"The Cost of Inheritance": Meet the Descendants of Enslavers and Enslaved Fighting for Reparations

[@Jonlin23]

The Black Church has lost all credibility with many in our communities because of acts just like this. Instead of standing for what is right, they choose glitter and glitz or some other meaningless showing.

[@tubester4567]

Its weird to me because if they want to make this a race issue, Africans in Africa still have slavery today in 2023, as well as many other horrors like FGM, child marriage, child labor, witchcraft, poor treatment of women and there are dozens of tribal, religious and ethnic conflicts and wars. The other thing is, The US and Europe already pays reparations. They have been doing it for decades. They pay billions every year to most African countries and most poor countries around the world. Many poor countries rely on western aid to survive and eat because most African countries dont produce enough food 80% of all infrastructure and investments in Africa come from the west. More than 50% of African hospitals are still run by western NGO's and church groups like the catholic church. The west funds most of the health programs for things like malaria, HIV, and vaccination programs. You can look up online how much poor countries get in western aid, and its billions every year.

[@nanananere]

​​@@tubester4567 The U.S. and European countries do not pay "reparations" to African countries. They are bribing their way to Africa's resources. I understand that one could be under the impression that it actually is charity or reparations but it is absolutely not. Even when the money actually benefits the people, it's just to make their theft of resources look more acceptable.

[@kenj.8897]

​@@tubester4567well stated , it's a damn joke . Indians had slaves also .

[@CtwLeek]

@@tubester4567reading your comment sound like you don’t understand our situation most won’t you’ll probably say you do but you don’t

[@davruck1]

@@tubester4567you’re very gullible

[@normLoue]

I am a white guy and I really feel that America needs to pay these reparations. These reparations should be not only for slavery but also for the 100 years after slavery when Blacks were lynched and lived under Jim Crow conditions. it's so unfair that we whites are still in denial.

[@Daffy310]

You’ve been duped

[@normLoue]

@@Daffy310 no, you've been duped and brainwashed.

[@Daffy310]

@@normLoue go cry about it

[@angelalunsford4546]

Thank you 🙏🏽 for understanding and speaking out

[@starrroberts-n9h]

No offence but Screw your FEELINGS !!! Deal with reality not your feelings !! So will they start asking the African tribes who enslaved Africans and sold them to others into slavery ?? Will they also ask the relatives of Blacks who owned slaves in America to also pay reparations ?? Will America be able to end affirmative action when reparations are paid, and end the reverse racist action towards whites that has gone on far too long now ???? I'm sick of the Race and Victim card being pulled everyday !! If people of color can't make it today there is something wrong with them, Not the system !!!! The system caters to people of color far more than whites !! And who in the hell are you people, asking whites of today's generations to pay for things that happened LONG ago in another generation ?? Start with the tribes in Africa FIRST !! They are the key to slavery then, and are still doing it today !! And Stop voting for the Liberal illusion of Freedom and reality of peaceful enslavement every election !! Enough with this Liberal circus and clown show that keeps races divided and fighting with each other, We All bleed red !! It's the Democrats who backed slavery, founded the KKK, enforced Jim Crow laws and allowed lynchings, the Democrats !! But people of color keep voting Democrat ???? WTF is wrong with you people, Wake Up for Christ sake !!!!!!!!! Open your eyes, Democrat States are the worst states in the Union, poverty, homelessness, crime and filth are rampant in Democrat States, Far more than Republican States !! Note: This is my opinion, it's not intended to offend anyone in any way.

[@elizabethgraham8819]

If you inherited the loot, you owe the people.

[@sandralarsen3550]

no one owes anyone anything. Find gratitude.

[@Pou1gie1]

@@sandralarsen3550 Then why did the Jews get reparations? Why does the US continue to give Israel 4 Billion per year plus extras? They get Universal Healthcare and free college and university. Why did the Japanese get reparations? Maybe Jews and Israel should find gratitude and stop asking for money and support from countries.

[@annmhmoore0771]

Some of the people you think are owed something their own ancestors were slave owners. Some were never slaves. You need to prove that there was slavery in your family. We don't just hand out money because your black or because you say so.

[@nufiya999]

​@@annmhmoore0771 tell that to the Jewish whites

[@nufiya999]

​@sandralarsen3550 you can't stop it. Save your stinking breath.

[@DLFfitness1]

You can’t undo the past, but you can start the healing process now.

[@cashmoney2898]

Healing my ass. I want reparations.

[@CtwLeek]

Everytime we talk about it every other race says why should I care my people didn’t come till after and than some that say what about all the other races shit kills me everytime it never fails when they are talking about African people enslaved in America

[@Polit_Burro]

My ancestor died to free your ancestors. That's enough "reparations" I think. If you want more, ask the Rockefellers and the VanDerBilts and the others who were able to evade the draft by buying "substitutes". It was a rich mans' war and a poor man's fight. Now you wnat to make the poor man pay. Again.

[@andreww35937]

I am exactly who you are targeting. My family has been here for hundreds of years. I feel no shame for crimes I didn’t commit. Take your racist grafter A and go get a job like everyone else. I saw your other comments. You have a crazy view of history. Google Barbary Pirates. Or maybe look up who ended the African slave trade. Your argument is based on BS. Even if it wasn’t I wouldn’t care. I’ve done nothing to you. Get a life. Stop blaming other people.

[@campcamelliatreefarm9711]

Even though others came to the USA after the end of Slavery, they have enjoyed the benefits of the back breaking work of our ancestors whose unpaid labor in the cotton fields brought in the funds that built this country making it " The American Dream" for others to come and enjoy while most of the slave descendants experienced Jim Crow racism, the KKK murderings, and government discrimination in housing, schooling and education.

[@campcamelliatreefarm9711]

Most white people are in denial of the facts of slavery and its importance to the successful development of the USA that they now enjoy and experience. Whites enjoy priviledge l over the slave descendants who built the country into what it is today, a Capitalist country.

[@bobbyharris2895]

Power is taken, not given. Stop worrying about what others say and stay focused

[@AReazy67]

I am a 36yr college graduate, college was a live changing experience but that can't be top on the list when it comes to reparations... We need cash payments and land, that's top priority, those 2 things can really change lives

[@EPUEPUEPUEPU]

Cash payments would destroy our communities. We see what happens when we put money into peoples hands who lack money skills. We need to invest in our communities with skills and trades and education that can be passed down and last.

[@turtlecoal]

We don't lack money skills that's a damn stereotype rooted in white supremacy. Actually black americans are known on surviving with less & making a way. We make lemonade out of lemons. Plus, it's a debt owed & it has nothing to do with community or class. Beyonce gets it as does the Black american janitor at the hospital. It's a debt owed for theft of generational wealth. Plain & simple.

[@1-gz7xy]

What about Mexicans we want land too lol

[@beberodriguez4160]

​@@EPUEPUEPUEPUstfu trick you don't know what Black Descendants NEED... They already have established skills and trade and due to systematic racism they have been denied opportunities Jim Crow 1875-1975 just ended and they are still fighting to be =with their former enslavers and the 'invitees' brought to compete with them. Catch-up duncehead or don't post rhetoric thar implies defeat.

[@seensay2132]

Scholarships, small business and home loans. Tax exempt status for up to 5 generations? There’s literally PLENTY of ways for America to make restitution by specifically Black descendants of Slavery. But debt is definitely unpaid and will have to be paid.

[@The.End.Begins24]

A commission to establish a study. That means nothing.

[@andreww35937]

Good

[@The.End.Begins24]

@@andreww35937 RU OK? What's really bothering you?

[@virgomoonchild79]

​@@The.End.Begins24they are so bothered 😂

[@McQueenPress]

Meanwhile, the illegal aliens flooding the border receive cash gift cards with no paperwork or identification.

[@joe-id5pb]

Israelis, Japanese internees after WW2, Native Americans, Ukkkrainians, illegal aliens, LGBTQ don't get commissions to study their plight, they get concrete tangibles! Black descendants of slaves in Amerikkka waited long enough!

[@00ghostcobra]

I would love to see either Yvette Carnell or Antonio Moore of the ADOS foundation on this show to talk about slavery reparations..

[@sammyD62]

💯🎯 They have been at the forefront of this conversation for YEARSSSSS!

[@00ghostcobra]

@@sammyD62 Yes indeed..

[@Roycestiles]

Nope. The New Black Media, Tariq Nasheed, Professor Black Truth, Jason Black have pushed Black Americans to be codified on the subject. Thats why reparations are even on Democracy Now.

[@queenmommie100]

We are not ADOS we are FBA we are connected by lineage that ADOS has been hijacked by to many other nations. So no stop using that we have no connection to that we are a bloodline nation of ancestors who have been enslaved on our own homeland.

[@pollypocket00]

They don’t want these powerful freethinking minds unleashed on this Jewish platform 😂

[@kevinwilliams1768]

I wonder if this will ever happen not only in America but in the Caribbean and in Africa as well.

[@frederiqueleno5415]

You have to start. Somewhere. It's a good place to start.

[@mzdeesuite201]

The people on the continent of Africa and the Carribean have to fight for themselves. UK and France etc

[@kenj.8897]

No , and it shouldn't happen .

[@RocBush]

HYON

[@johnohara197]

@@kenj.8897 Why not? African states enslaved and conquered weaker states and enslaved their fellow people of colour , they also played a significant role, in providing their fellow Africans for the slave market, it's an historical fact!

[@shockcat5988]

How can a people who support and believe that you have no right to inherit anything, believe that you have a right to inherit your ancestors suffering?

[@terirea7743]

They may claim that there is no right to inheritance but those rich f**ks sure do a good job of handing it down, regardless. Not to mention the vast amounts to coddle their little princes and princesses throughout their lives. Many of the current Congress members are legacy rich.

[@amenx]

Translate please

[@Polit_Burro]

How can people who believe that they have an inherent "god given" right to North America point fingers at Zionists for claiming only a sliver of land in Palestine?

[@andreww35937]

It’s a grift

[@dbapeman0698]

Who is this writer talking about?

[@campcamelliatreefarm9711]

Wow! Very nice. We need more intelligent people like this lady working with Reparations committees. She is knowledgeable and truthful. Thank you very much.

[@cynthiagelmirez3738]

Amy - as usual you’re on top of it! You never cease to amaze me. Thank you is not enough for all the years you have been with us. Please forgive me if this seems out of place - but I’ve not been able to stop wondering if the young white man that died with the young black man many years ago when Blacks were trying to establish voting rights - was he related to you?

[@brandykwatford03]

100% she is!

[@sababaptiste8315]

What about Federal reparations?

[@LC-fe7be]

Your Brain On Liberalism: Slavery=Bad+Evil, Capitalism=Fair+Good

[@jonathantoymaker]

REPARATIONS is justice...Cut the check...

[@ronin36963]

Repressions is not a word. Stop asking for handouts, get educated, learn a skill or trade and get to work. How are you not embarrassed asking for charity like this? Man up, chump.

[@andreww35937]

I committed no crime. I owe you nothing. Your “check” comes from hard working people no different than you. But hey you want your check? You can come get it out of my cold dead hand

[@jonathantoymaker]

@@andreww35937 Who asks you to pay ??? This is a government issue..Reparations is justice ⚖

[@mattthacker9120]

@@jonathantoymaker Where do you think government money comes from genius?

[@jonathantoymaker]

@@mattthacker9120 A printing machine you genius 👏

[@beonlife3283]

When the wall came down in Germany, East Germany was a lot poorer and underdeveloped. West German citizens have been paying high solidarity taxes ever since in order to create equality in the country. As some here in the comment section claim, they have been burdened with the aftermath of Slavery.....well think about it, the reparations are a form of creating a better future with more equality in the country, and believe it or not, that is good for all Americans.

[@andreww35937]

Nope. But hey have fun or your made up moral high horse

[@RocBush]

You can leave " equality" OUT of the lexicon or you muddy the waters.

[@csakzozo]

Not even comparable. Those taxes aren't paid to individuals but to authorities that build infrastructure and create opportunities. Give these black folks cash or land, and find them spending it all on stupid shit and drugs. You can't make a poor man rich by giving it money. Independent of race.

[@beonlife3283]

@@andreww35937 well, I suppose you can always spend billions on weapons instead: you may find that moral🤣

[@jessd4048]

Curious whether an excavation of Native American title to the lands being looked at in this region ties into these stories… slavery was a grave sin in American history, but not the original sin. This reparations discussion is long overdue, it is vitally necessary to see reparations paid- however, it doesn’t get to the root of all that requires investigation, atonement & repair.

[@ag225-ml]

Has nothing to do with preparations for for Black American descendants of people who were enslaved

[@The.End.Begins24]

Stop

[@jessd4048]

@@The.End.Begins24 Making amends for Americas crimes & making things right means getting *to the root.* That means addressing both communities with reparations to achieve full rights and justice. Stolen people & stolen lands. Justice requires parity of esteem for both wrongs. To talk about both does not take away from the specifics of either case, what it does is recognize the multiple wrongs this settler-colony is based upon.

[@jessd4048]

@@ag225-ml if you think harder about it you’ll find you are not remotely correct. These things are intimately twinned.

[@ag225-ml]

@@jessd4048 again. Reparations are for African American injustices. It is deeply racist to imply that nothing can be done about the specific needs of Black People.

[@gloriaashby9439]

Can we have a Reparation march in the Summer?

[@The-Right-is-Right]

@gloriaashby9439....you don't need to ask. Go ahead and organize it

[@RocBush]

EminantDomain initially meant to abscound the Indigenous land. Meanwhile Homesteading for European peasants. A form of AffirmativeAction... Confiscating of Indigenous Lands, must be countered by perpetual land leases especially by developed land masses. Anything less would be acknowledging Europeans were here first. They dont even make that claim.

[@anpdm1]

Descendants of enslavers can be the most helpful by lobbying Congress to pay reparations instead of placing the debt of slavery on their own inheritances. The debt belongs to the federal government, the Treasury, some central banks in Europe. It's too massive to be handled locally or by enslaver descendants unless they're in Congress. In that case many are in Congress or are local lawmakers. Maybe that's why there's been no progress.

[@ventureted]

1000% wrong. The government does not have any money. The government has no assets. You are asking people who had nothing to do with slavery to pay people who were never enslaved. Descendants of slaves should be allowed to sue the specific people who enslaved their ancestors if those people still have money from slavery, and corporations that benefitted from slavery. All the banks, the insurance companies, the Universities, etcetera. NOT taxpayers who are just trying to get by in life.

[@AB1B1]

​@@venturetedMan please! The same ppl who enjoy all the liberties and luxuries that the institution of slavery has afforded this country should pay. The wealth that was amassed through slavery has compounded over time to afford us all a certain level of luxury. And for that everyone should pay.

[@ventureted]

@@AB1B1 literally EVERYONE has experienced the same benefits. Every culture and race in the world has been enslaved at some point. Do THEY get reparations? Again, if you're going to seek reparations, seek it from those who did the enslaving. AFRICA.

[@csakzozo]

So you're saying they're demanding more than what the guys who actually inherited and (according to others) grew that wealth over many generations have? Like more than what has been inherited? How is that mathematically possible?

[@TheSocratease]

Wrong.

[@miskwainini]

Whenever I see an American black speaking on reparations on a major platform it’s never the people that I’ve seen speaking on reparations all day every day on social media for years. Where do yall dig these folks up from?

[@JusticeLeague-gt1nz]

That's why they need the black community to stand together but it sounds like your still trying to divide. Or either you're probably a white person trying to infiltrate and cause the division on this platform Amongst those within the black community.

[@chellelechelle]

Our ancestors were smart to keep the name of their enslavers making it easier to trace back the owners. My 4th great grandfather was a slave. Reperations now!

[@UCMICU]

😂 Right…. People change their names when they get married. There is no legal arc for reparations. An emotional argument yes, but no legal evidence

[@chellelechelle]

@UCMICU arguing with a fool makes you an even bigger one so I'll refrain from engaging with you.

[@UCMICU]

@@chellelechelle A discussion isn’t an argument sweetie. That’s just a childish excuse for someone who has no intelligent rebuttal because you know deep down I am correct.

[@AlOfNorway]

We must not forget our past, but we can’t let it dictate the future either, otherwise we will never be free.

[@frederiqueleno5415]

Tell that to Ho loc au st survivors and their descendants. Black people are, despite of 400 y. slavery on dehumanizing basis being justified by perpetrators with the argument they belonged to a so called superior race, always the ones who should forget quick and move on... In order not to be "driven by their past". Interesting, isn't it ? Well, if people could step in other's shoes, our world would be different. It must change anyway.

[@AlOfNorway]

@@frederiqueleno5415 I am not putting the suffering down, but I am neither allowing it to perpetuate and pave the way for a ruined future. In the end, one must acknowledge that the battle is won and slavery doesn’t exist like it used too. If it wasn’t the case, one would understand the urge for resistance and accountability. Now tell me, who is gonna pay? Who is going to be held responsible? No one. So what will any complaint cause now? Nothing, except spreading awareness. But why be angry? Why hurt yourself more, when it’s clearly over? All of Balkans were slaves and vassals to the ottomans for 400 years up to 1900, do you hear them complaining? In the end of the day, we are all consciousness; not a colour, a body, a mind, or a name. You are conscious of it. You are inside the body. You are formless, nameless, colourless, and beautiful. You are life. Get over yourself.

[@n0wheregrrl]

More than any other kind, we need _class-based_ reparations. The very existence of staggering wealth inequality and "lower" classes is a direct result of systemic injustices that go back to the very beginnings of the nation.

[@Billiepippen]

nope. go home.

[@n0wheregrrl]

@@Billiepippen Nope. You go home.

[@Will_Moffett]

Why do so many on the Left always want to expand definitions and make words meaningless. Its like you cant separate any 2 concepts. Everything you know is just in a giant kludge in your mind.

[@anpdm1]

Many economic efforts were made to lift poor working class whites out of poverty. Affirmative Action doubled household incomes of white families, which is 1 out of 1000's of policies and practices. Benign neglect (1960's) is a policy currently in effect that prohibits helping those whose ancestors were enslaved and used as currency. US Reparations for Slavery is about profit sharing. Millions of enslaved Americans built wealth that's controlled the globe 3 centuries+. Wealth created for US and European elites and governments (taxes). 1776 US/Europe banned ("to end slavery")bringing African POW labor into the colonies due to insurrections. 1808 termination date meant the 'domestic breeding' industry had 32 years to produce the next line of laborers. Girls as young as 8 were captured for that industry. Class-based reparations does not address crime against humanity. Repair is mandated. The US continues unfair treatment towards that American lineage. In order to get it to stop, protections are needed. Only monetary repair can change that. 4 quadrillion+ in labor cost was saved using enslaved labor. Imagine if those people were paid and those dollars were circulating amongst laborers. Maybe more than 1% of us would be sharing the wealth.

[@Will_Moffett]

@@anpdm1 The unfair treatment of the lineage is also expressed in hiring practices and in media. Most of the black actors that get put on in major productions are not from the enslaved lineage. The production companies seem to go to the ends of the earth to avoid ADOS (American Descendents of Slaves) and hire black people of other origins. Most of the slots at the Ivy League filled by black students are African nationals, not ADOS. It's almost as if there is an implicit agreement to target ADOS and deny them any opportunity whatsoever. It's not just a passive continual denial of the importance and fairness of inheritance for ADOS but some kind of active targeting and disdain.

[@DeeDaKang1]

My thoughts on reparations are simple: " It's my 💵 and I want it now!!!!" When you owe some one something you pay them what you owe, you don't turn around and ask the person you owe money to. Well if I pay you back what do you plan to do with those funds.....It's mine & I want it, it really shouldn't matter if we all decided to spend it, burn it, or 🚽 flush it, it's ours 😡

[@wandavazquez1234]

I don't owe anybody nothing...

[@stefanogissi7340]

If you talk about this you have to show the whole picture without taboos, including the fact that African rulers sold black slaves to Europeans, and the fact that in Africa today there are black people enslaved by other black people.

[@judithrobinson5064]

Reparations should be paid in the "Form" of Free Education for all Descendants..(4 years) (Education not $$$.. ) Education allows an Individual to compete on an Equal Playing Field... Education is the "Key" to Equality!!!

[@LOVE92031]

What if there are BDOAS who are already educated? So, they get nothing according to this theory, correct? This would leave yet another inequal imbalance. It is best to be the UN's Reparations policy which addresses all areas of proper repair for the injustices of slavery.

[@yahya4370]

We have plenty of poor educated Black folk. What would the 70-80yr olds do with such a repair solution? It needs to be cash, land and free therapy or community based programs.

[@McQueenPress]

Cash. And we can decide whether or not, and what type of education to pursue for ourselves. We're not looking for a coupon.

[@dc5024]

In the roughly three decades leading up to the most recent recession, looking at the officially measured poverty rate, educational upgrading and overall income growth were the two biggest poverty-reducing factors, while income inequality was the largest poverty-increasing factor.

[@jayreports8424]

Why did you not have Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore? This is a weak interview.

[@trollinmartin7260]

People who come from the lineage of Slavery in the United States would have been a more clear description

[@johannjohann6523]

If African Americans think they deserve "reparations" only those from slaves should locate and find the families that owned slaves and file civil suits against them. That is the only fair and equitable way. Otherwise, it is simply trying to find a way to steal tax revenue and money from the poor who never owned slaves and give it to their friends. Rich people don't pay taxes, only poor people do.

[@blesstrue8544]

Go after the existing companies and families that took part in slavery.

[@EwanCummins]

If these people want to pay other people, let them. But leave the rest of us out of it. I do not owe any debt.

[@janeself9827]

Please discuss the last 3000 years of slavery which includes all races and nationalities throughout the entire world.

[@rashad123us]

*Has the United States, the current global hegemon, or the current capitalist economy existed for 3000 years? No. Chances are you benefit from both.*

[@houdiniwho]

What about the Vikings

[@MARTIALnoart]

Right now we’re talking about slavery in America, go fight for your ancestors rights against and country that committed atrocities towards them but don’t try to diminish our plight with your what aboutism because we have the balls to care and stand up for ours

[@westindianduchess]

Obviously this makes you uncomfortable so you need to deflect. But we're not going anywhere. We will continue to remind you of your ancestors' crimes against the Black race.

[@janeself9827]

@@MARTIALnoart Slavery 2024? What kool aid did you drink?

[@fannys941]

Emotional ❤

[@genevieve4418]

Sure is😢😢!

[@robertdog]

Spades have been getting gibs and other special treatment for decades while at the same time destroying everything they come into contact with.

[@WaterholeExchange]

Bless you, much gratitude for beginning the reparations process to restore justice to humanity. We can not undo the past by repeating it, we can transcend it by opening our hearts and paving a new path. Much love and respect for the great work you are doing.

[@andreww35937]

You want to give money to people who weren’t hurt for something you didn’t do? Well have fun, go out there and hand out cash if you feel bad. I’ll keep my money and sleep like a baby

[@jamesregiste960]

​@@andreww35937what part of repair-rations ' are you having difficulty with? 😊

[@jimbecarroll5780]

@@andreww35937 Education is worth more than any lotto, and THIS is a prime example of it in this comment.

[@leroyhayes3251]

@@jamesregiste960all of it, the entire idea is garbage 🗑️

[@darkgalaxy5548]

So people who never owned slaves should pay reparations to people who never were slaves?

[@justmyopinion9883]

Even people who never owned slaves still benefited from slavery.

[@darkgalaxy5548]

@@justmyopinion9883 Absolute rubbish. How much have you benefitted from Roman slavery?

[@justmyopinion9883]

@@darkgalaxy5548 I don’t live in Rome. I am speaking of the USA. Everyone who lived in the USA benefited from slavery. The USA would not be the wealthy first world country it is today if not for 243 years of free labor and 100 more years of Jim Crow oppressed labor.

[@RocBush]

The U S Gvmnt owes. Their plan, their debt owed. Your thinking guarantees the ✅'s will be perpetual.

[@andreww35937]

@@justmyopinion9883total bull

[@paulwellman1030]

What about the Native Americans that were originally kicked off ALL of the US land? Talk about a good case for reparations!

[@heavymetalpermaculture]

We need to start there first, with those first enslaved Wampanoag people.

[@flyyygirl87]

They have ALREADY received reparations.

[@paulwellman1030]

Really? That is why they are about the poorest people in the US? @@flyyygirl87

[@bookiedaleo1694]

Native Americans got they reparations what about us black Americans

[@paulwellman1030]

I would love to hear what the Native Americans have got. They are consistently some of the poorest people in the country. Both should get reparations. @@bookiedaleo1694

[@amenx]

South Carolina was the richest state in the union only because it owned the most slaves and it was the first southern state to succeed

[@andreww35937]

If your aunt had balls she’d be your uncle. What does that have to do with anything today?

[@waynefontaine5533]

Yep, with a BLACK MAN owning the highest number of slaves while being considered by most to be one of the most brutal slave owners...GOOGLE THAT SH*T....

[@MasterWatchmaker]

I owe nothing to no one but God

[@imageadvisorsinternational7935]

you will pay...pray about it...hahahah hahahah hahaha

[@JohnHunterPlayerr]

The government literally makes money. Pay them.

[@andreww35937]

So you have no basic concept of macro economics…. Cool. You should definitely keep sharing your opinion in public. Good job😂

[@trollinmartin7260]

She has a hard time calling those of us who ancestors was slaves in America Americans. She didn't use Americans at all.

[@nancysmith2389]

Nope. We never had slaves and fought a Civil War. That's all you get.

[@imageadvisorsinternational7935]

either way it goes...you will pay...

[@supernova-u1x]

I recently looked at the 1900 census and reviewed my great great grandparents who were enslaved. It was so heartbreaking to know they could not read nor write.

[@ettaadams6125]

Thank-you "Democracy Now" for spotlighting this movement. Please continue to do this. 😊❤

[@andreww35937]

Or not….

[@judithrobinson5064]

"Teach a man to fish and he'll never go hungry." "Educate a man and he'll cease to be poor." EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO EQUALITY!!!

[@PrayerOfMannesah]

Listen, this has nothing to do with fishing. You need to have protections when you were brought here by kidnappers who own banks.

[@AliceArceneaux]

My ANCESTORS did all fishing, but they never got to keep their fish. They were caught..It were taken from them & giving to someone else. 😢

[@dc5024]

In the roughly three decades leading up to the most recent recession, looking at the officially measured poverty rate, educational upgrading and overall income growth were the two biggest poverty-reducing factors, while income inequality was the largest poverty-increasing factor.

[@MPam1619]

I'm surprised Sandy Darity is not part of this conversation. He's the most formidable proponent of reparations i've heard to date.

[@RocBush]

Smacks of another okie doke.

[@RoBertlamir]

QUIT YOUR GRIPIN GET YOURSLVES A HOBY ITS TIME TO HEAL

[@imageadvisorsinternational7935]

you are now OUR hobby...buckle up.

[@jesselgavieres6488]

Scoffers are lurking in the latter days. Laughing at the word of the living God. Pray that you repent of your sins that salvation comes to you.,., 0:10

[@cowsandpigsmaketheearthwar1471]

Philosophy Trending 2 Trending 2 - PaulTeich-©️10/31/2023 When random acts of kindness are trending through the land When kind becomes the magic word And the thing we do is lend a hand We won’t worship a bird of prey, but one of peace and love When kindness is trending, instead of snuggies and skittles Everyone will have homes No one will be starving for vittles There will be full bellies at dinner tables instead of bombs If our minds move in the direction of our most dominant thought Peace, love and kindness is, perhaps what we ought Steering away from bread and circuses Rather to help the needy with health and human services Brothers and sisters we are all one Separation is painful from the real and the unicorn And it is surely not as much fun As to live in a democracy, not in need of agrarian reform The trend today it’s for the rich not to share Poor people are not vulgar we need to learn to care Paul Teich. “The Poet”. 2023

[@blackredwhiteandblue1440]

Great piece, but we cannot form bonds of repair with people who deny slavery’s role in American and Western wealth…. For Nicke Haily to stand there like a deer in headlights about the question of slavery and the civil war tells you everything…. Their story and our story are 2 totally different thing’s….no one would want the evilness of what these people did to surface. It brings a whole new way of looking at who the savages were and are today. Pale people are the only people in history to go all around the world killing robbing raping other people, in the name of Christianity, and all along calling those they kill- the savage We Got Next APTTMHGY

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

More asinine talk about reparations, it's time to move forward. The World already has.

[@jakckt]

I’m from the large number of immigrants who came to America long after slavery was abolished. In my opinion, those rich families who benefited from slavery should be the ones to pay reparations. Those of us who arrived poor (and continue to struggle) should not be funding reparations through our taxes. So take the land inherited by the descendants of slave owners and take the businesses developed on the backs of slaves and use that to pay reparations.

[@heavymetalpermaculture]

You're still benefiting from exploitative systems, and slavery has never really been abolished.

[@VadimBolshakov]

@@heavymetalpermaculture Who will have a right to decide who is entitled for reparations and who is going to pay on a personal level? You know there was some black slave owners?

[@CtwLeek]

@@VadimBolshakovy’all folks love using that did know it was black slave owners know some of them freed their people and and some stay and worked on the lands that they provide

[@Polit_Burro]

@@heavymetalpermaculture I work for minimum wage. How exactly am I "benefitting from exploitative systems?" BTW: I have ancestors who died in the ACW - drafted by the Union army because they could not afford the 300$ fee to purchase a "substitute". Go ask Anderson Cooper for reparations. And while you're there, ask about reparations for the poor men who died in this rich man's fight.

[@IndianSummer79]

was your ancestor paid? if so why would they receive reparations ?@@Polit_Burro

[@oshanelaird288]

Stop dividing people by race. Black people are not the only race to be enslaved in the past

[@CtwLeek]

That’s wild

[@bookiedaleo1694]

Black people built America let’s be clear about that

[@RocBush]

Slavery and Amerikkkan Chattel Slavery is not the same. Chattel means Property. btw Who were the "slaves" that built a SuperPower. Ya know the saying, " only in Amerikkka"!

[@andreww35937]

@@RocBush🤖

[@andreww35937]

@@CtwLeekyeah bud, facts are crazy. Read a book

[@DrumWithNegus]

It’s about time!!! Long overdue.

[@tuber6382]

Reparations for colonialism

[@ttaylor758]

People playing the victim for something that didn’t happen to them is pathetic

[@ericcarabetta1161]

I knew the comments would be full of level headed, totally not racist remarks. 🙄

[@andreww35937]

Yeah yeah, feel free to ignore all the racism you advocate for. Aren’t you such a nice and moral person 🙄🥱

[@Polit_Burro]

We also need to talk about reparations for soldiers' families who were drafted while rich men were allowed to buy "substitutes." Perhaps it would be most fitting if the descendants of people who actually benefitted in any financial or material way from the war to pay the reparations, rather than asking descendants of union soldiers who were drafted, while Rockefellers, Astors, VanDerBilts (Hi Anderson Cooper!) and others profited. I will be eagerly awaiting the reparations check for my ancestors' sufferings.

[@loriannrichardson7644]

The US govt should pay reparations. And perhaps you forget -- many Black men were drafted into wars, and placed on the front lines. So should their descendants get double reparations. My point --- let's focus on getting the descendants of the enslaved in The US their reparations. Stop muddying the waters.

You can have that talk somewhere else

[@csakzozo]

You keep talking about that. All you folks keep talking about this dumb shit, instead of getting a skill or two in the mean time, and actually making money for your descendents...

[@csakzozo]

​@@loriannrichardson7644lol 😂

[@deejay5102]

@Democracy Now! Ms. Amy I think you should consider interviewing Yvette Carnell concerning the REPARATIONS topic.

[@anthonymoore7948]

It's ABOUT TIME, AMY. WAKE IT UP AND HAVE ADOSAF ON!

[@mannysabir1339]

Dr. Claud Anderson has done this study long ago. However, the local level seems the way to go because we only get excuses on the federal level.

[@cme1713]

Kerner Commission also Buried in Bitter Waters

[@thyownshadow]

Humanity LIVES. Shedding tears over here for sharing family history together IN THE PRESENT. Let us learn from the past.

[@paulfranco3239]

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 AN AWESOME VIDEO. I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY.

[@janetl4]

Omg stop bringing up the one in Evanston it was not reparations it is only for people who still live in Evanston it was not for the descendants that are still living there that rent and not own

[@tredinabrown2249]

THE MOST HIGH YAH WILL HANDLE IT ! IT IS OUT OF THE HANDS OF ANY LEADER AT THIS POINT! PRAISE THE MOST HIGH! HALLELUYAH! PSALM 148:14 & 1PETER 2:9

[@kensears5099]

I think all the slaveowners should pay reparations to those they enslaved. Not very practical, though, since they're all dead. Oh well. Never-were-slaveowners don't owe anything to never-were-slaves.

[@therapheal_2278]

31% of black people live RIGHT ABOVE the poverty line Blacks own 1% of wealth in this nation. 92% of black people call a white man or woman boss - [ ] US paid reparations to Germany in 1952 - [ ] Japanese Canadians in 1988 - [ ] Eskimos in 1988 - [ ] Jews in Austria 1990 - [ ] Seminoles in FL in 1985 But none for Foundational Black Americans

[@drstevej2527]

It’s a Nonissue issue that has no support in terms of public policy. The states have no power to implement any such policies as they don’t have the resources. There is no support for this on the national level. They are throwing proponents a bone in terms of commissions to examine this issue. Studying something is just that as this is not 2020. This is petering out and those few places that have actually passed such policy have been critiqued for the very limited funding and resources that have actually been paid. The high court struck down affirmative action in college admissions in 2023. The idea that this is going to become policy is a giant distraction that does nothing but to energize the right. If individual white people want to give property back to black people that’s an individual choice but that is different from a government policy of reparations. Any such effort would be challenged on numerous grounds not the least of which is that groups suffered under throughout this country’s history yet they are excluded from such reparations. If 5 people are in a car that is struck by an Amazon delivery truck under order to speed in order to deliver more packages then everyone who was harmed in the car is entitled to compensation with those who are most harmed getting the highest amount of compensation but almost everyone would likely get something. Reparations singles out one group for reparations despite slavery not being against the law when it was practiced. In short there are many reasons why neither the legislative branch, the president nor the courts will support this. It’s a giant distraction and waste of political capital.

[@andreww35937]

Well said. Bravo

[@AReazy67]

U typed that long ass paragraph and all u had to do was say I'm jealous of black people and I'm racist

[@cindys9491]

Hmm. Of course slavery wasn't against the law originally, but that's because many enslavers and other ppl who benefitted from slavery wrote the laws. Similarly, the acts of 1940's Germany weren't against their own laws, but they were still genocide.

[@drstevej2527]

@@cindys9491 Genocide is not slavery and said German laws violated existing protections for German citizens just as Internment camps violated the rights of Japanese Americans. This is why reparations for Japanese Americans is different from reparations for the decedents of slavery. That and the fact that the US is not paying reparations for the great grandchildren of the Japanese who were interred. These are important distinction under our legal framework. German judges were put on trial for knowingly violating German law in allowing for such policies not for the actual death camps and genocide. The courts were not consulted regarding the death camps. How old are you? Not one German judge ever heard a case involving actual practices of genocide. Apple meet orange as we don’t get to undermine one of the cornerstones of legal system simply because some people want to. It’s the same reason why you can’t be convicted of a crime nor fined for doing something that was not a crime when you did it. And FYI Germany is not in the USA the last time I checked. Their history and legal system are not our own. None of which has anything to do with the political reality of this issue. Reparations top the list of public policy that will never be law. It’s a great way to waste political capital. That is the point!

[@stephaniecannon410]

Thank you, "Amy Goodman." 🌹

[@ckarendcollins_moore]

Thank you for this piece of information.

[@duanestewart9149]

💯🔥🔥 Foundational Black American Folks

[@waynefontaine5533]

Well, if reparations are in order, than those of us who are descendants of Union Army veterans who fought and died in the Civil War, LIKE I AM, are owed for our family's sacrifices during that war...I descend from 2 Northern Army vets, one who lost the bottom half of his right leg, the other his life, on the battlefield fighting for other men's freedoms...not to mention my Grandfather was a radio operator at Utah Beach on D-Day, my Dad a Vietnam vet in '70-'71, and I myself deployed twice to Iraq, '03 and '05, so WHERE IS OUR REPARATIONS GODDAMNIT...if y'all are owed, then y'all owe us....

[@KB-un3bt]

Then file your case.

[@TBrown-rb6fz]

Spoken like a true racist. The Grand Wizard of the KKK couldn't of said it better.

[@The-Right-is-Right]

@waynefontaine5533 ...please engage legal representation and allow the courts to decide

[@sharokha.h.6774]

"There is only organized power against organized power; I see no other remedy, as much as I regret it."Albert Einstein

[@andreww35937]

So to beat racism you’re going to become racist….. cool. Good job. I’m sure that’s what Einstein meant…

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Considering the racist history of the Democratic Party, rich Democrats should share their wealth with the poor black folks who live in this country.

[@genevieve4418]

More like returning what was stolen.

[@AReazy67]

What about the Republicans

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Well, as you know, Democrats are kind, nice, generous, tolerant, inclusive, loving, caring...etc. Let rich Democrats lead the way.@@AReazy67

[@arcoiris_sky]

So beautiful to see these steadfast and courageous people revealing these brutal truths of our collective history and moving towards co-creating something new. May we all be liberated and share peace despite our cruel history. xo Peace, M

[@queenmommie100]

There will be no more peace on this earth. Our Elohem will restore his chosen children here on the Earth only. Our peace comes from our Mother Wisdom not man

[@oldlifter530]

All reparations should go to stop current slavery. All reparations should go to help current slaves.

[@victirynom]

That throat clearing speaks volumes.Shame pasted on from ancestors.Heavy,Heavy burden to bare.The truth will set us FREE!😢

[@kenj.8897]

What a bunch of crap .

[@nicke.3782]

Where do any of you think the money is supposed to come from? The estimates START at 14 trillion and go way up from there, depending on what "group" you talk to. This country is 34 trillion in debt right now. The financial devastation would be catastrophic if this were ever to pass. The stock market would crash and your reparations would not be worth the paper it's printed on. And before somebody responds with the "Jim Crow" thing... you were free to leave this country a long time ago.

[@therapheal_2278]

31% of black people live RIGHT ABOVE the poverty line Blacks own 1% of wealth in this nation. 92% of black people call a white man or woman boss - [ ] US paid reparations to Germany in 1952 - [ ] Japanese Canadians in 1988 - [ ] Eskimos in 1988 - [ ] Jews in Austria 1990 - [ ] Seminoles in FL in 1985 But none for Foundational Black Americans

[@nicke.3782]

@@therapheal_2278 Those "reparations" were paid in real time... not 150 years later. Not to mention all those "reparations" you mention don't add up to a fraction of what this would cost. Lastly, if its so bad here... feel free to leave.

[@annking1576]

Why is this even an issue? No one alive today was a slave! End of debate!

[@delantonx101]

Studies are straight cap.

[@ventureted]

At the height of slavery 1.6% of the population owned slaves. The very idea, the demand that people alive today who had absolutely nothing to do with slavery take their hard earned money and give it to people who never experienced slavery is absolutely abhorrent. This is the rich and corporations passing off their debt to the poor and others who have zero responsibility for those acts. America inherited slavery from European countries and ended the practice within 1 generation. Seek your money, your reparations from the corporations that still exist today that benefited from slavery. Banks, insurance companies, all the Universities. Seek your reparations from the actual enslavers in Africa. In Europe. Citizens alive today have zero responsibility or guilt for those actions and owe nothing.

[@neophytebokor7693]

This is not reparations. This is a dumpster fire

[@dougsfriendskeeter]

So why doesn't the lady whose family that had slaves start paying the people that had family that were slaves. Why should my tax money go to pay for her families crimes?

[@MichaelBrown-sh8yh]

😂😂 White people

[@MARTIALnoart]

Why did/do America pay 3.8 billion to the Jews every year since 1948 for something that happened on the other side of the world and had nothing to do with us ? Why aren’t you complaining and whining about that ?

[@RocBush]

Oh well

[@troyingram716]

What was the cause of the Civil War?

[@mrbushlied7742]

According to 23 and Me, I'm 1% Native American. I demand reparations from the American government for the land stolen from my ancestors by the early settlers!

[@purpleglitter9596]

That's not enough to receive tribal benefits.

[@flixfan1]

The early settlers were English, French and Spanish subjects

[@VadimBolshakov]

@@purpleglitter9596 How much is enough? 5% ? 50%?

[@andreww35937]

@@purpleglitter9596 no shit Sherlock

[@IndianSummer79]

Go try to enroll in a tribe if that's what you want

[@ZappyDollittle]

I am of mixed ancestry but since I look white, and a majority of my ancestors are from Europe, somehow that makes me culpable in how blacks in the past were treated in the United States? None of my white ancestors mistreated anyone and in fact some married people of color. My DNA test from 23and Me shows I am 64.9% European, 27.9% North American--meaning Native American, 3.5% West African, and 2.1% east Asian/north African--meaning Arab, plus 1.6% trace ancestry and unassigned. Bottom line, I am 100% human being who respects all other fellow humans! Ironic, what if I happen to be a descendant of slaves? I would not claim reparations for that though, but I could claim for being from a Native Californian tribe as my Native ancestors faced great discrimination. My point is a lot of groups of people were historically mistreated including the Chinese and even some white people like the Irish, who both built the railroads. But how could we pay for all of them. We can't.

[@anthonymoore7948]

ADOSAF SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THIS SHOW. WE CREATED THIS MOVEMENT!

[@The.End.Begins24]

this movement has been around since 1865. No one needs credit what we need are results. Once that happens I’ll give credit to whomever wants it.

[@AmphibiousCarbine816]

Created no. Presented it to a new generation, yes. Unfortunately ADOS had the wrong people heading it. calling themselves leaders and setting up chapters, ego and entitlement was the death nail that sealed it's Doom. ADOS fell off and FBA hit the ground running.

[@andreww35937]

@@The.End.Begins24never going to happen

[@The-Right-is-Right]

​@@AmphibiousCarbine816 lol......with his "The Art of Mackin" bestseller.....you are jokers

[@anthonymoore7948]

@@The.End.Begins24 I did not ask your opinion. Every "advocate" since the 70's for reparations have been a waste and counter productive up until ADOS. PERIOD. WE MADE THIS A REASONABLE DISCUSSION.

[@martamara1979]

I am of indigenous descendance… and so? Should I victimize myself for what the Spaniards did to my great great grand parents? Please! Be serious.

[@RocBush]

YES

[@jimbecarroll5780]

victim ? No you should come to terms w/what they did to them though

[@jammiebanks5595]

We want our inheritance and YAH has it in the palm of His hand.

[@Cutthechecknow]

Study for what .. more BS

[@jlnapoleon]

This is our lives everyday. Everyday I’m not being paid reparations says it’s ok to treat people this way you can get away with it. They wonder why we just can’t get it together work hard and is all you have to do African American. Well my people worked the hardest and have nothing. I just took out a loan to help my daughter have a house a place to live in. I shouldn’t have to do that I have the money it’s just with the wrong people. I need my reparations over due.

[@jlnapoleon]

I’m doing extremely well with my education. This does not change the fact that I am owed my reparations. Many are not doing well and they are owed their reparations as well. Thank you

[@lolasherril6112]

Free education please part of the catch up process.

[@TheSocratease]

And mental health care

[@LeonardWilson-u4k]

Exactly how does one seperate descendants of slaves from Blacks that are not descendants of former slaves? Only those who can document they are a descendant of former slaves should be given reparations not Blacks who cannot document they are decendants of slave. Also, what about the Whites who too where enslaved. Do they also have the right to reperations.

[@wandavazquez1234]

Im from the Island where slaves were taken to...My Island was enslaved almost 400yrs.. My ancestors work as slaves and I dont go around saying who owes me because the sins of hundreds of years ago... These people just want money...

[@lolasherril6112]

Land and money way overdue 😳

[@mahmoudhasib2766]

Thanks, Amy Goodman

[@RocBush]

I wonder if any of these decendants can actually trace their ancestors to a country(that does not exsist) in the continent of Africa!

[@AReazy67]

Actually most of us can trace our roots which lead to right here in America starting in the late 1800s is how far i got with my family lineage, and u do know that only 3% of slaves from Africa made it to America majority of our people were already here hence the name foundational black Americans

[@boogitybear2283]

All talk no action. Typical Democrat BS.