Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery: New Report Documents How It Profited, Then Tried to Erase That History

Harvard University released a 134-page report this week that detailed the school’s extensive ties to slavery and pledged $100 million for a fund for scholars to continue to research the topic. The report documents dozens of prominent people associated with Harvard who enslaved people, including four Harvard presidents. Harvard commissioned the study in 2019 as part of a wave of schools reckoning with their pasts and the ongoing legacy of racial discrimination. “Harvard’s ties to slavery begin with the founding of the institution,” says MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder, author of “Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities.” Wilder says that while this history is not new, Harvard worked for decades to erase its complicity in slavery. “We’re really only beginning to reconcile and to really struggle with the deep ties that this institution has to slavery,” he says.
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[@RonnieMinh]

Harvard pays no taxes, let that sink in.

[@corryjookit7818]

Start a campaign. I would if I were an American .

[@ili626]

holy crap really?!

[@emhu2594]

No one pays taxes except for the poor. Harvard is the norm.

[@bovinityleak2066]

Really?!

[@Doctor_Subtilis]

They also own 400,000 hectares of stolen land in Brazils cerrado that they destroyed for commodity crop monoculture plantations, surrounded by 17 ft high barbed wire fence and routinely poisoning the locals with American pesticides that are illegal to spray in America, they don't pay taxes on that either but they are losing money on it

[@Don.M.]

Such horrific atrocities at just ONE school. Imagine the horrors happening to the enslaved in the rest of the country…America has a debt to pay.

[@greatblackness8828]

Indeed and they will pay. Voodoom is sweeping this country and all countries who harmed the African people. We haven't forgotten our Ancestors

[@teenah.daughterofYAH]

Because God is a just God, He will avenge the brutality and injustice done to His people.

[@sweetgizzle123]

Very much so! Foundational black Americans we are demanding our reparations, our land to be returned to us, and federal protections at the least.

[@sakhu8945]

A HUGE DEBT.

[@justanotherti4790]

It's not America. America belongs to the people who were enslaved. Reference Amaru-Khan or even the Khalifians. The United States of America Corporation owes us everything including our land and gold.

[@bradc6993]

you should talk about wells Fargo, AIG, and other major companies today that profited off slavery as well.

[@Tlahuiltezcatl]

Yes

[@riaa8689]

Yea, just about every major industry that thrives today has some sort of ties that point back to slavery except maybe modern technology.

[@RJL612]

We need a list of companies to shake down.

[@578sundriedAZ]

yes sir. Cigna (used Indigenous Melanated dominant FB1 "Brokering" & "DOAS/FB1 used as "Liens" so migrants can obtain 'Loans"; (black history month webpage: "Let's talk about black future" not "Black History". and yet there are nothing but symbolic prop movies of 1917-1948, aushwitch, migrants on boats to america with luggages with turkish cigarrettes in their mouths claiming "oppression".

[@paull2166]

END affirmative action, undeserving people should not get positions ahead of smarter and harder working people. 💯

[@Linkx16]

I sat next to a old Harvard graduate on a plane it was quite fascinating to hear his take on all the events surrounding social dynamics in the US. These Ivy League institutions produce a lot of morally bankrupt people.

[@Madasin_Paine]

See Veritas Everybody Loves Harvard. Plenty of additional history about the foundation and ulterior motives of the Ivy League. Two results should appear in the search and are related but compliment each other.

[@traycwalton4535]

Lineage

[@mr.mrs.d.7015]

I would love to hear what was said. I can see your veiled inferrence of it and now Im intrigued. Very diplomatic of you. Thank you for sharing

[@Doctor_Subtilis]

read GRAIN- HARVARD'S LAND GRABS IN BRAZIL ARE A DISASTER FOR COMMUNITIES AND A WARNING FOR SPECULATORS

[@henryc1000]

Are they as morally bankrupt as those who are committing the sky high car jacking rate in Chicago and the “smash and grabs” which are driving businesses and tourists out of Chicago?

[@dtlegacy2495]

No matter how many times you try to rewrite history the truth always finds a way to come out and reveal itself. You have to learn from the past instead of running away from it.

[@tangelahenderson2198]

WELL SAID

[@dtlegacy2495]

@@tangelahenderson2198 thank you.

[@ripadipaflipa4672]

Democracy Now isn’t what U may want to hear but should listen to and learn. I recommend listening to it daily. Ask yourself why if Ur a republican or democratic U listen to news that makes U feel good? We all would be better if we listen to both sides to learn why people believe what they do. To LEARN we listen to what makes us uncomfortable.

[@gwendolynwilliams1730]

@@ripadipaflipa4672 take heave to your own comment.

[@damir2052]

History is written in blood. All of human history is written in blood.

[@le7mule21]

These monsters has not changed. 1600 to this day. Nothing has changed.

[@jeanwaysome3532]

Embedded in their DNA..

[@zee6129]

And never will

[@desireawinton9745]

It is generational, and bloodline illness of these people?'

[@haroldwright8879]

Profiting from the sweat from someone else's brow by force is one the root causes of corruption leading to insanity.The Last Poets got it right "this is madness".

[@gloriasarah9653]

Then they say get over it, and act like it was a long time ago so that they can do it again

[@andrewyche4581]

Please don't be surprised. Every college and university in the USA that was started from 1640 to 1865 had some financial connection to slavery. Alumni who owned slaves and donated to their school. Professors who the slaves served them on campus. Schools that had slaves build their original buildings. Slave bodies were used for science experiments at schools. Groundskeeping and landscape at college or universities. Slaves were used in the active class study for students. So it has been heinous for decades. Nobody wants a plaque. Family descendants should litigate, because these colleges and universities made hundreds of millions of dollars from their family members.

[@claudettepaul8212]

For those of you who are biblically inclined read Deuteronomy-28, learn who those slaves really are. Slave labor built the White House and most of wealthy US. I just read the book 12 years a Slave and was sick to my stomach. Thanks for this video.

[@cessaly100]

FINALLY: truth comes out. Way back in 1980, a lovely young black woman was literally abused out of Harvard by a professor who didn’t feel she belonged there. Heartbreaking the story of abuse and suffering she experienced. She never did complete her graduate degree.

[@sweetgizzle123]

Then you would agree, that foundational black Americans should get our reparations, we should also be entitled to have our land returned, and that we should have Federal protections.

[@sinatraonyewuchi]

Deuteronomy 28 specifically speaks on a people group who were the MAJORITY of the clans taken away as slaves from West Africa (Bight of Benin, Bight of Biafara, Togo, Cameroon, Sierra Leonne, Angola) the MAJORITY was a tribe called the “IGBO” tribe who the white Europeans scholars like those at Harvard have changed to “Hebrew”… IGBOS are in SouthEastern Nigeria today being genocided-

[@K.R-]

An asherah pole (National Monument) is in the background of the White House. The whole country has occult symbolism everywhere.

[@adbc1f72]

@@cessaly100 Do you have a link to the story? I tried to look it up and couldn’t find anything. ☹️

[@tclay1122]

Devils cannot hide this monstrous acts anymore 👿

[@BLACK7MA]

They atrocity that was done was so horrific and out of this world.

[@magnoliadjholmes247]

I appreciate the point to consistently say "enslaved people" instead of "slaves"

[@henrypacquette1489]

Are you saying that enslaved was not slaves? (ɪnsleɪv ) Word forms: enslaves, enslaving, enslaved. transitive verb. To enslave someone means to make them into a slave. They'd been enslaved and had to do what they were told.

[@magnoliadjholmes247]

@@henrypacquette1489 Meaning that being enslaved was not their whole identity as a person. Calling them "enslaved" as opposed to calling them "slaves" helps restore a little bit of their humanity. I don't think it's wrong/incorrect to call them slaves. By definition, that is what they were. I just believe it's more humanizing to call them "enslaved". Other people may understand it differently, but for me, "slave" is an identifier and "enslaved" is a description. For me, those are two different things - such as telling someone that they are being foolish right now vs. telling them that they ARE foolish.

[@Windsingerful]

@@magnoliadjholmes247 You are correct. Calling them enslaved people instead of “slaves” at its most literal grammatical level indicates these were PEOPLE who had been enslaved. Their humanity is illuminated, where so often, the term “slave” reduces them to the chattel they were accounted as at that time - a CRIME against humanity. And those that sneer at this description as mere unimportant word choice (potato/potahto), need to have a come to Jesus personal encounter with that reality! But you won’t see any volunteers for THAT experiment! 😒😒😒😒😒

[@mmarie294]

@@henrypacquette1489 I would really like to know what you are saying. Appears to be you don't want to admit human beings are born free people, then enslaved for the purpose of making money performing duties, and building Harvard. Please I personally think you very well knew what she meant.

[@Shae-mj3ku]

What's the difference it means the same thing.

[@lukefairbanks8622]

we never stopped being a slave country. As per the 13th amendment loophole, we now have millions of slaves in prisons, unsurprisingly overrepresented by minorities and people born into poverty. There are things we must change: change the 13th amendment so that no one may be enslaved, and ideally force prisons to pay prison labor the minimum wage, and while we're at it everyone should have the right to vote if they are a citizen. If the prisons have to pay prisoners the minimum wage, it completely dismantles the economic incentive to get more people in prisons and keep them there since the business would no longer be making money off of prisoners but losing money. It should be disincentivized to imprison and enslave people, obviously. Prisons would still exist for people who commit heinous acts, but many of the imprisoned committed fairly innocuous crimes such as drug possession and acts of desperation. If you had investment into your community regarding education, jobs, etc do you think people would be less likely to commit crimes of desperation such as robbery? Note also that the vast majority of theft is wage theft, completely dwarfing petty theft

[@williamhughmurraycissp8405]

As much as one despises the inequities in our system justice, there is a distinction between retributive imprisonment and economic slavery. The purpose of imprisonment is not to exploit the labor of the prisoner.

[@emhu2594]

Look how wealth and income inequality is higher than at any time in recorded history...the billionaires keep stealing our wealth, our wages, our property and our homes, and destroying the planet, and no feels the need to do anything about it.

[@paull2166]

Slavery was abolished over 150 years a ago in the US. However slavery around the world is running rampant!

[@infozone9601]

@@paull2166 slavery has never been abolished in the u.s. it is still legal as the op pointed out.

[@hughjassle5876]

So Luke, maybe you can tell me, when someone makes a conscious decision to commit a crime, which they know will likely land them in prison, how does that make them a slave? Perhaps they are a slave to vice, to their desires, but again, that is their decision. Everyone in prison made a conscious decision to break the law. I'm having trouble envisioning Africans saying, "oh oh pick me pick me" when the slave ships pulled in. And that's just one of the several fallacies contained in your word vomit.

[@therealpillventage628]

The question is how intelligent are they really if they're able to do these things it's like a malicious Social Club how to be more evil

[@desireawinton9745]

They were ignorant and evil as hell, yet try their best to put it all on other people by lying and stereotyping others, to get the attention off their ignorant evil blood sucking asses! I think they were working with the "Fallen to be able to come together with about six other countries, using witchcraft and brainwashing, and sorcery, then brainwashed all the other ignorant Europeans that believed they were better than everyone else?" Sad.

[@anotherpointofview222]

Is that even a question? Obviously "inteligent" enough to build a successful, prestigious institution of higher learning that is seen as the place to go and get a degree.

[@therealpillventage628]

@@anotherpointofview222 learning false indoctrination in order to be cheap labor and in order to accommodate fragile people's feelings is not education

[@MPR2]

Thank God for the internet and the abundance of information, great report, thank you!

[@lesliefountainwilliams5264]

I literally became ill to my stomach listening to the description of what happened to Kato (i.e. skinned, strung together, etc.), just sick🤢 violent and sad😔

[@queenmommie8295]

Truth of all of America all over this land. NIH still makes money off of a black woman from Maryland. Henrietta Lacks her family is still fighting for money made by NIH and Big pharma for her genes that live on until this day. No CRT here.🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@tiwonnasims8206]

Demonic these peoples demons like their wealth is passed down generationally

[@markward3981]

There's more much more.

[@Angel-tw3ko]

@@tiwonnasims8206 trust me. They will be held accountable for their actions on judgement day.

[@gargomelbogle2700]

Exactly 👍 💯

[@kidofflint8812]

Famously the radical abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner not only famously attacked Harvard and criticize them in his speeches but was actually rejected from being made president of the college due to the fact he was an abolitionist. With the college famously saying “ we do not want to disturb or bother are students from the South about The peculiar institution a practice “ notice how they say peculiar instead of what Sumner would say . For example Sumner would say brutal , wicked and Abominable to describe it .

[@jamarimitchell1220]

I’m from the Caribbean and this is interesting I’m from the island where Alexzander Hamilton was born..to think these rich institutions endorsed slavery to such an extent

[@daphneytennard3267]

You all usually attack FBA's about our history and wanting reparations. I hope you see why... these heathens has lived off the backs of our forefathers...and we want it all back!

[@nnaturalheaven3754]

Caribbean? There is a possibility that some of your ancestors may have been originally enslaved here in the US and the land there are from. I say that because they hide that slaves ships didn't just come in but many went OUT, were leaving out and bringing sold slaves from here out to the Islands sugar plantations. We are all so related and don't even know it and claim these plantations/lands instead of ourselves as a ppl not divided by a land we got sold into, but the same people by blood.

[@jamarimitchell1220]

@@nnaturalheaven3754 yep I totally agree with you but chances are we’ll never find out these facts

[@jackiethomas249]

@@jamarimitchell1220 DNA cousin matching feature has revealed this.

[@jamarimitchell1220]

@Jackie Thomas wow never known this

[@gibranward6945]

My ancestors need justice ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

[@shamsheerg7519]

So do mine. Do you know that most people around the world at some point in history have been slaves? Slavery around the world has been existent since time started. Black Africans enslaved other black africans and sold them to Arabs in the Islamic sales trade which started 1400 years ago and continues today.... Did you know that?

[@BobJohnson648]

Here is Harvard's phone #....

[@Tlahuiltezcatl]

Same

[@shamsheerg7519]

Justice is paying you for their suffering?

[@gibranward6945]

So what

[@bradc6993]

it's mind-boggling how white people believe slavery was a long time ago when they have grandparents great grandparents who owned slaves. I am 35 my grandmother was a slave in Texas. she was born in 1932 her parents both were slaves and died in 1984 two years before I was born. just because slavery ended on paper in 1865 does not mean it ended at that time. it was not called slavery at that time it was sharecropping. they worked for the farmer and the farmer allowed them to live on the land in a shack and let them eat some of the crops but would pay them very little because the excuse was that they allowed them to live on the land and eat the crops they grew.

[@user-rb7ns9yj5y]

100%

[@NullBrass]

Exactly, chattel slavery was not that long ago and there are people alive today that knew living former slaves. People that say it was a long time ago seem to gloss over this fact.

[@fuckbankers]

Now we have Zero hour contracts and wage slavery.

[@paull2166]

There hasn't been slavery in the US or the West in 150 years. The rest of the world has more slavery now than anytime in history.

[@paull2166]

@@user-rb7ns9yj5y I agree that slavery is alive and well in Africa. The same black slave traders are still dealing in slavery today including to Amnesty International, the Human Rights Watch and the UN.

[@trunoholdaway2114]

After 9/11 there were all these comedians who would laugh at you if you ever said anything that remotely smelled of a conspiracy theory, now were starting to dig deep and find that these powerful people have been committing terrible atrocities from day one.

[@deeliciousplum]

This is exceptionally disheartening. May there never be barriers between those who have suffered and the truth that they wish to share of and the justice that they undeniably deserve. 🌺

[@greatblackness8828]

Don't worry vengeance is here now. We doing Voodoo on their azz

[@sweetgizzle123]

Foundational black Americans, we are looking for the government and these types of Institutions to cut us our checks. We also want our lands returned, and we're also asking for federal protections

[@desireawinton9745]

@@sweetgizzle123 "Just think about all the mass graves they have built on top of, in America?" "Did anyone see this old article, showing all these Europeans taking pictures of all the "buffalo they killed it was a mountain of them, staked very high like a mountain, just terrible and sick people, to keep the Natives from having food to eat, they killed off the buffalo?"

[@andrebelfon6738]

Ahhh! It's like the more I learn the more disappointed I become. The hypocrisy of this country and many of its institutions are mindblowing.

[@bigjohn8160]

America has a debt to pay, and The Most High is on his way to collect. Babylon is quickly approaching the end of it's reign.....FOREVER!

[@ili626]

I’d like to know more about UVA’s slavery ties.. I know the Rotunda etc was built using slave labor etc., but given the extent of this Harvard report, it would seem there’s a lot more to uncover

[@whygohome172]

I have just lost all respect for these, so called, prestigious organizations. What a joke these money grubbers are.

[@bernicejoned4015]

🤔100%🤔But I Never had IT🙃😂🤣😂

[@sweetgizzle123]

These are not money Grabbers these are murderers, rapists, and ungodly people. Foundational black Americans wants the government and these types of Institutions to cut us our check. We are looking for our land to be returned and we are looking for federal protections

[@whygohome172]

@@sweetgizzle123 but these soulless sub humans have no conscience and no guilt or shame! Their demons!

[@ericwilliams1023]

"JUST"..you couldn't have thought these where moral people before this.

[@macphallic]

It’s about time!

[@deniserylander5198]

100 million is not enough for the many lives they abused and stole. But thanks for the report.I cannot watch all of this at once. These were my Ancestors. They were not Africans they were of the Tribe of Juda do your research

[@giantking6744]

Thank you Israelite Queen big difference.The Africans sold us.Judah Levi Benjamin etc.

[@Brad_Atkins]

I find it very hard to believe that an institution that total function is to operate in education/information on a higher standard would not know who these people were. “We often know only their nicknames” sounds like they don’t want to pay any restitution. Our people were categorized as property, you don’t even have cattle without giving it identification plus paperwork. This protected and solidified the owners so called ownership. Smh

[@malikr2271]

This is why reparations is LONG OVERDUE

[@TM-sm5qy]

All enslaved descendents should bring a lawsuit to the descendents of the slave owners and correct the injustices brought upon their ancestors.

[@tyaajathailani]

"Reparations were given to the most unlikely of benefactors, 900 slave owners, per the the Compensated Emancipation Act allowed for for these former slave owners to be paid more than a million dollars in 1860s currency for loss of property" (St. Louis American, 2022). “When people have a discussion about reparations for slavery, it’s a false debate, because reparations have already been paid - to the slave owners” (Robinson, 2018).

[@malikr2271]

@@tyaajathailani were talking about to the VICTIMS you fool not scamming white supremacist who filed false insurance claims to be indemnified. That also holds big insurance companies liable AETNA CIGNA etc.

[@kittymuse4005]

I'm so outdone 😭😭😣 when I heard my tribe Pequot (Indian) Native.. My stomach turned and I cried 😢 It never ends! The atrocities of these evil people 🐍👹

[@Punny1234]

Such brutality and inhumanity; nonetheless, the brutality and inhumanity is just laying dormant for the time being. A leopard cannot change it's spots.

[@bernicejoned4015]

🤔100%

[@patriciacole8773]

This is a spiritual battle over worship. Remember the fourth commandment KJV that Jesus created and kept even after His resurrection.

[@fazleyhossein2073]

Knowing this history I find the Harvard graduates should feel ashamed to their skeleton.

[@baltimoreravens4eva560]

No, they actually think they're the smartest people on the planet and breed a culture of treating those outside elite schools as intellectually inferior. So this vid doesn't surprise me

[@fatimalobi6382]

Harvard, a well renowned University in America yet, appalling background. Too many skeletons in the closet.

[@mbrown802]

Lol..they've always known

[@desireawinton9745]

A lot of students today do not know of a lot of these sick murdering ignorant racist sick people, is why the Governments has controlled what is talked in schools, like they are trying hard to do now?" That is why students should be researching other works, beyond high school?

[@empresseve5283]

They will say....well it wasn't me who did it or my family never had "slaves"

[@beatsbydizzy8932]

thank you Amy for always keeping it real🤔🤨

[@robroy7456]

Keeping it real? You’re being duped. If Amy cared about Black people or slavery she would be on the reparations bandwagon. She would have people on the show several times a week giving exposure to the cause.

[@corryjookit7818]

@@robroy7456 Give her an fxxxin' chance. Failing that do something about it yourself.

[@corryjookit7818]

In Scotland, the Edinburgh University Medical School paid money for corpses. Burke and Hare would get a man drunk, kill him with a blow to the head, then take the corpse to the Professor of Medical studies where they handed the body over. Occasionally they'd take a female body. The scheme didn't really begin this way, the bodies were supposed to be found dead in lots of different places, but the two got greedy. They ended up in court and were sent to,jail.

[@jeffreyyee2740]

Nice 👍 to hear 👂 your voice and the true.

[@RJL612]

@@robroy7456 Agreed. Anyone that has been a slave deserves reparations.

[@nipichinook]

Harvard endowment 53.2 billion USD. Harvard thinks that spending 0.19% of their endowment is good enough?

[@TM-sm5qy]

No and all enslaved descendents should bring a lawsuit to the descendents of the slave owners and correct the injustices brought upon their ancestors.

[@malikr2271]

Yea they need to show judicious support by upping the ante to at least $1Billion.

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

@@TM-sm5qy Amerikkka needs to chase the cash.

[@578sundriedAZ]

Built with "chattle"/"Commodity- Stock"-MelaninDominant Blood"

[@hermanwilkins5204]

Not the test on people but the test that made us inferior.Justifying us as second class

[@LM-gl4gz]

Yes, thank you for this segment. The Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Ma will hopefully be open to the public again.

[@lorettayoung1574]

It's a shame that KZbin won't let this be shown to everybody they help everybody else and keep their mouth shut but these people are blessed to get it out and they should let them know that this is right

[@MrShowtime1k]

Any company profited off of slavery should be either free or shares given to people who are owed. Free education at Harvard. Free insurance. Free bank loans. Backpay and payback

[@sweetgizzle123]

Exactly! Foundational black Americans, we are demanding from the US government and these types of Institutions, reparations. We want our checks! We want our land returned! And we are demanding Federal protections

[@tiwonnasims8206]

The evil that has been played out is horrifying

[@gregflue3151]

All of this was described In detail in deuteronomy and the after effects as well.

[@abubakra6587]

Harvard ain't shit

[@deborahtucker4900]

Thank you Democracy Now for essential information including this information about Harvard university. Thank you so much. I will support your journalism.

[@yahyahnegus449]

The Most High is hardening our hearts Yasharal for what is to come. Stay on the narrow path. APTTMHY

[@CreamCityO]

This is the history that needs to be taught in our schools this is also the history that makes black people extremely crucial to the world and there is a debt that not must be paid but absolutely will be paid in money or in blood.. the future can only tell which other races will decide! I prey that as humans we have evolved past certain ways of handling conflict. However the choice isn't on US (African descendants of slavery) Alone

[@poststopcop5571]

Yeah if you're human.

[@Linkx16]

Let the sun get a bit hotter and they’ll be erased from this planet

[@brains8305]

They should also teach that America is the reason for slavery ending worldwide

[@cleoxo2566]

Black People are also essential to American culture. Just take a look at our music and all of the arts, for example. Their contributions are incalculable.

[@poststopcop5571]

@@brains8305 slavery hasn't ended.

[@bradc6993]

the government needs to pay reparations that was promised to ADOS in 1865

[@TM-sm5qy]

All enslaved descendents should bring a lawsuit to the descendents of the slave owners and correct the injustices brought upon their ancestors.

[@tyaajathailani]

"Reparations were given to the most unlikely of benefactors, 900 slave owners, per the the Compensated Emancipation Act allowed for for these former slave owners to be paid more than a million dollars in 1860s currency for loss of property" (St. Louis American, 2022). “When people have a discussion about reparations for slavery, it’s a false debate, because reparations have already been paid - to the slave owners” (Robinson, 2018).

[@bradc6993]

@@TM-sm5qy no the US government needs to pay they allowed and made laws for all of this to happen it is the US governments debt

[@bradc6993]

@@tyaajathailani True and there descendants have inherited that money and was able to build of that... they also got all the land back they lost

[@TM-sm5qy]

@@bradc6993 With what funds $30T in debt? U.S. has always buckled to corporate capitalist crony oligarchs and therefore should be the payers. Be more expedient than suing the federal government that operates at a snails pace. Unless they want to go to war to overpower for resource colonization, again 180⁰ to feed the corporate capitalists crony oligarchs. The argument of these kidnappings and slavery lies in your ancestors country of origin too. Where fellow tribe peoples captured and brought to the ports in exchange for some kind of payment. Origin countries are just a copible as the captains and the markets for slavery at the destination port. In not policing and enforcing the horrid practice of human trafficking at ports at both capture and delivery.

[@russellgay9393]

Reparations!!! Oh that’s right, the US did pay reparations for slavery; payment went to the slaveholders as loss of property. Let that sink in.

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

Fun fact: British descendants of slave owners ,received Reparations on the loss of Property up until 1 9 7 5!!!!!!!

[@MichelleHell]

And who paid off THAT debt? Rhetorical question

[@hamzayasin8150]

So Havard University 1- Used and benefited from slavery from inception 2- Tried and went on to erase this from their history And this is a 'prestigious ' educational institution ....Goodluck

[@hamzayasin8150]

The entire US wealth is build on free labor (slavery) and free land(American Indian Land) ...why is this still surprising to people???

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

We got this!

[@ladellallen3155]

A debt is owed and the bill is due

[@bernicejoned4015]

🤔100%

[@grandmalovesmebest]

Oh sure. Will you accept a SS donation from all the elderly white women living on the street? Or the over 40 unemployed who are there beside them w their children? Of course you would. Slavery, of which you are not a victim, is not the only abomination in America and this one has been going on for decades. Shame on you.

[@bsaforlife]

Black people have received over 5 trillion dollars

[@Gobackto4chan]

@@grandmalovesmebest Lol who gave you the right to tell anybody what’s right or wrong? You’re willing to skip over all the wrongs done, all the crimes committed, and all the deals broken to protect your little feelings while others suffer. You have no moral high ground goofy.

[@ladellallen3155]

@@grandmalovesmebest a debt is owed and the bill is due. Our Heavenly Father the true living God will provide for us those reparations because we know the tactics of those who were placed over the true children of israel to be a whopping stick. The 400 years are up and the Most High is punishing all nations for what they have done. APTTMH ✌🏿

[@ronaldcook3840]

Harvard university can keep her reparation. Judgement on America is here.

[@elijahbenisrael3983]

These people have over a 40 billion dollar endowment. Here again is the insulting slap in the face not only this institution and but the country as well, has toward those descendants and the forefather's of our forefathers. The addressing of the holocaust did not warrant giving thought of the restitution. It was immediately addressed and it was not some pittance. Germany to this day is still paying restitution. As well as, the taxpayers of the United States who many are ADOS decedent's. This is becoming shameful. And people of all nations never understand why this is so upsetting to many of us who have had fore parents and being descendants of those who have suffered through so many subjugated forms of mistreatment from slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, systemic drug infiltration in the black community and dealing with a prison and judicial system that has never and still is not shown any equality. Now they throw peanuts as though they are at a circus. This is insulting and disgusting. This is not just about those that worked on the university grounds. But of all the other factors that have raised this university and the city up to the status it is at, to this day. The deaf ear of this nation is frightening. One has to ask. Why is this hatred so ingrained?

[@jamestcatcato7132]

Harvard wss.behind the "Human Zoo" that used to be in Central Park by the 1890s.

[@p4rt_t1me_g0d]

Even with this the more extreme treatment of slaves isn't brought to the forefront. The dissecting and envasive exploratory procedures of black bodies without anesthesia done in the name of science, the discoveries which are the results of such atrocious acts, and the other immoral acts that were a common part of "civilized" society is meant to be forgotten to all but those affected most by it.

[@zee6129]

TMH has recorded everything and even knows the number of hairs on our heads. It's really sad and silly if some people believe that they can stop all truth from coming out

[@Taongapuoromaori]

Harvard Peabody in Boston also houses indigenous ancestral remains that have been stolen and taken from many parts of the world including local indigenous communities in North American, and has been extremely slow in agreeing to repatriate these ancestral remains to their communities of origin.

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

Holding some remains for what purpose!

[@edwardmurdoch5070]

Universities and museums all over the Americas and Europe have not only stolen remains, but the corpses of their victims. For instance, Europe used to have Human zoos, almost in the 20th century. A museum in France returned the remains of a small girl from Chile, exhibited in one of those human zoos only few years ago. She died of pneumonia from been exposed almost naked in a cage during winter in Paris. There are even pictures of her the day before dying. The descendants of that child had to fight that museum in court for years before getting her remains back to give her a proper sepulture. I agree with Chomsky, the global South have the civilized people. We are the barbarians.

[@br8k_7mach16]

The proud graduates of Harvard. Frame that diploma with blood on it . Higher education from murderous benefits

[@brindatakley9858]

Their certificate should be de recognised ...they ought to pay...start paying NOW

[@dianahill5116]

Still waiting since 1964 to have my adoption nullified and take back my legal birth certificate. And not have that authority or custody be given back to my biological relatives or their relatives. As a child I was legally removed from one group of abusive and dysfunctional group of people. And placed into another group of abusive and dysfunctional group of people. I am in need of a lawyer to represent me. I am okay with going to the United States Supreme Court. This is as important as: Brown vs The Board of Education. There should have been federal legislation written centuries ago; that allowed adopted people to help their adoption nullified. There should have been legislation in the United States Constitution, or in the Bill of Rights, or in the Ammendments; that allows adopted people to have their adoption nullified. Regardless of their age. Several law enforcements, the AG of CA., and the ACLU are a few organizations that have been informed. Why doesn't my birth certificate have the word: Adopted? This should be mandatory for all adopted people. The United States government and judiciary system failed to inform adopted people; upon being adopted their legal problems would begin.

[@paull2166]

There hasn't been slavery in the US or the West in 150 years. The rest of the world has more slavery now than anytime in history.

[@malikr2271]

Interesting perspective. Are you entitled to your adopted heirs estate?

[@dianahill5116]

@@malikr2271 no. Their biological children will inherit it.

[@dianahill5116]

Multiple felony crimes were committed against me, starting on the first day. People are upset that I want to go to the United States Supreme Court. People are angry I want federal legislation and an Ammendment to the United States Constitution. There might be thousands of people, now or in the future; that want their adoption nullified. People shouldn't have to be concerned about what state they live in; in order to have their adoption nullified.

[@dianahill5116]

I don't know if I am going to have to testify.

[@progyandas9650]

All these universities are 'ivy' leagues for a reason , next time an Indian- American boasts about getting into Harvard. I'm gonna show them this report but it's not just Harvard is it ?!

[@williambent9636]

Incredible reporting, not just from Democracy Now, but from guests, undergraduates, professors . . . going all the way back to Brown's president 20 years ago. I will be tuning in for the program on this and reading the Harvard Report. Thank you for bring the "consumption" of enslaved people to light. Every American needs to research this.

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

You'll have plenty of time to research AFTER THE CHECKS go out.

[@desireawinton9745]

"Well some so called Americans don't find anything wrong with it, they could care less about some little slave girl being raped by massa, or murdered, isolated, having fear of opening a book, people like that love to see black people being murdered by corrupt racist policing, they hate little black children, jealous as hell of black men, as far as trying to control them, policing them, lying on them, getting away with murdering them for sport ect... it is a wonder the earth hasn't sink into the ocean by now?

[@tomorrowfireside8740]

These United States truly owe compensation to the American Blacks that can trace their Ancestry back to the Slave Ship. The more history I learn about our people the more painful it is and yes we are told to get over Slavery.... My ancestors were treated worse than you treat an animal. Everything was stolen, our soul, spirit, language and most of all our names. What type of life did we have before our ancestors were stolen...Can somebody tell me who we really are????

[@joeblow1688]

Our ancsestors , slaves , are the chosen people of God. The true descendants of Israel/Jacob/Isaac and Abram.

[@cofaynomilk]

Go to the men on the street corner with fringes and ask that question..who are we?

[@charlesohikhuare1806]

@Finessnu2 why does your DNA results point to Africa. Keep deceiving yourself

[@99alfailiwaqain51]

Peace ! Purchase a copy of “Message To The Blackman “ by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

[@Black_2_Def]

At least 70 individuals were enslaved by Harvard University leaders, donors and staff members in the period before slavery was outlawed in Massachusetts in 1783, according to a report the university released Tuesday. So much for you PWI and institutions of "higher learning" and prestige 🙄

[@shamsheerg7519]

Slavery was the norm throughout history. Do you know about the islamic slave trade? It was a cruel and sinful practise that every people around the world faced at one time or another. Romans enslaved the Anglos. Arabs enslaved black africans for 1400 years and it continues today. Turks enslaved the 'Slavic' people ... That's where we get the term 'slaves,' from Slavic people.

[@IshaqIbrahim3]

@@shamsheerg7519 CORRECTION. Slavery is the norm in Islam. Slavery is part of Islam. Meaning it is legal under sharia. Sharia is valid for the past, present, and future. Slavery is prescribed in the Quran which makes it almost impossible to eliminate under Islamic rule or Caliphate. There are people that still practice slavery today where sharia is implemented. What I found surprising is that the western countries are usually the ones that get blamed for slavery. I have never come across this big media channels calling out Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Islamic slave trade etc. regarding slavery. I wonder why!

[@gattaca5911]

@@IshaqIbrahim3 nice argument..... "the other kids were doing it too!"...also, slavery is sanctioned by god in the bible old testament moron both religions follow that book.

[@paull2166]

Very few institutions in the world haven't benefited from slavery. Slavery is at and all time high according to the experts. But no slavery in the West!

[@paull2166]

@@shamsheerg7519 You're exactly correct! Slavery is still alive and well throughout the world.

[@golodiassaid4879]

Half of Netflix is still about Holocost, terrible incident happed for five years but how many movie do you count about slavery that lasted 400 years?

[@denisesansom7076]

They think they can sweep ours under the carpet I never saw them in chains ⛓ or being in slavery for 5 hundred years no worries the most high will get our justice

[@roberthodge7802]

Excellent steps Harvard, good form taking this on. I praise the truth tellers for finally telling the truth. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing else, will set us free. Understanding what happened, how wrong it was, and deciding we must never be like that again is the rocky road over racism (and every other subject) to our very promising futures, working out the mistakes of the past.

[@jmaatgreen7894]

We no longer have to wonder about the savagery of higher education. Is it possible Brown ran Dr. Simmons out and then she was ostracized from other Ivy League positions? Bless her, as a person of African descent, for setting a precedent for the generations of activist scholars who are on the scene now. Spending $100M on your own faculty to research your crap is obscene. Endow $100M for a team of diverse scholars to trace the economic policies Harvard graduates put in place to deny opportunities to enslaved humans, then spend 50% of Harvard's foundation earnings every year for 100 years to implement a plan for their pursuit of happiness.

[@DavesView]

Reparations are way overdue

[@shaybaines8483]

It takes all of ADOS to make Reparations a Reality

[@phyllisthompson4207]

The truth always prevail, even when it is just simple ugly!!

[@Leonora485]

Pledging $100 million for a fund for scholars to continue to research the topic; I can only imagine the scholars who will the receive funds. This is nothing to be elated about and it always amazes me, that is, the efforts put forth to appease the very people (descendants) whom have been offended, for years. As if it is a form of satisfying "guilt" on their behalf.

[@brindatakley9858]

There is conflict of interest

[@TBONESALAAM]

Cut the f***** check. Reparations are long over due

[@valeriemustafa8570]

This is such a dehumanizing Atrocity my heart goes out to my Ancestors for all that they have been through .What goes in the dark will always come to the light✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽❤🖤💚 The Ancestors family members deserve reparations Now

[@desireawinton9745]

"Sometime I see why some black Americans can't understand how any black woman or man would even want to lay down with any of them?" I do know that not all white Americans think like those devils, but demons can't be trusted in most cases, it is demons in every race on the planet, but it is just something about those people in general, who act like animals?

[@markofisaiah1449]

Even if the descendants of those enslaved people could get free tuition upon acceptance, they’d need those mostly erased genealogical documents. A common denominator in the reparations topic.

[@greatblackness8828]

Understand Black people were here before Columbus. Read Christopher Columbus diary and there's much more evidence of this. 1848 the people verse the Washitaw Nation. Research it. This is our land and we will use our Ancestors Magick to destroy this world system. Sit back and watch it fall.

[@markofisaiah1449]

@@greatblackness8828 We’ve been here, that doesn’t mean we have to make the mistakes of the past. The most you can do, without bringing harm to your situation, is get with your family and make sure y’all are ok.

[@sweetgizzle123]

Foundational black Americans we do not want anything free. It's been paid for already. This is blood money. We are demanding from the US government and institutions such as these to cut our check! To pay reparations! To return our land, and to put in place Federal protections

[@markofisaiah1449]

@@sweetgizzle123 You don’t want the blood money or cut the check ? Can’t have both. And without a position of leverage one can’t make demands.

[@daphneytennard3267]

Free tuition for what...the jobs are not there...we need our ancestors money...now

[@BobJohnson648]

With a 40 billion endowment, 100 million is chump change for Harvard...it stirs the brew, provides token 💰 and sits back and chuckles when the little guy gets a bill for reparations

[@malikr2271]

Its a spit in a bucket. Put some REAL money up.

[@BobJohnson648]

@@malikr2271 a few billion at minimum

[@malikr2271]

@@BobJohnson648 yes just from Harvard but our entire claim is in the trillions.

[@BobJohnson648]

@@malikr2271 I am still waiting on my claim...William I took just about everything from my Anglo Saxon ancestors...just be patient

[@fuckbankers]

Loose change

[@isaiah61ministries]

WHAT IS 100 MILLION? 😡😂 What disrespect.

[@2008mastif]

What's 100 million when the school has billions in it's endowment funds. They'll find a way to get that money back by finding a loophole that was probably created by one of their alums

[@annetteel-tohami5953]

I was born in Richmond, VA in 1961 and raised there. As children, we were told of what some would call urban legends about people being scooped up as they walked across the bridge that linked east Richmond to downtown, where the Medical College of VA (MCV hospital) is still located. It was said that men would be taken and used in experiments. As a child, I don’t know if I understood the terror we lived under. Now, I can only reflect on the fear many of the adults might have lived with every day. I am not surprised by any of the research found on Harvard. I’m glad that the truth is being uncovered and brought to light. We cannot forget, neglect or deny what has past. And we must use these findings to stay aware and prevent such evils from being whitewashed.

[@forsale313]

This just proves the fact that American Doctors teachings (that People of color) are anatomically different from Europeans to the point that they are treated as sub human to this day.

[@user-vo1ft9vn2n]

He just let it out, we were taken from here! We were enslaved in our own country.. ADOS $$$ reparations

[@jesusmywholehaschanged]

Why would you want education from a former oppressor?

[@serioustalkwithbhudax]

I'm so disgusted by the evil.

[@patriciaroberts9600]

Horrible, shameful, and disgusting. This is why they don't want you to learn about the history of slavery

[@therealpillventage628]

If I was a teacher in the United States that went along with this back then I would be ashamed of myself

[@sweetgizzle123]

Foundational black Americans are not looking for anyone to be shamed, we are demanding from the US government and these types of Institutions to cut us our check! We are also demanding our land to be returned and to have Federal Protection

[@Sandrae7560]

But that’s just it.. they have no moral compass😔😔

[@desireawinton9745]

"Some teacher didn't know these things, thanks to historians and unbias scholars who took notes, kept journals ect...

[@therealpillventage628]

@@desireawinton9745 too many teachers did not want to know for instant the Confederate daughter's infiltrated public schools because of greed jealousy and envy they had no problems with denying the truth about history denying quality books they even had to go through segregation all of their identity was being locked up and government V of who they truly were it was important for them to tell these lies out of jealousy and order to keep the land

[@desireawinton9745]

@@therealpillventage628 It is so horrific how Americans just let these racist sick monsters, run their country just shows, how Americans sit back for generations, letting all this evil, corruptions, racism, among other things happen?' Jealousy, greed, hatred of others, scared someone different can do better than them, will kill to continue to do wrong and use their positions to cause harm to a whole community, that is trying to survive in this sick world of murders and thieves! "There are people in this world who would, continue to do wrong, than to do right.

[@ohard03]

🗣️osu...ALL UNIVERSITIES, ALL OF THEM

[@abby-usivemonopoly5529]

One wracist howls, "The lawyers are going to have a great time," as if that's reason enough to prolong ongoing atrocities.

[@paull2166]

Slavery in Africa is at an all time high. The same black slave traders and owners are still trading slaves and forced labor in Africa. None in the US.

[@abby-usivemonopoly5529]

It's as if@@paull2166believes that normal people don't understand that racists are liars & deniers. As if anyone expects any better from the kind of people who - having done nothing they can take pride in, *_since_* being born - try to legitimize taking pride in being born (white).

[@abby-usivemonopoly5529]

As if anyone expects any better from the kind of people who - having done nothing they can take pride in, since being born - try to legitimize taking pride in being born (white).

[@paull2166]

@@abby-usivemonopoly5529 Yes, the kind of hardworking people that don't make excuses and carry lazy black people who haven't worked a day in their lives. Bahaha 😆

[@jamestcatcato7132]

@@paull2166 any PROOF to go with your fact-free claims?

[@dividedconquered3784]

Intellectuals is just a word!

[@AboriginalSarah]

The Most High is revealing the truth! The WORLD has a huge debt to pay for the evil committed against melanated beings.

[@HoneyStinger1030]

REPARATIONS!!!!

[@tamarasmith8260]

Our ancestors have endured and suffered so much. Now it's our time for the truths of the past.

[@user-rb7ns9yj5y]

Reparations = eat the rich The controllers have used their power for far too long without real progress.

[@crimony3054]

With $42 billion in assets, $100 million is 1/420th of its net worth. Good deal, for Harvard. Again.

[@blackstarnow3714]

The only thing that gives me comfort is that, God is going to avenge what happened to his chosen people 🙏🏾 These pink devil's will not escape there punishment

[@jeanwaysome3532]

No, can't escape from their evil deeds.

[@denisesansom7076]

Well said they think god has forgotten the evil they have done and still doing to this day 🙏🏾💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@queenemonihughey537]

Pay us our long overdue REPARATIONS AMERICA....CUT THE CHECK!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@lloydrobinson6480]

REPARATION NOW..!!!!

[@ohard03]

Justice 💚

[@TheZenGarden_]

Genesis 15 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. *13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed (Deut.**28:15**-69) shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs (Deut.**28:36**), and shall serve them (Deut.**28:48**-50); and they shall afflict them 400 years.* *14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.* ~ 2nd Exodus

[@dennisreid9039]

We're getting closer to the promise land

[@TheZenGarden_]

@@dennisreid9039 Ezekiel 20 33 As I live, saith YHWH Elohiym, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35 *And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.* 36 *Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith YHWH Elohiym.* 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: (Jeremiah 31:31-33) 38 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against Me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I Am YHWH.

[@pvm7184]

EVERY Body Shall Know YHWH,😰 and Who We Are 🤗🤭😂!!!

[@TheZenGarden_]

@@pvm7184 Ezekiel 36 23 And I will sanctify My Great Name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I Am YHWH, saith YHWH Elohiym, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

[@eugenehamby7167]

He's a very smart man to say the least Greg S. Wilder I might of misspelled his name but he has a incredible wealth of knowledge some of the things that he's said is unimaginable just to hear.

[@jammalbarbour9483]

We should always remember our ancestors... Their forced labor was the building block of this nation. Never forget

[@l.b.380]

Forget the LAWSUITS... it's just money to them .... Let's go after their descendants and punish them for the sins that their forefathers perpetrated!

[@SEN0BRM]

All I can say is ... Well I can't say it here . I live in Boston area and ADOS . The details ,the record keeping. Just makes you want to know what there doing Now .

[@adiosenghor3858]

ONLY 100 MILLION DOLLARS!!? No question there MUST be ETERNAL SCHOLARSHIPS starting in elementary school.

[@yiqwaba3833]

Thank you for the upload .

[@sebastiantobias1023]

There is a special place in hell for those who perpetrated these acts against these africans that are made in Gods image!

[@lindamorris759]

Cut The Check America 🇺🇸 REPERATIONS NOW

[@davidmuse5118]

America profited from slavery and never paid for their sins and still has no remorse but God will make all pay in the end 🙏

[@ripadipaflipa4672]

Democracy Now is a must listen daily tough and spot on news forecasting. May not b what U want to hear but is what U need to hear. Keeps news real.

[@ripadipaflipa4672]

When we listen to the pain-full/uncomfortable we r learning. Too many people listen to what alines with what they already believe they don’t learn.

[@ripadipaflipa4672]

Everyone should sit in on Wilders courses. Where can we get more of what he teaches?

[@davidfoley726]

Will the barbarism ever stop??!!

[@positionadjust353]

Nope, they'll keep lying and killing us! These mfr continue to try and ignore us...covid, Ukraine, Palestinians, K Brown, immigration, lgbt. they will bring up anything to get the focus off the legacy and justice for American Slavery but as you see those things have come and gone and still nothing has been done for US. This is so damn ridiculous i cant express it!

[@felixotuoke5419]

It’s only truth that sets a human soul free. The alternatives are lies and deceptions. Your freedom begins by embracing truth and that is what educational endeavours try to achieve.

[@paull2166]

There hasn't been slavery in the US or the West in 150 years. The rest of the world has more slavery now than anytime in history.

[@felixotuoke5419]

The mindsets and ideologies on which slavery is founded have not changed but continue to manifest in different forms and shapes in our world. Hence, the relevance of this discourse.

[@greysaku]

This made me sick to my stomach...unbelievable

[@qpidindigo9499]

Id like to see the same in depth research on the First Nations. Then and now. Doesnt seem to be a topic in any generation. Must be still after the land and minerals..again..

[@bradc6993]

how does establishing a relationship with colleges help close the white-black wealth gap? once again i watch a video talking about slavery and don't say anything about fixing what was done expect build a relationship

[@RickBeacham]

I think the professor suggested a tax (10% of the highest income?) to help with the wealth gap from slavery - (no property) etc... Exactly how that would be implemented may be quite complex and problematic in the US. Germany has payed for acts (slavery, genocide) committed in ww2 so why not others?

[@bradc6993]

it's the government who sanctioned all of this they need to pay. the 10% tax was not a serious solution. the government owes trillions in reparations to ADOS from 1865 plus Interest also Jim crow and mass incarceration. a 10% tax will not change anything. 10% tax will not help because the government has made it where the richest people don't even really pay taxes anyways with all the loop holes they have

[@bradc6993]

@@abby-usivemonopoly5529 if your going to talk about slavery do it right or don't do it at all.

[@abby-usivemonopoly5529]

I tried. I wrote two replies (originally). YT disappeared the one that contained nuance and references to wracism in America's political parties.

[@abby-usivemonopoly5529]

Since then, I've tried to reply eight times, to clear that up. (I totally understand your reaction to my first comment, since YT prevented you from being able to see the comment that was meant to accompany it.)