Can The U.S. Afford Reparations?

Mexico should pay for it obviously!

Title should have been "how much does it cost for democrats to keep buying the black vote"

No.

The answer is 'YES'!

Yes

This part

You said it... no need to waste my words, you hit it on the nail !!!

I agree Israel shouldn't get money. However this isn't millions this is Trillions

Where was the outcry when then Secratary of Defense Rumsfeld told Congress that the Pentegon had miss placed 2.3 or 3 trillion dollars? The public went silent on this one. Did not hold anyone´s feet to the fire either. Neither did "W" make a big deal out of this. The lost was on the shoulders of the American tax payer.

That is so true! These are some sick haters who has a problem with this! They didn't have studies when they gave every other people reparations, before taken care of the black Americans they had treated like animals for the last five hundred years or so?" "All these people against it, says nothing about all the people who got it, never say sh!t about all the money Israel is getting, like American dollars is supporting their whole country, for what? They are outsiders from another land, pretending to be someone else, they did to those people exactly what they did to black Americans in America!! "People need to quit their bullsh!t opinions and lies, stop hating, black America deserve their due period, or hell is finally going to break through, people better get right, instead of doing wrong to keep from doing right!!

Greedy W P

White people ain't sh$t.

Demanding people who never owned slaves give their money to people who never were slaves? Yeah good luck with that.

@@blackretribution8103
"W P" aren't begging for additional charity - that would be the greedy B P.

@@blackretribution8103 maybe you can go back to the beginning and be amongst your own people and we can forget about this bad blood? Makes being a country iffy seeing you folks in public smiling and saying hi as if you practice your line's for the role of Bye Gones Be Bye Gones, 👋

Well said.....

@@silky900 Thank you!

Spot on comment.

EXACTLY!!!!!!! Well said!

@@nicole_silvers Thanks!

Because they are an outlier lol the regressive left is off their rockers honestly. They talk about race and split people by their heritages and then claim others are the racists. It's like arguing with Obrian In 1984

@@johnyang101 no it's just funny my dood. No one deserves reparations lmao

Because it would show people coming from outside the country working hard and succeeding. Compared to those that are born and raised here and take things for granted.

Asians are not lazy and don’t lay up off the backs of hard-working people as a whole. Asians succeed in this country as a whole. They as a whole do not need help up

people like to throw in Asians but Asians and blacks tend to have different culture and values. it should be more blacks from America vs blacks from Africa. i know tons of Africans (specifically Nigerians) who take education seriously and make a good living. Black Americans don't value education as much as Africans

@Bo Zo Reparations would cost about 60-100 trillion. I'm sure AAs would appreciate that and would leave the declining America with the quickness.

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@@rogerdodger8415 guarantee your "ancestors" were confederate

@@rogerdodger8415 lmao no way you just called us vampires lmao go stand in the sun 6 hours for me and see what happens to you

@@rogerdodger8415 🧐

Because they're B.S. liberals have no intentions of paying reparations. They're using it to get the Black votes. At least conservatives are honest

They didn't have studies when they gave every other people reparations, before taken care of the black Americans they had treated like animals for the last five hundred years or so?" "All these people against it, says nothing about all the people who got it, never say sh!t about all the money Israel is getting, like American dollars is supporting their whole country, for what? They are outsiders from another land, pretending to be someone else, they did to those people exactly what they did to black Americans in America!! "People need to quit their bullsh!t opinions and lies, stop hating, black America deserve their due period, or hell is finally going to break through, people better get right, instead of doing wrong to keep from doing right!!

Exactly.

Ones fighting for the rep

Kan kan lol 🤫💯😂

Covid was not an issue... but the state Government's over=reaction by closing down private business did and still is causing havoc. That is the problem.

@@2bRealist Exactly! The gov't creates problems so they can push their horrible solutions on us!

@@nicole_silvers Exactly!!
Stay vigilant Nicki.
Pelosi is planning to visit Taiwan... AFTER China warned her not to as it will cause political chaos between those 2 nations and they may have to "act" if she does... well, she just announced she is going any way O_o
The war with Russia has already started and now we are about to start one with China.

@@2bRealist pelosi is evil and doing it on purpose because she wants to start that war!

youre just saying that because you arent black

@@yummymommy2275 Are you saying only black people want something for nothing?
Sane people earn their own way regardless of the color of their skin.

It's already being entertained. 😜

So all the 1.6 million whites that got 160 acres for nothing during the homestead act that made America.. How do those people fit into your beliefs? Whites have been given their wealth dont think otherwise. Humans are humans no matter what color. To think otherwise or that you worked harder than a group of people who had to work from light to night is a level of ignorance that only old people could stick to

@@awwwsy What a childish and naive outlook. Foolishly you forget to mention 40 acres and a mule.....Then gloss over the decades of coddling and special treatment since.
My child is no more responsible for my actions than I am for my parents, if you choose to buy into this BS then feel free to do so with your own money, keep your hands out of my pocket.
Such false empathy only shines on an others dime.

THEY OWE African Americans (REPARATIONS) BUT They Won't Pay what they owe sick white supremacists. But they gave Hispanics (Doca). & native americans got there own land nd they get checks monthly to. And Obama even gave White jewish Holocaust Survivors REPARATIONS. When we went through Concentration Camps to in the U.s. called (The devil's punch Bowl) in mississippi.

They took our 40 acres and a mule and gave it to the former slave holders. This is America.

Yeah but the government wasn’t the one who enslaved, it was private individuals, so those individuals should’ve owned them money. There is no legal theory where government compensate for harm done by private individuals

@@wegood563 slavery was a business contract from the US

@@areasonablethought610 it was commited by private individuals, it wasn’t the government running slavery. When a private entity capitalized on you through slavery it’s not up to the gov to recompense you

Their population is too small to make a voice or lobby. No protest/riot, no money.

they got reservations... duh that were all the casinos are

@Reg G I’ll admit that I don’t know enough about the issues of Native Americans, but from what I see, there are disparities in their communities which could use investment

@IvyOracle They used to have all of North and South America. A postage stamp sized reservation is a meager compensation. They deserve the entire continent returned to them. They are it's rightful owners.

No one deserves reparations it’s just lazy people whining in the 21 century

Forcing wealthy descendants of slave owners to keep multiplying non-social justice-based economic benefits is also not reparations nor moral social class advancements.

@@Hoboclown
Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators.
Sweeping accusations against anonymous hypothetical people is inadequate.
The one who seeks to take what another has bears the burden of proof.

@@michaelpcoffee I’m all for it but what will be the economic impact, specifically to inflation?

@@TheOne-xu5oy
Transferring wealth from who has it to who owns it has no impact on inflation.
The impact on inflation is immaterial to the issue of actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators.

@@michaelpcoffee ok so help to understand something here because maybe I’m not understanding some things. Will the transfer of wealth be from white people to black people? And will white people be taxed separately or have higher taxes? Secondly: if direct payments are made, won’t that lead to increase spending due availability of disposal income which would drive prices up for goods and services?

Yeah, Native people in the front of the bus (keep moving back).

White people robbed India of $400 trillion. How long are we making this line?

Tell that to the black Americans, while at less than 15% of the population, are responsible for half of the murders and abortions in the US every year.

Which they get

Ummm they get them. Even the ones who are majority white.

@@JRPGGUY Living in squalor on reserves with no electricity or running water?

@@rboddington I havent done enough research, but it seems like they earn thousands per year, per person. They can't make things work?

@@JRPGGUY They don't, that's a common misconception. From what I understand, not all tribes qualify for any financial help. The government organizations that provide that service are underfunded and mismanaged. Many of the financial support is provided by tribes that are to their communities. There have also been efforts by native organizations to help their community, but they also have their own limitations.

Because they STILL BENEFIT from the results of slavery and black people still suffer because of slavery that's why.

Bro its the after afterafects of it

And I’m so sick of RACISM, but here we are. 400+ years of oppression. Yes, black Americans that can prove that they have ancestors that were SLAVES should receive SLAVERY reparations. It’s not that hard to comprehend but I see you have an extremely tiny brain so it’s hard for you, so I’m trying to break it down into baby steps for you. Also, no one is saying anything about white people at all. We’re focused on getting people that suffered for generations JUSTICE. White people have it all and by the way, the white soldiers that fought in the civil war against confederates were just as racist, were treated 1000x better than black soldiers as well. Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist as well. Learn some history before you run your mouth about being “sick” of something, fool! I know I’m sick of the reparation talk because they need to hurry up and PAY US. NOW.

Thats what life is always going to be about.

🤔🤔🤔 Yep that seems right💬💬💬

As a Black man I'm still trying to figure out who "this group" is. In my 44 years of living I have NEVER had a conversation with a black male or female about reparations. It's like this stuff is coming from some shadow group and they're paying people to stoke up energy around it. It makes no sense.

A group of people are owed money pay the debt!!!

@@LMan-by6mb No one alive today was a slave. If you want something get a job and earn it. Quit trying to steal money from people that never profited from slavery.

"Then they would say, it is just supplies and equipment?"

@@desireawinton9745 It's also money.

Exactly they have money for every European country around the world but not for the people who built a country for free

Of course you do realize the US is trying to avoid World War III, right. You are familiar with NATO and the reason it was formed, right? We can’t afford NOT “to send these people our tax money.”

@@ninadaly7639 we are not the only members of NATO let the European countries send these people money and weapons this is not our fight we have no people or land that is being threatened.. and our tax money will not stop World War 3 if that’s the plan of Russia which I doubt it is …he can barely fight Ukraine …he does not want war with NATO or the USA. So Again give our Tax money to Our people and not to another country who have others that can help them… unless we are going to get our money back from Ukraine with interest on top!!!

Right! I was never a slave owner and I don't owe anything to people who have never experienced slavery! It doesn't make sense for people who had nothing to do with slavery to be punished by stealing their money that they worked for just to give it to those who simply want free hand outs instead of working to earn their money! It's never gonna happen!

I know right!?! The nerve of white people😤…

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Billions too ukraine no wonder black America doesn’t respect americas war views I’ll never go too war in America I’ll fight for a African country before America atleast I know my great grandparents probaly lived there

You see someone getting paid; and you covet.

OK so let’s put a stop to all this Foreign aid because money won’t fix the problem

*systemic racism exist tho

@Raymond Spicer Not necessarily. Have you ever seen what happens to lottery winners?

A_flying_dutchman [NL] educations is for broke proletarians, powers is economic resources else you’d be the walking Dutch Man

Giving people money, without changing their habits, and expectations of money is disastrous. What would actually be helpful would be financial literacy classes in high schools........

Billionaires will pay more in taxes in a month than you will in your lifetime.

@A man who rebells against the Illuminati rich and racist.

Black people were still paying taxes even though there was Jim Crow

Why should u deserve reparations

Nobody funded my white family from the Appalachian mountains for nothing. They never saw a food stamp or free housing. If your woman keep doing drugs pregnant even with free housing food medical and education then who's fault is it. Who's?

@The Last Danite Nope, just honest about history and America's legacy of racial injustices. Do you have anything substantive to say?

@Charlotte yeah, slavery is illegal now & no laws are on the books so to speak to disenfranchise immigrants. They get to own business 7 years tax free ... gtfoh

Yes..REAL HISTORY MUST BE TAUGHT....U will be surprised what U will learn!!!

@Charlotte yes black people built nation not only in America tho all over the world not only America own slaves they destroyed 100 of cities that were thriving by blacks in the past and past Jim Crow laws in a so called Christian nation and they to this very day use laws to keep majority for succeeding uneducated poor and so on and slavery still exist it called prison they make products for company’s by getting paid Cents and. Also y u think the man that freed the slaves Abraham Lincoln is on a brown penny …..this nation will till to go down hill until they do right about the people they oppressed intentionally it not just random white people but the government itself put those laws into place and America promised the slaves land and a mule but they never got it despite having their families separated was killed taking from their land etc America don’t have to pay if they don’t want too but it will hurt all of us if we can’t heal this nation by paying what you owe if u steal someone property kidnap someone isn’t that a crime ? America has done exactly that they literally help everyone else but us but I understand u have to work for what u want but u also have to understand u can’t beat the system
And he said unto Abram, Know of And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

You're describing pretty much every Latin American country. That makes you racist.

Safe Brother whines: *"...few actually ask us what we need to grow and prosper as a people."*
You may have to figure that out for yourselves and stop waiting for additional handouts.

@@maestroofamore8948 You and all other races get handouts.

I'm not getting handouts, and I'm not begging for any,@@RealRaeNichole.

@@maestroofamore8948 you get hand outs and unfair labor contracts you didn't work for. Its in the government documents

Only 5% of Americans kept blacks as slaves and many were your own people. Instead of voting Republican. You know Republicans. The party that fought a Civil War to give you the right to vote, to be recognized as a citizen. Now, Democrats have you hating on the very same people that helped you get freedoms. Blacks are worse off today than in the 1950s. Forget reparations.
Go out and get a job. Raise your kids. You live in 100% ran Dem run cities 🤡. You’re directing your hate in the wrong direction. It should be white liberals that you go after. Doubt you knew any of what I just said?

I thought he promised to get rid of Union jobs, oil, natural gas, the first amendment, the second amendment, the third amendment, coal fired power plants, coal mines, Covid 19, [[ or, as ''Joey'' would say, covid #9 ]] ETC., ETC., ETC...........

True I just hope people will understand that without bad faith

Both should be done.

plus i dont want some white racist guy bragging about how his tax dollars pay my bills

@Esther A Well... NO
And it doesn't matter as the US Government has already paid reparations to all Black Americans when it purchased and gave the entire Nation of Liberia to any and all Black Americans who wish to colonies it as their own nation.

and, WHO benifitted? djhjmedia.com/kari/the-names-of-african-slaves-allegedly-owned-by-kamala-harris-family-published/?.it&fbclid=IwAR2kAGhvPmxfhu6lbcuOpHiKRjv1s5RTF1WNGt86_a4X4kglQ9Frx_PkBZ0

@Hans Wurst The descendants of slaves were and are still directly affected today. Just look around you! The descendants of slaves are also easy to trace nowadays with the technology and the genealogy data that we have. It is never too late for reparations. 150 years later is not too late. It is only recently that the decendants of slave owners in the uk have received all the payment from the uk government for slavery being stopped there. So how can it be too late?? Why should the capitalist ruling class keep all the money and profits from slavery. The bankers have been bailed out for billions of pounds and they are criminals. Please be reasonable.

Easy - Thats what the Census is for...anyone identifying as African American qualifies

I disagree when you say people who were never directly affected. My grandmother is ~60 years old and she used to work picking cotton when she was younger. It's more recent than you think, and people are affected due to current societal structure when it comes to how they are viewed by other (white) Americans. To say that there are people who are not directly affected is to say that racism does not exist.

@@sahajpatel1553 you will pay for them not as an Asian immigrant but as an American citizen/national/resident. You won't pay because you or your ancestors did some bad things but rather because your country did bad things such as segregation and slavery in its past.

@@Drtyrock sure but what about African immigrants who arrived in the 70s? Should they be entitled to the same reparations as other African American whose family lived in America since the slavery era, if entitled to any reparations at all?

Come to Washington DC October 15 22 and we will explain to you what we are owed

I've already explained that you're not "owed" anything,@@allenholliday676.

@@justintime1343 Time will tell Won’t it enjoy the ride

I will,@@allenholliday676.

@Vincent: Make no mistake, America did "what it should've done" 157 years ago: liberating the Confederacy's slaves, to eradicate legal slavery from the North American continent. NOTHING's "due". Your welcome.

@podcast content true. I feel the same way.

And why are they due??? Who is currently alive who was a slave ?? What about the reparations that were paid for in blood?? Tens of thousands of whites died to free slaves in this country. Whites were lynched along side blacks during the civil rights struggles.
This constant talk of reparations is simply painting blacks as victims. Dividing cultures and preventing generations from healing and moving forward as one. I am not a slave, my parents and great great grandparents were not slaves. I refuse to allow myself or my children to be enslaved or have a victim mentality. These arguments are just another way to enslave us! Stand proudly on our own feet and refuse to be a victim any more !!!

@Charlotte exactly, and no other group of people were slaves over the entire world. In America, blacks endured the civil Rights movement in which they battled Jim Crow laws. Black people were even lynched in the 60s and 70s. No other groups went through that even in those more recent times. Entire black communities were burned to the ground at the turn of the 20th century. What other groups went through that? What other groups went through housing discrimination?

Well look at it this way. The federal government gave slave owners reparations immediately after the civil war so why not the slaves? Even when former slaves were still alive they asked for reparations so they are still owed. It's the same as in if you sue someone that you sue their estate and that takes from the aggressor's family. In that case, the money is still owed. Just put it like this white America(just say you don't think black people deserve it because you don't think we are worthy of anything.)

ATLHawksFan!!! They wasn’t trying to free no slaves $20,000 die there in the Devils Punch bowl 💯🔥🔥🔥🙀✌🏾✌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@ATLHawksFan!!! I also imagine that if they could give their lives, money is the least of their worries but of course a stephen miller would say that.

They still benefit from the institution of slavery. Pay up!

So you think that making 87% of the population sacrifice so 13% can get a windfall for doing nothing is going to ENDEAR the black community to the rest of the country?

@@ninadaly7639 When you take sovereignty from any human being your are responsible for the well being of them and any generations they produce. If white people just get out of the way of black people we wouldn't be asking for jack. The fact that implicit bias exists goes to prove that oppressors are in denial. There is no such thing as poverty only oppression. Nobody is stupid or lazy with proper education. It's those who seek to control the Economy are the ones who are not willing to train there replacement. Fear of losing a spot. The spot is all about Power. Black people are powerless in the World of white supremacy. And white people know this. Facts. At this time in the universe white people are the supreme beings. Facts. What makes them supreme is what you need to be asking me. This sense of entitlement they hide so well.

If you wanna hit anyone's pockets then go after the politicians' who have stolen from ALL of us, instead of going after your fellow Americans' pockets who worked hard to earn their own money!

@Michael McCallion I'm sorry sweetie you don't know the darden history
But it's true

@Michael McCallion the darden were founded in 1791

The 40 acres and a mule were not even considered for legal legislation.
It was a white guy who said that to get the blacks off his back after the civil war. Blacks weren’t even given a bill for 40 acres and a mule… aka you are deserving of nothing let alone a mule or 40 acres

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Dont forget the money southerns states make and made from convict leasing, sometimes aschigh as 20% of their budget.

They're poor. They spend all their slave trade profits. Icelanders invested all their fishing profits. And look at them today. Prosperous. In danger from volcanic eruption....but prosperous.

Why?

@Fake News 😂

@Fake News I don't hate black people and the question makes me made too. How stupid are people to think that they should get reparations from people that had nothing to do with slavery only because an ancestor may or may not have been a slave? Tell me which ancestor and to whom he/she was enslaved. Sue the owner's family. Whatever the award is, split it among the descendants.

There's no "bill".

@@justintime1343 back wages for 400 years of unpaid labor plus pain and suffering. I say there's a debt to be paid.

@@pimpenstein
The U.S. government didn't own slaves, it freed slaves. NOR are there ANY 400 year-old unpaid laborers. And attempting to profit from slavery remains as reprehensible today as it ever was. If YOU owe a debt, that's between you and your conscience, but it's clear that the U.S. government owes no such "debt".

@@pimpenstein
There are no 400 year-old unpaid laborers. NOR did the U.S. government own slaves, it freed them. If you feel there's a "debt", pay it yourself or bill the Democratic party/Confederacy. The government has no such "bill" to pay. Attempts to profit from slavery remain as reprehensible today as ever.

@@pimpenstein
There are no 400 year-old unpaid laborers. NOR did the U.S. government own slaves, it freed them. If you feel there's a "debt", pay it yourself or bill the Democratic party/Confederacy. The government has no such "bill" to pay. Attempts to profit from slavery remain as reprehensible today as ever.

You cant take the hood out of people. It not about opportunities or what not. Look why star sport athletes go back to shady past when they make millions and millions of dollar

We don’t need your help, keep your money and make your own bag

Why not give them both?

Already done by bleeding hearts.
Gangster culture ruins it.

Nope. That’ll come with lots of sabotage. We want our cash like everyone else got

That didn't stop America from giving Japanese Americans reparations now did it?

@The Last Danite I mean when or what year was it that wight people developed a conscience? Because it seems like to me they just waited until all the slaves died off before they would even entertain a conversation about reparations. Black people didn't wakeup one day and started asking for reparations the actual slaves asked for it. Where do you think Lincoln got 40 acres and a Mule from?

@The Last Danite Whatever. That's like saying why did the victims families of 9/11 get compensated they wasn't the victims. Yeah, I went there

Our request for reparations has been ongoing since the emancipation proclamation. America’s prosperity and wealth was built out of slavery the wealth you share in today that is why everyone will pay. The sins still continue to be plagued by are group. Why are we wasting time arguing with people whom apparently have a strong anti black biases. A waste of breathe better to create new allies and leave the other stubborn racists alone.

@@michaelx795 govt money should be based upon need, NOT COLOR. f--k reparations. WHile I will say that slavery is wrong, and, evil, as it is wrong to own another person, AN IMPORTANT POINT needs TO BE MADE CLEAR. The VAST majority of slaves, virtually all of them that came from sub-saharan africa, and, sold off of the shores of western africa, were already slaves in sub-saharan africa. OBVIOUSLY, I am not saying that slavery is OK or justified, as I am not. I am simply stating that SLaves were bought and sold amongst the various african tribes for thousands of years before the muslim invasions of sub-saharan africa of the 7th century ad throughout this very day today. The atlantic slave trade did not begin until about the 16th century, 900 years after the muslims were doing it in sub-saharan africa AND all throughout the mediterranean, I might add. And, keep in mind, that only about 5% of ALL of the african slaves actually went onto the ships to north america; more went to central and southern america, and, far more stayed in sub-saharan africa and went to north africa, the middle east, and, into europe, some, even going into asia...have ye suffured? ALL PEOPLES HAVE SUFFERED. black people IN THE WEST: quit blaming your insufficiencies on the white man. yOU ARE lucky THAT YOUR ANCESTORS WERE BROUGHT OUT OF AFRICA. Sub-saharan africans are still stolen, enslaved, killed, and castrated by Muslims in this very day, and, have been since the 7th century AD, for over 1300 YEARS!

Agreed

*NAILED IT* x 15.

For you because you have white privilege

AMEN!

yeah until you give those 20 year sentences in prison

@@dom1abc1mbc which you no doubt deserved but whatever

@@theTOOLshed1 i never stole anything wtf are you on about

@@theTOOLshed1 besides stealing a bag shouldnt get you 20 years in prison, not even a year

Bullsh1t

@@enock_elk Nope. The Portuguese, Spanish and British didn't just pull up to West Africa and start capturing people! They were sold by money hungry African slave traders the responsibility falls solely on them.

@@TheNando1 West africa does owe them money, but saying the US doesn't is crazy... thats where they generated wealth and faced unimaginable cruelty.

@@keithbrown3045 First, that doesn't explain why West Africa owes more to black Americans than the US. Why would the responsibility fall on those who sold rather than those who bought? I'd say that those who bought are more responsible because they are the ones who have created the demand for slaves and pushed West Africans to collect and sell slaves to them.
Second, what is West Africa? What institutions responsible for slavery still stand today? The answer is none.
Thirdly, because of colonization, the benefits that West African states could have gotten from the slave trade has disappeared. And those benefits went, you guessed it, to Europe.

@@rasho2532 You can't be serious? Do you honestly think that europeans dropped anchor and started off into the bush looking for Africans?? No! They dropped anchor at an *active* slave trade industry run by Africans themselves for nearly a 1000 years. What's so bad is Europeans weren't even the largest purchasers of African Slaves that title belongs overwhelmingly to the Arabs. What's even more flawed about your line of thinking is no one questioned the institution of slavery until western country outlawed the practices. BTW slavery is still quite active in Northern Africa today.

"Payments" to "LGBTQ"?? From who? For what? You just made that up, didn't you?

@@maestroofamore8948 yeah it's all made up afrocentric rhetoric.

We couldn't "afford" those things you listed either! We are over 20 trillion dollars in debt! But that's besides the point. The point is that reparations is theft. Each person is responsible for their own individual actions, not the actions of others. I have never been a slave owner, and I wouldn't want to, I am vehemently against slavery of ANY race of people, and I had nothing to do with slavery, so I do not owe my money that I worked hard for to people today that have never even experienced slavery. You can't justify punishing whites living today who had nothing to do with slavery just because of what people with the same skin color who lived in the past did. Every person in America today has the opportunity to go out and find a job and earn their own money, and they can accomplish their dreams if they're willing to put in the work and not give up. Those who want reparations just want free hand outs instead of working hard to earn their own money.

According to moral philosopher Chris Hedges, "Black people built America." So you or your White ancestors have to pay for the creation of the country.

@@drmodestoesq but what if our dollar is worthless 😏

That's for you to go figure out. We've already figured out ours.

Blacks pay taxes also when they should be exempt of all taxes anyway......................Especially in slave states.

drmodestoesq philosopher looks, black people didn’t built America. Immigrants built America, you’re excluding, the Latinos who work at the potato fields, the Chinese who built the rail roads, the Japanese people who’s rights were taken away and locked up in a concentration by Democrats, and the Native Hawaiians who were forced to work at a pineapple plantation in Hawaii. They’re not asking for reparations though, they believe that working hard and making good decisions get you the same wealth as a white mans wealth. Asian Americans are the riches people in the US not because they asked for reparations or asking a white man to give up his home. As a immigrant who came into this country, I started my own business selling aftermarket parts for cars. I didn’t ask for a white man or the government to give me reparations. I came to this country with nothing, what are you so whiny about?!

Take that up with the British we talking about America fool

@@calvinbowmab8761 your yapping not talking.
You want free money, off my back.

True!

If you can find anyone still alive who were slaves, then I'd be ok with giving them reparations, but there aren't any still alive today. And it's absurd to expect whites living today that have never been slave owners to pay blacks who have never been slaves. If anything, why not ask the arabs for reparations??? Slavery in America lasted about 400 yrs, while the arabs enslaved blacks for thousands of yrs! The arabs also had white slaves as well. So I guess we all should get reparations! Smh

@@nicole_silvers sounds like an ignorant response because you fail to realize black peoples have gone though way more than slavery. You clearly have never read the black tax or heard about black wall street or the war on drugs or government officials dropping dynamite from planes onto black neighborhoods ONLY because of the color of their skin, or unfair representation of black peoples in prisons, or Wells Fargo in 2022 not giving loans to black people, ect ect. It’s not just slavery. Other groups have gotten reparations for WAY less. I.E slave holder reparations🤡

@@nicole_silvers not to mention you fail to realize that when white people were getting free land Black people were being enslaved and never got compensated for their enslavement so their children began on the lower hand because of slavery. America robbed CURRENT Slave descendants of millions of dollars

@@nicole_silvers because the fact of the matter is my grandfather was a slave. You don’t Think him being a slave affected my entire family financially? it’s rhetorical. If your parents start off on the wrong foot because of slavery then of course you would be affected currently by slavery🤡

Past events of racism effect black Americans everywhere today. So yes they are owed something

@@whatspoppin4294
Prove the debt.
Prove who owns it.
Prove who owes it.
It's all yours.
Or; prove the crime.
Prove the victim.
Prove the perpetrator.
Get your conviction.
Either way;
The claimant bears the burden of proof.
Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators.

@@michaelpcoffee the proof is an economic system built on the backs of slaves. When an entire group of people have an inherit disadvantage compared to their white counterparts because of the past, they are owed the chance to be equal. When the average Black household accumulates half as much wealth as the average white household simply because of the past, there is a very apparent debt that is owed to them.

@@whatspoppin4294
More unsubstantiated claims to me won't do it.
It is the jurisdiction of the Probate court.
Good luck.

And in 2022 So there will be much fraud. People can identify as anyone one they like now. Or identify someone as they see fit. I wasn't born in America. Am i still responsible because I am white? Seems crazy .

People that had slaves are desd

yes, your family benefited from slavery.

And still is benefitting

Slaves produced a profit and that profit was taxed........................What does that have to do with you?

@@naylor2000 So what? It's not their fault nor their ancestors fault.

​@@kikinekoxd How are white people benifiting from slavery that was abolished more than 100 ago? Stop blaming your poverety on slavery. You have nobody to blame yourself unless if you aren't physically or mentally abled.

You don’t make any sense I’m sorry.

cameron taylor it’s not to say anything about the treatment of African Americans, it’s definitely definitely been deeply wrong. I just think there are an insane amount of things wrong with this. Also- remember how the US just added $11T In debt to our balance sheet, is another couple or 10s of T really the answer?? I don’t think so. But I’m no politician.

Also, wouldn’t an extra $350,000 in every African Americans bank account just reverse the problem?

It doesnt have to; it just needs to be done.

Haha this makes as much sense as a lynching in 2020... oh wait.

They already has been paid reparations

They have received reparations. All 5 tribes participated in US SLAVERY.

Can I get reparations from Scandinavia? The Vikings enslaved my ancestors and I'm too much of a pathetic victim and dancing puppet of the left to get by without the money of other people who did nothing to me.

@@threegenders201 STFU.

@@ct5951 keep dancing

The inequities of the past come with interests, only a whitewashed fool pretends slavery ended and america just stopped f'ing with black people.

You all can keep on having a victim mentality... while those who know that the world and anyone in it doesn't owe you anything will succeed in the game of life. If black people were so oppressed there wouldn't be multimillionaire black businesses owners, doctors, politicians, musicians/artists, and athletes. There wouldn't be Herman Caines, Herchel Walkers, Keith Black's, Chris Gardners and many more greats Americans in our society. Black people actually have a one up over everybody because of affirmative action. If anything Asian Americans are more "oppressed" compared to the rest. All that money doesn't go to the common Jew, only the big figures who run the Jewish congress. But yes keep having a victim mentality and live in the past.. something you have no control over and see how far that'll get you. Nobody owes you anything, thats the brutal reality of life. And I'm not even white you clueless fool

It won't happen. We have armies of lawyers ready to defend.

@@joebloe923 We?

We print our own money? That's crazy, I wonder if every other country who have their own currency know about this kind of magic. Lol

There are no victims still alive and those that cannot be linked to slavery should not be forced to pay, so how do you plan to accomplish that?

I agree, only descendants of slaves. It would actually help to heal the nation. otherwise in-fighting will never stop and might actually destroy the country.

@@ziwer1 The """descendants""" are so far removed from their own genealogy and diluted that it's pointless. Not that it wasn't pointless to begin with.
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@@CheesyChez421 That's the thing. America keeps shifting the goal posts for the slaves and their descendants.

@@ziwer1 How many years has it been since people owned slaves in America? About 400?
The goal posts have stayed the same, it's the black grifters who want to move them.

While at the same time having infinite. It’s wild. This world we live in

Well, if we're being technical they have about -$24 trillion.

So let’s stop DACA and foreign aid because the US doesn’t have the money 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Yet in a flash they could have it all. Like they did for Covid19

lol it has a 21 trillion dollar debt pay that first

Lol this comment is a joke

@@hayatmustapha2430 Ok

But you're from India. Societal structure? your society sure doesn't have any

You're right. But money can afford them the means to gtfo if they feel that after 400 years, they're still not assimilating

Lu what are we supposed to assimilate to

Why is it whenever people talk about doing some good with money you talk about national debt but when we want to spend trillions on failing company's you don't have a problem

Except companies can give people jobes or keep them while making the countey money while just giving away money wont

@@patrickreese1868 you wanna use the government to seize money from one race to give it to another? Do you know what that would do to this country? To race relations?

@@rasalghul3963 I want the government to take money from the rich and give it to the poor not take money from one race and give it to another

You must hate Latinos, then, because they took all of South and Central America, and most of North before they lost it. But hating Latinos, as your position requires you to do, makes you racist.
Blacks never owned America. "Their lands", as you put it, are Africa. We can't give those away because we don't own them.

govt money should be based upon need, NOT COLOR. f--k reparations. WHile I will say that slavery is wrong, and, evil, as it is wrong to own another person, AN IMPORTANT POINT needs TO BE MADE CLEAR. The VAST majority of slaves, virtually all of them that came from sub-saharan africa, and, sold off of the shores of western africa, were already slaves in sub-saharan africa. OBVIOUSLY, I am not saying that slavery is OK or justified, as I am not. I am simply stating that SLaves were bought and sold amongst the various african tribes for thousands of years before the muslim invasions of sub-saharan africa of the 7th century ad throughout this very day today. The atlantic slave trade did not begin until about the 16th century, 900 years after the muslims were doing it in sub-saharan africa AND all throughout the mediterranean, I might add. And, keep in mind, that only about 5% of ALL of the african slaves actually went onto the ships to north america; more went to central and southern america, and, far more stayed in sub-saharan africa and went to north africa, the middle east, and, into europe, some, even going into asia...have ye suffured? ALL PEOPLES HAVE SUFFERED. black people IN THE WEST: quit blaming your insufficiencies on the white man. yOU ARE lucky THAT YOUR ANCESTORS WERE BROUGHT OUT OF AFRICA. Sub-saharan africans are still stolen, enslaved, killed, and castrated by Muslims in this very day, and, have been since the 7th century AD, for over 1300 YEARS!

Thank you, there is money for non american but for american who not only were enslaved but died in wars fighting for this country.

You haven't heard of Affirmative Action and welfare programs?

@@tyronekim3506 Have you heard of scholarships for African American youths and Program to mentor blacks youths that come from broken household?

@@fridaymanly Right on. There has been as big paradigm shift in the Democrat party consciousness. In 1961 John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what the country can do for you - but ask what you can do for your country." But then decades later Hillary Clinton and Barac Obama quoted an African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child." One should ask if a village raised the children of the Clintons and the Obamas. And "Reparations" is one of the hot topics of current discussion. If Kennedy were alive today and uttered the same words as he did in 1961, "Ask not what the country can do for you... ", he would probably be expelled from the Democratic party.

No, white people need to pay. No scholarships, no loans, no government programs. Black people pay taxes to pay themselves reparations? Every dollar of reparations should come from a white bank account. Increase taxes on whites and make blacks exempt from taxes if you want to use government programs to redistribute wealth.

@@tyronekim3506 I don't think you understand how history, or political party membership, works?

They're like: "We already enjoy our welfare checks, affirmative action, food stamps & various advantages, but let's explore every conceivable way of extorting as much undeserved money as humanly possible by pretending to be victims."

They make a way to pay for what they want. They just paid 350,000,000 more or less for ukraine weapons assistance, so yeah They can do it.

That is EXACTLY what they are doing. You gotta hand it to these people there ain´t no others that you could compare to them. The blow back runs deep.

don't think most American taxpayers believe they owe the descendants of slaves anything.

WHOA NELLY! Who says “we know we owe them reparations”?

Yes. As part of the movement to India's independence from Britain, land was given from members of the upper caste to members of lower castes. The result was that the members of the lower castes ended up selling the land back to the people who originally owned it over time.
While I would never deny that whites exploiting African Americans led to wealth inequality, it was the wealth inequality that pre-existed people who are white and people from Africa coming into (increasing) contact that created the conditions for race-based exploitation.
I'm in no way denying the history or trying to deny people negatively impacted some remedy, this just isn't it. I wouldn't begrudge someone who is African American cashing a check if they receive one. My concern is that this looks more like a payoff than a solution

@@MarcillaSmith At this point a pay-off would be better for anyone who's grown lathargicover all this race crap. At least with money, anyone that feels they're not appreciated in the US can just take off anf go to Canada and we can all move on with our lives.

@@lu881 if that were true, we'd have already "moved on with our lives" since affirmative action was supposed to have fixed the issue 2 decades ago

@@MarcillaSmith
Affirmative Action wasn't a unit of currency that could be exchanged for political influence in lobbying.
So it could not address _"other"_ issues faced by these communities.
Like, it's kinda hard getting an easier pass to get into Harvard, when your government designated you and your entire race to places that have schools with a metal detector at the front gate you know...

@@lu881 When I first began reading your comment, I thought you were being pedantic, but by the end, I'm not sure that anything I've said has been clear. Therefore, let me make at least this much clear: I love Black people, and I hate white supremacism.
From my perspective, you are advocating a more conservative, "work within the system" approach. I stand with Audre Lorde's statement that, "the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house." More pointedly, are you honestly putting forth the idea that direct payments to African Americans would find their way into lobbying efforts more than individuals would spend this money the way most of us do - paying for daily expenses like gas, monthly bills like rent, annual costs like holiday gifts, and long term investments like a down payment on a nicer home for their families? And even if each individual in the African American community decided to forego a nicer standard of living for their family in the present and stable investments in the future in order to pool their money for the uncertain benefits lobbyists might be able to secure, are you saying that you think the system is going to give an oppressed group of people enough money to buy out the system itself?
Like I say, I don't begrudge anyone who cashes a reparations check, I just think it's hush money that's trying to defer the impending overthrow of the very system propped up by white supremacism

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I don't think people know that. Giving money away makes it worthless.

@@sebastionhawk5565 No, i think you're mistaken, the Islamic slavery was nowhere as brutal or as harsh as the Atlantic slavery. I don't bother replying but I had to in this instance, as the comparison between the Atlantic slavery and the Islamic one has been debunked many times. Yes, Muslims did engage in slavery, but nothing like the ones seen in history. They were more like servants and were treated under the Islamic law correct. To call it slavery is actually wrong due to the connotation that it somehow resembles Atlantic slavery which totally false. Mansa Musa the richest man in west Africa, had so-called 'slaves', to compare them to the Atlantic slaves is actually deeply false and offensive. Just seems like we did it, they did it therefore it was 'normal', but there was nothing fine about the atlantic slavery. Just a horror show !

@@sebastionhawk5565 When you say 'Muslims, I guess you're implying Arabs, which have treated black folks far better throughout human history than those of the white ethnic origin. ''Sub-saharan Africans are still stolen, enslaved, killed, and castrated by Muslims in this very day''. I am guessing you're talking about the lawlessness that is occurring in Libya which has become a failed state, because of a US-led intervention.
'' ALL PEOPLES HAVE SUFFERED'', yes I agree, but I am saying that to imply the Atlantic slavery to the Muslim one is a crude understanding of history, just seems like a petty justification, for the Atlantic slavery. Islamic slavery was nowhere near as brutal as said before, as it was based on faith, and the slaves had many rights, same can't be said for Atlantic slavery.

anything I write regarding true history is now instantly deleted from this thread. YOur biased anti-western civilization censorship is highly unbecoming of you.

yeah its just deflection tactics of the devil the creator made them to be this way which will make it that much sweeter when they kingdom comes crashing down just like in rome but in a more massive way and when they see what the person leading the charge looks like those devils are going to flip out i cant wait

no. u r.

@@lu881 how so

As long as we get paid then that's okay..

@@abramhepp8729
Because it's all _not_ stupid.

And so is your picture 🤭

That is part of the cause of inflation, along with the illegitimate, fraudulent "president" and his bs executive orders and democrat policies that are destroying this country

America has been given away money and payments for over 400 years and they continue till this day let them pay for the Worse atrocity in the history of this world

@@allenholliday676 When you say "worst atrocity in the history of this world" you reveal your great ignorance of world history.

@@morriswilburn9858 no you show your ignorance for even attempting to challenge that statement when you compare the long lasting time and the amount of harm that was done to the American descendants of slavery you would make yourself seem very ignorant to even try if I’m wrong give me one example?

@@allenholliday676 John Henrik Clarke, an African American, was a world-class African historian, arguably the best in the world in the past 100 years. He was a “walking encyclopedia”. In one of his speeches, he said that the slave trade that Arabs ran on the east coast of Africa for 1,000 years was “at least as large, if not larger, than the Trans-Atlantic slave trade”. I will also say that in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, literally 10 times more slaves were sent to Brazil than to the US. I will also point to the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries, which was the largest contiguous land empire in world history. It stretched from Iran to the Sea of Japan. It was created by killing or subjugating every person it came across; some countries had as much as 50% of the population killed. I could go on, but you get my point.

Isreal....biggest welfare recipients and billions in reparations quarterly from the U.S. ever since its founding. I dont know about you but I dont care what color Israelis are, I'm tired of that coming out of my pockets for an entire country that is now capable of taking care of itself living off American taxpayers

Say that to Black Wall Street that was burned to the ground by a racist mob, and Wellington North Carolina whom's biracial government was overthrown by White supremacists.

Great use of the code word "laziness" ... Who the hell are you to say what a people who have been subjected to slavery, murder and destruction ... now those people need to work "hard" two satisfy you. Learn your history ... krplus.net/bidio/lrOPnap3a3m3daA

@@kappadarwin9476 "they" never care about that but its ok.....that's why "they" all are dying out faster than they are reproducing, extinction is "their" righteous punishment.

@@SR-ze6qz exactly

+1

The segregation is already seen in the communities that lack far more funding in schools, medicine, green spaces, jobs and etc. the poorest cities all have mostly black people representing them at such a high rate and those are the cities that need funding. If you overlook the actual segregation that caused the disparity in wealth and you think giving money that is owed and needed is segregation then you’re a child who shouldn’t be able to own a phone. Log off

@@firstnamelastname-gl6pl Ok get the money and than what ? Continue being Democrats slavery ? You don’t get it? That’s the game Democrats wanna play . Do you really think paying segregation fees gonna take anybody from poverty ? Give me a brake !

@@Dernykammer are you joking😂 I just told you what would happen. The money would give better funding to schools and create more jobs and safer neighborhoods that will overall lessen crime and be better for the country as a whole. Open your eyes and if you’re going to try and make an argument against reparations at least have an intelligent one that’s on this topic.

@@firstnamelastname-gl6pl If the money really go for Better schools and create jobs it will be ok . But that’s not what people are expecting. They are expecting to get a check at home !

@@Dernykammer who are you supposed to be listening to? “People” or the elected officials that are supposed to put this together. My best advice is to listen to the people who have actively studied these issues and actually put in work to make these things happen. God bless

Most blacks, and whites too, have been taught a false history because none of them seem to know that it was teh arabs who started the slave trade in the first place and they enslaved blacks for thousands of years, while slavery in America lasted about 400 years, yet they demonize white Americans and demand reparations but never even mention the worst slavery of all, the arab's enslaving blacks! Also, blacks who were enslaved by arabs were treated far worse and forced to live in far worse conditions than slavery in America! People need to educate themselves!

@Whiteman The question is not weather rich people pay more tax in total than poor people, the question is if they pay enought.

​@Whiteman I am guessing my Goverment is getting around -40k$ a year from me.
I think you do not really understand how society works, because if you just compare the amount of tax the goverment recives from the poor people compared to the rich people you dont conzider how much rich people rely on the system.
The Justic system, the inferstrukture, the education and much more is helping the rich people to to accoumulate their wealth.
For example a Truckdriver is working for a rich person and that rich person is rellying on the fact that the truck driver working for him has medicare good streets to drive on and everything else so he can make a living and generate wealth for the rich person

@Whiteman This is not true, i never said that i am against a free market. Its totally dishonest to say that higher taxes for the rich is marxism or socialism. Just some facts: the Federal Income Tax in 1955 the so called golden age of capitalisem was up to 91%.
Source: www.tax-brackets.org/federaltaxtable/1955
So would you call the US a socialism country in the 50s ?
You are just uneducated, but i am more than happy to show you that your opion is mainly baised of beliving things that other people told you, but that the facts show something else.

@Whiteman I live in a European country where my tax rate is close to 55%. Trust me, I pay plenty, and everyone (including those who pay much less) reap the benefits of that tax. This is how a society should function, stop deepthroating the billionaire boot

the United states should pay reparations to the desendents of slaves. there is a history beyond slavery that created this mess. I mean Jim Crow, I mean redlining, i mean the active bombing of black communities, i mean there are literal man made lakes created to cover remains of formerly prosperous black communities erased from existance. I mean using black people as lab rats to study diseases with out compensation...I mean the school to prison pipelines. I mean the expansion of the definition of what constitutes a law just to create revenue for cities and states. I mean how due to the wording of the 13th amendment states made literally any and everything a crime then overpoliced an already oppressed community. I mean black men are three times more likely to be killed by police than their white neighbors. I mean the policies of this nation are directly responsible for the situation that blacks Hispanics and native Americans face . Yes justice must be served. retribution must be offered... and the literal wealth and status the USA enjoys was built on the back of people my great grandfather.
My mother's father was born in 1912, my father's father was born in 1922 .. both had direct lines and were literally raised by people who came from slavery. ...
my Papa just died at 98 years old and he told me stories about how things were and he saw the same things he saw his whole life. America denying racism while actively fighting to preserve its institutions
the bible says if a man works he should surely be paid... black people are owed for 400 years of oppression and should be recognized as the driving force behind the wealth of The USA allowing it to become a world superpower.
you can not deny free labor from 1619 to 1865 was a huge boost to national wealth. from 1865 to 1965 being overworked and never being allowed to enjoy the full rights of citizenship...from 1965 to 2021 filling prisons on trumped up charges and bad plea deals just to destroy the black community and ultimately the black family for slave labor in for profit prisons also help create wealth....

@@KYWAN_MURPHY_O.G.N.C. you got a good heart g, people need to realize that black people only got 1% of the wealth. If we can have our own America would be 10 times better than now

no, it would never stop. black people would constantly have their hand out. its political correctness out of control

@@tonyhall3845 Paying for the brutality of slavery is not a handout and you would know that if your people stop fighting against learning real history in your schools or are you just afraid of it

Good point

@@allenholliday676 hi Allen. I'm not afraid at all.
Just my opinion. Btw, I'm half black

@@silky900 shh the government waited 180 years to pay for slavery but when slavery ended the government paid “settlers” to migrate north with free land that they used for generations nothing was given to slaves

Hey genius, slavery is still going on in Africa, going to mention that?

no. get a job and do it urself.

Find a job.

Most of y'all wouldn't last a week in Africa. No welfare, poor infrastructure, lack of clean water, etc. Get a Gofundme set up. I'll pitch in for your one way ticket under one condition - you can't come back to live. Only visit. Deal homie?

@LaDiosa My comment was directed towards Daisy.

I'm not going anywhere, your ancestors, work their fingers to the bones because of these people, so who does this land really belong to, not the ones that did no work, that for sure. They made this country what it is today, so this is their country, their blood is everywhere. So I stand here for the people who slave for this land, and did not get a chance to enjoy their hard, hard labor. This is their land.

Don't forget African countries. They were enslaving long before Europeans arrived.

@@derp8575 that is so true. Corrupt African leaders are enslaving children and killing adults as we speak. Unfortunately it takes forever to put them on trial. We all know why. It would be impossible for African militaries to return and distribute the wealth among the ppl and setup a functional government. Can we pinpoint which powers/countries in Africa had involvement with the slave trade in the 1500 and 1600s? They don’t have near as much monies as those four European powers. France would bankrupt if they cut money ties with certain African countries