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- Nearly two centuries after abolition of the slave trade, reparations for its descendants are long overdue. In a historic move, former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and her family recently made public apology for their ancestral ownership of more than 1,000 slaves on the Caribbean island of Grenada.Trevelyan, now a full-time advocate for reparative justice, has offered a £100,000 donation. Most recently, she has requested apologies from Britain’s King Charles and the British Government for their past ties to slavery. Trevelyan discusses all this with Michel Martin.
Originally aired on April 20, 2023.
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We live in a world where the wealthy almost never acknowledge that their money is almost always the result of taking advantage of the paid and underpaid labor of others. It’s not just about the pain of the past, it’s the pain of current inequities.
Exactly. And how they expect others to accept being in a sub-class of people (aka workers) while threatening to take away their basic subsistence and reduce expectations, always. Nickeled and dime working people to death while the wealthy in the UK labor under indignant entitlement and room to roam.
It would be useful if almost everyone almost all of the time understood that Marxist ideology does not declare all wealth to be evil.
Capitalism is a very powerful engine of growth; socialism & communism just can't compete bc they thwart individual initiative. This leads to a dearth of capital & inevitable decline.
What has been lost in 'The Individual as God' cultures is the simple awareness that with success comes responsibility, lest the poor grow resentful & burn the place down.
Governments that serve wealth & neglect the ppl beget revolution.
The ppl need to understand they are being fed a line of crap that keeps them voting against their interests; the GOP is revealing their true colours as we speak; hopefully enough ppl are seeing this to finish the GOP as is, as a political force.
Ironic that tRrumpism will lead to the demise of the GOP, though they were on this course before he decided to use them to get elected President.
Attaching your fortunes to tRump is a proven failed strategy; only the desperate do so.
I appreciate her taking this on with such poise, compassion, and honesty. This is what is needed!
Beautiful!❤
Is she giving up enough wealth to not be part of the wealthy elite. She's part of the wealthy elite because her family's evil past.
Which means she has to donate enough to become a middle class citizen. Did she do that?
@@farhan007 It's the example, she is a role model for 1. how to admit the wrong honestly even though it costs and 2. She is road map for how to walk this difficult road and actually begin to repair the damages. If we as a nation collectively do this, we can reverse the damage and change the trigectory in a generation.
@@kolob4697 Apology without reparation is worthless, i appreciated the apology, but maybe they need to start protesting in our behalf if they're truly sorry. And also she hasn't done us no favor, she should be apologizing for benefiting from our wealth and pain
@@shawday7911 You are not wrong, but our society is so used to dismissing our justice claim as impossible and unreasonable that her example and actions showing to how to approach the topic, be honest about the damage with out being defensive or dismissive is also important.
Brilliant interview, Michel Martin and Laura Trevelyan. Thank you.
I'd be very fearful of teaching my grandchildren to be afraid of their shadows or of any shadows from the past. Shadows - to be understood by us - need light shining on substance.
Excellent point.
That's some real wisdom, you are absolutely and poetically correct:)
Michel Martin is a brilliant journalist. Always stop to enjoy listening to her composed and non-jujdemental styel of interviewing guests on controversial topics. Thank you Ms. Martin!
she is a drip
King Charles wouldn't part with his 'own' money to help the British. None of us should hold our breath for him to help Granada and others the British crown has abused in the past. Just saying.
Acknowledging an injustice/travesty gives hope to not repeating it. In 1988 Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act, formally apologizing and providing financial compensation to the survivors EO# 9066, the internment of Japanese Americans.
Inspiring to see the change that so many feel should not happen, it gives me hope for a better future. It saddens me to hear that the fear of children feeling guilt just postpones and continues the pain of the oppressed. When it actually suppresses the children’s development of compassion and understanding of the very world the live in. This feels like the first bloom of spring that one day will be a beautiful garden.
Beautifully stated!
A small but CORRECT STEP in the right direction 🇺🇸 and 🌎 !
@Chad Abercrombie :
I don't smoke . GD
You are right!!! A very small step!!
The power of an apology is immeasurable. The acknowledgment of the harm done to another person or population is so freeing for both. No one will be truly free until we understand this concept.
Its been hundreds of years, move on or let it bury you in place.
@@alphaomega8373yeah & it's been 100's of years of repercussions of the legacy of slave system.
Yeah that's wat people want to do: move forward. An apology can start this as can other things. Ignoring history or denying it is wat keeps us stuck & prevents the moving on u r proposing
@@juliebraden Its keeps some people who obsess about the distant past who want to blame any present dire circumstance on something long-dead people have done, from moving forward. Instead of taking responsibility for their own lives and helping their current communities and having their lives mean something positive.
@@finkum09 well that is the debate whether something is long-dead. The reprecussions of actions taken can linger for some time. There are still racist legacies in our country affecting people.
@@finkum09acknowledging the never addressed & the never done wat is necessary to repair doesn't equal obsessing
Wonderful to see someone taking action apologizing and paying for her ancestors horrid past!
Idiotic…
Why?this is getting stupid,if your great grandfather was a murderer and just got proven to means they send you to jail for his crime
@@pinxtownington4645 some people's family wealth was based on slavery, so this is not parallel to a great-grandfather who was a murderer. Some people today benefit from the aftermath of slavery, while others suffer from it.
@@pinxtownington4645is her wealthy lifestyle a result of evil actions of the past? Is it a punishment for her to forgoe her wealth and be a mere middle class citizen? Are all our lives as middle class people a punishment then?
Great interview. Two respectful women not attacking each other. Thanks Ladies
What would it be like to find American desendants of plantation owners and trace their money?
That's the open question for me. Of course, exploitation and the horrors of slavery can't be accounted for in monetary ways. But i don't think that's the question. The question is actually assessing the monetary profit gained by one family in this case. Making those numbers public making serious reparations. The Caribbean and many African countries continue to make debt payments to Europe for supposedly helping them restart their economies. They are on long-term payment plans. Noone seems to have a problem with that and the fact that elders in respective countries may not have enough retirement money.
Laura, I miss you on BBC. Wish you all the best. ❤
I didn’t know see left. Hum…
❤Fantastic interview - so much learning and work done by Ms. Trevelyan- it’s not just symbolic or “privileged PR” and she’s sharing compellingly about what reparations can be about.
This is the step that even many White men are to scared to make. Thank you for your honesty.
100K pounds would be worth about 6.6 pounds in 1833. So this woman has assuaged her perceived guilt by paying the equivalent of one and a half old pence, or a little more than a half new pence, per slave owned. But this is the way reparations should be paid, by the willing. By the way, does the term "offer" mean she hasn't actually paid anything?
Jon, I think you have valued what £100,000 would have been in 1833 arse backwards. Don’t you think it would be in the millions ?
@@azizaibrahim1155 No. Millions of pounds in 1833 would not have declined in value to 100K pounds today. Paying 100K today is the equivalent of paying 7 pounds in 1833. So in 1833 when they freed those 1000 slaves, she would have paid them a pence or so.
Honorable for her admittance of her ancestral wrongdoing. Yet, “she” decided “where” “she” thinks the money would benefit most “education “ 🤔 Still a sense of control towards the descendants of slavery. Not to mention a lot of the descendants the enslaved are also biological descendants of these slave holding families.
I'm not sure how one comes up with an evaluation of how much privilege one has inherited from ancestors, and what sum that translates into for present day reparations. Laura Trevelyan's net worth is $5 million. Her family donates $100,000 to reparations. In 1830 a prime slave was worth about $1,000. If her family owned 1,000 slaves in 1830 and was compensated for freeing them, probably all the family has done is given back their compensation WITHOUT INTEREST. It's a token sum -- but it's something, it's overdue, and the start of something much bigger.
Instead of writing ignorant comments, making assumptions, generalizations or attacking this women's choice to acknowledge her family's role in slavery, use her choice as a lesson and go read a book called Black Ivory.
This is a positive step forward i hope more families can gain the strength to push justice forward so the souls victimized can have peace & those alive compensated & remedied.
Powerful interview!
At least this woman has remorse even though she cannot be held accountable for her relatives cruelty, she is a good woman because it takes a lot of bravery for her to come forward and admit and accept the atrocities afflicted upon the people of Grenada by her family, it would be good if other families of former plantation owners came forward and did the same, i believe this can do good to try and heal .
Yes, we all must answer to God who loves us ALL…
This is the right time.
I enjoyed the sincerity.
We’ve come a long way that we can discuss reparations and some people actually acting on it.
I think Laura is a good woman to admit her family's injustices. She gave monies to Grenada. Thanks
If her family owned much more than even a thousand slaves over the years, then a hundred grand is hardly anything in the way of reparations, but that said, reparation money is a ridiculous concept anyway.
£100:000 ? She should be paying the whole equivalent of £3m back: surely ?
Where is my free stuff? Something bad happene4d to other people hundreds of years ago.
This isn't an easy thing to do and she is right about critique on both sides. It's a beginning though.
Oh, that’s nice. Paying the money back into the education system and supporting people who need it I.e. mature students.
Don’t listen to the people on the right and left. There will always be people displeased with anything.
How would you feel to know your family's ' wealth was derived from the unpaid wages of slaves and a vibrant trade . Slaves were unpaid, descendants are poor, whilst descendants of slave masters are still very wealthy
OUR ♥️ HEARTS GO OUT TO ALL THE SLAVES 😢THAT TOILED AWAY ACROSS THE PLANET 🌍 N MADE THE WHITE MAN RICH 🤑 😈
WE APPLAUD 👏🏼 LAURA N HER FAMILY FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING FOR THE ANCESTORS OF SLAVES LONG GONE 😿MAY THEY R.I.P. 🥀💔💝🩷
Well said!!
I like the term “reparative justice”. If that was used more, those that don’t see why reparations should even be given a thought would have a different perspective if it was addressed in that term.
Don't be sorry for things you haven't done
Apology without reparation is worthless, i appreciated the apology, but maybe they need to start protesting in our behalf if they're truly sorry.
games are being paid, to have “discussions and meetings” regarding slavery- there are no more discussions to be held- we’ve been discussing reparations for years- it’s time to pay up with interest and late fees just like these institutions and debtors overcharge us- cut the check
Any way to address the Clearances in Scotland? My ancestors were treated like slaves, were enslaved, if they didn’t leave. I’d love to go home…..
What my great grandfather did did in his time world has moved on and we should as well, how far this crap will go upto? If found because of DNA that my grandfather was a murderer in1960 would i have to pay for his sin and do Jail time, down right stupid
The DNA isn't the problem. The assets your family amassed is. Money still changes lives.
I am glad she is apologising, it proves that the British government/ British Empire didn’t do slavery, private British citizens and private British companies did until the British government/British Empire banned the African slave trade in 1807!!!! NOT 1833 as she said in the interview!!!
And just to be clear Slavery is older than the history books, and was endemic in the World until Britain banned it, the first country to do so.
What about Brazil and Cuba?
Slavery was abhorrent, one of the worst crimes against humanity. Yet the genuinely well intended women seems a little mixed up in her requests to incite reparations from governments today , she is giving a £100 per her family’s owned slave, it isn’t real reparations yet better than nothing and I applaud her for it, yet if your families wealth was literally created on the back of slaves perhaps 90% of their wealth created from their slaves would have been a meaningful number with sincerity in the number. Then before going on to incite blame at a country perhaps she is actually taking the right approach , it’s the slave owners wealth we should be seeking, not taxes from the millions of people who did nothing and earned nothing from slaves in there life or family’s history. Otherwise taxes would be raised from past slaves descendants to pay reparations to other slaves descendants if country’s were to pay reparations. Then you must ask which slaves are included and which are not as slavery is recorded in Egyptian, Roman, Viking , in modern day Arabia until 1970’s , I’m sure US slavers we’re treated to unimaginable horrors , yet all slavery is unimaginable, within some peoples current lifetime their are castrated men in Arabia kept from breeding sound awful, it’s certainly not the state that did these acts but slave owners.
Interesting view point except the fact that state’s legislatures endorsed, codified and benefited from the generations of enslaving persons of African descent and continues to legally ensue unnecessary hardships on their descendants. Accountability is just as important to the descendants of the enslaved as reparations was to the slavers.
@@greatestshopper1077 100% agree, acceptance, recognition for their accountability is the right thing, and that was a good thing she did and glad she aired that in her message. I’ve just got a bug that huge portions of inherited wealth is not discussed in reparations its always governments, using tax payers to pay for the real villains, the slave owners.
Brazil and Cuba?
Rich people paying off poor people and then talk about a "healing process" is just disgusting hypocrisy.
Wondering if she’s going to return her bbc salary funded by the British taxpayers!!!
Watching this on TV pbs @ the same watching this, now...smh...just stop.
Correctly & accuracy in history is the key...
Thank you for this interview and taking part in honestly looking at history and doing something about it.
Virtue signaling.
Laura,, i like you. Thank you very much
is this genuine? does this matter anymore? should we keep focusing on the past, what about the future? is she doing this just to look good and be popular? is her donation enough? please provide me with some opinions peoeple!
Clearly its genuine, clearly it matters, the past is the path to the future, and as she herself said its not enough, no amount of money would be enough - but its a start.
We are not responsible for acts our ancestors may have done before we existed! Everybody, everywhere almost certainly had ancestors who did something to someone at some point in history we would not approve of today!
@Chad Abercrombie No … just using logic and “ common” (apparently not that common?) sense. Does it make any sense that the ancestors of any humans that did any harm to other humans sometime in history should have to assume responsibility for events that occurred prior to their birth…which, btw, would include almost everyone alive today? No one chose their ancestors, where or when they were born or into what circumstances, did they? Does anyone know everything your ancestors ever did and with absolute 100% certainty? And how far back does this go…10 years, 100, 200, 500, 1000, etc. etc. Who decides, based on what criteria? I think I made my point!? Enough said!
@@mikelundrigan2285 If you still have the blood money your ancestor amassed, you still have blood on your hands. Give it to the descendants of the people whose labor you stole. Give it back to THOSE families.
@@Greenwings701 You make assumptions without any knowledge of me, my race, my ancestors or anything other than your sense of accusation without any information whatsoever! Who the heck do you think you are? And why should anyone ever listen to your self righteous rants?? I owe no one anything because I never gained anything from anyone except by my own hard work and effort! You prove yourself less than intelligent to make such comments to and about someone you never met!
@@Greenwings701 Maybe your ancestors did something 500 years before you were born that gave you an advantage you did not earn!
How could you know for certain that this is not the case? Even if you researched, you could never be 100% certain there was never anyone in your ancestry that did not do something “bad” that helped you and your family down the road! So anyone could find themselves the unknowing beneficiaries of such events, even if we do not know it! Such events have been well documented recently on the PBS ancestry program much to the shock and surprise to the participant!
@@mikelundrigan2285 The lack of knowing about something hypothetical makes it...not a thing. How utterly unrelated to being willing to acknowledge where actual brutalities occurred and who carried them out and was richly rewarded for doing so. Acknowledging academically researched and accepted historical facts, such as the Irish famine, the Armenian slaughter, slavery, Caribbean labor exploitation of labor in partnership with northerners (US). Molasses Triangle, etc. is on the level of sane.
Money is mamade.
All of Human History is about slaves - Still going on today - We are slaves to our governments - where does this end
What is $100,000 for ???🤨
@Chad Abercrombie to what ??? Explain pls
FORGIVENESS IS ABOUT OURSELVES NOT OTHERS… 🙏🏽💔WE APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT OUR COUNTRYMEN DID IN THE NAME OF GREED, SELFISHNESS, RICHES ❤️🩹💗
It's prophecy.
wow ! A hundred bucks each . A princess.
Have you checked lately ?
A British lb. is $1.24
I was listening , I just stopped the tape before she said "pounds" . 😉
Besides , that amounts to $125 @ . 'scuuuse me ! Even if it were $1000 It's still an absurdly small amount !
Which begs the question ; why is she doing it ?
To avoid a lawsuit for $10,000,000. ? Attention ? Virtue signaling ? 🤷🏻♂️
£100,000 compensation paid out from her pending BBC pension when she quit, also the Irish potato famine that Sir Charles Trevalyn refused relief for food and money she felt guilty on
This woman's family owned 1,000 enslaved black people. This woman's family most likely made a vast fortune due to the free labor from those enslaved black people. This woman's family received reparations after the abolishment of slavery in the U. K., BUT she donates only 100,000 pounds as reparations or atonement for her family's past. Unbelievable!!!
I feel that it would be better if it were a large trust for Granadians whereby they could access it for scholarships, business loans and making their island nation better through improving hospitals, schools, roads, etc. They should also be involved in how that money gets distributed. Considering that her family enslaved more than 1000 ppl on that island, the island is probably made up mostly of her family's "enslaved property" -- which is pretty insane!
I think reparations are great! Kudos to this woman and her family for acknowledging this harm and wanting to do something, anything to try to fix this evil. I believe, however that the choice of how reparations compensation is made should be for the individuals whose ancestors were enslaved to decide.
This is courage. People who want to hide from historical facts are cowards, plain and simple. I'm glad she and her family are dealing with this publicly and that they have apologized and are trying to pay for their family's past wrongs to the degree they are able.
Ok, being Irish American, I want reparations from the British for the genocide of the Irish in the 1840's when they killed over 6 million Irish. Britain depopulated Ireland from 9.5 million in 1840 to 1.5 million in 1850. Most died. Some were able to leave.
I also want reparations for the centuries of despotism, tyranny, and injustice which had so many Irish being executed, and many others living short lives in misery.
Oh oh, the Aztecs and Zapotecs in Mexico are lining up for their reparations.
And then all the peoples that have been enslaved by the 1500 year slave trade by Muslims.
Maybe the Germans will demand reparations from France and the Catholic Church for all the people they killed during the Wars of Religion.
Shhh, we don't want anyone to mention the Native Americans and what they might be owed. Don't want to go there, no sir.
My point is injustice and cruelty is widespread in humanity's history. The Roman Empire was built on the slave trade. So were the Muslim empires. The Varangians sold slavic people to the Byzantine Empire, where they contributed their ethnicity to the creation of the word "slave".
Reparations for things done in the past is pointless, and ultimately unfair.
What we must do is to treat people right today.
Atonement. Reparations are often called for. If someone stole from you individually, do you figure that's just water under the bridge? When did it stop being yours? How about your labor, your life, your family's lives? Ireland never happened? Where do you suppose the people went? Where did the English grain come from then? No apologies from the British, ever. Charles is a billionaire and his concerns are trivial. Doesn't even care about his own children and grandchildren outside of their total service to him. Whom to invite when he wears the Crown Jewels? Who sits next to whom? What kind of tiara to wear? Be serious for a minute.
@@Greenwings701 I was quite serious.
By your last name, I take it that you are of Irish descent.
BTW. I was not asking for reparations, or even atonement.
I was trying to point out how so many peoples were abused in history.
Assigning blame and calculating reparations is both silly, and ultimately unjust.
Unjust because there will be people designated to give reparations that shouldn't have to pay.
For instance, the families of white northerners that died in the American Civil War should not have to pay reparations for slavery. They already paid with the blood of their ancestors.
@@craigkdillon You are missing the point. I am saying that the families that held slaves and whose descendants still have the assets (plus+) that the slave labor brought them should return that money to the descendants of slaves. AND in the case of the British government, it is the royals themselves who can join in that action. They are a clear part of the government power apparatus and have always been. Many lesser but massive inheritances still occur with property in Britain. If you're English your great-grandmother or grandmother could not inherit property. Her brothers inherited it all.
We cant be held responsible for things other people even if they are family did in the past,its like id have to apologize for an ancestor who invaded another country,it dosnt make sense to me.
She’s not accepting responsibility. Watch the video. And some families still generate wealth from their ancestors businesses.
Boy you guys are wild. Taking on a responsibility for something you didn’t do because today’s society demands it. Honestly I don’t know a thing about my fathers side of the family and nothing past my grandparents on my mothers side and I don’t give a damn what they did or didn’t do. That’s them. Not me.
Thank you, Extremely important. Hope it results in much more substantive action on the part of the families/countries involved.
This story is very much inspiring, and seems genuine. Prayers and blessings for this woman speaking out on the truth and injustice of current racism specifically against black men in women in America as addressing the injustice of slavery in Grenada.
I like how she just make everything seem like it was nice and dandy back then like people didn’t have chains around their necks and shackles on their feet
I love this ❤❤❤❤ thank you for highlighting this 🎉
A hundred pounds each.
Yeah my ancestors fought on the side of the confederacy and of course I don’t have any problem with it, people should always defend their homeland.
Fighting for self autonomy is always a noble thing. As far as slavery, like everywhere Else in the world it was on its way out anyway.
Typical while man’s response …. Oh course your ancestors were not enslaved ….. you feel really good your people wasn’t in chains …… I don’t care about your ancestors losing the war - your ancestors fought for my ancestors to be in chains….. screw you - find some empathy and to your statement - Slavery was on its way out - Slavery could have lasted another 50 plus years - that’s 50 more years of pain and suffering while white elite men and women, profit off free labor form human beings … again , grow some feelings
Slavery was on "its way out" so the South attacked Fort Sumter for "self-defense?" This is the kind of logic you've lived with your whole life?
@@Greenwings701 Slavery was on its way out here, as it was all across the Euro-world but that doesnt mean in the mid 1800's they could have foreseen what was coming with mechanization. I admit, I didnt know that my whole life, but when you look at it on a global scale it becomes obvious. Cheaper to buy equipment than to house slaves, even in the fall and winter.
@@59Gretsch That is a bizarre and absurd defense for the American Civil War, and do you really think that if slaveowners could combine slaves and modern farm equipment, they'd have voluntarily ended slavery? "Gee, if I only had a tractor I'd gladly..."
@@Greenwings701 Transitions are always difficult, such as when blks came north and the rough time they had. You seem to look down on the South because they were behind most white countries at ending slavery? Do you also look down on Africans for taking even longer? Or Arabs, Asians? It seems abit like supremacy to hold white people to a higher standard. (WHites should have known better)
100k so 1 grand per slave.
I mean, if she has the means and wants to donate her time and money to a cause she believes in, that’s great. But does it have to be “reparations “ for people and wrongs she personally has nothing to do with?
Her country, her family, certainly DID benefit. Thinking none of that filtered down to her privileged situation - compared to the descendants of her family’s atrocities in Grenada- is just, well, stupid.
Reparations can’t be paid to people who never experienced harm. These are just handouts.
Well "never experiencing harm" is very interpretable. If we actually wud study history as it happened we may discover that harms hav continued as a legacy of the abomination of the slavery system.
Maybe that is why some people want to just forget & ignore the past b/c they don't want to hav to face & own up to the reality that some have profited/benefited off the legacy systems in our country & some hav been left out, left behind or suffered due to those legacy systems
@@juliebraden thanks for your reply but I can never find any pro-reparations reasoning to be void of broad Marxist assumptions about “the nature of history”. Even if a US reparations program ever got off the ground how much would be considered satisfactory? My guess is nothing would be good enough to repair the damage done from slavery.
Never handouts it’s the cost of committing the atrocities of slavery. Rapes sodomy kidnapping lynching. Torture murders etc etc etc
I consider them more hand-ups. it's for education.
@@maeshellewest-davies7904 Cmon Maeshelle. Education is not the answer. Education is free now with chatgpt so you don’t need to spend even $1 for edumucation.
I think we can all agree that slavery is morally abhorrent, and if this woman feels compelled to atone for her family history, so be it. However, forcing taxpayers to collectively pay reparations is an entirely different matter. The collective punishment of people who presumably never enslaved people or personally benefited from slavery is also morally abhorrent. An argument for some civilizational guilt to justify reparations also quickly falls apart if one checks the historical balance sheet of all civilizations. All have been guilty of the crimes, and any argument getting into specifics becomes subjective and ideologically driven. Frankly, I think much of this is empty virtue signaling, talking about "fixing a problem." Pay as much as you like if it makes you feel any better. I think it is clear from decades of experience that pouring vast amounts of public money into the problems of the 3rd world doesn't fix anything, any more than the trillions spent in the West on welfare projects solves anything.
If you’ve established a direct historical connection to slave ownership and you feel like you want to make a relevant contribution to something today, within your means, that is fine, maybe admirable, but also entirely your personal business. When the reparations are done with taxpayer dollars and taxpayers don’t have any connection to the issue and it isn’t even clear the recipients have any connection to history slavery then this will of course be controversial and rightly so.
I disagree. Much of the wealth of countries like England and the US were created through slavery. Slavery enabled valuable trade and built important infrastructure that made these countries wealthy and powerful long ago. These countries are still benefitting from that wealth created by and through slavery. It's like compounding interest -- it really adds up over time. The countries have the responsibility to pay reparations to descendants of slaves, just like the government has the responsibility to pay for lots of other important things, whether or not it directly benefits or has some connection to each individual taxpayer.
Also, did you notice the part where they said reparations were ALREADY paid by England?? The government paid reparations to the former slave OWNERS to compensate them for the fact that their free labor was taken away when slavery was outlawed (but still not for years as was explained in the interview). Yet the slaves, the people who had worked their asses off and been brutalized for their whole lives, got jack shit. Did you have a problem with the slave owners getting paid with taxpayer dollars??
@@shangobunni5 I am a 67 year old American. For all of my life the government has been addressing issues of poverty, crime, housing, hunger, education, and discrimination suffered within the black community. We can call that reparations if you want but in the end, successful or not, it has been ongoing for decades. This campaign for reparations is nonsensical and adds nothing.
Wow.
@@martypoll Your understanding of history appears to be limited. Unbeknownst to you white rioters of the 1920’s murdered and burned African American families and businesses all over the country. Also the persons more often than not lynched by white mobs were usually successful business and/or landowners. And this is just fact there are more whites in America therefore whites make up the largest percentage of welfare recipients. Which is ironic since every one knows whites are superior. But back to the African American families that received assistance over the years of assistance programs and why it hasn’t improved anything. Actually the women explained that with the story of Granada. White people for generations have extracted wealth from those communities continuously. For instance, red lining, predatory loans, white flight, discrimination in housing, employment, compensation and mass incarceration to name a few state sanctioned impediments to either the healing of post traumatic slave syndrome endured by descendants of the enslaved. Just like today, have you ever tried to imagine (that’s called EMPATHY) how African Americans feel every, minute, every hour, every day knowing their bodies are human targets to psychopathic white supremest. Daily threatened by emotionally immature persons that would SHOOT you rather than look at you. I pray that one day that you enlarge your human perspective with something more than white supremest talking points.
Wrong, the NATION is responsible, and was BUILT on the backs of the enslaved; as were the fortunes of many families, and the properties and wealth they bequeathed for generations.
It must be nice to be so rich you inherited so much money you can throw it away on people that hate you and always will
It must be nice to be so closed minded you make ignorant generalizations about people who you hate and always will.
“White Guilt” - Shelby Steele
Great interview !!!!!!!yes things are moving but too slowly this 2023, I am in the field and certain people have control over all educational matters. So we are still enslaved!!!!!!!
Accomplishes nothing
Lol
Does she have any black in her?
I just had a funny thought. Southerners paying restitution.
Yea, not funny.
I grew up wealthy as a kid and I am mixed race- is it white societies fault that my family lost our wealth and I have to rebuild to just live a decent life? No it’s no one else’s fault. 300 years ago does not affect my ability to rise and be successful. How come Denzel Washington is rich or Lebrun James etc. You create your own wealth/ not someone else. I think reparations are a bad idea. Because it’s a grievance based payment not a positive investment into growth and productivity. Just because I get a lump sum of money does not mean I will do anything with it.
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Transatlantic Slave Trade = Deuteronomy 28:15-68 ~ Gen.15:12-14
Reparations, especially a $5,000,000 check to a non-slave from non-slave owners is the best way to unify the nation - it's a great idea
Ludicrous. No need whatsoever to apologise for things you have not done.
_Actions speak louder than words._
Will business owners in cities across America that have been ravaged by black gang violence be given reparations for the economic damages they've suffered?
Slavery = generational poverty=crime👈
Your rhetoric is so useless, I am not stupid enough to respond further.
Pay up colonizers!!!