California’s Hidden History of Slavery: The Case for Reparations

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ACLU of Northern CA

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@ninadaly7639 Жыл бұрын

How does this guys example show there was slavery in CA??

@pinkman7317 2 ай бұрын

thousands of blackslaves working in gold mines as slaves in California, California taking their land, no different than the south

@ksande5623 Жыл бұрын

We must study our history and learn from it.

@nathandirkmaat5049 Жыл бұрын

Public libraries are already funded by taxes. Beyond that, it costs nothing to "learn from history." No "reparations" needed.

@xxxMixedGenreFavs Жыл бұрын

@@nathandirkmaat5049why do you care about reparations?

@nathandirkmaat5049 Жыл бұрын

@@xxxMixedGenreFavs As a taxpayer, why WOULDN'T I care? I've been asked similar questions by at least two other people in KZbin comment sections, as if it's a mystery that a taxpayer living in 2023 (hence, a person who has never owned slaves) would object to paying more taxes to address an injustice suffered by African Americans through the year 1863. That IS what the discussion is all about, isn't it? "Reparations" for SLAVERY? So, again, I ask you, why wouldn't I care, when (along with fellow taxpayers) I'd be footing the bill? And since we don't pay taxes according to tiers set up by ethnicity in this country, how do you expect African Americans in states besides California not to be adversely affected by California's proposal?

@lordvonmanor6915 11 ай бұрын

Okay, the South was designated for Blsck slavery and the West specifically California and Australia was designated for White slavery. It was the California gold rush is what led to the abolition of White slavery in year 1850 and eventually led to the abolitionis of Black skavery in the south in year 1865.🧐 Have to remember Southern slave system was corrupted by Briton which was a very big problem for Blacks. But on the other hand California Mexicans had no need for White slaves and rather slaves could find their own jobs. White slaves in Australia like this idea Mexicans had and revolted against Briton and eventually adopted Mexicos policies. Because of it today slaves have the rights to choose where they spend their time as slaves😅 You no longer have to work for the dame Plantation until the day you die. Now you can seek employment elsewhere and die on a different plantation

@MaddyClifford Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this excellent explainer video. There's so much ignorance about what Black Americans endured in this country and how it relates to economic injustice today. Reparations are long overdue.

@12Nordsee Жыл бұрын

In a state that didn't have slavery?

@avenue8822 Жыл бұрын

Everyone is and has been taught about the injustices of slavery, and the oppression endured generations ago. There is too much ignorance from people like you who refused to acknowledge the fact that this Country has done more to protect and advance ONE RACE than any other Country in history. The fact is that despite all that has been done, only one specific group (African Americans) continues to fail because of bad choices, personal behavior, victim mindset, lack of family and education.

@joec5544g Жыл бұрын

Obviously you know nothing? If every black person in the US received 350,000, it would be 14 trillion dollars... Do you have any idea what that would do to the world economy? If you do, I'd like to know.... But I'll assume you do not.

@CoreyANeal2000 Жыл бұрын

@davidlagos5358 If anyone knows about how a neighborhood changes and how much spending happens when wealth increases. Then, they would want wealth to increase for African Americans.

@williemuhammad80 Жыл бұрын

THANKS 😊 SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS GREAT INFO, OBVIOUSLY IT WAS HIDEN LIKE SO MUCH OF THE TRUE HISTORY IN THIS COUNTRY, GOD BLESS 😊

@kingsandqueenskingsandquee8616 Жыл бұрын

Judgment to America

@ACLUSoCal Жыл бұрын

THIS!

@SupItsJ Жыл бұрын

BRO R U FKIN KIDDING. This is just infuriating. I waited 37 years to learn real black history talk about controlling the narrative.

@b.whisky9438 Жыл бұрын

This is so wrong I can't even imagine. I'm an immigrant, my family's history are not slave owners. Why am I being force to pay for this reparations? It is my tax dollars that are paying for something myself and my ancestors never been involved. To those who think this will not come out of people who have never been involved in slavery, you're fools. If anyone who has to pay, make the democrats pay for it. They are the party who tried to keep slavery. How about those ancestors who fought to end slavery? Are they being forced to pay for it. Trust me, California is the testing market and it will spread throughout the states.

@michaelpcoffee Жыл бұрын

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.

@lionelwilliams677 Жыл бұрын

Pay the people for your ancestors evil 👿 doings

@michaelpcoffee Жыл бұрын

@@lionelwilliams677 Pay who? Do you hold everybody equally responsible for the actions of their ancestors? Including yourself? Who will you be paying?

@lionelwilliams677 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelpcoffee your evil ancestors slavery is a sin and being that Americans still practice racism and bigotry when it comes to people of color and minorities in 2023 you should be taxed through your work earrings on a weekly, biweekly or monthly basis if I had the choice 😊 you would pay for the 400 years your ancestors stole land, wealth, and businesses from former slaves. Need I say more ? You are living off the back and labor of slaves and for that reason there descendants should be compensated accordingly. Cut the check ✅

@lionelwilliams677 Жыл бұрын

@@michaelpcoffee you asked who I’m paying fortunately no one ☝️ as my ancestors didn’t enslave or steal through forms of racism and slavery. Try harder next time your offspring need to be taxed for the next 400 years. 😀😁👍

@michaelpcoffee Жыл бұрын

@@lionelwilliams677Nobody ever did anything for centuries. Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators. The ones who seek to take what someone else has bear the burden of proof. So; you absolve your own ancestors while you demonize those of others. Noted. Everybody's ancestors enslaved people.

@KetezRiley-li4yb 4 ай бұрын

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@haywardmccullough2762 6 ай бұрын

Lies no more.

@Mike-tb5gj Жыл бұрын

THe story checks out I guess. However, it does not imply the case for reparations is "just and necessary". Nobody living in America today has ever been a slave in the sense of the word they mean. Nobody in America today has even owned slaves, in the sense that they mean. Logically, that means money would be paid to people who never suffered, by people who never made them suffer. By the same logic, I want the French or the Italians, maybe even the Danes, to pay me bundles of money; perhaps the descendants of the Barbary pirates can also chip in...!! See how stupid it is?! The whole thing is another grift, playing the victim card and trying to claw some wealth out of those who have given the world almost everything that helps us live our modern lives. In contrast, what have black people bestowed on the world, pre-1900? Precious little, I would suggest. Before the Europeans went to sub-Saharan Africa, to plunder and carry off thousands of men to work in the Caribbean, America and Brazil, etc., the wheel was unheard of. Many famous and renowned black scholars and experts exist now, but previously, the product of black people world-wide has not been what one would call, 'prolific'.

@SupItsJ Жыл бұрын

Really can you explain then why prisoners are trafficked so that cops, judges, DA's and all others are provided wealth and opportunities beyond measure while paying $0.08 per hour to enslaved and often times wrongfully so, prisoners "wards of the state", disenfranchised. And how does this affect their generational wealth on both ends of the spectrum? I bet you would care a whole lot more if you were affected by this but because you are white you likely have the privileges of that is afforded to you and passed down through your ancestors. Fair wages for labor is an absolute human right no matter where you live, and anything that rationalizes otherwise is systemically groomed racism coming out.

@theowner5052 Жыл бұрын

You can tell who didn’t finish the video. It literally states that reparations are for slavery AND segregation, redlining, job & housing discrimination& mass incarceration. Depriving the community of economic wealth & opportunities.

@joec5544g Жыл бұрын

Why is the black community the ONLY one in the US struggling? People come from all over the world, many don't speak English yet do well... It's because of the "content of your character"? MLK.

@theowner5052 Жыл бұрын

@@joec5544gdid you not listen to the video? Please share another group that has experienced all of these atrocities at the hands of the US government while in the US government. The above list including - war on drugs and the push for drugs in our communities (the same men who were denied employment were given an opportunity to sell drugs) - welfare scandal (bm had to leave the home in order for be/families to win support) - gatekeeping jobs from black men thus resulting in families relying on welfare -racial lynchings -racial riots in Black American cities/towns that have been completely buried, burned down & bombed down. They took our wealth & want us to shut up about it. Not gone happen.

@theowner5052 Жыл бұрын

@@joec5544g and then y’all ask these questions without doing research about the country you're moving to but insist on forming an opinion & getting politically involved.

@b.whisky9438 Жыл бұрын

@@theowner5052 ....what he is saying is true. I'll prove simple points, this applies to many cities especially blue cities. The city of Baltimore, in 13 high schools there were ZERO black students were proficient in math. ZERO. And those 13 high schools, their proficiency in reading, more than 75% were reading in elementary school level. And on top of that, the family structure in the black communities, over 75% of black children are raised by a single parent mother or their grandmothers. The 2 parent structure in the black community is destroyed. The black community is the only ethnicity that has a single parent rate at over 50%...or 70%. You have to be honest. Also voting democrat at 90% has not improved the black communities. In fact it has led to the destruction. Now asking reparations, to be paid to people who are not slaves and being paid by people who never had slaves or even being part of slavery. This reparations is not about fixing past injustices but paying for votes. Trying to make black communities to be loyal to the democrat party. It is not racism or the past that is destroying the black communities but the democrat policies that are destroying the black communities. "I'll have these N***RS voting democrat for the next 200 years!"- Democrat President Lyndon B Johnson.

@jaiyabyrd4177 Ай бұрын

@@joec5544g They should go back where they came from and so should you for such willful ignorance.

@muslimwillingandunwilling7576 Ай бұрын

Whether their were "enslaved folks" in California or not is not relevant. California is one State of The United States (of America) and there never would have been a United States (of America) without The Black Only Slavery (continuing?) that began in 1619 on the North American Continent. Without The Black Only Slavery the tussle over land and nationality would have been between those who were here before (Native...?) and those who came in later (Colonists from...?) Remember that the first 8 Presidents of the U.S.A. had much "sustenance in The Earth" (Torah) in the form of Black Slaves with them in The White House. Those Black Slaves (and others elsewhere) helped the new Nation called The U.S.A. to get up on its feet as it were and start walking competitively with England and the European nations. Else why have slaves in a White House when "All men are created equal." had made the enslavement of anyone by anyone illegal? So because California is a State among the other States that make up the United States (of America) and because there never would have been a U.S.A. without the concomitant Black Only Slavery, the State of California owes Reparations to Black Californians - even if there never was any Black Only Slavery in California - because Black Californians are citizens of the U.S.A. which would not exist today without the Black Only Slavery (continuing?) that started in 1619 on the North American Continent before there even was a U.S.A there at all. Amen?

@nathandirkmaat5049 Жыл бұрын

INTERVIEWER: “Excuse me, sir. Could you tell me if you support financial reparations for African-American citizens of the U.S.A.?” MAN ON THE STREET: “Yes.” INTERVIEWER: “On a different topic, do you believe that a billionaire who has been convicted of a felony should be allowed to donate money to a charity as an alternative to serving time in prison?” MAN ON THE STREET: “Absolutely not. If you do the crime, you do the time.” INTERVIEWER: “What if that billionaire offered someone money to serve the jail sentence FOR HIM? ‘Do this for me and your family will be set for life.’ Would that be an acceptable arrangement?” MAN ON THE STREET: “That’s crazy. You can’t do that. It would be a perversion of our justice system. People can’t just throw money around as a way of avoiding accountability.” INTERVIEWER: “Forgive my confusion, but I thought you said, a moment ago, that you support financial reparations for present-day African-American citizens? You agree with the idea of U.S. citizens who have NEVER BEEN slaves being financially “compensated” via taxation of OTHER citizens who have NEVER OWNED slaves, all the while acknowledging that those individuals who actually suffered under slavery, years ago, will never see a penny of that money. And you suggest that this arrangement will somehow “repair” a past injustice. But now you face a conflict: if a person who has not committed a crime or an injustice may be PUNISHED for that crime or injustice, and, meanwhile, OTHER individuals may financially BENEFIT as an indirect result of that injustice, then why would our system of justice not apply such fundamental principles to all U.S. citizens EQUALLY?” MAN ON THE STREET: “Now, hold on, that’s not . . .” INTERVIEWER: “Should a U.S. citizen of Asian descent have LESS of a right to sue for redress than a U.S. citizen of African descent?” MAN ON THE STREET: “Of course not, but . . .” INTERVIEWER: “Should two U.S. citizens of any conceivable socio-economic category experience different systems of justice when falsely accused of a crime, ESPECIALLY when the two individuals are of different ethnicities? MAN ON THE STREET: “No. The law should be applied equally. Race shouldn’t matter.” INTERVIEWER: “Well, if race shouldn’t matter, then such a fundamental principle would apply REGARDLESS of the crime, correct?” MAN ON THE STREET: “Look, I’m going to be late. I need to go . . .” INTERVIEWER: “It’s a simple question. Should those suing for redress under the U.S. system of justice be treated differently based on race?” MAN ON THE STREET: [walking away at a rapid pace] INTERVIEWER: [calling after him] “Oh, don’t worry about giving me an answer . . . because you just did.”