The sad thing is, not only was record keeping kind of crap during the time of slavery but on top of that, people didn’t care where their slaves came from or what they were called so they’d just write down whatever they felt like. It’s really sad to think how hard it is to know where you’re from as a black person in the US.
that story about Tesla is kinda accurate (for the show purposes, they shoehorned in the restitution portion). in the actual story, some black Tesla employees did face discrimination from the company. Sued them and won
I was confused the first time Marshall's wife sent him the text that they needed to talk and she used the brown 👇🏾, but when she said she was Peruvian I died died.
14:21 no one deserves anything, people don’t deserve to be born into poor households or homes with parents that don’t love them yet it happens every day. Bringing someone else down to put yourself up higher is not the answer.
I Understand How Wild That Scene With Sheniqua Barging Into Dude's House Was But That Illustrates The Way White Folk Took Land, Resources, And Bodies Back Then There Was This Quote Floating Around The Internet Some Time Ago That Spoke To How Scared They Would Be If We Truly Came For Ours And Burned Down Everything We Built For Them That Would Be Their Version Of "Get Out"...True Horror This Episode Is Just Great Television 🙏🏾
I just realized that when Lester said, he grew up around Black women, Marshall said, I figured and that was an allusion to the very great possibility that Lester grew up without many, if any Black men around. I tell you this show is so layered it deserves multiple viewings.
"I'm Peruvian! This would never happen to me!' "You were white yesterday!" Reverberates through the portal to our universe to our ex-President. "She - became - a - Peruvian - person." Does this read like a horror movie by white supremacists, or what? Legislation connected to reparations is comparatively gentle. I love that you're getting a charge out of it. It's pretty God damn direct.
Everyone is so appalled by her walking up in to the house like she didnt have any rights but THATS EXACTLY HOW THEY WOULD WALK UP INTO POC HOMES AND KIDNAP THEM BACK INTO SLAVERY WHEN THEY ESCAPED OR WERE FREED...THIS WAS A VERY INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE OF HOW INTRUSIVE IT FEELS TO SEEING IT FROM A DIFFERENT COLOR VIEW.
What's your point exactly? If the scene was what you just described I'm sure we would all be equally appalled. The whole argument in favor of retributions hinges on the actions of the ancestors being punished through their innocent, unrelated descendants. You can't act like what Sheniquia did is somehow equivalent to ANYTHING the white dude did. He never enslaved anyone, he never took anyone's house. He was punished for the circumstances he was born into. Does that ring a bell? I hope it does, because it's exactly equivalent to racism
Bit of a simplification of a complex issue. To your point, after 4 generations Marshall must have a lot of living extended family - but so does Sheniqua. Assuming that her distant grandfather was not the only slave among her ancestors, she would have to track down a lot of people. She specifically mentioned that her grandfather was enslaved for 12 yrs, which is likely a reference to the movie "12 yrs a Slave". Maybe Dave Chappelle addressed a possible aftermath of the same situation, as a sudden influx of money without financial discipline can just leave you broke again. This episode now has me doing a scavenger hunt for actors. In the credits, they list some prominent people like Zazie Beetz, and LaKeith Stanfield as "credit only" - acknowledging that they do not appear in the episode. But Donald Glover is listed as a character (I haven't found him yet) - probably unnoticed in the background of a scene. The guy who played "Fernando" is credited as well, and I think I see him at the company table when they are making the announcement.
Tbh it didn’t really seem like an outright critique. It appeared as a sort of retribution for black folks at first, but then it started to look like sympathy for if white folks were to be in our position, kinda like a “hey maybe we shouldn’t seek reparations” message. Any white fan is likely to be polarized by the depiction of how the main character’s life spiraled out of control despite him being completely unproblematic. I guess the message may have been “yeah, you wouldn’t last a day living like us”, but in my humble opinion, whites are gonna shit the bed if they watch this. I watched the premiere with my white friend; the message he got out of it was “Glover is saying black people should just say fuck it and get a bag. Sure you’re held back by all this history, but he’s saying y’all should get over it and get to the bag instead.” My white friend is a democrat. So while it may have been a well-intentioned message, I can’t see this adjusting their perceptions at all
I loved this episode but it's a dream. These people been hiding forever. Best teacher before this country came into existence. They fled a country because of oppression. Only to learn what they were fleeing to perfect it. Now there is a problem to reciprocate. The thing that's more messed up they fled a place doing by class. They went farther an did this to every race known.
That's part of what the restitution tax was. Government tax is from the people. Government cannot simple "give money". It has to come from the taxpayers. Therefore, the restitution tax make sense for only the descendants of slaveowners to pay.
@@merrytunes8697 it's always the taxpayers. Every government bill comes out of the taxpayer's pockets. Even the so-called money to other countries it's out of the taxpayer's. It's the whole reason why taxes exist. The truth is the U.S. is broke with an excessive trillion plus dollar debt. Most of it is from giving away imaginary money that they cannot pay back and therefore increasing inflation. There's no value in the dollar anymore. The only way it can be resolved is by raising taxes when means the taxpayers being forced to pay taxes. Yes, there been a history of reparation for other ethnicities in the United States, but it all came from coming out of the taxpayer's pockets.
@@BlackGodKing-oi2gr that’s hogwash. Have you looked at our defense budget? Social services budget? It’s okay for a subset of people to never receive recompense because ‘it’s bad for the economy’?
I think if you guys put a faint logo/watermark over the in-picture video, the image recognition algorithm wouldn't recognize or flag the video, and you can avoid editing it like you do. It will be nice to see the video in tandem with your reactions at some parts. Just a suggestion.
I feel like this episode was written from the perspective of a white person. It’s like every white person‘s worst nightmare happening. I like the fact that he wasn’t some Trump, MAGA white but rather a NPR listening liberal and he was still unwilling to accept his responsibility. This might be my favorite episode
Most people wouldn't be willing, because it's not their responsibility in any way. In reality, if you did this to someone they're killing you and then themselves
It was real easy for me and I definitely didn't come from a prominent family. My family is from Mississippi. I traced back my family to the 60's they had every family listed as share cropper. That's south code for slave. This when Martin was marching. These people know that even when I hit school in the 70's. I saw white kids parents with 3 an 4 good jobs. Black parents barely making it with one bad job. You think people could care less. They are better off now because they got inventive started making they own cheese. It's completely different now but they still have they ways but they not crazy the time has changed.
Yeah sorry, I'd never pay. I go by logic not feelings. African-Americans weren't the only salves and weren't the first slaves. Im part irish. The irish were slaves at one point in history. But im not asking people to pay me because im "Im distress" that an ancestor was a slave. I respect everyone equally and its sucks that african americans went through it. But, my family were slaves at one point.
My dude was running that car down like The Winter Soldier 😂.
T-1000 lol
Did yall notice that the guy who killed himself was on the boat talking about that lake in the first episode of the season?
Totally missed that! 😲
Isn't his name Earnest, too?
The sad thing is, not only was record keeping kind of crap during the time of slavery but on top of that, people didn’t care where their slaves came from or what they were called so they’d just write down whatever they felt like. It’s really sad to think how hard it is to know where you’re from as a black person in the US.
So sad!!!
What an awful hindrance for people researching their ancestry. An owner could well be whispering to himself, "Just make something up."
that story about Tesla is kinda accurate (for the show purposes, they shoehorned in the restitution portion). in the actual story, some black Tesla employees did face discrimination from the company. Sued them and won
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I was confused the first time Marshall's wife sent him the text that they needed to talk and she used the brown 👇🏾, but when she said she was Peruvian I died died.
🤣🤣🤣
14:21 no one deserves anything, people don’t deserve to be born into poor households or homes with parents that don’t love them yet it happens every day. Bringing someone else down to put yourself up higher is not the answer.
from all the reactions I've seen about this episode, you girls had the most feet on the ground regarding the reflection and discussion
I Understand How Wild That Scene With Sheniqua Barging Into Dude's House Was
But That Illustrates The Way White Folk Took Land, Resources, And Bodies Back Then
There Was This Quote Floating Around The Internet Some Time Ago That Spoke To How Scared They Would Be If We Truly Came For Ours And Burned Down Everything We Built For Them
That Would Be Their Version Of "Get Out"...True Horror
This Episode Is Just Great Television 🙏🏾
they fear that so much because they know if we did them how they did us, half of them wldve offed themselves in a week.
I just realized that when Lester said, he grew up around Black women, Marshall said, I figured and that was an allusion to the very great possibility that Lester grew up without many, if any Black men around.
I tell you this show is so layered it deserves multiple viewings.
"I'm Peruvian! This would never happen to me!'
"You were white yesterday!"
Reverberates through the portal to our universe to our ex-President. "She - became - a - Peruvian - person."
Does this read like a horror movie by white supremacists, or what? Legislation connected to reparations is comparatively gentle. I love that you're getting a charge out of it. It's pretty God damn direct.
18:00 That's exactly what I was thinking... the solution would be the government just doesn't make you pay taxes anymore for life.
Forever? Are you crazy 😜. I could understand a percent but nothing forever ?
@@edwinscs Pretty gentle, if you ask me.
16:20 » lol, I was about to comment the exact same thing: " *_Now_* he's a ghost. " 😂🤣😂😅😅😅
I love you guys reactions! Would you ever consider reacting to Abbott elementary?
Maybe the next season! We definitely love the show!
Everyone is so appalled by her walking up in to the house like she didnt have any rights but THATS EXACTLY HOW THEY WOULD WALK UP INTO POC HOMES AND KIDNAP THEM BACK INTO SLAVERY WHEN THEY ESCAPED OR WERE FREED...THIS WAS A VERY INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE OF HOW INTRUSIVE IT FEELS TO SEEING IT FROM A DIFFERENT COLOR VIEW.
You know, you right!
I wasn't lol
What's your point exactly? If the scene was what you just described I'm sure we would all be equally appalled. The whole argument in favor of retributions hinges on the actions of the ancestors being punished through their innocent, unrelated descendants. You can't act like what Sheniquia did is somehow equivalent to ANYTHING the white dude did. He never enslaved anyone, he never took anyone's house. He was punished for the circumstances he was born into. Does that ring a bell? I hope it does, because it's exactly equivalent to racism
Bit of a simplification of a complex issue. To your point, after 4 generations Marshall must have a lot of living extended family - but so does Sheniqua. Assuming that her distant grandfather was not the only slave among her ancestors, she would have to track down a lot of people. She specifically mentioned that her grandfather was enslaved for 12 yrs, which is likely a reference to the movie "12 yrs a Slave". Maybe Dave Chappelle addressed a possible aftermath of the same situation, as a sudden influx of money without financial discipline can just leave you broke again.
This episode now has me doing a scavenger hunt for actors. In the credits, they list some prominent people like Zazie Beetz, and LaKeith Stanfield as "credit only" - acknowledging that they do not appear in the episode. But Donald Glover is listed as a character (I haven't found him yet) - probably unnoticed in the background of a scene. The guy who played "Fernando" is credited as well, and I think I see him at the company table when they are making the announcement.
I've been waiting on you ladies reaction to this episode. 😄
Amber so funny dawg 😂
that last bit at the end is every thing!!!! haha. amazing episode
Lol! Thanks for watching! 😊
I couldn't wait for y'all reaction to this episode. Great reaction discussion.
They had nothing to do with what people did in the past
This is my favorite episode through all series. Oh my God this is art ,got me thinking a lot
Finally! I was waiting on your reactions to this episode. Thank you.
Tbh it didn’t really seem like an outright critique. It appeared as a sort of retribution for black folks at first, but then it started to look like sympathy for if white folks were to be in our position, kinda like a “hey maybe we shouldn’t seek reparations” message. Any white fan is likely to be polarized by the depiction of how the main character’s life spiraled out of control despite him being completely unproblematic. I guess the message may have been “yeah, you wouldn’t last a day living like us”, but in my humble opinion, whites are gonna shit the bed if they watch this. I watched the premiere with my white friend; the message he got out of it was “Glover is saying black people should just say fuck it and get a bag. Sure you’re held back by all this history, but he’s saying y’all should get over it and get to the bag instead.” My white friend is a democrat. So while it may have been a well-intentioned message, I can’t see this adjusting their perceptions at all
I’m a need y’all to do these ‘Atlanta’ season 4 reactions. ASAP! I know y’all busy but c’mon now. Lol
I'VE BEEN WAITING SINCE LAST WEEK FOR Y'ALL TO GET TO THIS!!
This season still coming at you hard, under informed white people getting rolled
YOU MADE A POINT ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT!!!! Didn’t even think about that! Your mind!!!! 💜💜
This episode was hilarious too me🤣🤣❤️good Reaction
I loved this episode but it's a dream. These people been hiding forever. Best teacher before this country came into existence. They fled a country because of oppression. Only to learn what they were fleeing to perfect it. Now there is a problem to reciprocate. The thing that's more messed up they fled a place doing by class. They went farther an did this to every race known.
That's part of what the restitution tax was. Government tax is from the people. Government cannot simple "give money". It has to come from the taxpayers. Therefore, the restitution tax make sense for only the descendants of slaveowners to pay.
Why can’t the government ‘give money’? We handing out money to tons of other countries; we can’t give money to our own?
@@merrytunes8697 it's always the taxpayers. Every government bill comes out of the taxpayer's pockets. Even the so-called money to other countries it's out of the taxpayer's. It's the whole reason why taxes exist. The truth is the U.S. is broke with an excessive trillion plus dollar debt. Most of it is from giving away imaginary money that they cannot pay back and therefore increasing inflation. There's no value in the dollar anymore. The only way it can be resolved is by raising taxes when means the taxpayers being forced to pay taxes. Yes, there been a history of reparation for other ethnicities in the United States, but it all came from coming out of the taxpayer's pockets.
@@merrytunes8697
Probably because it would effect our economy in a bad way
@@BlackGodKing-oi2gr Did it affect the economy when Japanese Americans got money?
@@BlackGodKing-oi2gr that’s hogwash. Have you looked at our defense budget? Social services budget? It’s okay for a subset of people to never receive recompense because ‘it’s bad for the economy’?
What's up with yall super white teeth and flawless skin? Can't watch this no more, yall too hygienic
🤣🤣🤣
THIS EPISODE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WENT TO A HBCU
Wish I could find the family who owned mine today!!
I think if you guys put a faint logo/watermark over the in-picture video, the image recognition algorithm wouldn't recognize or flag the video, and you can avoid editing it like you do. It will be nice to see the video in tandem with your reactions at some parts. Just a suggestion.
I feel like this episode was written from the perspective of a white person. It’s like every white person‘s worst nightmare happening. I like the fact that he wasn’t some Trump, MAGA white but rather a NPR listening liberal and he was still unwilling to accept his responsibility.
This might be my favorite episode
Most people wouldn't be willing, because it's not their responsibility in any way. In reality, if you did this to someone they're killing you and then themselves
It was real easy for me and I definitely didn't come from a prominent family. My family is from Mississippi. I traced back my family to the 60's they had every family listed as share cropper. That's south code for slave. This when Martin was marching. These people know that even when I hit school in the 70's. I saw white kids parents with 3 an 4 good jobs. Black parents barely making it with one bad job. You think people could care less. They are better off now because they got inventive started making they own cheese. It's completely different now but they still have they ways but they not crazy the time has changed.
Why Amber so stoopid!? "I wonder if there's a website..." 🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣
I WOULD BE JUST LIKE SHANIQUA WHERE MY MONEY MAN PAY WHAT OWE ME LOL
So you would make a victim out of an innocent person exactly like slave owners did? Interesting
Shaniqua is my hero
Yeah sorry, I'd never pay. I go by logic not feelings. African-Americans weren't the only salves and weren't the first slaves. Im part irish. The irish were slaves at one point in history. But im not asking people to pay me because im "Im distress" that an ancestor was a slave. I respect everyone equally and its sucks that african americans went through it. But, my family were slaves at one point.