
Amy, you MUST have Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore on Democracy now. Having any reparations discussions without the two folks who brought the issue back to the forefront is absolutely crucial! I understand Coates is a darling of the mainstream media, but there are many people doing this work in more recent times. Please reach out to them!
DN isn't interested in truth. They're interested in controlling the narrative. Always watching this channel with a dose of side eye
If you’re waiting for DN to invite these two on their program, “don’t dream”.
He did an excellent job In this interview
The reparations would never end, this is just another racket victims for ever
The U.S. conference of Mayors says that the U.S.A. owes Reparations to the descendants of those who were promised 40 acres and a mule (FBA); the conference says that the U.S.A owes $6.2 Quadrillion dollars in reparations.
@@The.Adept.Chamber they would blow this whole thing up and the money would not be worth a penny. We can not trust they ashes!
@@The.Adept.Chamber
Find those from 1865 that were promised and hand over the 40 acres and a mule.
@@trytellingthetruth.2068
We are them.
If you truly hate slavery, focus on the mechanism that allows that system to flourish, *private central banking* . Without a private central bank to store the loot, slavery doesn't really work.
Take a look at world history. You'll see slavery flourished in many places without private central banking starting in Africa and spreading all over the world.
@MrShiggitty. Are you thinking about Jews when you say private central banking?
I hope we can collectively see our perspectives someday soon while the opportunity calls. I hope that we can finally come together in pursuit of freedom, happiness, & goals once and for all.
Those with eyes & ears shall see & hear... United we'll stand, but divided we'll fall.
The Republicans are convinced that people can jet a job and support themselves, that's all we want.
@@christopherhillman3551 then be a republican. For some reason you people think democrats have your best interests in mind. Take the blinders off and stop being braIn washed into thinking that just because you're black you need to support democrats. Think for yourself.
@@christopheradams7942
I have never been Black.
I am a White Tea-Party Republican.
The Democrat Party is a
Lunatic Asylum.
@@christopherhillman3551 by the way, do you really think that in these days you can't get a job and support yourself? Are you serious? Because of "wokeness' you people have never had it so good. You have the opportunity to do or be anything you want to be. Unfortunately because of the ones who got conned into being woke, racial division is getting worse. Can you people not see you're being brainwashed into thinking you'll be better off? Here's a valuable piece of information: the higher powers DO NOT have your best interests in mind. They never will. Move forward and take advantage of the fact that you have the same opportunities, if not more, as everyone else.
@@christopheradams7942
Wrong thread.
I am a Tea-Party Republican.
We believe in supporting ourselves and pulling our own weight.
We refuse all benefits.
We survive on our own.
Your forgot to mention Ta-Nehisi Dr. Sandy DArity, Dr. Claude Anderson (Powernomics & Black Labor/White Wealth), Yvette Carnell, & Antonio Moore.
Points to Coates for saying they are giving his peace credit, but he did not think this is why reparations is a big issue now.
People who never owned slaves to pay people who never were slaves for slavery.
NOthing said changes this.
And it's not about slavery. It's about black privilege
So he's been listening to ToneTalks or Yvette Carnell 🤔🤔?? I'm happy he brought that data!
He probably does. I think everybody does (but they don't want to admit it) but Coates wrote an essay called the Case for Reparations in 2014. He really goes in. If you haven't read it yet I suggest you do.
Yes I know who he is and what he has written. I'm not discounting his importance. I just know that he said in this interview that he didn't have the data when he wrote his article before, and Yvette also said that he didn't have the data before. But in that hearing Mr. Coates brought data which enhanced everything that he already wrote in that article.
So I appreciate him for kicking that hearing off and setting the bar so high that naysayers couldn't even touch him.
@@milahkay212 I do appreciate him doing it too. He came correct. To be clear - Coates said around 8 minutes into the interview that he did not have the information when he wrote a previous piece in *2012*. He then said something to the affect that he wouldn't have been able to bring that level of information to answer Amy Goodman's questions nor to the committee hearing if it wasn't for his level of knowledge brought about through the research for his *2014* piece. I personally think for an essay (which is what he wrote and not a paper) he did an excellent job of including data as well as the sources he used and tying them into the personal accounts of the harm it did individually and collectively to the black people which is the purpose of an essay.
Yes I saw that part in the interview of him saying that he have the data. I was referring to the interview in that sense.
I understand his importance. I never was trying to downplay it. It's just nice to see him expanding his knowledge and sharing that with us.
Yeah please understand that this is NOT new and didnt start with Tone & Yvette... H.R. 40 was being brought before Congress every year by Rangel before he had to resign... Coates has been talking about Reparations in his articles and literature for years now! Claude Anderson as well! While Tone and Yvette have helped the conversation move forward it doesn't mean that NOBODY uses data, it take courge not be be a fan and become a student of history.
If he is just now finding out about redlining and predatory lending he's not the right one to be in a hearing fighting for reparations. PERIOD!!
Exactly! On a list of 1000s, Coates would be the 1000th qualified choice.
I totally understand your point. With the Internet we have been able learn things that were NEVER taught in our schools, or covered in the news... So I tend to give a bit of slack to folks that are just being apprised of our history.
@@debraperez7171 But this means he's not a good candidate to be speaking for us. Because those are only a few of the things that give our claim validation.
I could give a damn less when someone comes to knowledge...as long as they come. Y'all are worried about the wrong shit. This man articulates his points very well.
@@MrLonghorn343 nah he's not the one. There are plenty people way more qualified
Ta is amazed that people are still listening to this story in 2021. At least he will make a lot of money out of it, but few others.
Coleman Hughes probably got paid to say that garbage.
And/or threathened
He's a snitch for the Republicans, a sale out. Mic'19 ADOS get involved
I'd like to think so, but chances are he wasn't.
Pay what u owe 🇺🇸
What's the damage?
@Yen Feng every race is on welfare goofy
Glad someone is saying reparations are about more than slavery and about the continued depression of black people of all backgrounds in this country, the social, geographical, racial, political and financial exclusion of black people has long exacerbated the "original sin" of slavery. As a Haitian, I'm glad people are aware of the strategic bankrupting of Haiti following its independence. France is elitist in comparing its treatment of black people relative to the USA. I lived there and that was my experience, but France doesn't even acknowledge all thst it has done to its colonized nations. Coleman Hughes is wrong headed in his definition of what it means to be a victim and I'm glad Coates sufficiently rebutted him.
People are entitled to inherit the wealth of their ancestors.
Where is Dr. Claud Anderson!!!!!!!!!
The entire world has benefited off of the backs of Black folk, the entire world will pay, whether you want to or not! Genesis 15:14
We can force them by closing shop in Africa also 60 percent of the world resources
They are trying to delay judgment. But atonement is inevitable.
Africa is week any European country could forcibly take what ever they want. Europeans make war like no one else
Thank you for this coversation
great to hear Charles Ogletree referenced. Hosted wonderful programs on PBS back in the day.
People! Its all about "People." Its about treating all people with consideration and respect because all People matter.
Were mot saying all people don't matter we only see ONE that's having the roughest time. How many OTHER People do you see being murdered by police, how many other people being hung today, how many other people do you see whos filling up the prisons ??? Im just saying.
@@Realminthebush i understand and your point is well documented. My attempt was/is to expose the underlying mechanism that provided the means to amass enormous wealth by reminding people how the old wealth in America was created and as much as they would like to disappear from the social conversation today.
I'll just add, there have always been people marginalized - it is a method used by politicians and multinational corporate think-tanks etc etc to distract people from what is really happening.
Haven't you wondered why the media never gets it right or is never helpful
The Hegelian dialectic create the problem, tell people how to react and how to fix it - all using the media they own.
Please, it's about Generational wealth, Simp!
Yes, let's whitewash what happened. How about this. Make sure that black people get all of the wealth from now on. Then we can say all people matter.
Slavery in America started in 1619, when a ship brought, 5 to 20 African, ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, transform to Slaves. Even though much so alone they had to struggle with strange CUSTOMS and their own fears from within. They had to learned to deal with this transformation. Teaching the wisdom of their ancestors by sounds of mouth and jesters for tribe were separated. For after a short time their language their culture did evolved. And it came to pass. Genesis 15:12. "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him."
Genesis 15:13
"And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;"
Genesis 15:14 "And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance."
Prof Black Truth on Reparation is somewhat harsh but brutally educational.
The studies are already out there. There are plenty of scholars who have done the work. What's not being done is gathering those scholars and those studies and bringing them to the table for a serious conversation. It was great to have a Congressional hearing, but it's still not enough.
The concept of people who weren’t victims of a crime wanting financial compensation from people who didn’t perpetrate said crime is laughable.
Here are the facts. Caribbean people have English surnames because of slavery. Forced religion because of slavery. Families were displaced. Our culture has been changed
U repaid a debt in 2015 for slave masters to end slavery.
Caribbean people have African ancestors? Where are they from ? Prejudice and discrimination.
Mitch, what the hell??? There are US businesses which are older than 150 years old that benefited from slavery!!! What the hell are you talking about??? This man must think we DON'T KNOW OUR HISTORY!!! THIS IS A NEW DAY MITCH, IT'S TIME TO PAY UP!!!!!
Keep the pressure on and any person of parents that where of African decent should be paid handsomely because who knows where we would be by now!
Thank God for Dr Ta-Nehisi Coates. I would love to support your work for our Race!!
When the true people of the Most High were in Egypt, Moses' fight with the Pharaoh was not only about releasing the Hebrews but also about payment for the work they did as slaves. They too built the county through free force labor. When the Pharaoh finally relented to the pressure of the Most High, the freed Hebrews left Egypt with much wealth. Don't stress you people of former and present slaves, the Most High will make them pay. WATCH AND PRAY.
AMEN! COMING SOON TO 2ND EGYPT!
Well said Ta-Nehisi!!!!!
RIGHT ON.
Where is the money coming from for Reparations for Slavery?
This is critical thinking and plain common sense. I stand here looking at shackles of my ancestor on the wall as a display. But we dont deserve this inheritance. This is ridiculous we are builders of America. We deserve it not only in financially but in other ways .
@James G well only time will tell .
He said we’ like he know the people who are supposed to establish reparations? He should be with us (ADOS) proving our point...
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wow 😮 I didn’t know he’s from my home town Baltimore Maryland
Coleman Hughes is the epitome of a SELL OUT!!!
Care to explain why?
The man who speaks with reason and nuance, but not for your religiosity, is a "sell out", is he? The fact you go immediately for othering language instead of arguing against the man's points says more about the weakness of your character than his.
Hilarious how people call Coleman a Sell Out. As if the Coates line of sound bites aren't where the bread is buttered.
Translation: "Sell Out" = Because Coleman is Black, he has to believe exactly our doctrine. In other words, you're saying a black man can't think through things himself and have his own opinions. You're saying that skin color means that he has to think certain things.... which is ironically, racist.
No wonder you won't engage his arguments.
@@YogGroove He's a sell out for using "feel good" rhetoric to the detriment of a damaged group he claims to be a part of. Reparations is not about a person but a people. A people he choose to neglect for political clout. We don't see that as integrity.
@@jwalker4647 You don't see it as Integrity because you are fundamentalists. Fundamentalists of one religion can't face anything outside their dogma. There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with Coleman. I am persuaded, personally, to disagree with him, but calling him a sell out only undermines your position as it reveals your groupthink. If it wasn't groupthink, you would disrespect the arguments rather than disrespect the man.
Coleman's first testimony states that he believes Racism is a Stain on the Country, that reparations not paid are the country's worst sin, and that there is some kind of historical recognition due. He believes that reparations paid today don't address the Black Community's biggest problems. He continues to outline a logical case for his opinions.
I am not entirely persuaded by his logic, but I am more persuaded by his logic than his detractors because they refuse to engage his argument. They just want to call him names, often racist names.
Your refusal to engage the argument, but instead hate, name call, disrespect him, and otherize display that you are not interested in finding logical solutions. If you were interested in logical solutions, you would engage discourse. Instead you slander. You are a cult.
Preach Brother!
To be honest I really respect this individual interview
She is not afraid of questions and conversations
Thank you for the truth
We should've had Yvette Carnelle up there
These white supremacists folks tactics will hand pick the Buster's they love, and not the people who got the ball rolling. DAMN DEVILS infiltrate and Exploit us
Dr. Claud Anderson
A R . He would have been better then Yvette but Ta did a great job.
THANK YOU! AGREE!
@@ackshonlife who is A.R. also its nobody better to speak on this than Yvette Carnell or Antonio Moore
Not 1619 it started in 1555. Sir John Hawkins was Capt of the first slaveship. A ship named Jesus let's get the history correct.
Thank you, Mr Coates. You lay out a great case for reparations.
Democracy today Minnesota we as a nation will continue. America let's move forward and continue to lead are people forward.
Traditionalist’s never want change.
I wonder if it has to do with the name.
@Respect/Walk We've already have had one and obviously haven't learned from past mistakes which led to it. If another civil war arises it's because people refuse to do the right thing. Curtis Mayfield said it best "If there is hell below, we're all going to go".
@Respect/Walk Who said anything about guilt? The issue is redress and making an injured party whole. There are many right things in the world and many ways people can do the right thing. Compensation to the descendants of people who did work and were not paid for it by the heirs of those who were enriched by the work is one. Compensation to descendants of people who legally owned land but were violently displaced and the land seized is another. Compensation from the government which benefited from said system is one more. As far as who pays for it - we all do. I don't hear people like you out here complaining about who pays for reparations to the heirs of civilians killed by US forces abroad. I don't see people like you appear to be voicing opposition to the reparation of stolen art money and other personal items to relatives and descendants of the Jewish victims of Nazi Europe, hell we are still paying for reparations to descendants of Japanese internment camp survivors and to some native Americans for violations of treaties which happened well over a century ago. Is that wrong to do? You pay. Bottom line you pay for it. You committed none of those other crimes I noted above but your tax dollars go to paying for them. If you have a problem with reparations for blacks and none of those other things I pointed out then it's your hypocrisy and your problem with black people which won't allow you to understand the difference between right and wrong. Pretty basic.
@Respect/Walk Obviously your reading comprehension sucks. Who said anything about guilt besides you? Compensation for wrong doing has nothing to do with guilt. Stop being so emotional about things like this and read the rest of what I wrote. As far as your "family helped free them" bit - that doesn't amount to a hill of beans. I wouldn't know you from Adam to verify if what you say is true or not. Even if members of your family happened to be Union soldiers, abolitionists, WWII or someone simply motivated to do the right thing obviously it didn't pass down to you. Thank God for them for having the moral fibre to do the right thing. Shame on you for spitting on their legacy.
@Respect/Walk Well whether or not you supported it, your tax dollars paid for it. I'm sure your tax dollars paid for many other things you didn't/don't agree with and probably because of people you or your forebears made leaders causing the issue which created the damage in the first place, usually with only their interest (not yours) in mind. Same can be said about things you would prefer to see your tax dollars go to and they aren't because of those same people. Rather than bitch and moan about a group of people getting something owed to them, hold the leaders you elected accountable for fucking up things in the first place.
My case for reparation for slavery starts with the end of slavery and that is the federal payroll tax. Emancipation might have started in 1865 but in 1913 the government enacted the Federal Reserve and also the Federal payroll tax, nationalizing slavery. Nowhere in the United States Constitution you will find talk of reporting one's wages or earnings or penalties for not doing so. Yes, we can have Nationalize Universal Slavery but we can't have Universal Health Care.
Alright now
Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is campaigning on this issue and explains why its important to "atone" for this country's second sin. I'm sure the powers that control this country want to silence this issue now rather than during the next election
God I love this brother.
@Yen Feng yo.. any immigrant or a child of an immigrant or even the child of a child of an immigrant that came to America unchained, on thier on free will needs to stfu...you have no room to say anything! Your on OUR soil of blood soaked dirt. Idiot.
ABSOLUTELY!
I applaud you sir
Biden should also be on the beach in Florida and let the new generation run the show. Just his reaction shows he's so out of touch...
Bill Rose new black generation don't know their history.and they are too emotional.they don't think
No money should be given away for free. Just get a job like the rest of us .
Thankyou, the topic is Extremely True and says it all with a practical never-ending list of reasons reparations is owed, from the past to the future,
WE DON'T WANT ANY REPARATIONS !! WE ARE PROUD PEOPLE !! WE LIVE IN THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, AMERICAN BLACKS ARE THE MOST WELL-EDUCATED AND WEALTHY OF ALL BLACKS IN THE WORLD !! WE WERE NEVER SLAVES. NONE OF US PICKED COTTON !!! WHAT THE HELL DO WE DESERVE REPARATIONS FOR?
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@@salamjihad3449 well let me have yours and i don't believe you're black and have a fake pic on here you racist,
@@pontiac00 WHY DO YOU THINK BLACKS DESERVE ANY MONEY? I KNOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT GIVING MONEY TO DESCENDANTS OF AMERICAN SLAVES !!
@@salamjihad3449 You have the wrong terminology, its not deserve it's owed, and there are many books of a never-ending list of why, history and the present speaks, that's not a wise question, and quit hiding behind your fake aviator you racist and taking down your posts everytime you post, what you hiding your guilty posts for,
Joe .. bernie..their daddy is ESAU
STAY ON CODE FAMILY LET'S STICK TOGETHER
"I don't want reparations for the slavery of yesteryear, I want reparations for the racism of today"
Nope! All of it. And only for descendants of the enslaved of the U.S.
Yeatercentury
My father who’s still alive and survived sharecropping deservers his reparations speak for yourself people who suffered are still alive and suffering
Tank you very much Amy Godman en the staff for democracy now, to invite Fa-Nehisi Coates , so great speech for all in Europe to, the racism continue y called the nevrose of racism , but somethings changes by the gilets jaunes the movement tried to stop the oligarchs en also the police hare racists, not all the police, but a lot for different citizens came from Africa north or south or central, for the moment the situation is a critical en wee hope to a big changement. Now wee hare to face for the big problems, climate, environment social en economy, if you have possibility to speak about that crisis, tank you very much from Belgium
Years of underdevelopment
Heres A simple " Thank You " for having even this Small Dialogue On the Subject, Thank You...
Coleman CRUZ Hughes isn’t an American Descendant Of Slavery. He’s of Puerto Rican decent and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to speak on OUR behalf. #ADOS
Descendents of slaves dont have one spokesman . what? You think we all think alike?
And so the infighting over the money begins.
@@melanieenmats lol so true.
The Home Plate Special, who said ADOS had a specific spokesperson?
NON ADOS people should not have a place at the table discussing reparations.
Why not??
I know this aired 3 years ago regardless we all reap what we sow, yesterday today and for evermore.......