Legacy of Slavery: Reparations

The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange Conference resulted from the passage of Senate Bills 2199 and 1737 in 2000 and was meant to address a number of issues related to the economic and political legacy of slavery, the roles of governments and businesses in this enterprise, and the question of reparations for the descendants of slaves. This panel discusses the issue of reparations. Series: "Legacy of Slavery" [1/1998] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 8106]

[@ceezybaby]

The Slave trade was/is the largest criminal enterprise in the history of mankind. Quote me.

[@ambrosephill9]

You must be excluding the Arab slave trade that went on for more than 1000 years and not only included Africans but Europeans and Asians as well. It also enslaved more people and impacted more nation. Or do you only count the acts of western Christian nations as crimes. I mean the prophet Muhammad was a slave trader.

[@claytonchar9232]

Forget about reparations for slavery. How about reparations for Black male and female children who grew up during the Great Society? They experienced a different type of childhood growing up. Instead of a father in the household, they grew up with a mother who was the head of household, brothers and sisters who were a product of different fathers(?) and a grandmother who raised them and received a monthly check from the federal government.

[@kevinboone2178]

WE WILL NOT FORGET!

[@smoking1212]

what was that sound around 20:15?

[@NisahPooh]

LMAO! Was that the speaker?

[@SmokeyKeitaTEACH]

It make me feel good to hear Howard Dodson talk the ideology to offset Reparations by those who have benefited from Slavery as he says is self evident the American Government has a first had record of the discourse that slavery posed to the Africans and the Descendants

[@rachelmenendez9486]

First & Foremost: the Constitution should be Amended pertaining to the Three-Fifths Clause!!! Weather it was done for the purpose of determining State Representation in Congress or not!!!! The simple fact that it IMPLIES that Africans Americans are 3/5 Human FOR WHATEVER REASON; This Clause is misconstrue to deny us our RIGHT TO REPARATIONS, AND MANY OTHER THINGS THAT OTHER RACES IN THIS COUNTRY ENJOY!!! THIS CLAUSE IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WILL CONTINUE TO BE A THORN IN THE SIDES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS UNTIL IT IS REPEALED!!! ESPECIALLY IN CONCERNS TO ITS UNSPOKEN USE TO DENY US OF OUR CIVIL RIGHTS, AS WELL AS MUCH DESERVED REPARATIONS!

[@ceezybaby]

1000% agree. It is just most Americans conveniently forget this.

[@ceezybaby]

Because you HAVE to be racist to not see that racism is still alive and the reprecussions are STILL felt. White people got money for the work they have not. PERIOD,

[@DidIHaveTo]

To beg for money and food aid is another form of slavery. What we need to do is build up our communities throughout Africa and throughout the diaspora (The America and the Caribbean). We need to educate, to unite and see ourselves as ONE people with a common purpose which is to ensure the progress of homeland.

[@Iamagoddess11]

In 2022 minimum wage is still an average of 8 dollars an hr Plus taxed and taxed to spend it Disillusioned

[@prschuster]

Forget about discussing the issue. Responses to any video about race always degenerate into racial slurs. Most people are incapable of thoughtfull discussion anyway.

[@morriswilburn]

Reparations cannot be given to a person who is deceased. Why don’t we discuss reparations for the Black people who were unjustly treated during the Jim Crow period? Some of them are still alive.

[@venusdodson6982]

The africans that experienced Jim Crow were the descendants of the Africans brought to America and both experiences directly relate to the thread of history binds them together, but to be stolen from your home and worked to death generationally is the crime for which we seek compensation for this you must start at the beginning the point is genocide.

[@raycalhoun2849]

The Jews call it standing in the shoes of the die.

[@jamesgraves4291]

Because the O resins who trafficked in African American slaves ARE NOT DEAD !!! US LAW recognizes corporations to be persons in our jurisprudence,. In addition, the state entities responsible for the legal framework, establishm0, and enforcement of slavery still exists Comprehensive restition for human rights abuses against black American slave descendants is perfectly reasonable and has strong precedent

[@rachelmenendez9486]

THEIR DESCENDANTS ARE STILL ALIVE TO THIS VERY DAY!!! RIGHT NOW IN EVERY URBAN AREA OF EVERY CITY IN THIS COUNTRY!!!

[@ShabazzAllah1]

@mmerc79 That doesn't have nothing to do with Black people if they died, that was between white people who wanted to control the economy that slavery was producing. The south had free labor and the north didn't, it was a strategic economic move on the part of the north. Lincoln emancipated the slaves in the south, not the north. Emancipate doesn't mean free. Who cares if your family only been hear 100 years, your government owes reparations to correct a wrong. The U.S. government gives Israel

[@ShabazzAllah1]

@Darkness6478 joined with the Confederate states to fight for slavery. Forth, the actor West Studie is native American and is worth a million, Tom Cole Congressman R-Oklahoma is worth millions and Wayne Newton of Los Vegas is a millionaire several times over so what's your point? Black Americans have been in this country since 1555 a little over 200 years before this was a country and you can find that date in the Library of Congress. Some Native Americans have casinos and our given reparations.

[@Iamagoddess11]

Native is not aboriginal 5 dollars Indians have casinos.

[@ttmazz1]

Lineage Based Reparations for Chattel Slavery from the U.S. Gov't Federal Reserve isn't coming from anyone's taxes & is a debt owed still not paid.

[@ShabazzAllah1]

@Darkness6478 What mythology our you talking about? I didn't say all Irish people were involved in slavery but they sure as hell didn't treat Black people like brothers and they took jobs as slave catchers, overseers, auctioneers, deck hands on slave ships, out right plantation owners and any other job they could get in that paid well and it was the slave business. You had many Irish that were in America at it's founding so don't tell me that they just got hear after the civil war BS.

[@STEVE8OS]

They weren't Irish. They were Ulster Scots.

[@ShabazzAllah1]

@mmerc79 That doesn't have nothing to do with us, that was between white people who wanted to control the economy that slavery was producing. The south had free labor and the north didn't, it was a strategic economic move on the part of the north. Lincoln emancipated the slaves in the south, not the north. Emancipate doesn't mean free.

[@ShabazzAllah1]

@Darkness6478 You raised a lot of points so I'm going to answer them for you. First, the young Black men that you speak of hanging out on corners with braids or dreadlocks our probably unemployed because their our no jobs for Black people let alone jobs for the average white person. What does braids or dreads have to do with anything, it is a cultural thing among the Black people of the world since ancient times? Baggy paints our also worn by white boys, Latinos and Asians so why you just want

[@ceezybaby]

many people got reparations.

[@mollymu1]

Hey doesn't help to talk down to people . But do think they are playing us

[@ceezybaby]

oh my bad you still waiting on that one.

[@halimacandy]

REPARATIONS DUE NOW!! JOIN N'COBRA... AND PAN AFRICAN ALLIANCES..GLOBAL!!!...FREE MUMIA!!

[@ceezybaby]

Many black people do not have the opprotunities that the "average" american has. Period. It's been that since slavery was "abolished". Slavery aint dead and the money is still due to stop the problem today. But its just one little thing. That is only the beginning. who made the flag of the nation?

[@Kalydosos]

@mobydick187 To build railways, and industries requires Capital the money to build America and the west did not come ouf of thin air. Thank you for bringing your fear here I find it very amusing thousands of videos to watch on youtube and your here. watching what you don't like I think your the one who needs help not us. The American constitution was used in the light of British Navel power. America at that time was too weak to challange Europe especially Britain.

[@ericbowiesvoice2372]

What is a "involuntary immigrant"? Just say "enslaved african". Geesh. Stop all the political correctness. Love this content though.

[@RawwestHide]

@postalmeter This person is a terrible person. .If there is a hell, she/he will go there when they die. Do not listen to what she/he says. He is approaching this topic with no humanity whatsoever.

[@ShabazzAllah1]

@Darkness6478 people in America, their cultures were never wiped out like ours, they were given land, it might have been worthless land but they were given something, we never received the 40 acres and a mule after slavery, didn't get nothing for our 400 years of torment in the furnace of affliction and you want to talk about other peoples suffering when you know Black people haven't gotten justice yet. Some Native American tribes owned slaves and didn't want to give them up in 1865 so they

[@ORTEZW]

Jew got paid an thay died. ??..

[@mr.h5436]

I get that you want the offense of slavery talked about. But I'm sure you understand that reparations are unworkable. Would you demand a color test(some descendants are white)? A DNA test? Proof that no reparations had ever been paid? A genealogy report like Indian tribes? A fractional payout system for % of American slave?(not to be confused with Caribbean,central and South American) Since the civil war where hundreds of thousands of northerners died to end slavery- millions of blacks have moved here from overseas. Would you put a fiscal standard in place? Millionaires would get less? Most people would just like to help ALL disadvantaged.

[@Iamagoddess11]

Most so called Indians 5 dollars Indians are not aboriginal of ot so called African slaves

[@ShabazzAllah1]

@Darkness6478 I hope your not calling me names because this can get real ugly real fast. I know what business attire means, I'm just stating that if these young men want to wear their hair in nice neat braids whats the problem if they do? The majority of Black males wear their hair bold or in a fade cut style. White people still wear their hair long in a pony tale on the job in a suit and they get away with it but it's a problem if Black men do it, what a double standard.

[@crystalbirch2888]

I'm white,and feel y'all deserve reparations...as do many white folk.. Our government is not working for the people.. 1hood!

[@rockyadkins3064]

Please stop all this singing