The original title was ”Should the U.S. Pay For Reparations”

Ah yes, money is key when we talk morality

America sends millions of dollars to Israel each year, from U.S. tax payers money, so certainly they could afford to pay imo.

Anytime you talk about something specific for black Americans white Americans be like what are we going to get out of it 🤷🏿‍♂️

Why are you keeping out the statistics of Asian americans?

No sane person would ever entertain this idea.

So, if one is against reparations, then, one is "justifying slavery?" THAT is preposterous. In response to one who has replied to one of my replies: "You actually ask me: "so you would like to justify slavery?" I would NOT like to do that. Nor, did I do that. Nor, will I ever do that. DO not put words in my mouth. From what I have written, you cannot justify what you have inferred in asking me that question. However, you are NOT going to get reparations, whether you like it or not. And, this is the reality, especially, given the fact that WWIII has started, and, it is only a matter of time when the USA will be at direct, kinetic war with Russia AND China. The supply chains have been breaking down, and, will continue to do so, more and more, for the next few years. You have no IDEA of what is coming. Maybe, then, you and the black community in america will just see how good you have had it. Black american have had it far better than ANY other people of sub-saharan DNA in the world, even when slavery still existed in america. Pretty soon, EVERYONE will have it bad in america, except for the ultra-rich elitists, the ones that you and your kind voted for, the same ones that sold us out to our enemies for decades, and, built up China AND Russia. But, at least you don't have to put up with a few "mean tweets," do you? Everything the democrats AND some republicans said about Trump was fictional, but, THEY did everything of which they accused him. And, keep in mind, that blacks did better under Trump in his first 3 years than ANYTIME in american history. Most importantly, all of the catastrophic things that are happening now, and will happen in the near future would not be happening if Trump was still in office, and, you KNOW it. But, hey, good to know that you all vilified the right man for the job, and, voted along the lines of the DNC, in hopes of getting "reparations." The DNC all strung you along like mindless drones, promising you the sky, by gave you NOTHING."

Let's make people who never owned slaves pay people who never were slaves. Makes perfect sense!

The Native Americans have more right to reparations before anyone.

Crisis show even the slightest of problems in societies. In this case, the Covid-19 pandemic showed terrible problems in the US, and they weren't little.

"And thou shalt come out with great substance"

To quote your own justice system: If you can afford to do the crime (and profit from it so much for generations), then you can afford to do the crime.

Money without structure will not lead to lasting change. Need to fix the underlying issues and not just toss money at the problem.

Where's the reparations to the natives???🤦‍♂️

They don't need no freaking study.a study can go on for the next hundred years.this b.s.

I have paid every piece of my taxes to the govt, nothing compared to billionaires. Where’s my representations uncle sam?

The voiceover is too charismatic for me to pay attention

Instead of financial compensation, give them safety, more opportunities and employment

Note that after the Civil War, thevUS Government paid the former “slave holders” for the loss of their slaves. Since they had “succeeded from the Union,” they did not deserved to be paid any money at all😩😩😩. Yet the former enslaved people did deserve reparations for work rendered🤗🤗🤗

"Chattel slavery" is different than wage slavery or indentured servitude. 17th century Africans who entered the Caribbean and the Americas were firmly established as chattel property. Free labor!

Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.

Giving money won't work, giving people access to cheaper education and better opportunities, will.

People who never owned slaves giving money to people who were never slaves. Makes perfect sense to me.

A dumb question… they can afford everything else and can afford to send money around the world to help everyone but it’s own people… millions to Afghanistan and Ukraine!! Noone ask can we afford to send these people our tax money

I've been a tax slave working for the government all my life. Where are my reparations?

So sick of this reparations garbage. So who gets it ? Anyone with any percentage of black ancestry ? Or just blacks who prove they are direct descendants of slaves ? Who pays it ? Just citizens of confederate states ? Or everyone ? What about reparations for the families with white ancestors from the north who were conscripted into the civil war to end slavery ?

Remember joe biden once said that black and white children shouldn’t be in the same bus back in the day lmao

It's only expensive because America refused to do what it should have done when Reparation costs would have been dirt cheap. But make no mistake, Reparations are still due and payable, just way past due.

Everyone like to dictate to ADOS but few actually ask us what we need to grow and prosper as a people. When we respond and say reparations every one has a problem with it. Even these so called allies of black people who march with us in the streets demanding justice and equality.

If African Americans want reparations they need to ask their kin in west African countries who enslaved their ancestors and than sold them to Europeans!

They definitely fund every situation and group they choose for years upon years now

If you wait 180 years to pay a bill, it accrues interest

A nation founded on genocide and slavery will pay one way or the other. Until we make an HONEST reckoning of our past - there can be no real future. My ancestors were early Virginians who "hunted" native Americans and were later slave owners - so I know my family directly benefited from these crimes. Our real history needs to be taught, WARTS AND ALL. That alone is the bare minimum.

Its a bit late for those reparations. Is it even possible to determine who is an actual descendant of a slave? There were also free afro-americans back then, or? Also what about "mixed" persons? How u want to figure all that stuff out? If people want to help blacks and other minorities (or the poor in general), then invest in the infrastructure in the areas were many of them live. Build better schools, hire more social workers, lower the cost for college education or stuff like that. I think thats a much better way. The comparison with the german WW II/Holocaust reparations doenst fit at all. Back then the money was payed to the direct victims or their direct descendants, and not some more or less random people who live ~150 years later and who where never directly affected.

This is what the whole narrative has always been about. A group of people want money.

What is Privilege???? 1) Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you’ve never had a job. 2) Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance. 3) Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan, which you receive no bill for. 4) Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don’t have a utility or phone bill and where rising property taxes, rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table, which is largely covered by Government Food Stamps. 5) Privilege is having free health insurance for you and your family that's paid for by working taxpayers who often can't afford proper health coverage for their own families. 6) Privilege is having multiple national organizations promoting and protecting just your race alone -- that are subsidized by federal tax dollars. 7) Privilege is having access to a national college fund that supports only one race. 8) Privilege is having a television network that supports only one race. 9) Privilege is having most of the media news networks refuse to cover incidents wherein one race (one-eighth of the population) commits 50% of the crimes. 10) Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, without worrying about calling off from work and the consequences that accompany such. 11) Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or pre-school you don’t pay for. 12) Privilege is being able to vote in many states without showing a driver's license, voter ID card or other credentials -- just because your race claims they should be exempt from such requirements. 13) Privilege is being able to riot, loot, commit arson and tear down historic monuments without consequences -- just because you don't like folks such as Columbus, U. S. Grant or even Lincoln. 14) Privilege is being able to get into almost any college of your choosing based on your race, not your grades or merit. 15) Privilege is having most of your life paid for by the working men and women who DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH RISING TAXES AND COSTS! you know, those you now call “PRIVILEGED.” I think the reparations have long been paid out ...............

Why?? Reparations should of went to their ancestors. Current generations has access to everything that I myself have. I’m Hispanic so what about my people? Can you give us Texas, Arizona and California back? What about my peoples families that got broke up, deported ?

Reparation to whom? This is just stupid, politician will just zap that money with barely any impact

THEY CAN AFFORD TO GIVE MONEY TO EVERYBODY ELSE IN FOREIGN AID ! LIKE RIGHT NOW !

Imagine demanding money for someone else's work! NOT happening! Such con artists are dreaming if they expect to be taken seriously.

I think any rational person would say "Why should I pay reparations? I didn't do anything to deserve that! And the people who would be receiving my resources were never enslaved nor ever treated badly by me? You simply cannot expect people to pay for the sins of others".

West Africa owes African Americans a lot of money not the US!

Our country literally prints its own money

They can afford wars then they can afford reparations tf

The US doesn’t have any money

This doesn’t make any sense I’m sorry.

$30 trillion in national debt and people are talking about reparations 😂😂😂 get real

Haven't they already stolen enough ? Bring me one living slave and I'll say yes . The GIMME GIMMEs with their hands out once again

Haven't you heard? Looting is reparations. So, it's done and done.

This is all stupid.

If you plan to do a payment plan. ALL families should get the same amount regardless of financial situation.

You realize NO ONE owes you ANYTHING, right?

Why should I pay? My family immigrated after the Civil War. So am I guilty?

What about all the descendants of Northerners who fought to free the slaves? A bunch of them died in battle. They don't owe a single penny.

Black folks instead of wanting reparations, let's ask the government to take that money of reparations and invested it in our black Communities, scholarships for black youths, programs to help stop violence within black Communities, and other way to make progress in the black community

It’s going to never be a good time to dole out reparation payments so I said do it and get it over with… It’s not a good time whenever we are sending money to Ukraine or many other nations and expenditures this country has either, yet we still do it. Stop finding excuses when it comes to paying out money that’s owed to this group of people.

Reparations for what? Everyone who's alive right now never went through slavery or was even a slave owner. Get real and stop playing the victim and move on. Thats the only way to move forward.

If America has the money to pay slave owners reparations for owning slaves-- then CERTAINLY.

Wealth is a social aspect, it’s not a question of distributing money but preserving it.

1#. HEIR. At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law , to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the death of his ancestor, by descent and right of relationship. The term “heir” has a very different signification at common law from what it has in those states and countries which have adopted the civil law. In the latter, the term is indiscriminately applied to all persons who are called to the succession, whether by the act of the party or by operation of law. The person who is created universal successor by a will is called the “ testamentary heir; “ and the next of kin by blood is, in cases of in testacy, called the “ heir at law,” or “ heir by intestacy.” The executor of the common law in many respects corresponds to the testamentary heir of the civil law. Again, the administrator in many respects corresponds with the heir by intestacy. By the common law, executors and administrators have no right except to the personal estate of the deceased; whereas the heir by the civil law is authorized to administer both the personal and real estate. Story, ConfI Laws,$$ 507, 508. EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S, FOR REPARATION, AND REPATRIATION. AMEN 2# TANGIBLE PROPERTY. property which may be touched; such as is perceptible to the senses; corporeal property, whether real or personal. The phrase is used in opposition to such species of property as patents, franchises, copyrights, rents, ways, and incorporeal property generally. EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S. TANGIBLE PROPERTY. property which may be touched; such as is perceptible to the senses; corporeal property, whether real or personal. The phrase is used in opposition to such species of property as patents, franchises, copyrights, rents, ways, and incorporeal property generally. EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S. FOR REPARATION, AND REPATRIATION. AMEN 3# HEIR AT LAW. He who, after his ancestor’s death intestate, has a right to inherit all lands, tenements, and hereditaments which belonged to him or of which he was seised. The same as “ heir general.” EGYPTIAN TANGIBLE PROPERTY’S, FOR REPARATION. AND REPATRIATION. AMEN.

The bottom line is that when you hit mfks in the pockets they think twice about mistreating people. Doesn't Matter if it's a good idea or not. What matters is it's an action for a reaction.

If you want to compensate then reparations should be paid for the Native Americans

(INSERT TITLE HERE) ...just like we afforded the bail out 2008, the COVID relief act, the yearly aide to nations, the payments to indigenous, the payments to Afghans, AAPI, LGBTQ and proposed payments to LatinX undocumented persons at the border. This is 100% about will. What we do is who we are not what we say or intend.

The fed can print out so much money it is worthless. hahah!

No. The very question makes me angry.

As a legal immigrant who is now a citizen, I refuse to pay for the sin of the past

To give people reparations is not that hard Remember every black person has the last name of their slave owner Like me for example my grandfather last name is Darden Last time I check the darden is a billion-dollar industry So you telling me this Corporation can't buy me 40 acres and a mule

I don't feel that it is fair that a person that never owned slaves should have to pay reperations to people that have never been slaves.

The ratio of likes to dislikes in this video should tell people how unpopular such a concept like this is here in the states anyways....

Incredibly brilliant way to increase racism exponentially.

Where are the high paying union jobs? People want to work..joe promised jobs..lots and lots..where are they?

They’re like “ we know we owe them reparations.. but let’s explore every way we can make it seem impossible” 🧐

Reparations are for the victims and possibly direct descendants. That's it

This would certainly have an economic consequence, but very interesting indeed.

Just give them back their lands. It's really so simple. Europeans have benefitted off the backs of indigenous populations all over the world, especially here in the America's. It's time they did what's righteous by putting aside their insecure nature, acknowledging their inhumane history, and learning how to coexist amongst nations respectively.

I'm from Mississippi so you know i'm good. Either way this thing goes Mississippi must pay for all the innocent deaths, racial class disparities, mental and physical abuses, denial of educational opportunities, racial favoritism on all fronts, that state is accountable.

The Irish where sold as slaves be the British but they don’t get repetitions

The country can certainly afford to pay for legitimate claims to reparations, because there is none--the cost would be zero.

The sad thing the people that had slaves wont pay for this and the people that were slaves dont get it.

The dead owe and are owed nothing.

I think if we're going into this topic, we should also talk about native Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans.... The fundamental nature of this issue isn't just about racial, but the uneven distribution of wealth. Instead if spending such money on rapadation, how about increase budget on education. Where by increasing the number of colleges and free quality education gives the poor more a chance of success.

I agree with what they say at 5:27. Simply giving money to people won't solve anything.

Trillion? That’s not even enough

Slavery never ended. Deuteronomy 28:15-68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall redeem you. Baruch 3:8. Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the elohim our yah.

Its simple. Abolish the Bank of International Settlements and in that process redistribute wealth to those families that paid the unrelenting price of slavery. This would create a worldwide, peaceful, and prosperous society. As long as currency is issued as debt worldwide, we are all under the control of corporate interests.

Money can't solve everything .. you need societal structure ... It would need more time and assimilation of the population ..

The case for reparations is clear........period,call it a tax write off for those who deny slavery and oppression

Reparations are the extraction of money from those who never owned slaves, to be given to people who never were slaves.

I’m curious what people think about the fact that the UK govt paid reparations and just finished paying a few years ago.

My parents came over this country in the 90s making minimum wage around $6. Now I graduated with a masters degree and considered upper-middle class. If I can make it then blacks people can too. Maybe it's the culture or issue within the black community that needs to be address?

If it’s only money most if not all of the recipients will burn through their share relatively quickly. And then what?

I once suggested giving out free turkeys for a South-side Chicago event, and was told "Are you crazy? It would be utter chaos!" (To get a free turkey). Rodney King got $5 million, and he died broke. End of proposal. They can't even define "Woman". How can they define "Black"?

What about 40 acres and a mule?

Does i, a german, owe the jewish money for things which happend 50 years before my birth? No Does the goverment of the USA owe money to black people because of there race? No Use the money to help people and not to make them even more reliant on the state.

I've been told to "go back to africa" I'm saving up now. What most ppl fail to accept is that if ADOS were given reparations, most of us would go back to africa. what's the problem?? pay up so we can leave like y'all want us to🙄

Stop some of these people from double dipping in the pot by collecting from the government and hiring a collection agency to collect some more debt over 20 to 30 years old

Sure America can afford reparations. Make West Africa pay for it. They played a major role in slavery and now they need to pay for their sins.

I wouldn't accept reparations and cash because it has less worth gold and land is preferred

Shouldn't Africa start with reparations, I mean that is where it started for black people right? If it wasn't for blacks selling their own this would not even be a topic right now.

Why would you interview anyone from the CATO institute?