Reparations for Slavery: The Role of Repentance in Politics

On February 19, U.S. presidential candidate, spiritual lecturer, and number one New York Times bestselling author Marianne Williamson spoke at HDS on the topic "Reparations for Slavery: The Role of Repentance in Politics." The event featured an opening talk by HDS student Kassi Underwood, MDiv '19.
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[@mkedmusa9416]

Always admired her work since I was in high school reading her articles in Vogue! Can you believe it! Go Ms Marianne!!

[@flexiblesink5378]

I am very excited about her candidacy...she seems very genuine...

[@GorillaCrewWarGaming]

@Thetruthisthis The Bible does NOT say that. NOWHERE in the Bible does it say that.

[@GorillaCrewWarGaming]

@Thetruthisthis That you are Jews or Israelites. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that. ANYWHERE.

[@maestroofamore8948]

So Marianne... how'd that election go?

[@africaqueen6867]

God has given her the willpower and will give her the strength to accomplish her passion and her mission

[@GorillaCrewWarGaming]

No He won't.

[@highroller-jq3ix]

Which imaginary god fantasy?

[@harperharp6836]

Oh yeah all of this is true and there are a lot of people still will disagree even when you being spelled out in such a dignified prestigious manner.....

[@jonjonboi3701]

Nah reparations for slavery is bullshit

[@noexcusesonlyfacts9738]

Why do you we have a petition on chang.org for reparations?

[@robertmcintyre3480]

Especially considering that the first slave owner in America was black. Or that African kingdoms sold citizens of other African kingdoms to Europeans and Arabs. Are reparations coming from African and Arabs countries too?

[@wendellspivey3747]

@@robertmcintyre3480 The people who sold them did not submit them to Chattel Slavery for 250 years and used them to build this nation.

[@myronkent3701]

I would suggest she (the speaker) look up the story of esther who was one of the very first woman that dirupted the status Que.

[@RG-27]

#ADOS

[@thefallofthewicked5865]

@Dra O go catch cancer troll

[@MicrolineC1]

She's the one! Thank you! Mic'19 ADOS

[@kimberlythomas2296]

She will be considered too over the top for most! However she’s speaking the truth

[@scholarlyanalyst7700]

@@mikeforkansas She seems like a sweet person. If this initial instinct of mine is the real deal (about her sweetness and such), she'd get my vote!

[@w12ath040211]

Yes like her comparison between robbed of $1000 and not being content with just an apology of the criminal, with an apology for slavery being insufficient. Except...... You're not asking for your money back from the theif. You're asking for the thief's great great grandchildren and everyone else's progeny to pitch in a dollar and hand it to *your* great great grandchildren. Not asking, actually demanding through threat of imprisonment making *them* a slave.

[@MamaMOB]

She's only speaking the truth if you're not the one who's going to be robbed. What right do you have to rob me for a crime I didn't commit and you weren't the victim has? Until you've been a slave you don't deserve reparations.

[@MamaMOB]

@TheThetruthisthis I have no reason to apologize because I did nothing wrong. You have no reason to demand an apology because I've done nothing wrong to you. Until you've been wronged don't demand an apology. I'm not going to paint you a picture of how sorry I am for something I didn't do and wasn't done to you.

[@cortezforever]

Not anymore.

[@sharktank8298]

Damn! She got my vote

[@mkedmusa9416]

ok Excellent!!

[@stephaniebozeman2818]

GOD Bless this woman. God is on her Side#ADOS

[@robertmcintyre3480]

I wouldn’t count on it 😂

[@mkedmusa9416]

You can tell her soul look how great and healthy and intelligent capable and soulful and comprehensive!! Please keep us on point in concert with others with similar values and morals and intelligence and doers!

[@highroller-jq3ix]

What is a soul?

[@mkedmusa9416]

@@highroller-jq3ix You may never know...

[@highroller-jq3ix]

@@mkedmusa9416 I may never know what a unicorn or a leprechaun is either. In fact, I will go so far as to say that I never will. The difference between us is that I don't pretend to know about nonexistent fantasies and woo-woo.

[@stinsonfoster6118]

I wish I would have seen this before. I would have voted for her.

[@travispayne7086]

😀... 😂😂😂.

[@simonhunter3803]

To have done more hurt to a man than he can or is willing to expiate inclineth the doer to hate the sufferer. For he must expect revenge or forgiveness; both which are hateful. (p62) Leviathan or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury London, printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard 1651

[@shirleyjbaker1096]

RALEIGH NC

[@reggiewilliams4246]

She's got my vote.

[@mch5887]

They took us from our Homeland, robbed us of our heritage and sold us into slavery, which we are still captives with no where to go. Their children owe us for everything they did to us.... Zechariah 11 4. Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5. Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. Matthew 25 40. Verily I say unto you, In as much as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me. Acts 5 30. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

[@outlawsilverstack9505]

Talking about the arabs right? if not read some history

[@mch5887]

@@outlawsilverstack9505 , I'm talking bout you, read the Bible... Deuteronomy 28 68. And the Lord shall bring you into Egypt/Bondage again in ships, by the way of which I spoke unto you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall be sold unto your enemies as male and female slaves, and no man shall buy you. Buy Defined: To redeem or obtain in exchange for payment. Deuteronomy 29 24. Then the whole world will ask, ‘Why did the Lord do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?’ 25. And the answer will be, ‘It is because the Lord's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt. 26. They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the Lord had forbidden them to worship. 27. And so the Lord became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book. 28. The Lord became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.’

[@outlawsilverstack9505]

@@mch5887 alright first your quoting fiction second it was written about jews the real ones not the black Hebrew isrealites second the ones who captured and sold the blacks into slavery were other blacks and arabs whitey just picked them up at the shore third i dont owe you shit my family didnt get here till 1889 and immediately moved west no slave holding or jim crow south connection fourth asking for reparations from whites is extremely rascist seeing as only 5 percent of americans can trace their lineage to slaveholders and how many blacks can trace their lineage to slaves let me give you a hint not all you should probably admit your a radical black supremacist as assine as that sounds

[@marlindujuan1856]

The history saids the north Africa migrated to Spain then America they took us off the coast of the west prove is n the pudding we the Americas! Moors, muurs

[@outlawsilverstack9505]

@@marlindujuan1856 so the moors crossed the Atlantic abandoned Islam and their native tongues came up with a totally new language and writing styles and populated 2 continents I could go on for days

[@mkedmusa9416]

atonement and amends!😊

[@christopherparker3164]

That was powerful!

[@robertmcintyre3480]

And a load of bullshit!

[@hmfansofficialmonaycherry7339]

I wonder where you work at Robert and how you touch people's lives. As I seen shot your name to help weed out racism

[@GorillaCrewWarGaming]

That was stupid.

[@SThym]

Kassi Underwood, you have a beautiful and humble mind.

[@lorebay2593]

Yes America owes a lot, Native Indians, black people and others.

[@lorebay2593]

@@Endgame707 yes, but we talking about America right here, who was able to rise and build with the blood sweat tears and fears of free forced labor of our foreparents.

[@ashleyvaldez1416]

If I could love this video a million times, I fucking would.

[@hiramabiff773]

America is the overwhelming majority if there is More love than hate why can we see it?

[@jerrychristopher4399]

1886 CIVIL LAW SUITS WILL NOT STOP UNTILL REPARATIONS ARE GIVEN.

[@allensalmons]

All the plaintiffs are long dead. Nobody owes you shit!

[@tnndll4294]

@@allensalmons Good one!

[@survivingyoutoday8519]

*****

[@JeffSmith-pl2pj]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the lawsuits with Native American tribes were successful because those were Treaties with sovereign nations that still exist. Reparations to interned Japanese Americans were only made to survivors. That is why priority was given to the oldest survivors, because they would become ineligible if they died. Regardless, The only thing certain about reparations is that it won't make anyone happy. They will be unhappy because they didn't get any. Because they think they should have gotten more. Because it was paid to people who are not descendants of slaves. Because they, or their parents moved to a different country and that makes them ineligible. And for all kinds of reasons. But mostly because it will do absolutely nothing to change the circumstances of black Americans. Which is basically the same circumstances as all similarly situated Americans. And General Sherman had no more authority to promise 40 acres and a mule than Colonel Sanders. Your plan will never work because it is unfair and it would set an impossible president. There have been so many wrongs throughout history at some point we are all the same people. Life is not fair. Successful people will be successful. failures will fail no matter how much money you give them. Give everyone opportunity and the successful will succeed. The failures will fail no how much free money they get. I. don't agree with anything you said but I think you speak well and look well. And you are obviously intelligent. There will be no end if you don't cut it off by death. even though 100 billion would be ridiculous but we might be able to come up with some mules.

[@juttybear7024]

Fairness? You want to talk about fairness? The Jews are STILL receiving reparations for the holocaust. Israel has received over 90 billion in reparations to date. All the people affected are dead and gone. You all only make these arguments when it comes to blacks. It’s not just about slavery. It’s about the government implementing policies to hold blacks back up until the 60’s and beyond. This country should pay. No one cared about fairness when entire towns would come together to hang black 16 yr olds. People like you will have to face the great evil this nation has perpetuated against black people if you expect to looked at anything other that a hypocrite. You all will go so far to deny what is owed to your fellow black citizens whose ancestors have fought in war after war to preserve the wealth and power of this country, only for the country to relegate us to criminals and permanent underclass status.

[@lorebay2593]

2022, just seeing this 👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😊 go ahead run for another government position, you got my vote, I will be watching your progress.

[@sistersaffire1773]

To the Most Honest White Woman I Have Ever Heard Speak, Thank You.

[@tuckerbugeater]

She's a jew.

[@shirleycanida3273]

What a respectful lady ...like non other can even come close 🙏👍

[@johnfitzgerald2426]

@@tuckerbugeater and trying to buy votes

[@Kiki-Delivering]

Vote for her in 2024.

[@mkedmusa9416]

No bull sit zone indeed!

[@josephwilson3757]

She got my vote.

[@mikedee9759]

Lord please don’t close the door on America. This lady is speaking the heart beat of blacks in America USA. I hope to meet this speaker…

[@thetruthisthis2533]

America is in the bible son, It's under the names "The Great Whore or Sodom and Egypt"!

[@flatearth9140]

HERE IS AN IDEA !! GET A JOB !! ASIANS COME HERE AND GET A JOB REGARDLESS OF AMERICAN GENERATIONAL WEALTH !! THEY STAY IN SCHOOL AND BECOME DOCTORS ! MOST COME HERE WITHOUT KNOWING ONE WORD OF ENGLISH REGARDLESS OF GENERATIONAL WEALTH !! SO THE GAP IS CLEARLY NOT BECAUSE OF GENERATIONAL WEALTH !! ITS SOMETHING ELSE !! GOT YOU THINKING DONT I ?? LOL STAY IN SCHOOL. STOP HAVING BABIES OUT OF WEDLOCK AND STOP BLAMING OTHERS FOR WHY YOU DON'T GET YOUR ASS OFF YOUR COUCH !!

[@umorudevin]

Reparations was giving to Native Americans, it was given to the slave owners. The American government wrote it up. The government promised it. The American government owes it, simply put. You don't have to like or agree the fact is fact.

[@shirleycanida3273]

The best I have heard yet,she is a true winner,loved her from the beginning.She has much soul bless her .👍💞💯

[@Babyhair1983]

America is waking the sleeping GIANT!!!!!!!!!!

[@flatearth9140]

MAYBE THE SLEEPING GIANT IS JUST HIGH !!

[@leightonraymer655]

Pt 2; Quoting from 35:40 "Slavery started in the U.S. in 1600s. ....historically, it is believed that about 400k were originally brought over from Africa. The slave trade really began to rev up in the early 1800s.....by the time the slaves were emancipated, anywhere from 4 to 5 million slaves existed (on this planet." {i think she just mis-spoke, meaning "in the States?"???) Her use of these numbers make it sound like the 4 to 5 million kept coming from Africa. They did not! Only 388,000. Is this ever compared to the tiny island of Barbados who brought over 500,000 or even Brazil who brought 5 to 6 million or the Muslin empires who took 16 to 18 million slaves and routinely castrated all the male slaves? Rarely! The increase in slave numbers in the US came from 200+ yrs of reproduction only. It is often assumed that all African-Americans are directly descended from these slave however many millions more came to this dishonored USA as free people who like most of the world would give everything to come here. I'm saddened by the mis-treatment and crimes committed against anyone. and racism should be a thing of the past. But this "EXPERT" is no expert, get real.

[@curtissanders9040]

She is a great woman, keep up the good work need more people like you

[@lupintheh3rb846]

Breath of fresh air. I just want to see a change already

[@marissajones2945]

American isn’t ready for her unfortunately she’s too lovely.

[@geraldpolmateer3255]

What about the Chinese slaves in CA?

[@MrAmericanist]

Here is the real problem, the colonists did buy the slaves after they were brought to North America but the people who enslaved 95% these people were their fellow black Africans. If you talk about "reparations" you first have to get the funds from Africa nations/tribes who made millions when they sold the slaves. An easy source of information on this is "The Atlantic Slave Trade" which can be found on youtube.

[@harperharp6836]

Hmmmm what a ridiculous notion,,,

[@myronkent3701]

There is NO, repentence in Politics or Rparations, there is Only upheaval and Violence and the winner get;s to write the History.

[@mkedmusa9416]

Winner of what?

[@tymc2738]

...

[@nadiaflisikowski3174]

My parents & their ancestors were enslaved by the czars for centuries, & then the Soviets. For good measure, my father was captured by the Nazis & my mother, at age 17, was ripped from her family & sent by the Nazis to Germany into forced labor. They never saw a black person or person of color until 1945 after the allies invaded & they were liberated. Their families didn't know if they survived & they didn't know if their families survived until years later. When they arrived here in 1947, they were dirt poor. The struggle was intense. My father only survived 9 years. My mother was left with a 7 & 5 year old to fend for herself. It was unbelievably difficult for us. What do I or my family owe to whom & for what? What benefits, privileges did we glean from the era of slavery that took place in this country?

[@myronkent3701]

IF, You can find A Bible or if you have one handy Look up Genesis CPT:16 read the Whole Chapter and You will see whome devided The Human Race. Notice it was God that Talked to Abram But God;s Angele That Delivered the Promise of God to Hagar Abram;s Concubine, Ismeil's Mother. The Bible is not A history book but talks A lot about (his-story) Historical events.

[@rodcorprue7912]

Great speech and a first graders lecture for most whites. After they pass and except her understand then they can listen to Dr Joy Degruy. Then there will be progress.

[@TickleMeElmo55]

Me, a non-white child of immigrants: Nope.

[@IDuko-qb5km]

What about a recent migrant from the Slavic countries. They have been enslaved by the millions in the past (hence the word “slave”). This white migrant would also be held accountable for reparations based on his skin color? As would be numerous poor later European migrants who were subject to serfdom and had nothing to do with the slave trade of a small amount of Western Europeans or the slave owners of the south of America (who were by the way not only whites). And what about descendants from the soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. Those soldiers gave their lives to end slavery. Isn’t that enough? You cannot undo racist wrongdoings from the past by racist wrongdoings in the present. It is just doing it wrong again.

[@mikemitch4]

Shut the fuck up... all slaveholders got reparations so a debt is owed and needs to be paid!!! Point blank period!!!!

[@juttybear7024]

You all only use these bs arguments when it comes to blk people. It’s so disingenuous. The Jews have received over 90 billion in reparations. The Japanese received them. Native Americans received them. When black people demand the restitution that was promised to them, you people bring up empires that existed 1000 years ago. It’s disgusting. Slavery is just the tip of the iceberg. No, fighting a war to end slavery is not enough. We fought a war to end the holocaust. The Jews were still paid reparations. Not to mention blacks have fought and died in every war this country has ever seen. Most times they were sent to the front lines. We fought for this country when we couldn’t even sit at the same lunch counter as our white counterparts. Our blood, sweat and tears helped to build this country. At the very least, those poor white farmers kept the fruit of their toil. For 260 years, My ancestors did not. They worked their entire lives, sun up to Sun down to line the pockets of the wealthy and enrich this country through free taxed labor. When we finally did get our freedom, we faced unspeakable terrorism and unfair regulation via Jim Crowe and the Black Codes up until the 60’s. Even after that, you get policies like the war on drugs that the government has admitted was to target blacks and liberal youth. There are several cases where reparations have been paid by governments for wrongdoing. ADOS people are definitely deserving of the same retribution. The US government should pay. Also, whites like to act like they never received handouts. Read up on the Homestead Act. Read up on the GI Bill for solders returning from WW2. Blacks were not allowed to benefit from either of these programs. Reparations is not a handout. It’s a process of restitution.

[@grantgerson2492]

The truth is what the devil cannot talk about.

[@mkedmusa9416]

Funds for workers not entrepreneurs in America! Interesting.

[@kimberlythomas2296]

100billion from a country in trillions of dollar debt says nothing really! We need states, land and secession from union and don’t forget the wall, just Incase you change your mind! Preferably the land that are ancestors worked, bleed and died on!

[@mrbroadus7402]

Sounds like a good start for change in the right direction anyone that knows truth should not have a problem with this all you Christian and religious folks who praise jesus AMEN

[@kimberlythomas2296]

aerodog2 idk about that but America is indebt to the creator of the universe for all the atrocities that she had spear headed and she has to pay up! It’s a universal law and we’re witnessing the collapse but it will get worse

[@sj-du2yo]

100 percent true

[@alexanderrose5711]

OKAY SO FOR PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THAT SINCE THEY DIDNT PARTICIPATE IN SLAVERY THEY SHOULDNT PAY REPARATIONS... OKAY, SO ADOS DIDNT PARTICIPATE IN ACCRUEING THE NATIONAL DEBT, SHOULD THERE BE TAX EXEMPTIONS PUT IN PLACE TO RECTIFY THIS?... GOTTA BE ONE OR THE OTHER, CANT BE BOTH WAYS...

[@salamjihad3449]

WE DON'T WANT ANY REPARATIONS !! WE ARE PROUD PEOPLE !! WE LIVE IN THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, AMERICAN BLACKS ARE THE MOST WELL-EDUCATED AND WEALTHY OF ALL BLACKS IN THE WORLD !! WE WERE NEVER SLAVES. NONE OF US PICKED COTTON !!! WHAT THE HELL DO WE DESERVE REPARATIONS FOR? WE ARE TOO PROUD TO TAKE ANYTHING. BUT OF COURSE, THERE ARE THE DEADBEATS WHO WILL TAKE ANYTHING !! !

[@alexanderrose5711]

@@salamjihad3449 OKAY YT MAN 😂😂😂

[@salamjihad3449]

OUR ANCESTORS KILLED PEOPLE AND SENT AFRICANS OFF THE SLAVERY TOO !! ARE WE OWED ANY OF THEIR DEBT?? SHOULD WE BE PUNISHED FOR WHAT THEY DID? GET REAL DUDE !! ALL WE NEED TO DO IS STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER AND STAY IN SCHOOL.. AND WHAT OUR ANCESTORS DID AS SLAVES WAS COMPLETELY LEGAL !!! THEY WERNT OWED A PAYCHECK !! OF COURSE, THE WEALTH OF THIS COUNTRY IS BECAUSE OF THE SLAVE MASTERS! WHO BOUGHT SLAVES AND HORSES AND OXEN ECT !! TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS TODAY !!! SLAVES WERE TOOLS.. ONCE SLAVERY WAS ABOLISHED THEN THE FREE WORK STOPPED TOO. HOW DO YOU FIGURE ANYONE OWES SLAVES ANYTHING? DO WE OWE THE OXEN ANYTHING TOO? THATS THE MOST REDICULOUS THING I HAVE EVER HEARD!!! AND Y,ALL LIKE "WHERES MY MONEY" LOL AMERICAN BLACKS ARE THE RICHEST AND MOST EDUCATED BLACKS ON THE PLANET !! ISNT THAT REPARATIONS ENOUGH? I WOULD RATHER BENN BORN HERE THAN ON SOME DIRT RUN IN A MUD HUTT IN AFRICA !! WE ALL DONT REALIZE HOW GOOD WE GOD IT !! GROW THE HELL UP !!

[@flatearth9140]

ONE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER !! LOL

[@DV-mq5fv]

I don't have time to listen right now but my daughter went to Harvard and now she is a complete lunatic!

[@elvissurman8079]

No reparations no vote

[@salamjihad3449]

WE DON'T WANT ANY REPARATIONS !! WE ARE PROUD PEOPLE !! WE LIVE IN THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, AMERICAN BLACKS ARE THE MOST WELL-EDUCATED AND WEALTHY OF ALL BLACKS IN THE WORLD !! WE WERE NEVER SLAVES. NONE OF US PICKED COTTON !!! WHAT THE HELL DO WE DESERVE REPARATIONS FOR? WE ARE TOO PROUD TO TAKE ANYTHING. BUT OF COURSE, THERE ARE THE DEADBEATS WHO WILL TAKE ANYTHING !! !!!!

[@lloydmoore982]

Very interesting! You know some folks will feel not one drop of guilt.those are the folks that will if given a chance love to have slavery back.righteous decent human will feel guilty.it's just the nature of us human regardless of ethnicity.for fair minded people it's terrible to carry around a burdened mind.that's why the Germans thought it best to free the mind.

[@emilystevens6335]

MGM Resorts International and the victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting reached a landmark settlement worth between $735 million..AND THE VICTIMS OF SLAVERY CAN'T GET $1MILLION EACH

[@msi8311]

Some of us don’t feel guilt because we aren’t guilty, not because we think slavery is right and absolutely not because we want it to return. Collect from those who sold you into slavery, I am Polish and had ancestors enslaved too, none of my family settled south or was here during slavery. I don’t owe ADOS anything except respect and decency.

[@lloydmoore982]

@@msi8311 each heart knows its self,be blessed.

[@lloydmoore982]

@@dantesinferno6957 you seems to have some serious trust issues. throughout the history of humanity, man have always seek compensation for any form of injustices that was meted out to them.from the slave owners to the slaves themselves. even in present day if hurt someone they may consider to be wrongfully,they will try to seek compensation, and it means just that.

[@lloydmoore982]

@@dantesinferno6957 Hmm🙂🙂!! I just feel those who still seek it deserve the right to do so. every other group/ ethnicity, who have seek reparation/ compensation, even the slave owners have received it except black folks. Personally I don't care about none of that stuff, all judgements unto the almighty. and this is the end of my conversation blessed day.

[@mkedmusa9416]

Psychic burden as well!! Economic trauma is correct across the board!

[@SlickCat]

Wow, Black reparations is sure going to piss off the American Indians.

[@rtoomer92]

There were black American Indians. That’s why they try so hard to put us in one box and that’s the AA sector. Black is not only an ethnicity It represents every ethnic background. A skin hue nothing more.

[@shieldbossman4859]

The white guilt complex is deep in this one is deep.

[@RG-27]

It's not white guilt its pay what you owe, plain and simple

[@shieldbossman4859]

@@padussia Congraz on the work ethic, lots of poor whites do the same. Blacks in the US are descendants of slaves and slave owners, on average black Americans have 25% European DNA, you are the descendants of the victims of slavery and the victimizers. And you want to put your hands in the pockets of people who have had nothing to do with slavery, have never owned slaves. Just like the descendants of Irish and English indentured get no reparations, and the life expectancy of African slaves was much higher than an Irish slave. The "government" is the people, buddy. There is no free money, except for the super wealthy. Make it right? You know history is full of horrors and atrocities, right? you understand that the practice and the institution of slavery was a near universal among human cultures, don't you? That there is not a person on earth who is not a descendant of slaves and slave masters. Much love, back at you.

[@thenrepeat9124]

@@padussia you're lazy as every other black I've known, liar. You won't get what you call reparations and you're saved by that very fact. Lunatics would be running the streets hunting you down. (Not me, of course) some of my best friends are black!

[@ericross7355]

Shield Bossman Spoken like a true white supremacist. 👍🏾

[@RG-27]

@@cognitivedissonance4413 Tell that to God

[@kofi7777]

The 40 acres belonged to Indians, and was not to be given unless you stole it. Also Indian tribes did not give up their property unless te government paid them which it did. Linclon had no authority on those states that seceeded. Also you never mention about how "Blacks" owned black and white slaves. In the New Orleans area, 28% of free blacks (mulatoos) owned black slaves, 80% of them were women. In South Carolina owned over 30,000. You are not being truthful about the 1965 voting rights agreement. I am a black American just in case you call me a white supremist.

[@mkedmusa9416]

How to make Reparations to right the wrong .. so that blacks can stop being scapegoats for the problems of America? How to protect women and kids and others and yet make it profitable at same time?

[@glascoebowie9359]

You still looking for a reward nothing good comes from evil

[@timothyandrenamills9798]

I want reparations for the lost lives of family members that died fighting a war created by slavery I want reparations for our government bringing people to our lands and giving them our jobs and taking my tax money and giving it to others to sit on their ass dang they still taking money matter of fact they keep taking more and more

[@cokeLord]

Pay up krakuz

[@robertmcintyre3480]

Only if Hell freezes over 😂

[@eugenehicks3859]

I'll take mine in bitcoin please. Lol

[@krvera01]

She is from another motha

[@mkedmusa9416]

She is a hero for humanity! No one want to hear it!

[@highroller-jq3ix]

How so?

[@merg2928]

A lot of people believe pouring money at the situation is going to relieve their guilt. I have no guilt because I did nothing and neither did my father or my father or my great great grandfather or his great great grandfather so no repetitions! Move forward, in the United States anybody can be successful and if you don’t believe that it’s because you don’t believe that. Suck it up buttercup make it happen or not it is up to you.

[@jamarciaclay6001]

The suburbs were built with grants and low interest loans still subsidized by the government. Many of those options were Not considered for our families and that deliberate discrimination has helped to lock so called blacks out of wealth. Our issues go well beyond slavery.

[@hiramabiff773]

It’s true that your father mother and you wasn’t there during physical slavery but because slavery produced Redlining, Jim crow, black law codes etc. you are the beneficiary of the result of systemic racism. Where is your moral compass?

[@barrosserrano5787]

Issuing checks to individuals would really not solve anything. What the USA govt should do is systematic building of infrastructure in the black community, as in all oppressed communities, which include even those which are "white", so-called, such as Appalachia. Fix the inner city, make good education and jobs available, engage in systematic destruction of institutional racism! Seriously if checks were issued to either African-Americans or Appalachians, or to whomever, they'd be spent on consumer goods and the end result would be that nothing has changed.

[@thetruthisthis2533]

It's not just checks (money) but the so-called African-Americans want tangibles as well. Ever hear of Black Wall Street?!?

[@w12ath040211]

So should I pay myself because I'm part black.

[@w12ath040211]

@Heru Behudety he he, I assure you im not trolling. This is a real issue, what about people who can trace thier ancestry to slaves but are not black?

[@thetruthisthis2533]

Tar Remover? Care to comment?

[@GC-hw9ju]

If they want reparations I will have to own some slaves. Im not paying for services I didn't receive.

[@CestuiQueTrusts]

You are ALREADY liable the Nation Debt and notice your kind have no qualms with paying the thieving bankers $Billion or even the Jews reparation.... But SCARY BLAK PEOPLE... NOOOooooooo!!!

[@GC-hw9ju]

@@CestuiQueTrusts Liable my ass. My kind? No we are tired of paying freeloaders like you and your ilk.

[@w12ath040211]

@@CestuiQueTrusts assuming he's for those other two things right? Because otherwise your point doesn't make sense.

[@w12ath040211]

@Amen Knowtech services?

[@ngonea]

gc 3 - Yout paying Israel -Did you won any concentration camps?

[@Revjtl]

Stopped listening at 4:03.

[@mrbroadus7402]

Cause the truth hurts and you hate the facts

[@RG-27]

Why because you don't wanna accept that the United got its wealth from free labor and murder off my ancestors

[@welyons9056]

Real Gamer27 everybody accepts this. Its a very commonly known fact.

[@padussia]

Nobody likes to be called out on their fuckary.

[@ngonea]

Revjtl - most probably could not bare to listen about the Apartide regime in SA either but eventually they had to end it and they will have to give the stolen land back.

[@bscottb8]

Slavery ended in 1865, and the Statute of Limitations is 6 years. Rhetoric won't change that.

[@thetruthisthis2533]

There IS no Statue of Limitations on Slavery because Slavery is still here and ongoing.

[@salamjihad3449]

@@thetruthisthis2533 WE DON'T WANT ANY REPARATIONS !! WE ARE PROUD PEOPLE !! WE LIVE IN THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, AMERICAN BLACKS ARE THE MOST WELL-EDUCATED AND WEALTHY OF ALL BLACKS IN THE WORLD !! WE WERE NEVER SLAVES. NONE OF US PICKED COTTON !!! WHAT THE HELL DO WE DESERVE REPARATIONS FOR? WE ARE TOO PROUD TO TAKE ANYTHING. BUT OF COURSE, THERE ARE THE DEADBEATS WHO WILL TAKE ANYTHING !! !!!

[@bryanlongshore3091]

Did she meditation....that explains a lot....and the word metaphysical....that's a code word for bullshit.....okay I'm done...

[@MrAmericanist]

Since my ancestors were among many Europeans who were enslaved by Romans, Germans, Vikings and other marauding nations I am expecting reparations. When will I be notified of the amount I will receive.

[@ericwilson2632]

U don't get money from the US You get your money from Britain

[@MrAmericanist]

@@ericwilson2632 Then you don't get money from America you get it from the people who sold 10,000,000 African people into slavery, get it from the Africans.

[@pathatton8364]

@@MrAmericanist the Africans who sold Africans were often captured and enslaved too

[@TheCrusaderRabbits]

Slavery's debt was paid. Reparations is dumb, dumb, dumb.

[@josephwilliams376]

TheCrusaderRabbits Explain how dummy?

[@chickedeedee292]

Complete and utter ignorance.

[@erikweinstein550]

reparations is a great idea so is unicorns delivering gold nuggets to my front door every morning un fortunately neither will happen

[@MicrolineC1]

You're history speak for you, and that's why America has lost respect around the world. Mic'19 ADOS

[@erikweinstein550]

@@MicrolineC1 if you say so. That and a nickel will get you a cup of coffee

[@markandrovillafranca9383]

you seem to be confusing possibility with probability

[@tinmanx2222]

This woman is out of her mind.