The Story Behind "40 Acres and a Mule"

In 1865, following the end of the Civil War, Union leaders gathered a group of Black ministers in Georgia. They decided that newly freed enslaved families could claim up to 40 acres of land. Almost 160 years later, against the backdrop of national reparations discussions, Joie Chen visits Savannah to hear the history of this famously broken promise.

[@reignsupreme2217]

It’s not just the government that owes us, but many corporations that are still in existence today, benefited from slavery as well.

[@notthebrightestcrayoninthe4728]

Especially banks

[@65redd]

Amen 💫

[@loridean177]

But they say "we didn't own slaves" as if we can't trace the money. Also for those who have ears: You do know this land is being blessed b/c we're here. Black Wall street and other successful black towns let them know our God Yah can take a little in our hands and bless it to increase. They want us dependant on them. They are not stupid they know they get the increase as long as we are attached to them. Only Yah can deliver us. Repent, pray, read your Bible and live holy. It's almost time to go HOME.

[@sheritacotten5293]

so many well said comments and think about this is the land buildable and if so, what for accorrding to that county or city department of planning and zoning? Does the land have to rezoned to built single family homes? Does that involve going before a rezoning board and a application? What are the fees? Unless a family has developers and builders in the family, what could the use of the land?

[@lisapowers719]

Well the corporations were following the so called laws,

[@aureliusleslie173]

This is why reparations should be given without question.

[@user-hv4rf4hu1e]

They wouldn't want to level the playing field..who would they exploit then 🤔

[@jujutu5084]

...and not a 1 time payout

[@user-hv4rf4hu1e]

@@SteveSmith-hh2ni you don't know that maybe test scores are a result of teachers nowadays teachers are only concerned with gender affirmation ...we had teachers that actually taught...maybe the parents could be more active if they weren't working so hard for crumbs...and they could wipe their butts with every cent...no ones business....I see many blessings opening businesses without reparations...socially blk business don't do as well as immigrants because of their connections to their own people back home and the resources that they have from government...we should shop black

[@muhammad17115]

Facts...Restore that promise ✌️

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

Why? you're not owed a penny.

[@karriemsharief]

The slave owners got paid for the loss of slaves and some of their descendants are still suing the government for reparations. But when black descendants of slaves even mention reparations everyone has a problem with it. The nerve of that woman to downgrade the value.

[@user-mt8tp9hk6e]

Exactly!

[@b1gS0Wh4t]

Britain's tax payer just finish paying debt to slave owners in 2015!

[@warlord8954]

Which slave owners got paid? I'm a lay historian and never once have I ever come across any document that provided compensation for the slaves that were emancipated. I'm truly interested to see such document(s), and history.

[@Pivit3119]

Education about building wealth , and long term financial stability. Japanese and other cultures got reparations. The Indians own casinos and maybe pay taxes, I haven't researched it in a while but I do know that they were not paying taxes.🤔

[@dionterussell3620]

All they wanted was land and education 😢

[@loralarose9615]

Land belongs to natives

[@dionterussell3620]

@@loralarose9615 the natives are mostly dead

[@citizencoy4393]

Wait u til u learn a huge majority of our ppl are the true indigenous! Not American natives.

[@mufasa1794]

@@loralarose9615 which is fba

[@alimctaven7417]

@@loralarose9615ok tell that to the yt people.

[@evanglistfoss-kq6fp]

I love my Black people and honor my ancestors. "We will Overcome Family". Thank you for sharing this video. 🙏

[@tammi67able]

❤❤

[@lisapowers719]

Well said

[@JoyceWilliams-zd8kh]

That's not Biblical. God said he will punish His People for Idolitry. That they would be carried away in chains. No one owes anyone anything.

[@DeyCallmeBadnuzBytch]

Ain't nobody Black it's not a Nationality

[@DeyCallmeBadnuzBytch]

​@@JoyceWilliams-zd8khgod is a title not a name , god Gad Gwad is a Babylonian Deity....

[@geraldmosley2195]

Dr Martin Luther King said!!! SIGN THAT CHECK!!!!

[@dabullzfan25]

We're coming for our check.

[@shaunphillips3236]

We're NOT going to get it

[@moorjewelschannel8704]

@@shaunphillips3236 You not go get it, speak for yourself because some of us have been receiving ours for years.

[@shaunphillips3236]

@@moorjewelschannel8704 While idk who u are or what u got, I was talking about black people on a macro level & they won't get it. That's not speaking for myself, that's speaking for the community at large but whatever it is that u have or have gotten, I'm happy for u ✊🏾

[@moorjewelschannel8704]

@@shaunphillips3236 True indeed I understand brother. But the only reason we are not going to get it on a COLLECTIVE level is because we are not unified as a People. If we were unified as a people and came to them COLLECTIVELY bearing one Free National Name then they would have no choice but to give us what belongs to us. I want all my people to receive what is due them because it's time and it's justice. Peace.

[@mensa517]

America wrote the check but never signed off on it

[@whatyousay9816]

Nothing new. THAT'S what they do.

[@haroldwilliams-rc7wy]

It time to pay up

[@loralarose9615]

Wake up a slave

[@jeanheard4615]

My grandmother was sold from South Carolina to Alabama and she always told us Lincoln wanted the north to win the war therefore he freed the slaves and when it was time to give out the 40 acres and a mule we were considered property not citizens she died at a 103 I miss her knowledge but I remember Lincoln said all citizen would receive 40 acres and a mule we were considered property therefore we got nothing

[@whatyousay9816]

@@erichansen7161 FELL for what?

[@MrHarryc727]

I am impressed with the honesty. The reporter is fantastic and feels honest. I am proud of her respect for my History.

[@williammartinez840]

Soledad was thought to be White for a long time until she revealed she is Black.

[@janicec1948]

She not white🤔

[@williammartinez840]

@@janicec1948 No but most people didn't know until she made it clear and being involved in the NAACP awards and things like that.

[@dawn5056]

​@janicec1948 she not a descendant of a Black Amerian slave. She is Biracial Black Cuban and Caucasian.

[@clementjohnson2666]

@@dawn5056 Are you speaking of Ms. O'Brian ?

[@irisnard6560]

Vengeance is mine says the Lord so we going to get ours was due to us and they would get what's due to them so get ready for the big payback Amen so in others words don't worry Black family we gonna be straight ❤

[@taraMimi717]

❤

[@djackson1812]

I truly believe this. One way or another, we will get it back...Amen!

[@henryhill1876]

Amen

[@darlinnicky3302]

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN

[@Alkelly-hh6rv]

It was 40 acres,a mule, and a $100 dollar bill. That was the deal.

[@erichansen7161]

You forgot to sign at the bottom.

[@toshimuhammad3910]

Sounds about white in Amerikkka.

[@TheBlackSongBird]

I don't have to listen to this to know what the outcome would be. No surprise that this country would not honor their promise. This country will continue to reap what it has sowed.

[@tw82rone5]

Why it's currently falling off or under the judgment of God. And we gonna get our just due as well

[@user-hv4rf4hu1e]

They owe us our names n nationalities back so we can fully embrace our heritage

[@artworkby3]

So good to see brother Amri still holding down the fort on truth and equality 👏🏾👏🏾💯💪🏿

[@williammartinez840]

We put in the work but never got paid for it while they paid the Indians, the Jews, The Japanese, the Germans, the slave holders, the European immigrants.... But they do not want to give the Black people a dime in recompense for the free labor provided by our predecessors upon which the greatest economy the world has known was built upon.

[@citizencoy4393]

Just like now as the nation was coming to a stand still and we were demanding reparations what did they do??? Flood in immigrants and give them what should have been our reparations! Everytime we come to collect they redirect.

[@williammartinez840]

@@citizencoy4393 immigrants got nothing to do with it, the whole country is immigrants except for Blacks and Indians. Indians because they were already here, Blacks because we did not ask to come here. They are not giving anyone what's ours, they just simply refuse to give us what is ours.

[@citizencoy4393]

@@williammartinez840 The heck they dont! They are tools of yt supremacy and this gov counts on that. They quite literally give the profits of our labor to others. Look at videos of ny in the 20's everyone and their mother had silks, and furs every one! You think they arrived in this country that way? No, they take our profits and pass it on to others. Also blk ppl are the indigenous but there were africans that were brought over to dilute the indigenous bloodline.

[@AnimalAlmighty]

@@williammartinez840💯🔥🔥

[@ninadaly7639]

They were however given free room and board.

[@kingsandqueenskingsandquee8616]

Judgment to America

[@nanag.8523]

Sure is and they won't know how to act.

[@shehears1163]

JUDGEMENT RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER

[@fickleblumper]

How about for you?

[@nanag.8523]

@@fickleblumper Revelation 18:1-11 [1]And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. [2]And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. [3]For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. [4]And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. [5]For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. [6]Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. [7]How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. [8]Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. [9]And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, [10]Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. [11]And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

[@nanag.8523]

@@fickleblumper This one applies to me. Ezekiel 18:30-32 [30]Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. [31]Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? [32]For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

[@harveyg104]

JUST PAY UP, SO WE CAN END THE NIGHTMARE OF NON PAYMENTS. 😮😮😮

[@irisnard6560]

I know that's right😜

[@bbpersonalpage1613]

They love coming after us when we owe them OUR own money to IRS . But when owe us money, they refuse to pay off their debts

[@shaunphillips3236]

They're NEVER going to give us the reparations we deserve #FACTS

[@shaunphillips3236]

@@dorothywashington who is the "they" that need to earn it & while I respect women ESPECIALLY black women NOBODY tells me what to do. If u wanna have a conversation, I'm here for it, but I'm not 1 of these youngsters that u can talk crazy to regardless of if we're on social media or not. That said, reparations will never be given to black people for a long ass list of reasons, that's why it hasn't & won't happen

[@shaunphillips3236]

@@dorothywashington sister that's all politicians. If WE had people in there for us, I mean TRULY for us then we'd be much further up the ladder than what we are. There's other ethnic groups that have moved up the ladder higher than we have in a shorter amount of time, why? They (caucasians) don't/won't allow us to have as much or allow us the opportunity to get as much as they have & they are the ones making the rules, laws, constitutions, rights & etc for us to live by but are always all to willing to make amendments as they see fit for themselves. They KNOW that money equals power. They aren't willing to willingly give power to us. The ONLY WAY that we're EVER going to get what's rightfully ours is by taking it & that my sister will require a lot of bloodshed on our part in America & we aren't united for that to happen #FACTS

[@Lmcrae73]

It's not enough money to give us for what they did to us and still continue to do to us.

[@ALCE52]

Your voice reaches millions of souls that have felt the ignorance of the pale faces UP TO PRESENT DAY. THOSE PEOPLE NEED HELP IN THE WORSE WAY.

[@deentheking1057]

But we still want the damn money 💰

[@Lmcrae73]

@@deentheking1057 Of course

[@freddy2141]

YOU WANT MONEY 💰? LEAVE WELFARE AND WORK EARN YOUR DOLLARS 💵

[@Lmcrae73]

@freddy2141 Freddy what are you talking about? Are you ok? Don't you know you cut your days short of living having a bunch of hate in your heart! Please find joy and peace in your life. It will be okay God bless

[@Grant918Tulsa]

The Freeman's bureau help build the historically black colleges, we need to bring it back.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

I'm glad they did something useful, and practical with taxpayers money.

[@johnsteward4794]

They'll rather give ppl from other countries better housing and pay then to give us anything but poor housing and prison.

[@rockoredd22]

Give my PEOPLE what they deserve🗣✊🏾💯

[@deloreswillis9224]

Amen 🙏🏿

[@EthelByrd-fj4pl]

Reparation would be nice!!!

[@coronarysteaka1213]

Restitution is better than reparations. They would have to give everything back our true identities. Our lands all dwell through the United States. Everything restitution is better than reparations. That means to restore everything that was taken from us when they came to the shores.

[@diodio9494]

​@@coronarysteaka1213my vote goes to restitution!

[@AngryBrother360]

Short and to the point!.✊🏾💯🎯

[@leonaking1865]

Legal minds we need you all. Why are liens not being placed on present day plantation property sales? Especially in the south, they have plantation property selling brokers.

[@dalewhite6789]

I Love your Program " MATTER OF FACT".I wish you were on for an hour. To short, and So Informative.

[@YAHSCHILD82]

The Truth of the matter is, we would all leave this country w our reparations and never look back!! Our ancestors built the world, and we can go do our own rebuilding, Correctly!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾💯💯💯💯💯🧬🧬🧬🧬

[@danielpreseley2921]

That’s what the world fear.

[@taraMimi717]

And will be better off without them then WE SEE who is really lazy and then pull yourself up by your Boot 🥾 straps #Elites

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

If your not happy here, why wait for your free handout, if you wanted to leave nothing will stop you.

[@danielpreseley2921]

@@stevenmcgillivray9283 we been trying to leave for 500 yrs loll. You’re forefathers know who Gods children are. That’s why Egypt was destroyed along with the Roman’s and Greeks. The world will know his name Yashua Elohim

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

Oh! I see, more Afrocentric drivel. That'll help matters.@@danielpreseley2921

[@mariacrouch7109]

I think this promise should be acted upon

[@deborahtyler395]

When you believe in God ~ Beautiful things happen in every area of your life... Many do not know this fact: It's listed in Current Black studies that: One out of 50 Blacks is a Millionaire... God delivers~Always...

[@advils12]

As far as reparations are concerned, this is the first video in which I completely agree... It's all about lineage. In the South, those blacks who were enslaved had full rights. South Carolina is my direct line of descent...

[@colitafairfax6566]

I agree with the reparations argument. I have to add that the painting in the museum is absolutely beautiful.

[@jacklynnmjackson2383]

4:40 Poor Lincoln he keeps getting depicted whiter and whiter.

[@paperbagbrown1326]

Buy land, people. We will only be taken seriously as citizens when we collectively own a significant portion of American land. Buy land and give it to your children. Teach your children to buy more land and never let it go.

[@Skonie012]

The land is NOT the governments to sell. How can you sell something that is not rightfully yours??? If you purchase the land you're only the caretaker of the land, that's why when you purchase land you will get a deed and not a title. A deed is not a instrument of ownership but falls within the grounds being the caretaker... A title is a receipt of ownership not a deed. If the land is yours why would you still pay taxes on it? Why do you need permission to construct upon it? We have to become thinkers, it's BIGGER then the land!

[@paperbagbrown1326]

@drizzy0122 then why is the most damaging thing the white man has done to the Black man the mass repossession of our land?

[@normahamilton527]

We should ask for our "40 Acres, a mule, tools, and seed...don't ask for money...ask for your 40 Acres...what we were promised in the first place...not money...they will never give us the money.

[@AfroPick82]

​@@MvFwdAlso folks such as myself most likely will be relocating out of this currently falling off or simply under the judgment of God unrepentant Nation. So land here is absolutely useless & counterproductive to the gameplay

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

I guess welfare, AFDC, and/or subsidised housing doesn't count?

[@dorisjones7511]

​@@stevenmcgillivray9283Those benefits are for all citizens, not just black people. Your slip is showing 😊

[@aureliusleslie173]

​@@stevenmcgillivray9283that's not reparations. Welfare is for everyone, don't believe me look it up, and you'll see white people receive welfare more than anyone in America.

[@Treetop-ji1yz]

​@@stevenmcgillivray9283 Stop the BS. WP benefitted from those programs as well. More so than BP.

[@andreaolinger816]

Wells Fargo owes Reparations.

[@amarusheeku8605]

1.) Abraham Lincoln wrote the check.... And guess what...?? 2). John F. Kennedy was going to sign the check... And then, guess what....??

[@saturncrush]

Pray that the ground swell continues

[@diannefouillard5569]

Fixes it American its over due fix it Now!

[@debbvideo]

They owe us interest and penalties too!

[@iamwhoiam7773]

First of all, we are not Africans. We are Indigenous Americans and this is our land.

[@loralarose9615]

I exactly there slow

[@henryhansack1737]

​​@@loralarose9615you better go learn history again. The blacks that were here before slavery came from Afrika. Most died from europeans diseases and straight up murdered. Most AFRICAN AMERICANS today are here as a result of slavery from the Afrikan continent itself. If you are africoid, then you are Afrikan. Next time say "you" and not "we", Cuz most of us know the truth. You think you know the truth.

[@positionadjust353]

Reparations Now!

[@kenrickdavis2980]

We are not African we are the original people of this land Columbus know it and so did the British they just kept changing our identity to still the land

[@ev8318]

stop it!

[@kenrickdavis2980]

@@ev8318 WELL WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE LOST OR BUMMY OR THE IGNORANT THAT DONE READ

[@mizzgeek]

Whether we are African or not our ancestors were enslaved, considered as 60 percent of a person, and went through hell from their birth to their death.

[@kenrickdavis2980]

@@mizzgeek BUT DO YOU KNOW WHY ?

[@MarshaBW1]

Read a while back some Euro explorer wrote in his dairy that “the natives of the new world looked like the Queen of Sheba people”. Africa & Latin America were once one land mass. Over eons the land separated forming the Atlantic. Traveling across this land mass was easy peasy. Africans: First explorers, travelers, settlers across Meso America…everywhere.

[@raytheking2504]

Lineage Based Reparations.

[@DJRenee]

One of my favorite journalists of all time. I wish CNN would get back to the talent and integrity of this type of news. You could leave CNN on 24/7 and have balanced information from around the world. Maybe they should bring back some of their tried and true with offers they can't refuse and have a new crop available being watered and sunned by greatness. Look at this presentation.

[@zawierk]

The report missed the fact that the Lincoln/Johnson administration was a dual party ticket. Lincoln was a Republican and his VP, Johnson, was a Democrat.

[@KAM-ew7jh]

The party differences seem irrelevant, their values were in opposition, that’s what made the punk a$$ Johnson rescind Lincoln’s declaration.

[@Rob774]

Because it's not relevant, since EVERYONE knows the partiers switched ideologies a few decades later.

[@stupidthoughts9635]

​@@Rob774this is false, only 2 people switched sides. The Dems who created the KKK are the ones who still run all the inner cities, and look how thats going for people....

[@buildacademy1790]

#40 acres, a mule and to be left alone.

[@deloreswillis9224]

Absolutely very interesting and informative

[@roywilliams1842]

Never give up!!!! Great video!!!! ⭐

[@harveyg104]

My family fought in the Civil War, and we didn't get shit out of it but some black and white photos.Oh yea, and memories of MLK getting shot.😮😮😮

[@chrisssmith3206]

THAT'S A LOT CONSIDERING , NOW YOU JUST GET COLOR PHOTOS AND A FOLDED AMERICAN FLAG, ALSO A BONUS CALL FROM THE PRESIDENT, IF YOUR LUCKY TO HAVE VOTED FOR HIM.

[@myurbangarden7695]

Not to mention WWII, KOREAN WAR and Vietnam veterans who never got their VA benefits because they served in segregated units.

[@2REAL4MOST]

Reparations Right Now for FBA-B1

[@iamshebeeloloindigenous]

Umm..we are the originals of this land. Black means non existent.

[@AReazy67]

Sooner rather than later this debt will be paid, i can feel it

[@MsKylea]

Didn't know Soledad had a channel. One of my all time favorite journalist along with Lisa Ling. Subscribed.

[@fly3xzistence]

She had the nerve to say “can we accomplish that”smh the nerve 😡

[@canonicalcritic]

I am a conservative and not for reparations whatsoever, BUT having just learned about '40 acres and a mule' being a real promise that was made, I believe it ought to be upheld and to any descendants of those combatants who fought under that promise the land ought be allocated by today's government.

[@divineoracle7459]

Whatever by any means without TAXES😮

[@donaldgrant5483]

A man who cant live up to his word isnot a strong man

[@Coolmike19]

There is not enough money for our pain, abuse, injustice our forefather endure during those slave years will pay for as restitution. We will Bankupt the the already cash scrap gov't

[@MarshaBW1]

Most likely bankruptcy part of the plan to not pay. Country already heading that way. No money…no reparation ~IMHO

[@PBLKW]

That's not stopping Biden from sending money to Ukraine

[@iamderekwilliamz4841]

The fact there's no HUD program for African Americans like there is for Native Americans, Alaskan natives and native Hawaiian is crazy... Section HUD -184

[@toshimuhammad3910]

Not crazy but intentional 😡

[@beatsbydizzy8932]

No Reparations no vote from me What have we been getting for our vote.

[@chrisssmith3206]

THIS WOULDN'T BE A VOTE AT ALL, IF AMERICA WANTS TO MAKE AND REPAIR AN INJUSTICE TO THEIR OWN PEOPLE THAT HELP BUILD THIS LAND, IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE WANTED ALL ACROSS THE LAND OF THE FREE. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

[@OK-gk1rp]

That's just a slogan!

[@Houdini934]

Wow, thank you for this information 🙏🏾

[@taddow53]

It's foolish to believe that our enemy will ever do righteousness with us...

[@emiproperty2041]

Give it back. Flat out

[@user-ox5np1qh3b]

There are still Generational Heirs and they shall remain even in the a.i.i.

[@gladysross1163]

I didn't learn this 65yrs ago in SCHOOL 😢.

[@soulstades9575]

I don’t think they will ever willingly give us reparations but we will get them one day

[@erichansen7161]

You people all talk no action.

[@soulstades9575]

@@erichansen7161 lol you all talk with a fake page coward

[@chinagozinwankwo]

It's hard to talk about this because the longer this is not addressed the less likely it can happen

[@peggyokelly2118]

TRUST GOD IF HE BELIEVES IT TRUTH HE WILL ANSWER PRAYER. HE HAS HE IS HE WILL. THE WORD TELLS, "WAIT ON THE THE LORD." IF YOU ARE CHRISTIANS YOU WITNESS HIS MIRACLES

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

It shouldn't be a topic for discussion.

[@babydiva86]

Slave owners got reparations with no questions asked. They just don't want us to get anything at all.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

Why you're not entittled to tax payer's money for your free handout.@dorothywashington

[@Logos_Black]

@@stevenmcgillivray9283 but jews get 3 billion every year?

[@Grant918Tulsa]

Reparation by DNA testing.

[@cherylparker9963]

Exactly...the real dna not that fake as stuff...

[@PBLKW]

BS.... you people are ridiculous who the hell you think control the DNA test. Stop concerning yourself about reparations for slavery what about all the other atrocities that happened to black people after slavery. Does any of that in your opinion deserve reparations? What about on the black so that was destroyed. Property and home stolen. Black family ran out of their home in Sundown town. Do you agree that that also deserves reparation. Please stop talking about reparations for the descendants of slaves. They were masterful in destroying lineages. They changed our names so many times. They also Enslaved the black indigenous people of this land. How could you possibly Trace back your lineage? This is another bulshit tactic to pacify black people. They changed our names they kidnapped us impregnated the women. Sold the children to other Plantations Be realistic this is just another tactic to separate us the majority of the descendants of slaves cannot prove they are descendants of slaves so that would mean that they are not deserving of reparation. You black people would take anyting to pacify yourself

[@CftCft-kh5rl]

That's it!!

[@tubbie1819]

REPARATIONS: land, houses, gold, and resources. All tax-free and passed to the next generation. Note: bill signed by one president, REPARATIONS for other non-black groups.

[@joiisler8986]

Also, LINCOLN “recompensed” former Slaveholders for “Loss of Property” as part of the settlement to end the Civil War. Thanks, ABE.🙄

[@nikkiivey4818]

Thus is the correct measure for reparations. How much is 40 acres today. Measure by the highest real estate market psi in the US. Thats how much we're owed.

[@philthai99]

Thanks for sharing.

[@mrp6906]

👏🏿THE MEETING...✊🏿

[@Lyvette2000]

They don’t have to give me money. Give me my 40 acres that would be nice. My whole family would have a piece to live on.

[@Glitz_Glider]

Yes, and exempt from paying property taxes.✅️

[@tonyplummber1336]

Amen

[@informativeclassics]

Many people might dislike this comment, but many people are African descent need mental health support, not money. The money will be blown on sinless things if they don’t have the right state of mind.

[@ThaEnergy12569]

Pay me what you owe me.

[@patriciajackson4303]

The mule is the transportation to the cemetery and the land is where they place you was when you died.

[@jordancraig6076]

I don't understand how reparations can ever be paid to anyone, or how it would help for generational wealth. Even most of the decedents from the wealthiest families in America from those times have no generational wealth.

[@NewYoutuber1111]

That’s what I’m thinking like at this point it will have to be dna testing and search everybody family tree no records no trace no pay they will find a way not to pay cause it will be some hidden qualifications

[@msrenee6135]

Did you watch the video at all? Just asking. Generational wealth is wealth passed from one generation to another as opposed to generational lack.

[@msrenee6135]

Your lack of understanding just feels like weaponize incompetence

[@jordancraig6076]

@@msrenee6135 How long do you think generational wealth last? Do you think that there would be wealth to pass down after 5 generations (150 years)? There are more poor white people in this country than any other race, where is their generational wealth that they so called received from their ancestors? Why is it that we have poor people from every race and not just black then? I'm trying to see the objective in your statement, still looking.

[@jordancraig6076]

@@msrenee6135 I'm sure you are filled with feelings, do you have any objective input?

[@clararichardson3558]

Land and education. Andrew Johnson representing America broke a promise.

[@loralarose9615]

It’s not there land to give away native land

[@KAM-ew7jh]

And he was allowed to do this. An American president was assassinated for his values and actions Lincoln was gone but in his honor, his wishes should have been carried forth.

[@citizencoy4393]

We are the indigenous you fool! Y’all thought u erased us by bringing africans over to mix! U did not! We r still here!

[@teresagreen8764]

​@loralarose9615 yeah it's still Black peoples land as Black people were native to this land as well..as Black people were the natives all over the world🌏🌎🌍

[@lindadunkerson7099]

America lies, never got mines an now I want every dime.

[@kb5368]

We don’t need corrupt code talking black men and women heading this movement

[@abdallahmuhammad-bey8810]

Crooks even today.

[@leelandglover7777]

America owes everyone.

[@taylordupree6065]

Interesting 🧐 when it comes to Afro Americans/FBA/ADOS there has to be dialogue about this topic but other countries and ethnic groups just got the check. No interviews, no what “is this going to accomplish or what about others” type questions?

[@ladyregine]

They wanted land to keep family intact and an education to better themselves and their future generations 😢

[@mikedavid748]

First of all for the most part they wasn't African

[@cherylparker9963]

That part....

[@michaelbendahwid8436]

How do you equate 150 yrs with over 400 yrs???🤔

[@myurbangarden7695]

Jim CROW laws

[@whatyousay9816]

OUR LAND!!! WHAT A DISGRACE!!!

[@charlenemorrison9576]

I agree with this video %100

[@curtismajors2315]

I feel good when the media start taking notice that reparations issues are here to stay. It doesn't make sense for the federal and state governments to keep putting this off. Black Americans deserve reparations for our ancestors mistreatment for centuries. What is stopping America from allocate the funds is pure hatred of black Americans?

[@Black-Hebrew-Idiots]

Let’s commence with the 40 acres and a mule again. I’ll be on hand to buy up the land and they can eat their mule.

[@brendalewis2431]

Well do unto others has you would have them do unto you. Them folks love to tell Blacks that but the hypocrites true and true . And they have live

[@EarthSunny1]

This was good. My only take away is that we should know that a lot of us were already here and not brought over on slave ships. Or even were slaves. A lot of us got our land and rights taken away during the process of Americas formation. The paper genocide of the US census counted us out. Literally. There’s no way that the nations and established leadership that was here already got killed off through what they call thanksgiving. That was one incident that paints the narrative that the people just went away. But the brown, tan and yellow people that were already here is still us. We are the so called blacks (savages) that they spoke of. And quite frankly still treating us as so. 🫶🏾

[@Focus_On_Longevity]

*The best game ever ran😂...*

[@2ndstreetmedia171]

No the best game is the quote, " that just the way it was back then".

[@reginaoldwells2064]

Yes, we're not giving up. Until we're payed in full. Or ancestors will never be forgotten of there pain suffering.

[@JaniceCarter-ws7lu]

🤔...Awesome video

[@darrellmoreland9580]

Dam equality, we'll never get that. Just give us the Land,Money for generational wealth,Free education. Then call it even.

[@gereinhart4155]

Once I realized it was not coming. I got my 15k acres and built a lake of my own. I still want my other 40 acres!

[@GeedyP]

Facts ❤🤝🏾

[@tenacious1]

Heyyyy Soledad!

[@charlesmoore4851]

850k is a good start, 40 acres, no property taxes, student loan debt forgiveness, and free tuition. That's what I call REPARATIONS.

[@OK-gk1rp]

I've been saying this for years. I'd pay property taxes tho. I like water and energy and paved roads. I'd substitute that for leaving us alone.

[@Feargamelioncheetahs]

I bare witness to hypocrisy

[@denisacullom3681]

The reason we don't have our 40 acres is because we haven't made a claim to anything we haven't said what belongs to us. That's what we have to do. I now say what i want and what belongs to me the land that belongs to me and my ancestors. I think each black American should be given there land back 3 million dollars a free college educations ,car vouchers. Up to 6 generation from slavery. We all have to get together and stake claim to our land and our rights as citizens of this land. I moved from the southern u.s.a to the western u.s.a and I have encountered way more racist here then I ever did in the south. I demand my family and I as owners and free people with human rights be given what belongs to us free and right. Thank you

[@FBA1Markboy]

Claude Anderson has already ADDED IT UP