‘Generational wealth … was stolen from us:’ Inside the push for reparations for Black Californians

[@merovingian688]

The federal government paid slaveowners an average of about $300 (equivalent to $9,000 in 2022) for each of their slaves after slavery was prohibited by law. Ex-Presidents and people in Congress owned slaves.

[@meiu7652]

Interesting priorities.

[@ninadaly7639]

And why do you think that was?

[@merovingian688]

@@ninadaly7639 Slaves were private property purchased legally by law. The same government the legalized slavery and profited from slavery decided to end it. If the government wanted your property they would have to pay you fair value for it. Imagine the government seizing everything you own

[@merovingian688]

@@meiu7652 The priority has always been those at the top. Those who own the means of production. Coming out of a civil war and the South losing its labor force.

[@ninadaly7639]

@@merovingian688 Are you referring to a specific instance where the government seized everything someone owned?

[@chuck9380]

Ever since the first black person has asked for reparations, YT folks have been coming up with different excuses why they can’t.

[@ninadaly7639]

How about a resounding “NO”. Would that help?

[@citizencoy4393]

yep but digging and printing money to bring in racist WHITE immigrants.

[@ronaldcook3840]

They will pay for reparations....like it or not.

[@ninadaly7639]

@@ronaldcook3840 No…….no they won’t.

[@takingiteasy6953]

Whites have no problem paying for illegal aliens and ukranians. At this point hundreds of billions of dollars has been paid to those groups. They did not vote. They did not serve this country. They did not pay taxes. The did/do get taken care of by this government. 🤔

[@gracefulviolin]

“The numbers are massive” “the harm is massive” 👏👏👏👏great reporting!

[@laonicandies4107]

She paid taxes

[@LowerYourExpectationsPleb]

you mean black crime numbers are massive

[@kennethpereyda5707]

are you referring to smash and grabbers ?

[@velmaking6216]

The one thing overlooked is America has made progress for some to succeed forward at the cost of others...

[@ninadaly7639]

Which is different from anyone, anywhere, at any time in the history of man?

[@laonicandies4107]

And my mom was one of them that they made and also said she didnt Qualified for alone wells fargo they actually stole my mom's house

[@ninadaly7639]

@@laonicandies4107 Because she didn’t pay the taxes?

[@laonicandies4107]

@@ninadaly7639 no true

[@dorianjames1583]

Capitalism will always have ups and downs,and obviously some will lose out that miss their opportunities. But it is a system that allows for new starts and perseverance pays off. It is a real shame that today's left stifles speech ( and I mean non hate) . And ridicules rather than debate. Diversity is as diversity does. A diverse racial ,ethnic,and religious make up without the free arena of diversity in opinion and ideas is NOT ACTUALLY DIVERSE. It's a colorful array of jellie beans but all colors taste the same . Try listening to other points of view. I cannot stand white right wingers , but black conservatives I find fascinating John McWhorter is not a republican but is considered " conservative" in today's pure dogma climate. But his words and ideas are closer to Malcolm X's than any Liberal pundit.

[@FinanceNation]

Reality is hard for many of privilege. It is hard to see what others should get or not when you've lived a life of privilege...

[@pamelahudson3483]

We are not African Americans…nor Black…we are the original copper colored Indians of this land mass…we’ve been miseducated for too many years…we have our stories that has been passed down through our Ancestors…the land patents researched by way of the bureau of land management/glo records proves ownership…so many entities of this corporation knows who the melanated people are.

[@GiganticRooster-kn2lj]

​@@pamelahudson3483😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ninadaly7639]

Appropriate compensation for a slum with no running water or utilities? Are you kidding me?

[@fakefriendocrat9324]

@@ninadaly7639No for Jim Crow.

[@chip9832]

Lol what you should get ? As if owed ? Lol.

[@denisemarcus5633]

I love how the ones that didn't face the ADDED burden of racism, boldly claims everyone was compensate fairly. Yes, THEY could move any place and rebuild, but for the job discrimination, and land ownership denial for the other group, How was it fair?

[@nikkiBRose]

They are always dismissive of the pain of chattel slavery and discrimination Black Americans faced.

[@SnowsStorm1]

Eminent domain has effected any number of Americans over the course of this country but most of the people who are seeking reparations aren't in a position where their primary issue was that. They are asking people who did no harm to them to pay them for a wrong that wasn't done directly to them. How is that fair or do two rights make a wrong

[@Naesman1167]

@@SnowsStorm1Well there’s the old “ you’re taking it out of my pocket argument. “ The fact is that African American pay taxes as well probably doesn’t resonate. But more succinctly, it is the government’s responsibility to make whole the party wronged and legally and morally as a society there is a history of it doing so. The very notion that reparations harms the individual is ridiculous since it is an systemic governmental wrong. On a smaller scale one could also ask why should I pay when an police officer abuses his or her power? But you don’t because it is politically unpopular. I know that many find it hard to identify with the idea of economic governmental accountability but were the shoe on the other foot.. American slavery was the biggest handout of all time. Sanctioned by states and the federal government. Plus, all of the atrocities that occurred afterwards ultimately resulting in the gaining of unknown trillions to one group and small gestures to the other.. Yes, the real word is equity.. Is that better than reparations?

[@dc5024]

​@@SnowsStorm1The median household wealth of a white high school dropout ($82,968) is greater than the median wealth of a black college graduate ($70,219). Part of the explanation lies in family financial transfers. Research shows that gifts and inheritances explain about 5 percent of the racial wealth gap.May 18, 2021

[@SnowsStorm1]

@@dc5024 I'm not sure what you are getting at here but ok let's go with that for a second. With the so called racial wealth gap said to be 150,000 then 5% is 7500. I don't imagine that anyone would be happy with a reparation payment of $7500. In fact that's one of the many issues I have with the concept, because realistically there is no amount of money that could adequate someone who endured slavery but we are now going to force those who never inflicted that harm on anyone in order to compensate their descendants well after the fact. I guarantee you that any amount given will be seen as woefully unfair by those who might be forced to pay it and will feel woefully insulting to anyone that receives it.

[@levmoses742]

The Black woman who owned her house didn’t mention the exaggerated loan rates that Black and Brown people continue to pay today for house loans, car loans, and even insurance.

[@RollerBladingSuxs]

that is cap. Explain how immigrants from Nigeria and India succeed in America as first generation

[@_Chicagosfinest]

@@RollerBladingSuxsbecause they pay no taxes and get benefits

[@Notyourdaddy123]

hoax hoax hoax, loan is based on your credit history not race. You're just creating drama

[@levmoses742]

@@Notyourdaddy123 that’s part of the point. Keep researching

[@levmoses742]

@@RollerBladingSuxs Well, we could begin by talking about better educational and job opportunities, but first you’d have to research American history. It’s all spelled out. Not fun learning, and really helpful in understanding the economy overall.

[@mjerome1457]

So true!! Every time my Grandparents tried to move up they took their homes twice in California.

[@craiganthonyfutch]

Libral democrats for ya.

[@chrisquas4113]

Sounds like your grandparents did something’s wrong.

[@WakandaleezaRazz]

🧢

[@kennethpereyda5707]

well pay the rent

[@musiklovers3189]

These ignorant comments are some of the reasons reparations will be paid. Be very afraid.

[@Robin-mj6jv]

The fortunes that families were allowed to make still exists. The wealth gap still exist.

[@PerkpopperDotcom-qu3hk]

Slave owners have been rich since they’ve owned slaves

[@ninadaly7639]

That families WERE ALLOWED to make? This is a free country. They thought it up and did it. No one gave them permission.

[@PerkpopperDotcom-qu3hk]

@@ninadaly7639 yeah they were given permission there was a much higher tax rate which highly disincentivized billionaires wealth status the gov allowed the to make more now cause lobbying

[@HamTeddy26]

@@ninadaly7639anything to make that degenerate mind of yours function

[@mademan140212]

Education doesn't solve everything, yes it helps.

[@ogi197]

Indeed...Who they Fooling....Yet they tax our hard earned pennies ...LEECHES

[@daviddyer6767]

Black man who’s been on earth for millions of years shouldn’t be educated by white ppl who’s only been around for less than 10k years. It makes no sense. Black man should govern himself

[@kimberlygarrett1485]

Dems are against school choice.

[@ted1091]

I'm sure many people don't know this, but reparations were paid shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation. But not to emancipated slaves. They were paid to slaveowners by the federal government for the taking of property without due process of law under the 5th Amendment. Once you know accurate history, things aren't that complicated. I'd say a good starting place would be the value placed on a slave in 1863, plus 9% interest per annum, compounded daily. Plenty of other categories of damages could certainly be added. But using that as a method of calculating the lodestar threshold seems very reasonable. After all, it was deemed reasonable then, and the slaveowners have had the benefit of that money for 160 years. Another idea is to do a corresponding genealogy on the former slaveowners and compare their present financial picture. And although the State would be paying reparations to the descendants of slaves regardless of the financial situation of the descendants ofnthe slaveowners, the State could pursue the slaveowners' descendants for contribution.

[@ninadaly7639]

Sorry, that is no new news. Do you know why that was?

[@ted1091]

@@ninadaly7639 enlighten us

[@ninadaly7639]

The primary goal of reconstruction of the south after the civil war was to bring the southern states back into the union and to re-unify the country. Had that not happened, we would not be where we are today. The south was decimated during the war. Southern plantation owners lost everything. A slave was a significant investment, $10k per. Reparations to southern plantation owners facilitated the south’s reunification with the north. In short, those individuals lost land an property during the war. They were given partial compensation as the economic structure of the south had been destroyed. That is what reparations are for, to restore what had been taken or destroyed.

[@ted1091]

@@ninadaly7639 how did I know that your baited question was going to actually be some inept canned, white supremacist explanation? Answer: because your comment already revealed that you know it all. Your explanation is pure garbage. The South could have been brought back into the Union without compensating former slave owners for the value of freed slaves. More importantly, nothing you've offered provides an explanation for not having paid reparations to freed slaves themselves, or for not doing so to their descendants today. Stop baiting and trolling like you know everything. This would be a good time to put away the false historical narrative which you were taught (and which you continue to perpetuate), and to actually engage in critical thinking. And to be quiet in the process. What a condescending critter you are.

[@ted1091]

@@ninadaly7639 I know why since your obnoxious confederate comment in response to my other post in which you remarked that "nothing" was due the descendants of enslaved people. Yet here you are defending the fact that reparations were paid to slaveowners after the Emancipation Proclamation. You're no historian, that's for sure. You're a lost cause, confederate.

[@lt3074]

So many stories like this is so disturbing of what this country has done to Native & African Americans & what is still being done. Apologies is not enough . You can't put a price on what is owed to Native & African Americans but as a African-American I think what is owed is a combination of things for what has been done & still being done.

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

What about every conquered nation thru out History? Black Slavers are selling Black Slaves in many parts of Africa Today.

[@dorianjames1583]

You owe it to black prospects bro regain this wealth the same way it was aquired . Black businessmen were essentially conservative. This wealth that was stolen was created before the government programs of the Great society kicked in and stifled growth, gave incentive to break up the family with head of household welfare rules, and government oversight and public housing ruined existing black neighborhoods and their economic assets. Glen Loury, John McWhorter and Thomas Sowell are the black conservatives you ignore or ridicule nowadays that are capable leaders with a eye towards results , instead of adherence to the homogeneous thought of modern left led by the liberal white media.Malcolm X warned of the trickery of the white liberal fox as an alternative to the bigot wolves on the right!

[@ninadaly7639]

Oh please! Don’t be so naive.

[@dorianjames1583]

@@ninadaly7639 Naive? Do you debate much? Are you capable of articulating your points with relevance? Oh... That's right ,the apathy has already set in deep

[@ninadaly7639]

@@dorianjames1583 OK. Then perhaps you can articulate what “is still being done” to native and african americans?

[@JoeyJoJoJrShabbado]

My family had castles in Europe and lost their fortunes during ww2. I want reparations

[@JoeyJoJoJrShabbado]

My family had to pay reparations for being white and I want reparations.

[@Garland-nx4yz]

Do descendants of slave owners get reparations for the slave stolen from their family ?

[@johncrug2484]

@@Garland-nx4yz No, troll.

[@JoeyJoJoJrShabbado]

@@Garland-nx4yz They should get the bill for slavery,

[@Garland-nx4yz]

@@johncrug2484 lol lighten up

[@joeryanstrialbook2005]

Pure crap. A guy named Russell developed the unincorporated tract in 1908. By WWII there were 200 families living on the tract, with no paved roads, no water supply except from wells, and no sewer system. Most of the structures were tar paper shacks. Alameda County, at the expense of the taxpayers, condemned the tract in 1963 and paid the lot owners the appraised FMV of the lots. After the lots became the property of the County arsonists began torching the abandoned buildings. The lady's memory blurs the reality with wishful thinking. The place was a dump, an eyesore, a health and fire hazard. And race had nothing to do with it: 50% of the owners were Mexican, 40% Black, and 10% white. It's called slum clearance, folks.

[@lisalastnamesmith]

I'm not paying reparations to anybody. I don't owe anyone anything.

[@Goosgoos-222]

Ohhh you'll pay. You won't like it but you'll pay... that justice will smack you square in the mouth like "Lisa needs braces". Dental plaaaan!

[@marvin469]

Yes I do 👿

[@anthonycooper598]

Slavery is mentioned in the Bible. God instructed The chosen Hebrew people in Leviticus on the conditions of Slavery. Read Leviticus 25: 35-55. God also answered the question of reparations within the pages of the Bible. Just as they left captivity from the first Egypt the second time they will receive double. The Bible states the oppressor would not see himself as guilty. But the Bible promises the remnant would be saved. And those who were captives would make captives of their oppressors.

[@kdaddy100]

Of course they don't understand any of that and that's because there ZERO UNDERSTANDING IN THEM. Obadiah 1:7. They don't even know who they are (The Eagle) EDOM, BABYLON Psalms 137 ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH YAH. FOR HIS JUDGMENTS ARE RIGHETOUS AND TRUE.

[@Cnichal]

Another reason I despise monotheist, and especially christians using your “god” to keep people enslaved. Making them believe they don’t deserve peace and happiness, because of their phenotype, and they don’t choose to live like you. Nothing but monsters walking.

[@jameshaynes8315]

Someone needs to explain to "white" Americans that reparations is not their debt to pay, no one is blaming them directly for slavery. Jim crow etc.. . It's the Federal and State governments who sanctioned the policies that allowed these thing to happen to African Americans that owe the debt. And arguments about "my tax money" are without merit. African Americans pay taxes as well. And there are numerous payouts and support provided to other groups of people as well as foreign nations that are far less valid than reparations to African Americans

[@danielbrown7535]

There are also many more reparations that need to be made before you start nagging about black man " reparations " I think the American Indians should be first in line, I'm not talking about the fake "politican " 1 % er ....I'm talking about the reservation Indians that have stayed true. You rappen pavement monkeys need to take a step back n "recognize " that Patricia color took yo's reparations.

[@trumpdrago517]

America is 65% white. Reparations come from the federal government. The wealth gap means white people pay about 87% of the taxes. So yes, white people LITERALLY pay 87% of it

[@MISNM0]

It's been explained but if the ears don't want to hear no amount of communication matters.

[@jameshaynes8315]

@@MISNM0 You are correct!

[@ninadaly7639]

You are delusional and not too well informed. You realize we are a democracy, right. As such, WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT! Where do you think our government gets money? TAXES, our taxes. Do you honestly think that 87% of the population is going to sanction giving buckets of money in the form of personal checks to 13% of the population. For what? Things that happened to other people 150 years ago? Not going to happen, nor should it. The only thing owed here is the right to succeed and prosper. The rest is up to the individual.

[@Mr_burke90]

"The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous" You better believe the day is coming.

[@daviddyer6767]

Most definitely. IT’s prophecy

[@Asshatter]

No its not

[@jamesbush5411]

Get the Land Back 👊👍💯

[@twelvestitches984]

I'm a white male. The area I lived in (South Sacramento) was over run with single black moms and their kids. The big black kids would steal my lunch money, they stole 4 bicycles, they broke into our home 6 times, and I was beaten a few times, they knocked my mom down and stole her purse, and I was threatened daily. I could have invested that money and earned 20%. So, I figure you owe me about $100,000.

[@litnewcity]

Welcome to our world

[@twelvestitches984]

@@litnewcity All of the problems that black people have are caused by their own bad decisions, or, other black people.

[@twelvestitches984]

@@litnewcity Black people cause all of their own problems.

[@twelvestitches984]

@@litnewcity You mean the world where you make very immature decisions and cause almost all of your own problems?

[@tommytom201]

Great reporting.. thank you for this segment.

[@BlowWord.]

so they feel like because their family squandered it , mine doesn’t deserve a fair shot . Got it

[@peanut2us]

Black Americans have been hindered from achieving generational wealth at every step. The idea of reparation start at the concept of slavery. But, the conditions blacks have experience from freedom is a bigger ill in this nation. I under the difference in experiences is where the opinions divide in the understanding and the Yes and no's separate us.

[@SatansSimgma]

Naw dawg when your heros are people like Tupac your culture is sick and destructive. There hasn't been a functional black community since the early 80s when gang and stripper culture took over.

[@RictorScale-w7i]

Can't build generational wealth sitting on the couch collecting welfare for generations. You have to work for it... We are all still waiting. Every other demographic has seemed to have figured it out. They have to understand that they have to do it for themselves. That is the problem, they keep demanding everyone else do it for them. I hope they wake up someday.

[@kingleo8422]

Stop voting for the ones that does not have our best interest💯💯

[@pamelahudson3483]

Stop voting period!!! When have any elected official made good on their promises…they’re like a bag of skittles…different colors but still all in the same bag…time to awaken and stop falling for the banana in the tailpipe scenario!

[@rich-qk7dc]

Don't vote Biden

[@pamelahudson3483]

@danpeezy2274 🤡

[@PlatPodMediaCEOSean]

@danpeezy2274typical white supremacist

[@Smiley_101]

I agreed … all of them come from privileges and that how they have the money to run for elections but none of them give a rats 🐀 about the peoples . Honestly , before I thought it must be a joke when I heard this in twitter and I didn’t know this was going on . This is surely very unfair for these peoples and it’s not ok to cheats them like this. Racism is still very much out there . It’s a matter if peoples going to speak up or not . Those that does other think they dramatics but I rather live my life knowing I speak up and fights what is wrong .

[@boomer150]

People act like slavery was the ultimate evil, that it was horrible and of course it was. But this whole reparation thing feels like a distraction, its like they want to make us aware that life is not fair. 99% of all humans in history know life is not fair, black, white, Asian, Indian and all the rest. We ALL know life is not fair. There are people living in Africa who have to walk two miles every day just to have some muddy drinking water then on the other side of the world an artist in North Korea gets his leg broken because his art didn't glorify the state, these things didn't happen 150 years ago but today. People in America need to stop complaining like we have it so bad, every American, black, white, Asian and the rest. Every American needs to appreciate what we do have instead of complaining that we don't have enough. We have clean water, cars, internet, job opportunities, food on every corner, the list goes on. There is a reason all the immigrants risk there lives to live like us.

[@babavickramadityabedisworl6691]

It is still happening, racism still does this. I experienced this in the U.S. in Westchester County.

[@mikewu2108]

What do you mean generational wealth was stolen from you? You got to work hard to built up generational wealth first before anything is stolen from you.

[@kingorbit]

I live in Sonoma County California, a very liberal area of California, lets be clear here, there is no 'push' for reparations. none , no push. This is just the new click bait for news channels.

[@sew_gal7340]

I know, i dont understand where they are even going with this. We have more mexicans and asians in the bay area than actual white people, none of them own slaves dont know what the point of this video is

[@dorianjames1583]

Exactly, controversy sells and alot of people would be out of a job if we all got along

[@SamFortino-uv2if]

You need to seriously get on board with what's going on in your area, california. I'm down in Santa Clara County near you. The democrats are pushing this reparations idea big time just to get votes. California everywhere is using this reparations idea to get votes for the Dems.

[@AReazy67]

If I don't know nothing else about this story, I know for a fact that black people received fair anything, we can't even get a fair home appraisal in 2023, don't insult me

[@EmperorLVL999]

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. WE ARE NOT THE VIOLATORS!

[@carbon6951]

Did you "VIOLATE" Native Americans?? Because your taxdollars goes towards paying their descendants!!! Did you "VIOLATE" Holocaust Survivors?? Because your tax dollars goes towards paying their descendants!!! Did you "VIOLATE" Italian Americans in Mississippi during the 1890's ?? Because your tax dollars goes towards paying their descendants!! Funny how everyone "ONLY" becomes concerned when the check recipients are BLACK !!!! 🤔

[@nufamilia]

Tell that to the military. The military has paid families for things they have done to previous generations. So even though that is a valid argument it doesn't stand up to the actions and criticism.

[@MOTO_DOSE]

Around 3% of Americans owned slaves before the Civil War.

[@Bamperz]

What you have is because your ancestors were given something stolen. Something easy.

[@KaentukiTheFuki]

Yea and none of us did the trail of tears or stole this land from naties either so why aren't you protesting that they get their rep taken away....? Because you're paying for it.....

[@chinaexpat1827]

THAT'S NOT 'REPARATIONS' YOU HAVE AN ACTUAL VICTIM (FAMILY OF VICTIM) AND THE ACTUAL WRONG DOERS, THAT PARTICULAR GOVERNMENT. YOU DO NOT NEED NEW LAWS TO REIMBURSE THEM FOR THE FULL VALUE OF THE LAND

[@laonicandies4107]

My mother Definitely deserves reparations for the loss of her home. My mama stayed in her home for forty four years and pay taxes legally rightfully and lost her home and that's wrong to do all people like that

[@SamFortino-uv2if]

How did your mom lose her home?

[@laonicandies4107]

Good morning bixby

[@laonicandies4107]

As I said the mortgages were going up higher and higher. It started off at 6:00 and something it went up to 12:00 and something and couldn't afford it.

[@laonicandies4107]

And they also lied and said the house was worth olny 49,000 and as soon as it happen the house all of the sudden was worth 543,000

[@thebossman3894]

Why did she sign up for a ridiculous loan like that? That's her fault.

[@masatosway4558]

I live in California, I'm an older white guy. I have no problem with paying more taxes in order for these people to be paid reparations. We can't fix the current systemic racism until we've fixed our earlier mistakes. Search the records and afford reparations to everyone who had their homes and land stolen regardless of ethnicity. When wrongs are done, they should be acknowledged and then corrected for everyone. We can't grow as a species unless we can recognize and fix our mistakes, as well as to just care for each other.

[@Goosgoos-222]

It's not about ethnicity. You might not be smart enough to understand lineage as it pertains to specific groups of people being systematically harmed. If you're an "older white guy" you are being disingenuous in bad faith. You people hate blacks so bad you cannot acknowledge specific harms against them. Then sidestep accountability by all lives matter nonsense. An "older white guy" would know this if he were being honest.

[@samsongxin]

I migrated to US 20 years ago, should I pay more taxes toward reparations?

[@masatosway4558]

@@samsongxin are you an American citizen with all of the rights and duties afforded Americans? Do you benefit from the current industries that had their origins based on slavery? (trains, cotton, tobacco etc.) If you can't or don't want to accept the responsibilities that come with American citizenship then maybe you might want to ask yourself why was America your choice to live? Is it because of the American promise of liberty, freedom and justice for all? Reparations is the justice part. American citizenship comes with an inherent acceptance of the promise of liberty, freedom and justice for all.

[@tomascordova2900]

Would you be okay with California offering free property to every Mexican American here in the State?

[@MichaelAnthony-rl8zs]

You living in California says it all.

[@johnwarren2420]

My family in 1962 purchased a house built in 1908 for $11500 as a kid ten dollars would fill a shopping cart with food in 1972 gas cost 25 cents a gallon and in late 72 a new 1973 Grand Torino Sport cost $4400 today in 2023 property cost a lot more but not all things have gone up the old house needs a lot of work and after fighting the tax bill some years ago the old house is taxed at less than 40 grand if it was in good condition it would be worth over 150 grand but not totally rehab the old house is not the wind fall time bring to some properties so what makes the folks who property was taken think it would be worth big bucks poor people have less money to invest in upkeep so the property may be only worth a fraction of what other property s increased over the years Just Saying ...

[@ted1091]

First, grammar and punctuation. Secondly, you're confusing inflation with enslavement.

[@ninadaly7639]

You are exactly right!

[@1nitocdmx683]

Maybe Mexicans need to start asking for reparations also due to our stolen land

[@haydes2106]

I disagree with this. Reparation is a horrible idea. These ancestors are not slaves themselves. To ask residents to compensate for something like this is ridiculous.

[@Goosgoos-222]

Do you cry about native Americans being paid to this day? Is there a specific reason you hate black people exclusively getting anything? There's is no doubt wealth was stolen, but you seem to dislike justice if it benefits black individuals.

[@DrQuinn601]

this has NOTHING to do with slavery, but the by product of the restrictions left after slavery. You are NOT paying attention at all smh

[@franksanz1044]

No free handouts Joshua

[@aliciabrowndocken4660]

"Generational Wealth" is an interesting term. Most Inherited Wealth is completely gone by the 3rd generation. I grew up in the 50's and 60's and I saw terrible things happen to Minorities of Color. I remember the lunch counters and the "Colored Bathrooms". I remember the voting rights marches. Yep, and then there was Rosa Parks and the bus. I'm 70 years old and I've seen the struggles. I'm white and I come from a privileged home with "Generational Wealth". I was blessed to have a Paranoid Schizophrenic Mother and an Often Absent Alcoholic Father. We grew up in Abject Poverty and parental neglect and violence. My Generational Wealth consisted of a paper grocery sack that I put 2 changes of clothes in when I left home at age 18. My Mother promised me that the Devil God Satan ran the Community College and that she'd see me starve to death in a Cold Dark Alley with an Aching Hungry Belly before I was going to become a Disciple of the Devil. I've worked 60-80 hours a week average for 50 years from the age of 15 to 65. I served 4 years in the Military during the Vietnam War Era followed by Community College with a little help from the GI Bill. I've never returned home even to visit. I now have 6 years of College and 2 Degrees. I'm Honorably Discharged from the Military after a single 4 year hitch. My house is completely paid off after 32 years of making payments. I have a Comfortable Financial Portfolio after working 60-80 hours a week for 50 years. No Kids, No pool, No pets. I've had 3 entirety unrelated careers besides my 4 years in the Military. I really hate to see people view Generational Wealth as an Entitlement or even as something that was taken from them. Life is the hardest and toughest thing that will ever happen to any of us. Life is about continuing to get up no matter how many times you get kicked in the head. When I hear talk of stolen Generational Wealth I have to feel kind of sad for those involved. Anyone who has to, needs to or wants to depend on other's for their well-being is a lost sole. Generational Wealth, is having access to that paper grocery sack.

[@spocklover110]

Love this.

[@ashasun6620]

If that was hard for you, just imagine being black and having worse things then what you mentioned happen to you by your government.

[@ashleybcookin]

Thanks for sharing your story. Now imagine coming from a poor home(no wealth) with the same absent/alcoholic father and mentally ill mother and being black. When you went outside your home, you were still white. So while you may not have had an ideal upbringing, it’s still a different experience.

[@342josevargas]

So do Hispanics get anything? I know we weren’t like African Americans but we were slaves too and we got treated the same? Are we not of importance? Not to take away from what is owed to “black” Americans; but i feel sad for my people cause we get stepped on like trash and we are too scared to stand up for ourselves. We too were treated the same and still do if you think about we are modern day slaves

[@342josevargas]

Gasoline baths at the border KZbin

[@YoRBG]

Your not native to this country. Your people benefits from the rights black people fought for. We were on the front line. Plus Hispanics pass for white when it's convenient and whites use that as an advantage for political purposes.

[@mikeglenn5212]

You have to have wealth first for it to be stolen. I've never owned a slave or a plantation. And none of these people have ever been a slave.

[@Goosgoos-222]

Pathetic, there are a myriad number of specific instances in CA/nationwide were black wealth stolen. Farming for one its clear day the systematic racist policies and benign neglect design in practice of said policies stole billions from that black community alone. You're intellectually lazy when this information is has never been so easy to obtain. Why is that?

[@geraldingraham4948]

The slaves were promised and owed an economic leg up for building the country you love. Your white supremacist ancestors denied them that…and you as a white supremacist support it.

[@cheezybred]

If you owned a slave in your lifetime then you should pay.

[@Goosgoos-222]

If you live in or immigrate to a country built by slave labor you should pay.

[@billythekidder7182]

@@Goosgoos-222that’s every country genius.

[@Goosgoos-222]

@@billythekidder7182 you called me a genius while presenting no relevant arguments other than reparations should be paid world wide. Thanks William.

[@billythekidder7182]

@@Goosgoos-222 I don’t have to explain anything to you. I called you genius because it’s obvious you are, William.

[@Grld1025]

I always hear that happened in the PAST but they didn't say that to jewish people or anyone else that was paid reparations by this government

[@dorianjames1583]

Exactly when we're the "Jews given reparations by this government "?

[@dorianjames1583]

That was just about the most obtuse ignorant statement I've seen on this platform. You do understand that Jews have been taking care of their own communities for thousands of years under the most repressive conditions on three continents .? What's next? Do you think every China Town was allocated to the Chinese by our government bad well? I actually wouldnt be surprised if you assumed that too. The Japanese families affected by their internment during WW2 were finally given $20,000. I'm sure you would spend that in a year

[@CaramelCali]

@@dorianjames1583omg do research

[@DLFfitness1]

This should be the standard for the entire country. Everyone knows the history.

[@MOTO_DOSE]

Hold your hand out poor boy

[@franksanz1044]

No free handouts - stop being a professional victim

[@SlickRick135]

Black folks always asking for a handout from the white man.

[@nickjones3860]

@@franksanz1044 45 million white Americans still benefit from those “handouts” y’all are just racist.. the end

[@Wytepipogetowned]

​@@franksanz1044 stop being a professional clown.

[@MsMelyjean]

"Unlawful property seizure" Enough said.

[@Virtual-rh7wx]

What about the Japanese people whose land was also stolen, property was confiscated and they were robbed of economic opportunities as well…..

[@HOPE.TheresNoPlaceLikeHomeClub]

In Japan?

[@starventure]

@@HOPE.TheresNoPlaceLikeHomeClub In the US. Japanese Americans were rounded up after the Japan attacked the US and placed in camps out in the deserted areas of California. But then again, so were Italian Americans and German Americans during the war. Tale a guess what compensation they got.

[@lenaprice6239]

@@starventure Japanese Americans received reparations and they represented less than 1 percent of the U.S. population.

[@starventure]

@@lenaprice6239 They never got their confiscated properties back. Money doesn’t replace that.

[@lenaprice6239]

@@starventure They were paid for those properties, and it was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The information is available online. The U.S. also officially apologized and recognized what was done to Japanese Americans during that time period. No such reparations or apologies have ever been issued to Black American people.

[@Mannyboi-hj2gs]

Reparations must be paid

[@franksanz1044]

Then stop stealing and looting

[@menewsome]

​@@franksanz1044I believe that was a lot of white and Hispanics as well.

[@amkiahazel515]

@@franksanz1044 Because this country has economically oppressed blacks is the direct reason as to why the crime rate is high within the inner cities.

[@Robin-mj6jv]

When everyone was going west and making fortunes, black people were slaves.

[@arklinmike]

Dr. Henry Louis Gates has said that guilt is not inheritable.

[@BSU55]

Donald Trump began his political career with an Intentional Racist Birther Lie, in the form of a question, and Republicans voted for Donald Trump's Extreme Rhetoric, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate, twice ! Your turn

[@Goosgoos-222]

Debt is.

[@ninadaly7639]

It isn’t. And neither is debt.

[@dorianjames1583]

But it sells

[@amerukhanwyld]

I fell their pain we had a willow tree they made the best switches 😅

[@josephperreault2063]

Imagine taking what you didn't even work towards 😅my mother's mother of the mother 😅

[@geraldingraham4948]

Its called “inheritance” and the only reason you have a problem with it is because you want to keep your white supremacist legacy.

[@MISNM0]

She said it was her father's mother.

[@ted1091]

If you're going to make racist comments, you should at least be able to write a comprehensible sentence. I had to search the weeds for your bigoted meaning.

[@MISNM0]

@@ted1091 👏👏👏👏

[@carbon6951]

Sounds like Trump's life story!! Lol 🤣

[@cubanangelboi]

No...do UBI for everyone instead.

[@Onlytherawtruth]

We will not stop protesting until we get Reparations ❤

[@dorianjames1583]

Will Armenians also get some too? How about the millions of Africans descended from the millions brought to the middle east in an era that overlaps the Atlantic slave trade? Or how about the Irish slaves also brought to Virginia? Or more poignantly, how about the slaves alive today in Africa and Asia?

[@thebossman3894]

Why dont you just get a job and go to work. That's what I do.

[@petep5207]

Or...until the rest of society gets sick enough of you that they exterminate you.

[@FirstLast-dy4gt]

“You can NEVER repay the damage that’s been done to Black people in America…” Enjoy this same conversation 100s of years from now 🙄 These clowns need to focus on the present maybe update the messaging in Hip Hop and R&B and watch your communities flourish instead of having children out of wedlock, killing each other, unemployment, entitlement, etc…

[@lindagarland5223]

Interesting to hear some of these people interviewed. A few ( including the legislator in Sacramento), still stumbling on the comparison between their ability to climb the social ladder, therefore EVERYONE CAN. Sad, they still don't get it. How can one get to college when they are pushed out to periphery in all ways. Some don't get good paying jobs. Some couldn't own real estate. Some couldn't even build a "sense of community" scattered in new neighborhoods. Oh well, they got clean water..😢😢😢.😢😢😢

[@ginxxxxx]

whatever "college" you think someone should have been in does not exist today if it ever did at all. it is interesting to read your post, still stumbling with racism, you don't get it (forget about the still).

[@Goosgoos-222]

Good points, except clean water Ms Linda I think Flint MI and Jackson MS beg to differ. It's particularly interesting to me when I hear arguments of affirmative action. Which in practice designate white women as a minority who in turn benefit the most. Now, immigrants like Asians are blaming black people for their inability to get into colleges. Illegal immigrants stuffed in underserved black communities. Real estate is one thing but how The govt finds housing funds out thin air in the same areas homelessness hits black people the most makes the status quo clear as day. Most honest people know this, the rest deny and deflect.

[@heyaisdabomb]

I don't think reparations are fair when you consider who will be paying them. I didn't have generational wealth, like a large amount of people across many races. While I didn't fight racism, I had my own injustices thanks to the public school system that I had to over come by spending years catching up to college level AFTER high school. How does making someone who had nothing to do with this discrimination, who is struggling to make it pay check to pay check, how should they be paying for this? And what about the Japanese who lost everything in WW2 and were put in internment camps? What about the Mexicans whose land we stole and are all living on today? What about the Catholics that were discriminated against? Or the Italians? I agree with the senator that the best path forward is education and resources. I don't see how taxing someone who had nothing to do with this mess and giving it to only one of the many communities that were discriminated against fixes anything material.

[@ginxxxxx]

@@heyaisdabomb education and science have failed humans. this whole reparations thing is a form of education and science itself. just look at what happen during covid, that was all science, even the leak was in the name of science, and the tripling of the money supply in response? education and science yet again.

[@BSU55]

​@@heyaisdabomb Did you believe Donald Trump's obvious intentional Racist Birther Lie, in the form of a question, for more than 60 seconds ? If you did, then you have an unconscious bias !

[@johnzarollin2749]

Everybody has a right to their day in court. Civil matters of injustice abound and make few racial distinctions. I lived in Hayward CA in the late 1950s. Very few non historical dwellings have survived the inevitable march of time and change. For the better for the most part.

[@Justin_Kase77]

That's awful. The people that this happened to should be paid.

[@gilberttorres8]

They were paid for the their land if you listen to the lady say their ancestors were paid 1100 bucks for their land.

[@Justin_Kase77]

@@gilberttorres8 I also heard them say they were paid pennies on the dollar for their property. They were done wrong!

[@MrCharliebbarkin]

@@Justin_Kase77 That's if you believe them. It's likely a wild embellishment.

[@riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip]

@@Justin_Kase77 they owned a small amount of land with a dirt floor hut and a garden in the backyard. $1100 in 1966 was a lot of money.

[@kimberlygarrett1485]

@@Justin_Kase77 happens everywhere, built an airport near my aunts house and she had to sell for less too

[@snowden9817]

The 3 women didn't live through a massacre. The Only thing that was disgraceful Was that comment she made.

[@Rafadakid]

So much evil

[@larrytennant7476]

Get over it and move on.

[@SebrenaRey]

My aunt told me a story about my grandfather's father owned funeral homes in Mississippi he was lynched and they ran for their lives never to return 😢 I wonder what happened 😢

[@PG-tc6os]

There is no free lunch. This is ridiculous

[@billybarnett2846]

My ancestral home was stolen from me by another Black family before I could claim it. Evil has no color.

[@Jay-uc8rm]

Sounds like you should be gathering evidence for your case. I honestly don;t see what this has to do with the story.

[@africanqueen1655]

The descendants of those that perpetuated Evil against The Most High’s Children via Enslavement are trying to stop compensation, they will be forced to confess. Arrogance, Pride & Evil are HATED by The Most High. Proverbs 8:13. 🙏🏿🤴🏾👸🏾🙌🏾

[@GiganticRooster-kn2lj]

Take that nonsense to the costal African countries who sold the slaves

[@ted1091]

This is not difficult. Economists, accountants and financial experts are used every day to calculate damages. Just because they are multi generational doesn't pose an obstacle to calculating damages. There may be differences in opinion, but a range of damages should not be difficult to ascertain. Long, long overdue.

[@MrCharliebbarkin]

What should 'damage' be when someone was mean to your great great grandpa? The answer? 0 dollars.

[@djwoosie98]

​@@MrCharliebbarkin they weren't simply mean, they took property based on race.

[@MISNM0]

👏👏👏

[@ninadaly7639]

How about not due at all!

[@ninadaly7639]

⁠@@djwoosie98WRONG!

[@brap242818]

So why did her brothers go to prison?? How did slavery make them do crime. Victim mentality

[@chucklyDee]

No Tangibles No Vote

[@Mauiwowie05]

What about Mexicans there’s literally a border lol

[@superstarjohnnyecko]

Not buying the idea that people were "better off' because of plumbing or any of the other excuses but I think at this point that money would be better spent looking forward and achieving better access to they systems that create generational wealth and focus on the things that stymie that, like redlining black neighborhoods and different home valuations based on ethnicity and unequal access to capital to name a few.

[@thriveyugen85]

Land ownership is a big part of generational wealth

[@sew_gal7340]

@@thriveyugen85 America is made up of immigrants, many immigrants came here with nothing and after a generation they own land and other property...it is not impossible, plenty of asians do this every day

[@relaxlibrary4249]

Right? I'm curious as to what led to those conditions where they didn't have plumbing, etc. Probably redlining or other discriminatory practices. They're completely discounting how hard it is to just pick up and move, especially during a time when community was so important. They couldn't just pick up and move anywhere they wanted to.

[@nikkiBRose]

Listen plumbing was available in Zambia in the 1700s so this is not a come up

[@grantmorrey5138]

What about Irish slaves? Or the other groups whom have been enslaved. Add up welfare since 1865 and subtract it, you will owe..

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

Irish people have the option to just go back to Ireland. Including Joe Biden.🤣

[@Goosgoos-222]

There were no Irish slaves. I'm sure you struggle reading and comprehending. Irish servants were indentured paying off a debt they agreed to take on. You yt supremacist love false equivalencies its like you glob mayonnaise on everything and make the most absurd comparisons.

[@checle4499]

The saddest part of all is that what is being described is a consistent story of the human condition. A little bit of genealogical research and a good bit of Biblical history reveals that no matter what country, government, ethnicity, community, tribe, etc etc etc - mans inhumanity to his fellow man, and the greed that goes with it, knows no bounds. Human governments will never be able to repair nor repay what is owed, hence the sacrifice of the Christ. And the only solution - his Kingdom - on earth - as it is in heaven. Those who make the effort to learn that the Kingdom is already ruling, live for it now, will survive to see true reparations. Psalm 37

[@FirehorseCreative]

*Jesus Christ of Nazareth didn’t sacrifice so that man could sin in peace, Jesus Christ of Nazareth lived to teach that those who strive to aid and heal the least fortunate who are victims of such sinful evil greed, are those who will receive heavenly grace and blessings of the Lord. So, according to Jesus we should all support such reparations being considered, just as we should support the least fortunate- but only if we Truly follow what Jesus asked of us.* *Matthew 25:35-36, 40* *”For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me … Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me”*

[@MISNM0]

Geezus Kawrhist

[@NullBrass]

Chattel slavery was unlike any form of slavery in history. While Jesus' sacrifice paves the way for the final solution, in the meantime, that doesn't prevent Black descendants of slaves from seeking restitution and justice.

[@LadyGee18]

It's ridiculous to hand poor people money without ever teaching financial literacy, clean up crime and drug infestations and actually promote a broader use of money that won't disappear as fast as the stimulus checks.

[@MichaelAnthony-rl8zs]

Nothing was stolen. That's just life.

[@lastharvestPDR]

Exactly, just like slavery, right?

[@kimweidner7351]

Unfortunately you are absolutely wrong and likely willfully defiant. Wonder what would make someone deny such an atrocious history……racism is hate and hate is murder.

[@MISNM0]

This is a moronic statement.

[@kimberlygarrett1485]

@@lastharvestPDR are you a slave, go ask African government to pay for selling your ancestors into slavery

[@vladjeanjacques3249]

Can we enslave you and have you pick cotton? It's just life right?

[@waylandjennings4073]

Let's say I'm a white guy who hasn't benefitted from generational wealth. Who do I get to blame?

[@teresasmith4145]

God is The Avenger ♥️ They are gonna get what they got coming to them 🗽 What goes around comes around ❤️ Laws that have been broken : Thou shalt not Covet ♥️ Thou shalt not steal ♥️ Woe to those ilk 🥀

[@kimberlygarrett1485]

Pretty sure those slave owners are long gone, except the ones in Africa and Asia where slavery still exist

[@teresasmith4145]

@@kimberlygarrett1485 They will face The great White Throne Judgement at the end of the Millenium. It is written ♥️ Haven't you read God Almightys Love Letter The King James Holy Bible. All Souls belong to God ♥️ You wouldn't be here if it weren't for God ♥️ No one in the whole world has your fingerprints. ♥️

[@kimberlygarrett1485]

@@teresasmith4145 I don't believe that people are punished for crimes that others do.

[@teresasmith4145]

@@kimberlygarrett1485 what people are you talking about 🤭 you mean the ones that are now going to pay up 🤭 📢 WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND 🗽 HOWS IT FEEL 🗽🎉🎉🎉♥️🗽

[@kimberlygarrett1485]

@@teresasmith4145 dream on not going to happen, paid up when they died fighting for the North years ago

[@Rastaferrari829]

These same people against reparations have no problem sending billions in aid to Israel…

[@chrislyncompton8623]

Thank you for this . Reports sre clear.

[@problactive285]

NO REPARATIONS NO VOTES

[@GreatWomanOfFaith]

We are owed for 500 yrs of systematic oppression. We did most of the work that was financially beneficial in many of these countries. The entire economies were built on our labor. We were never compensated or given credit for our contribution instead villainized. Millions go to this, billions go to those, and to my fellow Black Americans 😘 trillions are owed.

[@GreatWomanOfFaith]

If ever we were to receive compensation or reparations, we want it in cash, not school or tax breaks, cut us a check. 😢

[@jpete3027666]

Slaves did not build the US economy. The economical impact of slavery on the south was mainly in cotton and farming. The economy in the north (no slavery) was industrious and superior and was the reason the Union won the civil war. The economy of the south was already starting to crumble before the civil war. The industrial revolution (after slavery) built the United States into what it is now. So if you're going to make an argument, at least make one that is historically accurate. The statement that slavery built the United States is incorrect and greatly exaggerated.

[@SamFortino-uv2if]

Don't forget all the working class poor whites who worked hard for nothing during the industrial revolution and onward. They only make the rich richer while staying in a poor life they can't get out of.

[@GreatWomanOfFaith]

@@jpete3027666 GDP finance, education, and penitentiaries filled with our people. That's at least 1/4 of the economy today. What amount is 400 yrs of slavery × millions of slaves valued at?🙄

[@GreatWomanOfFaith]

But my Heavenly Father said forgive my debtors and I do. Common sense ain't that common?

[@johnnyBosco-m6x]

What God gave you, nobody can take it away, no matter how hard they tried. Even hardcore racist, bigotry, and oppressors! Take your land back!!

[@TheAtemiles]

I'm african. Why aren't west African tribes who are still around and recognized royalty in places like Ghana Nigeria congo etc who where the leaders of the kingdoms selling black Americans to Europeans aren't asked to pay reparations?😊

[@malvindavis7914]

European law was never meant for people that look like us

[@Stevenwoodz]

Are they serious? Black people were freed after hundreds of years without resources or help. Years of no education and the trauma of Slavery. What did your family go thru

[@nick4088]

Wishful thinking like usual. Still not working towards getting your generations better. 40 years from now. Those generations will be the same.

[@1908d2]

can't get my generations better when you and those like you constantly find ways to demean us through laws, legislation and culture wars. You cannot say 40 years will correct the over 110 years of racial injustice, through the aforementioned ways.

[@jimmiebazz2586]

Vote that guy out he's against the people that are for reparations...

[@clintongwanyama7188]

What about native Americans?

[@jeffwhitney3369]

What about everybody????? Where does it stop??????

[@Goosgoos-222]

They been receiving reparations since 1866 with new tribes added periodically. Are you a tether you have a tether name? Are you 12? Is this your 1st time using the internet? Did they have American history books in the 3rd world your family fled from?

[@Cool-beans69]

Maybe you should give back to the native Americans first….

[@economicdevelopmentplannin8715]

They owned black slaves. Indians owe black Americans too😊

[@Ilovedogzzz76]

This boils my blood I can’t keep watching stuff like this and these demons own and take everything

[@WakandaleezaRazz]

Oh lawd da blatts be taking urrthang 😭✊🏿

[@reneekad]

I’m not that liberal

[@GameCreatorOfGod]

I am white and poor and work hard for a living and can hardly pay the rent. Can I also get free land? I was born here and have a family history of being born here so that means my land was also stollen.

[@quitaulla1569]

Whites came to America and stole the lands from the indigenous. What about the Native Americans who were here before the white men arrived with their guns to still from the natives??

[@thriveyugen85]

If by chance you happen to be the descendant of a former enslaver. Than your past settler relatives probably received reparations or land after slavery.What alot of people don't realize is that. Reparations was paid out to former enslavers or there living descendants.The 40 acres and mule that was documented and promised to formally enslaved people wasn't honored shouldn't just be forgotten about because generations have past.

[@kyonsenzu8799]

My great grandfather is william still freed over 800 slaves and im broke alone and on the verge of homelessness. Crazy how my family played a significant role in building this country and for what? What was it all for? Where is the appreciation?

[@Cnichal]

😂

[@kyonsenzu8799]

@@Cnichal what's so funny black man. My grandfather freed your family your would have been a slave still if it wasn't for my grand father

[@kyonsenzu8799]

@@Cnichal uncle Tom sellout look at you.

[@economicdevelopmentplannin8715]

​@@kyonsenzu8799😅

[@kyonsenzu8799]

@@economicdevelopmentplannin8715 more emojis huh?

[@GrindMotive]

So embarrassing begging if it’s that many of us let’s come together and start building again like our ancestors stop asking we don’t need anything from them people it won’t happen

[@eugenehamby7167]

If they're owed the money then they should be paid the money and no if ands or maybe about it.

[@cwilson9636]

Everybody laying claim to land. Uuuhmmm, how about the Indigenous People that lived all over. There were menories just like they had before they became settlers there. 🙄🙄 Listening to them talking about this was my land and my property ... blah blah! Tell the First Nations true. My People practically died for what is now the US.

[@carbon6951]

No one has ownership to a continent.. Also, several Native American tribes owe a lot of black Americans money and land from "The 1866 Treaties".. They need to pay that ASAP !!!

[@Deltron6060]

So people that were never slaves want money from people that never owned slaves.....NOPE!

[@dennisreid9039]

We are owed this money

[@dorianjames1583]

The people that owe your elders are also dead. If the Government pays that's also you paying through taxes

[@tgg3532]

youre nikes are made from slave labor. you owe the chinese child slaves their freedom. what are you going to do about this?

[@rich-qk7dc]

But from who?

[@SamFortino-uv2if]

Why?

[@nothx512]

Black celebrities and black millionaires who have estates in those states should contribute to the bill....instead of flossing around designer watches, clothing, luxurious mansions and cars.

[@amkiahazel515]

That's only the ignorant rappers, entertainers, and athletes that the media uses to influence, People like myself understand the value of financial literacy and how to preserve and build wealth.. The media would never highlight like I or others within my group. There is power in imagery

[@djsamplegee]

Perhaps stop expecting handouts and go and forge your own path in life.

[@BSU55]

Perhaps stop being a Racist Republican, who believes any obvious intentional lie, about President Obama.

[@ksjprincess]

300 years of free slave labor and no financial payment? The American economy was built off the BLOOD and BACKS of my people. How long have your people lived in this country?

[@djsamplegee]

@@ksjprincess My "people" have never lived in your country. How many years of slave labour did you complete love?

[@jakejrly1508]

Have the local government who took the property pay them back, but those far moved away should not pay.

[@citizencoy4393]

Oh shut up! You are paying to build an army for Ukraine right now and you are silent! You just paid for asians to receive reparations with the asian hate crime bill and you said nothing!!!! Sit back and do like you ALWAYS DO when the ppl centered are not black.

[@lastcommodore2071]

The problem is that none of the slaves are living today. They are the ones who actually deserve compensation.

[@amkiahazel515]

This isn't solely about slavery. There were many atrocities' that after reconstruction and well into the 20rh century

[@bernardwylie9760]

Kevin Kiley represents the district next to mine…..he DOES NOT care about addressing any inequality, even those that exist today entirely because of issues today.