they need to start paying reparations for all the crimes they are committing

Pay up!! Instead of giving it to non citizens

Stop telling minority kids they're victims but are the masters of their own fate thru hard work and you'll have happier, successful people and you'll extinguish the gap.

So the lady at 9:10 wants reparations, but is unhappy when descendants, who got their rightful land back, sell that land? What exactly does she think reparations are? You get to do what you want to do with it, and I'd wager many people would spend the money in less than a wise or "community-friendly" way.

No, we don’t “get to pass down a fight” 🙄 some of y’all choose to teach your kids your woe is me mentality

Better not. This is complete BS.

No one should pay for slavery because every race and nation is guiltily of encouraging and carrying out acts of slavery during their history. To think that reparations would solve even 20% of the problems is laughable.

Justice is coming America!

Such evil 😈 people then and now...

You would do better combating modern day racism if you focused on building out modern infrastructure such as metros and healthcare.

making ppl pay reparations for something they didnt do, for ppl which arent alive anymore, is bs. looks like its all about the money, whilst telling people its about justice.

It's always about money, always

I mean in that case is Turkey going to pay Greece for slavery?

It is true that the pursuit of reparations has faced resistance and opposition from various quarters, predominately from those who benefit from the existing power structures and historical inequalities. White supremacy, as a system that perpetuates racial hierarchies and privileges,has been a barrier to efforts aimed at rectifying historical injustices.

My ancestors were enslaved by Vikings. I'm still waiting 1200 years later. Get in line.

I'm pretty sure they did a comedy skit about this on the Chappelle show

If reparations happen, I'm opening a store selling gold chains.

My family never owned slaves. Most of my ancestors didn't even come to the U.S. until after slavery was gone. So why am I paying people for slavery that my ancestors weren't involved in?

So give money to people who were never slaves to tax people who never owned a slave 🙄. How about the Japanese Americans in interment camps or Native Americans who were murdered in mass and had their lands stolen, where is there check?

Short answer is no, they just want money

It must feel relieving to blame all your failures on things that happened before you were born.

Of course, make people who have never owned slaves pay people who have never been slaves

Its not just a racial divide, thought the racial minority is on the wrong side of the curve, its a wealth divide in our society as a whole. Too many people dont have enough, while a select few have entirely to much, we need a complete rework of our economic system to balance the wealth in any meaningful way.

They are waiting for the 3 survivors to die and turn around and say their descendent can't claim reparation.Yet they had a opportunity to repair the issue when they were alive!

The family sold the land back to the city for $20 M? Dumb!!! The family could have kept the land, built buildings on the land, rented the apartments and stores, and made BILLIONS!!!! Dumb!!!!!

Forcing everybody to be worth the same amount of money is not a legitimate government function. It is also not reparations. Race entitles you to nothing. Race convicts you of nothing. Sharing the race of a victim does not make you a victim. Sharing the race of a villian does not make you a villian. Being related to a victim does not make you a victim. The dead owe and are owed nothing. Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations. Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators. Nobody gets paid reparations for being a race.

No.. It's been over 150 years, get over it.

Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations. Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators. I don't know of anybody who opposes that.

Both my parents are immigrants. My dad was homeless. Now they live in a 4,000 SQ ft house. It was not given to them. I agree slaves were owed money. No one is born a slave is alive anymore. Too late sadly.

NO I DON'T WANT THERE MONEY/// GIVE IT BACK TO THE TAX PAYERS YOU STOLE IT FROM

I am an African-American. This is a bad idea.

You want to help them make schools better make healthcare , make their neighberhoods safe. Free education ,ect. Just giving money to individuals will solve nothing.

Was Tulsa the worst? What about Wilmington, NC; Rosewood, FL; Thibodaux, LA; etc.? 12:42

You can't pay based on skin color since there have been so many immigrants since slavery. You are talking about racism rather than slavery

How can you send my people? My ancestors back to a continent they've never been to, nor their ancestors, Tell that truth

I wonder how the 300 years of white slavery that they suffered through that somehow they overcame the effects that slavery caused for generation and somehow we never blamed or played the victim hood mentality....

1:38 The thing is , this is a field order made by a general on his own.

Just give me my god damned money! I will decide what I want to do with it! What is owed is owed.

One grievously underestimated contributing factor to the “racial wealth gap” is a generalized ignorance regarding basic money management-including basic investing and the importance of savings to future wealth outcomes…. A 2010 study (which is ongoing) comparing the “wealth accumulation” of different groups over time, found that among African Americans, Latinos, and recent Asian immigrants, within ten years, the Asian immigrants had accumulated 15X the wealth of African Americans, and 9X the wealth of Latinos. Particularly striking was the rate of savings between the three groups, with Asians saving, on average, 20% of earned income, Latinos, 12%….and African Americans, less than 2%…. What is important about the above study is that its results mimic other, similar ones….Whatever is decided upon in regards to reparations, serious thought must be put into adding money management courses as a mandatory requirement to a public school education….

Rome Empire had a lot ofvslaves. Is it time for Italy to pay up?

Everyone is descended from people who were treated inhumanly by todays standards. Being compensated for slavery you never experienced or having taxpayers pay off people they (and likely their distant ancestors) never enslaved is creating a new injustice. If there are reparations, maybe the ancestors of those who received reparations will one day have to pay back those whose ancestors paid those reparations? But that should only happen several generations later to ensure that it will be impossible to allocate the reparations for reparations in even a pysdo-fair way.

Reparations are the sort of thing that sound good in theory, but would be impossible to adequately implement in practice and which would cause tremendous problems going forward. It would be a terrible misapplication of a noble intention. The better path forward is to create more opportunities and access to those opportunities for everyone, rather than to dish out large sums of money based on someone's race.

Money doesn't solve problems, if you don't change your attitude

No.

Thank you for sharing this video.

Is a joke? Thats ancient history at this point

The damage has been done, unfortunately. The American government has favored people of European decent. That's one the reasons why the slave owners were compensated, not the enslaved. Reparations will never happen and anyone who has a bit of education knows it. I feel sorry for anyone who has put any energy into the notion that it will. We can't even get simple humanity. I still feel fortunate to have been born in this country. I would not have wanted it any other way. It's not perfect, but no country is.

So what happens when you mixed? Which part is the oppressor and which part was the slave? How can we fix this

Correcting the wage gap begins with doing a better job of teaching the poor about money management and not glorifying consumption and status symbols... take the Asian community for example...

Only in a free country can people make demands like this, even if they were not slaves themselves. Maybe it is better sending those, who complain, to Africa and see what real suffering looks like and how much of a gap there is between rich Africans and poor Africans.

*Amazing❤️🙌Being able to provide all my needs without the help of the Government is really a dream come through and I’m getting $50,000 returns from my 10k investment, Glory to the everlasting God almighty.*

Hi miss what about 65 an UP WE like get paid we r not going back to school an we dio not when r going to die so paid $25 2 $34 Million

I think that the 3 elderly people who had their property taken should be compensated in a normal legal procedure. But descendants of people who experienced injustice cannot be compensated for acts done by people who are deceased. Unfortunately past injustice is a fact of life and it affects all people. I think that it has to be forgiven or it will lead to bitterness and conflict.

Us gingers get the abuse theres no laws against us copper tops wheres my money

Reparations can help

So proud to have a German heritage, German people in general are full of integrity and have atoned for the past ills. Most Caucasian Americans don’t even come close and apparently 80% who oppose reparations are cowards and unintelligent to not be able to understand a simple concept like reparations for their original sin.

Equality is a myth . socity is never run by equal

Ty

That's a weak claim, one needs to look at how many of the descendants of slave owners accumulated wealth or have the land and they still possess it?

It’s not about it solving “racial gaps” it’s about paying back the people that ensured your successes

Truth Be Told a Sad State of Affairs

150 years ago! Yeah the courts will declare any of this nonsense UNCONSTITUTIONAL! You cannot discriminate and pay anyone for no damages since they are living 150 years after an event! Thats Constitutional Law! Period end of story.

Can't wait. Europeans who were taken to prison in Australia and left there need reparations, too.

Why should I pay for something that happened when I wasn't alive when my family wasn't in the country?

Is it me or this video I feel there is a sense of entitlement?

Maybe today’s German people can pay reparations to individual families impacted by world war 1 & 2 while we’re at it.

OMW....WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO STOP USING THE PAST TO ENRICH THEIR FUTURE...NEWSFLASH....ONE MUST ACTUALLY HAVE A BRAIN TO GET EDUCATED AND EARN A LIVING.. SICK OF THIS BS ......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no. they actually don't have anything to pay for. USA have many other problems that could be solved with that money, and will....

I dont understand why modern Americans, most of whoms ancestors definitely came here after the civil war would have to pay for this?

It is very interesting that they 1) They don't demand any reparations from other nations. 2) They completely disregard the effects of slavery trade on African states. 3) They want more money, instead more seats in a senate, or some piece of land with autonomy. 4) They do not demand any compensation actually from some of the African states that participated in the trade and supplied prisoners of war to the market. 5) They do not take into account that the later waves of immigrants did not participated in slavery trade or benefited from it. Although, they may have implicitly benefited from the racial discrimination which is debatable. 6) They ultimate goal is to make another 90% of population to pay them for their education, healthcare, land and financial aid. 7) They do not realize that it may create a dangerous situation where the minority is legally more privileged than majority while this minority is effectively has no power to protect itself from retaliation. It may destabilize the country. Some states may refuse to execute federal order to pay if such is enacted. Moreover the hate may reach the heating point and explode in a social unrest or even civil war. In my opinion, they should act smarter and just ask the federal government for help without mentioning any history. Maybe put in the same line other American minorities that suffer from wealth gap. In general, it seems these guy are more concerned about money than justice and just exploit the past to push their political agenda.

What about all other people who are discriminated against by other people. Chinese, Japanese, Irish, German, Italians. So, everybody pays everybody 😂 that’s a joke.

Now, do a story of the destruction trying to free slaves and how the whole world benefited from the America's slave trade. Let's talk about how the Indians benefited from slaves.

Reparations would fix the economy overnight.

I hope they never give up and get their rightful reparations that they deserve

It can't

I don't believe in the justice of reparations, but resolution of the endemic inherent racism in the present day, which is an egregious echo of the same mindset of slavery. And extrapolated to sexism and so on. E.g. Some astonishing racial biases in legal frameworks STILL existing surrounding property ownership and inheritance. BUT the fighting talk from victims is actually a big turn off, just adds to the divisive agenda 'us' v 'them', and not attempting to be inclusive or integrative.

We Wont Bow Down to Them Never.

America will never pay up because as far as they're concerned they're not to blame

Aye wats the brother in the suit name I gota have some words 😅 who’s side are u on

It could also raise the question about “reparations “ for the relatives of Union soldiers who lost their lives trying to free Slaves ….

Kamala Harris is of Indian Brahmin caste decent. Does she also support reparations for the untouchable caste her priest caste treated atrociously? For more than two millenia! I support reparations, not in direct money transfers but in terms of a slush fund for zero interest housing and business loans, stronger and codified affirmative action, far greater penalties for racism in institutions and businesses, scholarships and family services, creating federal land banks in desirable neighborhoods that can be sold at subsidised rates etc to descendants of slaves and native Americans. I however understand that unless the absolute maximum is demanded, not even the absolute minimum will be given. See how even voluntary affirmative action by educational institutions is being eroded and racist dog whistles are becoming normal speech by the minute.

America has lot of money for unwanted things to do Like war in Iraq and Afghanistan

A covenant should have Been installed to Prevent the Dale.

Nothing will ever be fair. So let's just move on. No one will ever be happy.

Pay for one way tickets to Africa sure good idea

wat?

Nope. It won't solve anything and will only open for the worst whining fest for money~~~

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min 11:10 NOT BY A LONG SHOT! Total US reparations = Estimated at $50 TRILLION. Total European global reparations = $800 TRILLION

Thank you, for the comprehensive video. It really helped me understand the scope of the debate, I appreciate that you explained the historical background, it would have alluded me (a non American) otherwise.

hitchhiking of civilization is not free for every race

Does it count the value of all the "free" stuff taken from stores? That would level out the difference quite a bit, I think.

DW pushing propa-ganda as always

Ok so how are you gonna break this up? Is everyone gonna pay more in taxes, therefore those receiving the reparations are paying for them too? Is it going to be along racial lines, with mandatory DNA tests to determine how much of your genetic background comes from colonial powers and then pay accordingly? Is it just going to be skin color? How pale does one need to be to face this additional tax burden? What about the Greek guy that got here in the 70's who had nothing to do with any of the USA's complex racial history? What about an Irish guy who's family fled The Troubles in the 80's? How much are they going to be charged? "Reparations" are bandied about by politicians promising free money to get votes or honest to god racists who want to see an entire skin color of people pay for sins committed against their ancestors. Reform institutions and laws to eliminate discrimination, increase taxes on the wealthiest people (less than $100m no new taxes) to increase the social safety net and social programs BASED ON INCOME to truly correct the injustice in our systems.

Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content awareness 🙏🏾

What gap?

reparation is funny words. they want to get back their tuition for 'hitchhiking' of civilization, which is belong to their ancestors

It comes down to laziness and greed, not made up reasons aka excuses. It's no secret that the gap is based on their own lack of motivation and behavior. Give them nothing.

"drums"

Simply abolish things that reenforce the wealth gap, like making school funding depend on what area you live in