Should Black People Get Reparations For Slavery?
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"Should Americans Pay For Reparations?"
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They pay for Israel and illegals.
You're disgustingly ignorant, and you're intellectually dishonest. Go read a history book or two and actually EDUCATE yourself on the history of my country, or go back to wherever in Asia you came from. I also dare you to debate the Amazing Lucas... you won't though, because you're a coward đ
No
No
Depends if it is paid by only the government out of their own money and not by people through taxes then yes
Keyword, for the Japanese Americans who were IN the camps.
Facts blacks ppl where not even humans when slavery happened đ
Key word in slaved people for hundreds of years
Americans paid dues for the holocaust that happened in Germany
â@@deandrehenderson8434you say hundreds of years as if the US had even been around for at least 100 when slavery ended. Anyway, you missed his point
Edit: I'm aware slavery was a part of colonial history and has lasted longer than the U.S. ending it at 89 years. If that's your argument maybe you should look to Britain for reparations. Nevermind that they ended slavery long before the U.S. did, and did it without a war.
Also not-so-fun fact, everyone sold slaves everywhere all over the world involving people of many different races on both sides of selling and being sold. And it still goes on today with very little notice.
Maybe we should focus on the current human trafficking.
@@deandrehenderson8434 1. It was only 89 years (1776-1865) 2. No one who was a slave back then is alive today 3. No one who was a slave owner then is alive today 4. Most âblackâ people in America today are immigrants from after slavery ended 5. Shouldnât the countries in Africa that sold their own people have to pay as well?
âwhatâs done is doneâ
âwait theyâre getting paid?â
It is what it is
The Asians who were alive at the time of internment got payed. We didn't pay their descendents who were never slaves at the expense of whites who were never slave owners nor their ancestors 200 years later. It's ridiculous.
I thought they already got affirmative action because of historical oppression so they want money too?
i dont blame him lmao
@@upsetjuiceheâs just a dumb self interested fool with no principle.
Ppl who never owned slaves should not have to pay ppl who were never slaves.
Facts cus they all dead. Itâs wrong to make ancestors of slave owners pay for something they did not do
@@keontisrogers6707 exactly AND not every white person in the united states owned a slave it was literally only the rich but if they want to go down that route then they should also ask the native Americans for money aswell cuz they also owned black slaves
I did not know that
@@keontisrogers6707 yea look up the trail of tears when it is mentioned it is always forgotten that the natives brought their black slaves with them and also there were black tribes and kings who sold their fellow africans as slaves AND the arabs also sold black slaves to Europeans
Who do you think paid reparations to the Japanese Americans?
Man realised he could get paid for existing đ
That man just wanted some bag đ
Thats all of them, you think they actually care about slavery, they just want free money
thats the point thats all they want is money they dont care about the âreparationsâ
no reperations. Just help people and communities in need đ€·ââïž
@@phobosex7504wouldnât do shit but drive the price on everything up
I mean honestly WHO of US would Turn down FREE Money from The STATE? I mean If they have IT to spend on The dumest Shit i'll hapily Take some
Fucking love the guy. Changed his mind as soon as he realized he could get a shit load đđ
Lmao
Disgusting parasite
He changed his stance because other oppressed races get reparations here but we donât hows thatâs fair
@@kdjr3062 African Americans should be paying reparations to each other. They are all descendants of enemy West African tribes who ensIaved each other and sold them to European traders.
â ââ ââ ââ @@kdjr3062Thereâs no guarantee itâd be successful. The reparations for the Japanese Americans worked because the internment camps were more recent and very well documented, plus it was only for the people who were actually in the camps. The reparations for the natives were unsuccessful due to mismanagement of funds and it was a huge pain in the ass making sure everyone got the money they were owed (many ended up not getting money). It would cost literally hundreds of billions of dollars to compensate every black person in America, unless the amount they are given is MUCH less than the other instances. Not to mention that no one who was alive during slavery is even alive now. Itâs better to leave it in the past at this point.
âYâall oldâ
Look whoâs talkingđ
Heâs got more confidence than you nigga dont ever disrespect me i mean dont ever disrespect him
Shut up oldy I bet you're 140
why are you so offended lmao
â@@historynerd300bc9 how is he offended?
@@historynerd300bc9 am I offended?
My family didnât even get here till after the civil war. Ainât no way Iâm paying for something I had no part in
the argument against the very logical and in my opinion, right thing that you just said is that "you benefited from a system that benefited from slavery". reminds me of "i didn't shoot him, the gun did!"
@@myleslanyon8745 if you think that you are dumb. My family never owned a slave and no slave is alive today. You do not deserve a single penny from me when I had no part in the problem that occurred almost 3 centuries ago.
Besides getting to be free is the reparations. The blood spilled and the men lost has payed that debt. And if you donât think so then you are vain and greedy and deserving of hell.
@@myleslanyon8745 they have benefited just as much as anyone else. They can get checks from the government, they get scholarships just for being black, they are prioritized during hiring in lots of places. They have more privilege that a white person in 1700s. Cause they walk up yo with a camera, accuse you of racism and bam you will be fired from your job, hunted by mobs, defamed, debanked, and never be able to show your face again even if it was false.
They are not victims of anything more then themselves and even then they still are not victims.
â ââ @@myleslanyon8745 What the flying fk are you talking about? Do you want reparations from every person on this planet now? lol. Should people hurt by blacks get reparations too? Should I get reparations because some people in my past were hurt by the american government? Get over it. It never even affected you specifically. Really the only ones that it makes sense to attack would be those that have relatives that were actually slave owners and who are still rich to this day because of it. Anyone else paying would be dumb as fk and I guarantee you it would cause more social tension i.e. many people that are neutral would become lowkey racist. Is that what you want? This whole sht is a ploy by the oligarchs to cause greater social unrest. The puppet masters want people to hate each other rather than unite.
Um you still benefit from the system.
The made a payment to japenese people we put into interment camps and who lost everything because it. Their descendents are not getting reparations.
If they hadnât paid the people for whatever reason, would the debt be wiped away? If so, why even pay at all?
@@omariparker3769 yeah maybe one generation perhaps, but for the most part if they didnât get it then itâs gone.
@@turtleandsandwiches4604 By that logic, reparations should never be paid to anyone. Cool. Why not treat all people groups that way? And why not start the movement to cancel the money given to Native Americans by the government?
â @@omariparker3769 because itâs immoral to not? Wouldnât you agree that itâs a little fucked up to imprison & relocate innocent civilians?
@@superultrarollingbomberthu8829 it was a horrible time in history during the second WW
They paid those people that actually went through it, not their grandchildren and great grandchildren generations later after they already got their act together then lost it
They didn't pay the black slaves that went through it.
@@jasonhulett heâs talking about the Japanese people put into camps. it would have been fair had they taken money for the people who actually owned slaves to the people who were slaves but now reparations is way to late. Itâs like teachers hating a kid because their older sibling was a bad student. Itâs just not right
@@jasonhulett yeah because they were still racist back then. We canât do anything about it anymore itâs not like we can go back in time and pay victims.
I'm pretty sure they effectively put them back into slavery with discriminatory laws and bogus contracts. Read about it
@@StaticLimes very well said
Man's had dollar signs in his eyes real quick, it's just that people got compensated that acutally suffered and not the descendants.
Please explain how people who actually suffered got compensation. Was it the lynching, segregation, or the jim crow laws?
@@popcornsoup5444 yea all those slaves sure are still alive and deserve reperations. flawless logic you have there, and let's say we entertain your thought of people that suffered segregation that was 59 years ago. that means people that actually suffered also aren't much around anymore and even then what does it make a difference if they get paid? exactly literally nothing
@@garaktartv3647 You literally said âitâs just that people got compensated that actually sufferedâ but they didnt. Slaves that were freed were PROMISED compensation, help, and safety but they didnât get anything . Now the excuse is âwell its too late now so let it goâ. Do you blame struggling decedents for trying to get what their ancestor were promised but never got?
â@@popcornsoup5444 yes the concept of monetary reparation's as a whole is just stupid because it achieves literally nothing. it's just a bandaid. let's just agree to disagree because i wont participate in this debate further because i kinda don't care and i won't change my mind anyway so whatever if you want to live further in your delusion that it would change everything so be it.
@@garaktartv3647 Yep ignorance is bliss instead of trying to change your mindset on something you might be wrong on its better to just convince yourself you are a god and right about everything đ agree to disagree
"What happened in the past can't be ruminated on, we need to move forward as a society"
"Hell yeah fuck it pay everybody man shit"
They want reparations for things they didnât have to experience, itâs crazy.
My grandparents lived through Jim crowe...
@@theblackaboriginetoo bad you ainât getting shit
@@theblackaborigineIâll burn the money in front of you
@@theblackaborigine *"...and still experience til this day."* - Umm...what?
@@theblackaborigine as a Moroccan luckily not living in the US but from time to time observing whatâs going on in the US its ridiculous how idiots like you still try to blame youâre laziness and idiotic self owned failures on thing happens generations ago you have never even closely experienced yourself
You can't punish the present for the past.
then have Egyptians pay the jews
Why not? Black Americans are punished for the past.
@@jasonhulett itâs not like we are actively punishing them for the past. They can work their asses off and get money yet for some reason most of them donât.
@@jasonhulett how are they punished? and what for???
@@C.P.L Why should black Americans be required to "work their asses off" to receive similar treatment?
Then everybody should be payed. Native Americans, British to India, etcâŠ
Also, why should our current generation pay for the mistakes of our ancestors?
Because the government shouldâve compensated for an atrocity that even before their mistreatment, killed a whole third of the people being taken to the US. Thereâs also Neo-slavery as a whole time period wherein black men would be put into slavery to pay off any debts they may have incurred (including the beatings and being kept in sheds). The government was meant to give them land they were already handing out at the time anyway, and even that was blocked off for a lot of them. Racism didnât end just because formal slavery got abolished lmao and there are people living who went through Jim Crow
@@PrajnaIsPrajna-exceptPrajna Not only black men were put into harsh indentured servitude. Also, Asians and indigenous people have also faced many injustices. Racism will never end. White people face racism in many ways as well. Not to mention, Black people are already compensated in different ways such as the affirmative action.
@@Anweshamishraaa that doesnât discredit the suffering they endured, though? Iâm not saying there wasnât racism in other areas. A lot of Chinese people were murdered in the streets quite frequently. But simply stated black people have been oppressed for centuries, and still face injustice.
African American men will be given longer jail time for the same charges, most of the impoverished people in this country are minorities, black sounding names on resumes are significantly less likely to be called into a job interview according to some studies. Racism wonât end but we should be taking the steps to try anyway.
@@PrajnaIsPrajna-exceptPrajnaYes, of course it doesnât discredit their suffering. However, oppression was normalized and common throughout history. These other minorities arenât being compensated much. Actually, black people are often favored at job interviews in order to increase diversity.
(I donât mean to be disrespectful :)
@@Anweshamishraaa lmao I know you donât mean to be disrespectful, but thatâs actually a common misconception. Thereâs no actual evidence that most jobs have these mythological âdiversity quotasâ. What I can say is that it has been studied however, and documented that the same resume with only a name difference has a huge variation in being called.
Some dude killed my grand uncle in the 40âs. Somebody pay up.
Anyone alive today who was a slave should get reparations. Anyone alive today who has owned slaves should pay reparations.
In few words no reparations should be paid to people who never were slaves by people who never owned them.
This deserve waaaayyyy more likes đ
Itâs not about a single transfer of wealth. Itâs about making policies that support the black community building generational wealth. That was the original intention behind the reparations that were promised after emancipation.
@@kipp4805 The "generational wealth" argument is a false one. The idea that European American children are wealthy because of slavery is false.
Generational wealth in America comes through education, work, and disciplined money management.
Immigrants from all over the world have come to America and built generational wealth this way. Italians, Irish, Poles, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Latino, African, and West Indian Americans have all done so . Many African Americans have done the same.
Many children also lose generational wealth and become poorer than their parents.
African Americans have the same opportunity to build generational wealth as anyone else in America, IF they make the same choices.
That means pursuing careers in business, health care, law, IT, and other fields with good chances of success, INSTEAD of careers in professional sports and entertainment which have very low chances of success.
There is no constitutional right to generational wealth in a constitutionsl capitalist democratic republic. Only in a Marxist state does this right exist; there generational poverty is legally passed down from Marxist proletariat parents to their children. The only income equality government has ever produced is equal poverty.
The Scandinavian nations are capitalist nations with generous social welfare benefits and high taxes on everyone, not only the rich. In Denmark the income tax rate is 52% on all income over $7,800.
@@marca.8081 This is a long reply so buckle up.
No one said that White European American children are wealthy because of slavery.
Yes, immigrant groups from all over the world have come to the US and built generational wealth. African-Americans however have faced a distinct legacy of systemic oppression and structural barriers throughout our history that has overtly worked to limit their capacity for generational wealth building.
For instance, after emancipation, state legislators created "the black codes" to maintain the racial and economic hierarchy. Laws prevented black people from moving freely through public spaces without accompaniment of a white person, from assembling, and even being unemployed. This robbed blacked communities of wealth through absurd fines for minor offenses and funneled blacks into becoming "criminals", which meant they could be legally enslaved according to the thirteenth amendment.
Its true European (pre-1965) immigrant groups faced strong systemic obstacles, such as being limited to working in specific industries, only living in certain neighborhoods, and being prohibited from attending most universities. Over time these groups were allowed to assimilate into a broader "white society". Labor unions posed the threat of lower class unity so accepting immigrant groups into a higher status within our racialized hierarchical society was a form of appeasement.
More importantly, World War II resulted in the most rapid assimilation of immigrant groups into White Americans. This is due partially to the fact that drafted Americans fought alongside soldiers of all backgrounds but moreso thanks to the GI Bill. The GI Bill provided returning soldiers economic opportunities to purchase houses, go to universities, receive loans at low interest rates, etc... This was a time of rapid expansion and economic growth for most Americans.
The issue is, black Americans, despite also being drafted and serving on the front lines (often assigned the most dangerous tasks) were completely excluded from the GI Bill.
Not only were blacks excluded from receiving the social and economic boost everyone else got, structural obstacles continued to get in their ways. Blacks were redlined, preventing them from moving to "white areas" and being stuck in black neighborhoods where property values remained stagnant and low. Until of course urban renewal meant freeways cutting through their neighborhoods and investors paying very little money to buy up the land and convert it into expensive urban real estate. While these communities moved further away from urban centers, isolating them from access to urban academic institutions and the economic opportunities available in urban centers.
Oh, and lets not forget the Reagan administration having the CIA flood these black communities with crack-cocaine and launching the war on drugs with the express purpose of destabilizing and mass incarcerating black communities as well as undermining "hippies". Post-1965 immigrants (when immigration opened to the rest of the world) could build generational wealth because they weren't facing a crack epidemic and over policing.
The call for reparations isn't motivated by a political ideology, it comes from a critical understanding of history and the social issues we face as a consequence of that history. There is a strong case to be made that African-Americans have been expressly prevented from building generational wealth at a rate that they otherwise would, *if it were not for direct interference by both the government and private or public institutions.*
This is why they are so disproportionately impoverished compared to any other group. And with these impoverished conditions, comes the consequences such as lower education rates, higher crime and violence rates, higher unemployment, lesser access to critical services like healthcare, lower investment and financial literacy, etc... All those things many Americans like to point their fingers at as if they were the result of poor personal judgement, rather than an unhealthy and undeserved environment.
We live in a country with a legal system that resolves wrongdoing with restitution. Reparations IS restitution.
@@kipp4805 Thank you for your reply. I would agree that under the policies of the American Democrat Party African Americans were oppressed and kept in less favorable conditions than other ethnic groups. Fortunately the Democrats came to their senses 100 years after the abolition of slavery in 1964 and 1965.
However since then multiple systemic changes were made to help African Americans succeed economically.
The Great Society program was created to ensure their basic needs such as housing, food, and medical care were met.
Affirmative Action became law requiring colleges, universities, and businesses to take concrete actions to recruit qualified African American students and employees.
Some colleges and universities credited prospective African American students with the same number of admissions points as a perfect 1600 SAT score.
The wealthiest, most educated, least unemployed, and least incarcerated Americans are South Asian Indians. They value education over athletics, maintain two parent families, respect authority, do not engage in violent crime, or substance abuse, and build generation wealth through diligent work, saving and investing, entrepreneurship, and pursuing graduate degrees in the highest paying professions (medicine, engineering, and IT).
While some African Americans choose to do the same with similar results, many do not. You know well that many young African Americans consider the lifestyle of South Asian Indians to be "corny" and view them as "soft."
Many value athletics over school, choose to engage in violence (streetfighting or criminal activity), abuse drugs or alcohol, father children and then do not stay with the mother to raise them, and pursue careers in which success is the most difficult (pro sports and entertainment).
To say that the cultural, lifestyle, and values differences between South Asian Indian Americans and African Americans has nothing to do with their successes or failures in America is not credible. In fact African Americans who do succeed financially choose the same lifestyle that South Asian Indians do, with similar results.
African and West Indian immigrants both have more economic success in America than do many African Americans. They have the same ethnicity but different cultures, lifestyles, values, and choices.
I once met a former college track & field athlete who grew up in Trinidad but came to the U.S. on a track & field scholarship. He said that at that time schools preferred athletes from the West Indies because they always took schoolwork very seriously and got good grades while African American athletes often did not, jeopardizing their ability to participate in sports.
They had the same ethnic background but different cultures, lifestyles, values, and choices.
Again, many African Americans live their lives like those West Indians, but the majority do not, by choice. They have accepted that in order to be "authentically black" they should prioritize sports over school, engage in violent or even criminal behavior, and pursue careers which are either very hard to succeed in or are lower paying.
Young Italian American men faced a similar culture fault. Becoming a mobster was socially acceptable and even glamorized and respected. It offered them lots of money, nice cars, expensive homes, and women. Being in an organized crime syndicate was being "authentically Italian."
Fortunately over time Italian Americans grew tired of being associated with that lifestyle and began to teach their sons to avoid it. Many became law enforcement officers and prosecutors; instead of joining crime syndicates they helped to dismantle them.
All cultures have strengths and weaknesses; none are perfect. European Americans had to confront their intolerance of and mistreatment of African Americans in order to change it.
Similarly African Americans need to confront bad choices in their own community in order to change them and their results.
Children need two parent families because one parent working all day and then coming home to raise children alone gets spread to thin and worn out. Women need to tell men "no wed, no bed;" men need to make commitments to their families.
School must take priority over athletics. Some students have the potential to become pro athletes but not most. Studying and good grades must be considered "cool" and respected.
Street crime and streetfigthing must be considered unacceptable behaviors which embarass those who commit them, their families, and their communities. Respect for rules and authority must be taught and expected from them.
Everyone regardless of ethnic group needs to make wise and responsible choices in order to succeed.
I do need to add that anyone familiar with the character of President Ronald Reagan knows that he would absolutely never have flooded any community with crack cocaine; that is a 100% urban myth.
Crack was a cheap high that appealed to poorer users and urban drugdealers. Like all drugs it was an easy way to earn a living at the expense of others.
Imma start identifying as whoever gets reparations đđ
Insensitivity is crazy
ââ@@matthewbrownmusic imagine getting your feelings hurt over a internet comment
@@garaktartv3647 imagine making bold assumptions over the internet
@@matthewbrownmusic like you did before me? Crazy how this works isn't it?
@@garaktartv3647 what assumption did I make? I love how you can't defend yourself and have to go on the offense immediately instead. I chuckled
As an indian...i must say ...
*They haven't paid shit* ..... And i am talking about those artifacts not the money.
I think he meant Native Americans and not Indians lol.
Native Americans in the US are known as Indians
The reperations should be paid in education and housing and in other benefits for the community.
This is what most black leaders say reparations should be
This was already done before you were born
He legit thought Japanese-Americans were âIndiansâ wtf lol
He meant the Natives that get land, casinos, and checks. Dumb ass.
No he kno he is a Indian but most ppl of color doesnât kno
@Ace Anime native Americans didnât take it itâs sitting in a vault somewhere collecting dust because they said fuck the white man even tho different tribes enslaved and killed each other so shouldnât they have to pay reparations to each other then or you going to say some bs?
Geography was never the strong side of americans
@Ace Anime he understood perfectly from what the video was showing, itâs not his understanding thatâs the problem
those slaves aren't alive anymore so no. if there were living slaves asking for it, yes; the people asking for it now are just entitled and delusional
I donât blame them. You never know unless you askđđ
â@@kdburner7356true. I'll take some money if they're offering. A system to pay people based on lineage would for sure have some crazy bad organization. And there would be plenty of poor Irish, Italian, Dutch, Russian, German, British, Spanish, Swedish, and whatever else is grouped in "white" to abuse the hell out of it.
Are Natives delusional? They get checks, land, and casinos. Make that make sense mf
Thereâs slavery and human trafficking that exists today.
Where is their freedom and reparations?
Generational wealth
Aint no way they gonna throw me a bunch of cash cuz my great granddad was a slave đ
Why not? Your great granddad's enslaver was thrown a bunch of cash after his emancipation.
â ââ @@jasonhulett Thatâs because slaves were seen as the slave ownerâs property. I donât personally agree with them but if you spent money on something then had it taken away wouldnât you want money?
Also, if you stole $50 from someone right now, would you want your great grandson to pay their great grandson an undisclosed amount of money?
More like great great great great granddad
Dude nailed what we all think.
"Past is the past. Actually, nah fuck it, I'll take some, why not"
The Japanese weren't paid reparations. They were paid compensation for a specific act committed on them by the US government in our lifetimes which was deemed an illegal act and breached the constitutional rights of the Japanese that were actually in the internment camps. It wasn't a blanket payment to all Japanese (which would be reparations) people for being a "oppressed group."
Reparation - the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
Thatâs the definition of the word. So yes. The Japanese people who were interned during WWII were payed reparations. I donât get where this âblanket payment to all Japaneseâ thing is coming from.
Not only that but they seized all assets of the interred. My family lost land that was worth 20x what the reparations were.
Reparations werenât only for the trauma of being interred, a lot had to do with the actual tangible financial losses associating with getting everything taken and sold by the government.
REPARATION- you fucking dickhead. No matter how you try to spin it
Reparations were paid, paid with the blood of 110,100 union soldiers killed in battle, 224,580 who died later of disease, and 275,174 wounded. The bill was paid, please leave the restaurant.
Generational wealth exists
â@@CC-kp7ge Yeah, someone elses. Not yours. Nothing gives you a right to others money, nobody alive has suffered slavery in america, nore are there any alive slave owners. How would you feel if we tracked down the thousands of blacks that also had slaves, do their ancestors pay because they are related to slavers?
@@piggyslayer1999 do you know what generational wealth is?
@@CC-kp7ge Yeah, its the wealth my grandfather built after he came to this country and made something of himself, AFTER SLAVERY. But then again, the concept of working for what you own is foreign to you as youd rather sit on a corner ans beg like a sad pauper. Fuck off, earn your own money you lazy fuck
Generational wealth exists, but itâs harder to come by. The poor donât have anything to pass down and any assets the working class can accumulate (like a house) are usually seized post-mortem to reimburse Medicare. That, and generational thinking doesnât really exist in this country. After WWII, the Boomers turned out to be a very self-facing generation, literally selling their childrenâs futures for social welfare. GenXers and Elder Millennials grew up disillusioned but are fortunately starting to get their act together. All the young people though have accepted that there will be nothing left for them and arenât even trying.
I ainât payin for something I didnât do.
Yes I agree. Letâs give money to all the people in America today who are slaves. Lump sum of zero dollars.
đnope y'all gonna pay that one way or another đ
@@ReinaAfricana are you a slave. Why should I pay for something I didnât do to your ancestors which we canât even tell if your ancestors were slaves. Thereâs so many other forms of reparations that you donât even recognize like scholar ships exclusively for African Americans. Of things like that are available then why arenât people taking advantage of it to get out of poverty.
@@Drooploop heâs saying the black people will find a way to get the free money instead of working
@@astreaus0076 okayâŠ
@@ReinaAfricana will you settle for a free trip back to Africa. Thatâs where we bought your ancestors from. Home sweet home, right? Go on! Just be lucky your still here!
A real American, not afraid to come out in the open with his immediate change of opinion đđđ
When you say America means the American workers, that money is not coming from the air
âHe got us in the first halfâ
The child shouldn't pay for parents debts or sins.
That wouldnât be fair to the person who the father was indebted to
This is where Canada needs help. Do NOT fund individuals; only economic growth towards those communities, if you decide to go that route.
He just wanted equality. He didnât want nobody to get paid, then changed after he realised people were getting paid and not him.
they got paid right after they got outta the camps, so it was the same people that lived through it. slavery was hundreds of years ago so we shouldnât pay now when we werenât slave owners and they werenât ever slaves
â@@jyettac facts
â@@jyettac American chattel slavery ended 159 years ago, not "hundreds". Jim Crow ended 59 years ago.
â@@jyettac and even that was wrong if not done with the resources of the agents responsible for that decisions instead of the resources extorted away by the state from innocent people that had nothing to do with that decision.
â@@jyettac Americans didn't want to pay them either, just like they called MLK a commie. They were forced to pay the Japanese, not America doing right by people naturally
We're trillions in debt. If the government pays reparations we all suffer for it through inflation, including the people getting the payments.
they'd just include it in out taxes most likely
Bonus reparations : the fuaijg mother load of war crimes US has done is poebbaly waaay >> then your debt
@@bostinobaddog2040 theyâll raise taxes to cover it. Do you really think the government is going to cut spending in a different area to pay people who have never been slaves?
Literally pay for immigrants but not the people who built the country. Makes sense
Yup. Pay US Americans who had to listen to that shit and weren't involved in any of it. Except as soldiers who fought and lost their lives
100k subs đŁđȘđŻ congrats man! Quality content.
I'm native Hawaiian. Born and raised in Honolulu. Can't wait for my check!! lol.
Americans should not have to pay. people in our generation had nothing to do with anything that happened. And any of these âoppressedâ groups of people have never experienced any of the oppression that people speak of
And I can hear some voices want to chime in and say;
" what a kind soul...his mother raised him right....he is a hero..
We need more people like him in this world"
all because he said no to reparations and just let it go...
until he heard everyone else was PAID for their troubles.
Pay all of usđ
He's on to something đ
How about they get a job.
This man had the realest response. Can't argue with that.
"Y'all got money"
All my family came from Ireland and Mexico and I only have 12 dollars in my checking, fuck all the way off lol
Biggest cap Iâve heard all week đ§ą
@@saramwaqas Thank God we don't get our news from anime pfps smh
â@@Venerated1337 how you got a smartphone with internet but only $13
@@bostinobaddog2040 Times is hard.
â@@bostinobaddog2040 He probably just paid his bills.
The actions from the past have a major effect on our present
So that would mean that also all black people who had slaves would need to pay reparations. Good luck with that.
â@@solveigd.6441 Yup. Some really don't believe blacks in the US also participated in slavery and lynched their own.
yeah but it already happened, you cant make people who did nothing wrong pay for what their ancestors did. and like solveig said, it wasnt just america, there were a crap ton of slaves in africa and other places alone, so it would be impossible to do anything, may aswell just try and improve life for everyone instead
@@cherpsy3770 You can if you are still the beneficiary of those actions.
@@nimbo1496 and who is to decide that? Who is to evaluate who was and is still effected?
crazy how fast he shifted from intelligence to degeneracy
There should have been reparations right after slavery was ended
He started tođŠ until he found out the other guys stance. đ€ŠđŸââïž
Imagine begging for money because someone else did something to your grandparents. You all look like fuckin panhandlers
Lmao big facts
No⊠they shouldnât. Corporations that directly benefited from slavery should pay.
you are using a computer. computers contain minerals mined by children in Africa. should you also pay?
Iâm Indian, the British should pay me reparations then because my great grandparents were oppressed by the British East India Company. đ€·ââïž
Native Americans should be payed for their oppression as well. See the problem here?
I love how this guy isn't thinking "white people are evil and owe me" he was thinking "it would be awesome to just get free money lmao"
There's many people alive today that were alive during Jim Crow.
Also, native Hawaiians are deserving of reparations as well.
Iâm against reparations, but thatâs actually a good point. Hawaii should just be given independence. I donât think they want us
We literally already paid Hawaiians and apologized back in the 80s
Who do you propose pays for this, everyone in this country that skin isnt black?
What percentage of African or Hawaiian blood do you need to qualify ?
It was the Democrat policies so go get your reparations from them and not from people who didnât make or vote for those policies
No. Because nobody alive, ever owned a slave. If they do find a legitimate, black slave, then sure. Give him 3 mill.
@@Jeccanweâre talking bout america here buddy
@@Jeccan at the beginning of the video it says âshould Americans pay reparations for oppressed groupsâ
His sense of humor is great
why should people who were never involved in slavery pay people who were never victims of slavery
If you're doing it for one group, do it for everyone too. Don't play favorites. You either pay reparations to everyone or no one
No one it is
Yep because the rich need more money right?
@@SaintSC05 my thoughts exactly. Repartitions won't change the past. It won't bring back the lives that were lost because of slavery or colonialism. And it certainly won't abolish racism because the very mention of it keeps the ideology alive in our minds. We all need to move on. What's done is done. The only thing we can do now is to make sure history doesn't repeat itself...
â@@popcornsoup5444 So what if they're rich they didn't do Shit to you stop Complaining about it and go get money.
@@pualbaptiste8617 thatâs not what I said at all go back to kindergarten.
ââŠYall old!â Classic human projecting.
I think corporations should, not the government.
If there should be anything being paid to anyone it should be the damn banks.
100k subs congrats
No one who isnât lazy or stupid would think that anyone needs reparations for something that happened hundreds of years ago
Segregation ended less than 60 years ago.
â @@jasonhulett segregation is not enslavement. Also, if you look at the statistics, the black community was actually doing economically better than they are right now during segregation.
â@@jasonhulett so? segregation has nothing to do with anything
@@jasonhulett and yet America has the most black millionaires and billionaires out of any country in the world, an inherently racist nation would never allow that
@@jasonhulett what does that have to do with anything?
Money can't change a broken culture
Not only are there no living slaves in the US rn, but no living slave owners to pay them.
There are corporations that still exist. And corporations are people too, right?
The same old government still exists though. And the slave wealth it stole too.
Why weren't they paid back then?
@@omariparker3769
Yes but the problem is that reparations isnât going to force corporations to directly fork over their profits to minorities. If thatâs what you want to do then you have my 100% support because that would just delete Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Disney, etc.. all in one move.
@@ashasun6620 no clue. Go ask the graves of our ancestors.
Slaveowners were paid after slavery was over, for a lost property and revenue. They were given reparations đź
In Britain.
Yeah, they got paid when the slaves got freed. Not their great grandchildren. You have to think about the ethics back then. Most governments treated it as if owing sheep had become illegal so they paid the people who got their property take away from them. I personally donât agree with it but you need to look at it using context.
@@spzaruba5089 in the United States
@@biancalord488 No they were not. The slaves were freed. End of list and no compensation was paid to slave owners ever.
@@spzaruba5089 look it up
The ones who actually experienced slavery:
Their kids:
Their kids kids:
Their kids kids kids:
Their kids kids kids kids: I want reparations.
Thatâs what bothers me about the example thatâs always cited...people forget they paid the people who interred. Not their children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren. If reparations are ever paid, they should be paid to the actual survivors and thatâs all.
Wrong. The survivors should have continued to get paid no matter what year it is. Jews still get reparations from Germany to this day. The United States is richer than Germany. The United States can afford to do the same for the Japanese Americans and the African Americans.
The morally corrupt will always choose money first
Morals are subjective
@@popcornsoup5444 subjective morality is a type of falsehood. If itâs not objective itâs not moral
This coming from the people that raped pillaged and killed millions of tribes seneca village buisnesses people and children?
@@serenitysubs933 Little girl you have much to learn. It was neighboring tribes who sold YOUR ancestors to Europeans, it was neighboring tribes who sell sub Saharan Africans to Arabs in Libya to this day! America (United States) has never had any colonies in Africa EVER. Much like my original comment the morally corrupt will sell their own kin folk for some gunpowder weapons and shiny minerals lol. Donât be ashamed, every civilization (though sub sahara Africa had non before Arab or European colonialism) has used slaves of their enemies since well before 3000 BC. Come to grips that you were the last group(still being sold today but you donât care) to be used for slavery, rise above it and join the civilized world in bettering your communities and country, itâs pathetic third world immigrants migrating to the US in 2023 are more educated and more well mannered than AA whose roots have been here since the 1700/1800s.
hell no
Hell yes to reparations
@@eziorobetthesecond4776 Bro just wants free money. đ Acting like you were a victim of slavery.
@@kingtaco1725 lol you stupid fuck head I want what is owed
@Tyler LOL, this is for Jim crow as well you stupid reprobate . My family was alive during Jim crow it's owed now get over it or go to hell . đ€Łđ€Łđ
@Tyler đ€Łđ€Łđđ I'm in California we are getting reparations up here . Now go jack off somewhere you sad virign .
My guy backtracked REAL quick
I support reparations for slavery. Every person alive today in America who was once a slave should be paid reparations.
It is very easy to be charitable on someone elseâs dollar
ah, gotta love good ole greed
The âshxt, yâall oldâ got me đ€Ł
Some people say the gov should pay reparations for slavery when every race was once a slave. Well just be getting money to give to someone else.
No the Americans should not pay go to the source we're it started and they should pay before stirring up the pot you should do your research
Tell that to natives with land, checks, casinos. Black Americans are the only people told to get over it. Fuck off
2,000,000 per descendant of enslaved is a start then we need to address prevailing discrimination.
This is a note for people who truly believe the civil war was always meant to stop slavery from happening. It was originally meant to stop the expansion of slavery and limit the number of slaves in the south because the number of people in a state affects how many representatives they have in Congress or the House of Representatives (I can't remember which its been a while) The other purpose was to stop the south from splitting the nation. Abraham Lincoln even mentioned that he did not believe that black people should be free in America or that they would be during his time. The only reason the war ended up being against slavery was to prevent britain from supporting the south in the war because it would look bad if they( the British) were publicly supporting slavery in the south. As a result the emancipation proclomation became a thing, but black codes, share cropping and jim crow followed and we still feel the effects of these systems to this day.
Also Juneteenth (June 19th) became a thing because thats when the last known slaves were freed a few years after slavery was abolished.
Finally in regards to reparations black people were promised 40 acres and a mule that we didn't recieve and instead the former slave masters were paid reparations for the loss of their income and workforce, leaving fromerly enslaved people to work from the ground up. I would say our reparations are past due.
He was thinking. âMan if these people be so stupid, Iâm gonna be richâ.
Bro said no at first to not give himself false hope, then he learned it happened before and he started hoping. That happy hope was contagious. Give this man his money
â@cohanks Then take your money and shut up. Nobody asked you.
You can have all the money in the world but you canât change what happened in the past because itâs part of history.
Reparations aren't meant to change the past.
Sounds good to me. Black people deserve to get paid year after year in reparations just like the Jews do to this day. Every member of the Wutang Clan would agree with me on this.
Dude smarter than most americans. Changed his mind with new information that countered his view instantly. Amd hes right it is mostly old people that have the money.
The only reason people would say no to reparations is because it would be for black people. I mean the whole state of Israel is a reparation and America loves that one.
You realize black people owned slaves as well?
@@solveigd.6441 I know that the amount of black people that owned slaves was negligible. I also know that Native Americans owned slaves, too. Definitely more than any black people that owned slaves. But all that is irrelevant because it was the US government that is responsible and not just white people. Black people didnât do shit to Native Americans, yet our tax dollars go to fund reservations. Black people didnât put Japanese people in camps either, but our tax dollars went to pay for that, too.
@@omariparker3769 also not all white people owned slaves. How do you want to determine who is to be responsible and who isnât? At what point are people no longer guilty for their ancestors?
@@solveigd.6441 Like I said, the American government is responsible. Nobody bats an eye when taxes go to pay for Native American reservations. Nobody had a big problem paying for what happened to the Japanese. People only get up in arms when itâs something for black people. Thatâs my point.
â@@omariparker3769 the American government uses tax payer dollars, which still makes the individual responsible for something they never did and their family may never have done. It's a bullshit reason and a bullshit solution you have
No ⊠I pay enough and fucking taxes
Because California wasnât a slave state because the Americans took it from Mexico⊠my families been here 20 generations, and we never own slaves. So now I have to pay reparations for something that my family never did
â@@sleepless.3088 well If we can't get ya on slavery we'll get ya on racial inequalitys during the Civil rights movement pretty sure you benefited from they system or had rasist family members
Jk
If youâre done with taxes in the US, imagine paying taxes in Europe
Dang. He said "if you can get it, then I want it, too."
A true believer in equality... Well, almost.
Why should i have to pay for something that i wasnt a part of? I already lose 20% of each paycheck to taxes, i dont wanna lose more
Make the Confederate states pay it.
@@severedcoil5085 party flip beside the the states that flew the confederate flag still exist.
@@severedcoil5085 massive cope. Youâre meaning to tell me the parties still hold the same beliefs they did during the Jim Crowe era. While Iâm not saying Republicans are racist the parties definitely donât hold the same beliefs they once did. Besides the southern states that flew the confederate flag still exist albeit not as the actual states they once were.
Public Law No: 117-107 (03/29/2022) Emmett Till Antilynching Act didn't get signed into law until 2022. That means racist white people were allowed to LEGALLY LYNCH BLACKS UP UNTIL 2022 in all 50 states. ALL of the UNITED STATES should be held responsible.
Restitution: the restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner. Recompense for injury or loss. An act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as; a restoration of something to its rightful owner, a making good of or giving an equivalent for some injury.
Put simply, restitution is payment for an injury or loss. In a criminal case, a perpetrator of a crime may be ordered to pay restitution to a victim when his or her crime causes the victim a financial loss.
Examples of restitution might include a shoplifter who is ordered to repay a store owner for the cost of a stolen item, or an assailant who must pay for their victimâs medical expenses after a violent assault. In homicide cases, restitution can even cover funeral costs. Victims also may be compensated for lost wages and out of pocket expenses, such as restoring credit history after an identity theft.
All states have laws requiring convicted defendants to pay restitution, the purpose of which is to make victims whole or on par with where they were financially before the crime and to make offenders directly accountable to the people they harm. For these reasons, judges must consider restitution, or partial restitution, as part of any sentence or plea bargain.
- Afghans were compensated: In 2021 The U.S. Defense Department said it would provide condolence payments to relatives of 10 Afghan civilians that were killed in drone strikes.
- Japanese were compensated: In 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 - the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 - that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.
But, white America has an issue with doing anything remotely resembling restitution for blacks. White America has ALWAYS had an issue when blacks are seen as equal.
Easy. No one alive today in the US was ever a slave. A bloody civil war was fought to free them so if anything that debt was paid in blood. If they want cash they are free to go to the countries in which African kings at the time rounded up their own people and sold them into slavery.
the issue is that its been so long and the documentation is so poor that its essentially impossible to figure out who would get reparations and how much they should get a better solution is to help all low-class people at the same time since that would address the inequality caused by slavery and the extensive institutional level racism since then
the difference is the people that did that to blacks are already dead, and we didnt pay them before because the country was still segregated.
@@5267w I use ârestitutionâ instead of âreparationsâ because reparations is emotionally loaded. Of course Racists donât want to pay or contribute anything to blacks.
What about all the lynchings that happened in the 20th century? Is that too long ago to provide restitution to the families?
What about Bruceâs Beach resort located in Manhattan Beach CA? It was taken from the black family in 1912, just recently it was given back to them.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce's_Beach
But you would have a problem with that.
Oh, but WHITE Confederate Civil War vets can get a pension, but not black slaves.
WHITE Slave owners can get compensated, but not slaves.
Nah, brother. All arguments against restitution and righting wrongs is nothing but racism.
Law Student or Attorney?
I May like the idea but, at the same time the government will just make it worst. Considering they never cared about us in the first place.
Dude: "Help me to help you, white boy."
Also dude: "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"
If your not a slave you shouldn't be paid a reparation for being one. The sins of committed by the Father's shouldn't hold weight on the future of their childrens. We're meant to learn from the past not be shackled by it. The future is an open book so write down what lessons you would like the next generation learn from it.
So what if you are a multi millionaire because your father did sins that amassed a fortune, are you not benefiting from your fathers wrong doings?
â@@brumtownmiller6130 OK but that's still his money you don't deserve to go Take millions of dollars from someone for something you never experienced
@@pualbaptiste8617 yh but if I commit crimes to make alot of money and give it to my children, the police can take it. Also a person can get money from someone thats done them a wrong because of damages. So in some cases its ok but for black folk it's not. Their families were owed reparations and got cheated out of it so technically its still owed. Everyone that was owed reparations got it except black slaves got it, how is that fair!?
Be mad at your ancestors for leaving you with the debt you inherited.
most white ppl have no idea when their ancestors came to America, could've been well after slavery ended, could've been b4, how would u figure out each person's ancestry and whether or not they owned slaves
Why would i be mad at them if they got robbed for 350 years? They had no choice.
@@whitedogsblackcats You've been robbing yourselves for much longer.
Playing kooky music won't make the debt go away
people like that are against the struggle but what we win they're the first in line
Yâall talking about how the slaves arenât still alive but they didnât pay them back then either so whatâs the next best thing?
there isnt really a next best thing the logistics of trying to figure out who and how much each person should get would be super complicated even if there was proper documentation and next to impossible since there isnt
it already happened, cant make people pay for crimes they didnt commit.
@@cherpsy3770 What do you mean? You already do. What treaty did you break with Native Americans? How many Japanese Americans did you (or your parents) intern? My parents werenât even alive during WWII, but they paid with their tax dollars for it.
@@omariparker3769 you pay taxes to the government and the government decides what to do with that money, its indirect payment, if the government was paying those people or not we would still have to pay the same amount. its like if you gave money to a friend and they bought something, you wouldnt say you bought it, would you?
@@cherpsy3770 So they why does it bother you if the government takes your taxes and pays the debt that they owe to the descendants of slaves?
You do not get to get away with it because you are dead. Many people are where they are now because of the people who put them there and the people who is making it near impossible for their situations to change. Reparations should absolutely be paid; not to any specific person (if they're still alive absolutely) but to the communities that they live in. Black people getting good jobs and being able to move into crimeless communities without facing racism because no one there looks like them. White people form the communities they are in and were able to live more comfortably and black were forced to make ends meet with people finding loopholes in laws. It's an ongoing battle and reparations needs to be paid until the battle is over. What the governments are doing now isn't enough to make up for what black people were put through and and how the majority is growing up and living.
So we should just roll over on our backs and worship them?
but there are also many people who got out of those bad situations because of their own effort. As one of those people, I find it degrading when people think that I need my hand held because of the color of my skin. There is no battle with anyone but ourselves, but people like you encourage people to sit back and do nothing while mooching off of the government that you claim is so ready to kill them off. The most they can do is help the reform, but we have to help ourselves first. What you're suggesting is to promote black ignorance, and that's what's ACTUALLY keeping the black community down. We get scholarships and affirmative actions and trophies just for being black. The fact that so many black people don't take advantage of those resources shows an apparent problem: They don't want to improve. Those who DO take those opportunities are where so many successful black people are today. I hate hearing idiots like you shift the blame onto the government instead of promoting personal accountability. its the most stupid, hateful thing ever, and you need to stop.
Yeah but how? Like what youâre saying is completely fair, but you have to think of logistics
My family never owned slaves so why should I have to pay for something that my family has never had to deal with. And then we need to track down the tribes in Africa who enslaved and sold other tribes into the slave trade because if not for them the slave trade wouldn't have been so prolific. Furthermore not every black person in the US is a decenendent of slaves, and what about the families of the black slave owners, they should have to pay too so let's go through everyone's family tree to see who owes want, that's another government organization that we also have to pay for. Reparations for things that happened over a hundred years ago and none of the victims or the people who did it are still alive is ridiculous and unrealistic.
@@aluna1234 Iâm white, my family never owned slaves either, but Iâd be more than willing to pay a little extra in taxes if I knew that money was going towards improving black schools, churches, hospitals, and communities. Itâs not about making things right for dead slaves, itâs about fixing the current economic imbalance between races.
Mans switched faster than i turned on the lights lmao
When Slaves became free did they not receive reparations then in the form of land and a Donkey? The land should be worth millions at this point.
We need laws & legislation put in place for us just like they did for the Asians
Those that were held during the war we're paid. Freed slaves were also given things from money to land. Your ass does nothing but sit and collect welfare. You don't need anything let alone hand outs stolen from people who didn't do shit to you. the black communities problem is that they don't want law and order that's why they celebrate drugs, r***, murder, and theft. You don't need anything but a reality check.
Sorry but nope, those repetitions were only for those who experienced it, not for their descendants, so your argument doesnât work.
@@MicrowavedBurritosShadow wow, Thatâs the dummest & most anti black/ignorant thing Iâve heard all year.. Do you say that to Native Americans that receive benefits? Or how the Jewish people received a line of credit from the queen of England ? 400 + years of CHATTEL slavery In America & only 8 precent of those slaves came from Africa the other 92% of American slaves came from the indigenous Aboriginal people of North America (black Americans)⊠the Negative effects of 400+ years of slavery STILL to this day effect Black Americans.. do you have any idea the amount of Generational Trauma that has been inflicted on Black Americans because of Slavery ?! NOT ONLY SLAVERY the 100 plus years AFTER that negatively effected black Americans through Redlining, Jim Crow, Tuskegee experiments, the Tulsa Massacre, Rose Wood, As well as all The other black towns/ communities that where destroyed by the KKK & this Racist anti black government/ white racism. Not to mention all the times the black community has been sabotaged âŠ. This is all less than 65 years ago my dad went through the Civil Rights movement & seen the Horrors the Government & their hate group the KKK did to black Americans trying to get fundamental Basic Human right that allow ALL colored people not just black ppl to have the basic human rights they do today !!
I want you to read this book called âwithout sanctuaryâ look it up⊠you expect black Americans to âget overâ that ??
Itâs Weirdos like u that judge black peoples when you wouldnât have even survived what my people have been through in this country!! This is why REAL Black History needs to be taught in school too many Uneducated FOOLS giving opinions on something they Know nothing about ! Next time keep that Dum Ass Half Baked thought to yourself before you get embarrassed..