Seminary built by slave labor pays cash reparations to workers’ descendants

[@TheHouseofcoolstuff]

I’m not a Christian but I respect those who truly following what the Bible teaches. How could someone repent if they don’t acknowledge their ignorance behaviors and ways!

[@thomasdequincey5811]

How is giving money to people who haven't earned or deserve it "repentance"?

[@MyraBrazil94]

@@thomasdequincey5811 Saying we don’t deserve reparations is like saying Native Americans don’t deserve what they receive, either.

[@thomasdequincey5811]

@@MyraBrazil94 No, the Native Americans were promised their land. There was no promise that said people should get money because of the harm done to people long since dead, done by people also long since dead. Reparations should be given to all the ex-slaves in America, not people with imagined ills.

[@MyraBrazil94]

@@thomasdequincey5811 Lol there was a promise, dummy. 😂

[@MyraBrazil94]

@@thomasdequincey5811 Who were slaves besides African Americans and few indigenous people?

[@MirnaEJiron]

Finally I hear a Reverend putting “reparations” as a “morale issues”…like he said if you repent your sin you must make a men’s. Kudos to the seminary.

[@thomasdequincey5811]

What sins does the Reverend have? He looks like he's never had a transgressive thought in his life. What you actually mean is - for dead people to repent of their sins, other people, who aren't dead and bear no responsibility for these sins, must make amends. Reparations are an illogical falsehood.

[@michaelpcoffee]

That's how it's done: identify the debt. Identify the debtor. Identify the owner. Pay up. Forcing innocent people to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.

[@Cameracat89]

Christianity is supposed to be against the sins of the father

[@peacemaker7757]

This reparation action is necessary and right. The way the Reverend describes the reasoning behind it is spot on. The way to make up for a wrong (in this case a very serious and damaging wrong) is to admit it without excuses and make amends humbly. These attitudes and actions give this white grandma hope for America’s future.

[@HelloWorld-ql3ki]

I always wondered how black you have to be to get those reparations. One drop? 50% 75% 100% what is it?

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

Much respect !!

[@uf9309]

I never knew they owned slaves. That’s messed up!

[@chrisbammer8679]

Literally every culture has owned slaves at some point in their history, it's a really big club.

[@richardc343]

@@burntupretardporn dope post

[@laura8512]

@@burntupretardporn what?

[@satorimystic]

It is not so easy to pass on wealth to descendants, when one has no wealth to pass on. :'(

[@satorimystic]

@@richietavarez6030 And if your father and his descendants used that money to garner more wealth, then perhaps using some of it to restore your families moral standing by investing it in Wells Fargo might be ... less ridiculous? ;)

[@harleyquinn5774]

YES!!! Progress!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@marks2260]

I applaud it. Archbishop of Canterbury too did acknowledge how the Anglican Church treated slaves in West Indies, The Church would brand them on their body. He apologized & asked for forgiveness. Mainline Protestant Churches doing a wonderful thing not only for repenting for their sins but also trying to compensate their descendants. The state should do the same. Not only to African Americans but also native Americans. Especially native Americans bc they do not have as big a voice as African Americans.

[@Thomas_Oklahoma]

The Natives aren't not asking for reparations, Tribal leaders are demanding sovereignty meaning they want to manage their own lands, laws, resources, education, funds and economic development, we want the Feds to stop micromanaging everything on the Reservations because they are incompetent and corrupt. Natives would also like the Feds to work with Tribes to development a plan to tackle the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crises and to settle any small claims such as land claims that most Tribes still have. Basically the Natives want the Feds to actually follow the Treaties. Blacks have gotten some reparations and investments from the feds, states, cities, churches and corporations but more needs to be done to atone for America's history of institutional racist policies directed at Blacks and they need reform across the board that protects Blacks from redlining etc.

[@Urm0mz]

That's how easy it is, btw.

[@energycantbedestroyeditcan7671]

My great great great grandfather was an Irish slave who helped build the railroads in This Great Country. Where is my compensation???? This world is so f#&@$d up.

[@makeyyyy7890]

No he wasn't lier

[@iamnikkitucker]

This is the right thing to do PERIOD!!!

[@Simlicity09]

This is beautiful

[@LalibelaNile_NileValleyDreams]

“We can’t just carry on doing the easy thing here…”

[@caseysheafer7044]

They can do what they want with their money

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

How much he gave tho??

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

@ABSOLUTE TRANSCENDENCE ANTIFA smh I just want to know how much he gave. I believe in God I been stopped going to church cus they r crooks but I believe in God and pray on my own

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

@ABSOLUTE TRANSCENDENCE ANTIFA God is real I have so much proof

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

@ABSOLUTE TRANSCENDENCE ANTIFA I know ws is real but so is God and he is NOT that! Ppl twist his word around for ws but that is NOT what he is about

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

@ABSOLUTE TRANSCENDENCE ANTIFA I saw God

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

@ABSOLUTE TRANSCENDENCE ANTIFA and God has done so much for me! It wasn’t a specific person it was God . No one can tell me different

[@TheWorldisSoDivided]

How much?

[@bmrworldwide315]

Living years in the past is not cute or going to reprogram with someone else's labor paying someone now.

[@tiaraflowers8328]

Amen!

[@aw1078]

I support reparations but they need to be part of a remigration plan as well.

[@richardc343]

Lol to where exactly

[@aw1078]

@@richardc343 Home

[@aw1078]

@TREVELL N. Yes, I fully support correcting the wrongs of the past. Reparations & remigration are the one two punch to begin this process.

[@energycantbedestroyeditcan7671]

The bible? It's an eloquent story of faith. But going with that, where is my money. I'm a quarter Cherokee. My great grandmother walked the trail of tears on the way to prison. If that's not worthy of compensation, slaves aren't either

[@yeayeayeayup1644]

👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿💯💯💯💯💯

[@energycantbedestroyeditcan7671]

Juneteenth? I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem to be that important, especially if you can't remember what day it was!!!!

[@chrisitinaangelica6354]

Wow!

[@bravewave2084]

Amazing Grace

[@exeffectum8149]

How much has already been paid out? I'm not against paying reparations, I think it should be fair though.

[@trinidad2450]

It will never, ever be fair enough. How would you feel like if you had been kidnapped from your family, thrown into the bowels of a slave ship, subjected to base cruelty, dehumanized, traumatized your entire life? Your children and your children’s children would have been born into slavery. It will never be enough.

[@exeffectum8149]

@@trinidad2450 America didn't do that. Nobody has ever pointed out to me an American company or person who was directly the cause of the acquisition and transport of African slaves, in Africa, to America. That was done by mostly British, Dutch, and African people and businesses. Why isn't anybody looking to hold African countries responsible in the matter? Slaves were sold to Americans. ...The arguement that Americans 'shouldn't have bought them' is nonsensical as it has no ethical or moral substance.

[@trinidad2450]

@@exeffectum8149 No matter what you say, the slave-traders, and the slave buyers were all wrong.

[@exeffectum8149]

@@trinidad2450 Slavery is a part of history. Every race and group did it. Ask yourself if you were a predominant wealthy person from a family of African decent, in the 1600s, would it be likely that your family "owned" at least one slave? People today think slavery is wrong because they're told it but how many understand why? Is it because of how poorly slaves were treated? Is it because of the psychological and emotional detriments to the "owners"? What makes something immoral when it was once considered moral? Human understanding of the world changes while the worlds understanding of humans doesn't. Something to think about. 🤔

[@exeffectum8149]

@@burntupretardporn I'm actually descended from Irish so thats kinda funny🤭

[@MrK3vinR]

I am scared! He is scary.

[@tabarakkhalaf6380]

@@richietavarez6030 you are an ignorant pathetic p.o.s and I can see why you probably have nothing going on in your life. Are you jealous that African Americans are about to become the majority rulers in this world. What was last shall become first is happening before your racist pathetic lives. And I'm here for it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@laura8512]

So did they pay these family at the wages that they would’ve earned back when they were working in their slavery or at today’s wages? What does this accomplish? Are those families satisfied? Are they forgiven after reparations received?

[@byrdtalks]

Y would u forgive when they never asked for forgiveness?

[@Cainus44]

There is no forgiveness. The goal is to humiliate and belittle white people for alleged crimes viewed through the lens of a corrupt modern morality that seeks to retroactively enforce itself upon the past.

[@korkalba8658]

Black and White as usual.....give it a rest already!

[@tabarakkhalaf6380]

Its always the pathetic racists p.o.s cave beasts that hate that African Americans are becoming the majority. Natives, African Americans, Arabs and many who aren't yt are taking over the world and you are just sitting here wishing you could do something about it. But you can't you're just a pathetic loser

[@blacksheep933]

What BS!!

[@fortheloveofgod7258]

👉🏽How much? 👉🏽Good start at least.

[@itz_icy_gaming2930]

Bruh why? Why should people who didn’t do the work get money?

[@wutflex]

Just fo one Google search asking that same exact question and learn. If you don't want to learn then keep asking these stupid questions in KZbin comments.

[@observer4292]

You can’t exactly right the wrong that happened in the past but you can stand for what you believe in now and build a better future. If you can’t understand how this is the least somebody could do to *recognize* and *repay* to the *best* of ability, then I humbly suggest you sit with yourself and ask why you wouldn’t want to acknowledge and help repay the pain these families have been forced to endure. I mean, this man literally explained in the video. Did you listen, consider, and reflect?

[@thomasdequincey5811]

I agree. Giving money to people who haven't earned it because something happened to somebody in the past is illogical and juvenile.

[@observer4292]

@@richietavarez6030 I’d politely ask you to educate your ignorance on this, but unfortunately I know that this is a choice you make to deliberately go against those in need coming from a position of privilege.

[@bernardkupilikjr512]

@@observer4292 Reparations have been in place for years: Welfare, Food Stamps, Section 8 Housing and Affirmative Action, Medicaid just to name a few. We've all seen how well these benefits have worked out. How bout taking a little responsibility for your community and society in general.