Why I Don't Want and Don't Deserve Reparations | 5 Minute Video

[@zang9147]

My Dad's ancestors persecuted my Mom's ancestors. So, I just did an online transfer from checking to savings.

[@TheEMC99]

😂😂😂

[@fatkaiju6209]

😅😂🤣

[@jonnymmac]

Don't forget to TAX that amount too. LOL

[@christinarivera3479]

Zan G lol

[@supersecretsquirrel0]

very clever 😆

[@Reefy8306]

Judging people based on their ancestors is racist.

[@reallife7375]

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[@ScottWilliamson]

Judge not.

[@reallife7375]

@@dmg1849 thats so racist lolz

[@fh1980ram]

Good point

[@ScottWilliamson]

@@dmg1849 = racist

[@omegalashin]

"Villains who twirl their moustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged." -Capt. Picard, Star Trek TNG

[@captbloodeye5596]

As a Klingon, I concur.

[@glasses6524]

As a human, I agree.

[@rickyrichards4353]

You are so correct and other times they mask themselves in ugly yellow toupees and orange skin and Tiny Hands

[@mdmjeremiah]

Thank you for quoting this. It is one of my favorite quotes from one of the best episodes of Star Trek and it fits here perfectly.

[@knightofrue7200]

Ricky Richards Whomp Whomp

[@YouKnowMeDuh]

Wow. I've never heard of such a story of a slave. Usually when we are told stories of the history of any particular slave, it's all bad. Sometimes they die on the plantation, sometimes they leave and go north. Sometimes go south to a small community of other runaways. But your gramps _really_ lived the American dream to the fullest, before it was even called that. Amazing. Reparations is just pity money, not to mention pandering and keeping us even more enslaved to being lazy and depending on other people's money to survive.

[@qtaro-7097]

Serite Ross i dont get why other black people want it most likely because of free cash but damn to accept it you gotta be the most pathetic human on earth who doesnt have pride and full of self pity.

[@marayoung]

Many slaves lived the American dream. Many were very successful in live. There are many great stories out there. At the time they were grateful to the Republican Party, it was this party that ended slavery and they were thankful for that.

[@CCCPCommunist]

@@marayoung A lot actually bought their freedom over time.

[@Gitn2it]

The greatest gift you can give anyone is treating them as an equal. We grew up thinking we were the same as everyone else. You would never tell one of your children who is physically unattractive that they will never be socially happy, loved or accepted because of their looks, and then constantly remind them about it throughout their lives. A good parent knows that positive messages result in positive outcomes.

[@Jolly123123123]

The war was fought over the west because the states were divided on whether slavery should be brought to the west (That would be the west coast, texas etc.). Obviously and thankfully the war went in favor of abolition so whoever lived in the west and texas was able to able to be american regardless of their race.

[@theleftymonster]

Your great grandpa would have been proud of you.

[@georgewright66]

Lmao shut up

[@rye_too_quick]

George Wright is wrong

[@GermanRojas-wf3hr]

George Wright why he should shut up?

[@cnote8546]

I was never a slave, I have never been a slave, if anything I am stealing from the actual slaves that actually struggled.

[@WitchyWagonReal]

Like I said above... men like this, who have character and integrity, who are reasonable, and who make sense... they do exist in America. And I am so grateful. These are our brothers... our American brothers. 🤝

[@holoholohaolenokaoi2299]

nice!

[@1Redsaphir1]

Everyones ancestors were slaves at some time. I am from Europe, Czechia, but my ancestors were slaves to some king or something too.

[@GuitarZombie]

In some sense, we are ALL slaves to the businesses and government around us

[@dalexxa]

no one cares bout current slaves which is human trafficking and sex exploitation, they indoctrinate those that live in bubbles and don't know the horrors happening around them smh people need to wake up

[@dagdamor1]

I’m Chinese and if we went for historical reparations based on our screwed up past, we’d be demanding handouts from every single dynasty that overthrew the previous dynasty. Plus the Mongols.

[@stuarthirsch]

And America

[@UncleRedd87]

and Imperial Japanese

[@richardharepax123]

Or for the ones that died building the railroad

[@garywdon1]

Mongol-tage! (KZbin Crash Course World History!)

[@andrea9330]

Well said👍

[@locomotivefaox]

Some politician: Your ancestors enslaved people My ancestors: *dying of lack of potato*

[@funny.gon-12]

my ansetors from both sides two century's ago were in europe and some in Mexico.

[@Keidon1337]

Never forget the potato famine.

[@remc0s]

That's the point. Only a small minority of elites owned slaves. Saying all white peoples' ancestors were slave owners is just racist towards white people.

[@purpleheadedhedgehog3821]

faox ah someone of Irish decent I see , hows things lad , also that is very accurate not gonna lie

[@locomotivefaox]

purple headed hedgehog I’m not just of Irish decent, I’m half Irish.

[@holoholohaolenokaoi2299]

Burgess was then, is now, and will forever be a class act. God bless America! Trump 2020

[@michaellanier2307]

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

[@willhiggins9563]

amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/372696/

[@ejc6394]

He also said that we are coming to get our check

[@ejc6394]

@HardikG121 he was a Republican

[@jude4291]

MLK was a communist you ill-faithed conservative.

[@jude4291]

@HardikG121 His views would be certainly in opposition of Bernie Sanders. Bernie is a Capitalist who wants expansion on social programs. MLK was a Communist who wanted the abolition of private property.

[@josephgehring919]

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King Jr.

[@janickchristiansen7108]

One of the greatest things that has ever been said during a speech

[@janickchristiansen7108]

@anonymous oh yeah yeah commander the sad, harsh and cruel reality of the usa, summed up in a comment so sad, i'm not shure if i have seen a sadder comment this year, even tho the year is almost over.

[@noonespecial9704]

He is rolling in his grave right now.

[@thomaskelly336]

Is that the MLK as recently discovered laughed while one of his parishioners was being raped in front of him soon to be declassified f.b.i. tapes...or his out and out u American communism wake the f..k up fool

[@HeilSol]

@@thomaskelly336 ever heard of cancel culture? don't believe *anything* you're told unless you, yourself, verify it from three separate sources. Srsly

[@dyates6380]

This is a great, real man, talking about his great, real man ancestor. Wonderful.

[@dyates6380]

@Chelsea Love I didn't know that was the rule. LOL. English next time, and I am black. LOL.

[@Meltsteelbeams]

Yep and I'm a character from dark souls 3! Dont believe that everyones profile pic is there actual face.

[@louisecook6483]

This man has had a great role model in his great great grandfather Silas. He has a well rounded view of history and the victimhood kids today bleat about as if they were living through it. I wish there were more like him to speak sensibly to these kids instead of the uni professors they have now who push a leftist distorted view of the world today and have been systematically brainwashing our children from early ages and who in effect are setting them up to feel like they are not good enough . Very sad

[@FoxIord]

@@Meltsteelbeams I'm Cloud Strife!

[@FoxIord]

I think you mean, a great, real, MANcestor.

[@nja3224]

Burgess is a great American patriot. He’s the very definition of a man.

[@JoeBiden007]

NJA 3 By Man You Mean A Male Who Shares Your Worldview.

[@mcitheaterclass537]

@@JoeBiden007 By "man" he means "mature, responsible, respectable male." Watch the video again to see what that looks like.

[@nipnop4954]

so you agree gender is a thing awesome

[@nipnop4954]

gordon trimble well if you agree that gender exists then multiple genders is a logical extension of that

[@nickjean3350]

@gordon trimble There are more then 2 genders in fact but for other genders you have to look outside of mammals normally. Humans normally only come in two unless their is a issue with their chromosomes in which case they are still male or female but will have traits that other one has. This means down to their dna they are still male or female but much like cancer their cells duplicated wrong to create these features. I however agree with you about your overall message about the way you act or feel does not change your gender. Honestly if I don't understand the gender debate since its a group of people crying about you not calling them what they desire to be called all the while throwing every damn slur/name they can think of if anyone that disagrees with them.

[@InternetDisciple]

"Good character cannot be bought by bribery." Well said. I hope that leftists are listening.

[@willhiggins9563]

InternetDisciple It’s not a bribe.

[@InternetDisciple]

@@willhiggins9563 So you say.

[@thumpybones]

They’re not. They don’t. If they did, they’d cease to be leftists.

[@PhilBagels]

@@willhiggins9563 Of course it's a bribe. It's yet another attempt by Democrats to control black people. They haven't gotten over the fact that Trump won over Hillary. They didn't get over the fact that Bush won over Gore. And they've never gotten over the fact that they lost the Civil War and can't legally own slaves anymore. So they founded the KKK to try to control black people through fear and terrorism. When they couldn't do that anymore, they tried to control black people through the Jim Crow laws. Then they tried controlling them through the isolation of segregation. Welfare was (and is) their attempt to control people through dependency. Reparations is their attempt to control black people with bribery.

[@InternetDisciple]

@@thumpybones Leftists are not know for being honorable.

[@andrzejfilip4913]

Im Polish, our people were enslaved by Mongols and Tatars later on. Where can I get my paycheck?

[@АлексКоликов]

I'm Russian. You're in the queue just behind us

[@andrzejfilip4913]

@@АлексКоликов damn, yes you guys were first. We can also both try to bill the Scandinavians ;).

[@DeathBone4656]

Yeah Im Irish and Polish,My check shoulld be able to make me retire rn. Danish,English,Scottish,Mongols,Romans,Russians,Germans,Austrians,English again,Swedish, Norwegians and soooo many more.

[@samuell.6000]

@@andrzejfilip4913 ohh please, Our taxes are already so high༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽

[@JezebelBoy88]

@@andrzejfilip4913 Seems like the EU does it already. :)

[@sandro101101]

If we are to follow the logic that people need to pay for the sins of their fathers. Then I guess we need to jail the children of all criminals too. How far do they want to take this?

[@nemui9654]

They do that in North Korea. Their grandchildren too.

[@Eaglejake]

Or, ...."How far do you want to go back in time?". Every culture, every country has been conquered, reconquered, with atrocities, with death, with pain. The key is acknowledging the past, but not reliving it. It was acknowledged finally, in 1965 with the end of the Jim Crow laws......almost 2 generations ago. "The Great Society" was an attempt to rectify the wrong, and has been an unmitigated failure for the black community. This is all feelings and emotions. No one claims "white" on any resume or application......there is no incentive to being white. Stop the madness.

[@jimeagle5483]

Only as far as it benefits them. Same thing as the Natives having their land "taken". All people have had their land taken by others or were slaves at one point in history. Including Native tribes conquering other native tribes. I don't see an uprising against Spain to "give back" South America to the natives, or any other piece of land sieged by others. That is how you know that they are disingenuous.

[@Eaglejake]

oceej0 Thank you for bringing your hobby, I mean religion, in to the discussion. I’ll ask my caddy to get back to you.

[@Eaglejake]

@Willie Wisenheimer I do try.

[@mcitheaterclass537]

"Reparations" is the proposition that people who have never owned slaves should make payment to people who have never been slaves.

[@MusicLover-wb7vq]

So, what about those who are inhereting from slavery, you know those whose family to date are. And what about the fact of the matter.

[@zerotodona1495]

Music Lover okay, so are you going to pay every Chinese and Irish money for the streets you walk or building you live in? For your good by rails.

[@hemicoup8565]

@@zerotodona1495 Ouch. Truth bombs. well done sir. that should trigger him 4 his failures

[@MusicLover-wb7vq]

Hey i dont av all the answers im just wondering abt those who are rich because of slavery and passed on those wealth to this generation. Maybe im not as educated as are you, so edify me.

[@hemicoup8565]

@@MusicLover-wb7vq Hmmm. Let me turn the IQ knob way down to that of a Progressive. U Constantly complain about reparations for Slavery. Do I believe that the Tiny number of families who DIRECTLY profited from it should pay, ya maybe. Nothing really wrong about that. Just curious since u seem to proudly prop yourself up on an UNEARNED pedestal!!! Since my family werw literal slaves brought from County Kildare in Ireland in 1794, then had 3 of their Grandsons fight and Die fighting against the south during the civil war, and the fact im pretty well off since i literally came from nothing, Actually homeless living in my 1987 Mustang LX in the 90s while paying my own way through College and working night while recieving a RED SEAL Degree in Heavy Duty Diesel (by the way, that's an actual thing that provides a REAL SERVICE) What Reparations do you think I SHOULD RECEIVE due to slavery????? Could you please "Educate" me oh Master of Embarrassing Liberal Arts Degree????

[@Avarioth]

I'm Scandinavian. If we had to pay everyone whose ancestors and cities suffered as a result of vikings and teutons, we'd probably be instantly bankrupt, lol.

[@sunmanpatoo]

But when the Scandinavian and Vikings took from others, didn't they become bankrupt? Why doesn't anybody wanna pay up like there's no blood on their hands? How soon we forget.

[@lucgotink7045]

@@sunmanpatoo how did you think the second world war start? It's because Germany had been looted after the first world war, bound by unending debt. You might argue that the Germans deserved it, but at the end of the day millions of people died. To make up for the past we should build a prosperous future for all, not take everything from people who weren't even there.

[@Avarioth]

@@sunmanpatoo - Because there IS no blood on "our" hands... I've spent my life here in Denmark, helping where I've been able to and not doing anything to anyone. How do people determine whether or not something is fair? If someone who does something good experience bad consequences as a result or someone who does something bad experiences good consequences as a result, most would say something unfair has happened. When I was about 12, I saw these fliers at the local supermarket. A competition. I brought one home, answered the questions best I could and sent it back. I ended up winning the competition and got a barrel full of bags of chips. I was going to give my brother and step brother a few bags to be nice, despite absolutely despising them, but the second it arrived, my mother ordered me to split it with my brother and step brother... As in, 1/3 each... despite me having made an effort to win these chips and them just having been playing Command & Conquer on PS1 and watching Independence Day on repeat while chugging down bottles of soda all weekend. But I suppose if we discovered that someone with freckles like me had wronged someone within their height-ratio, you would say it was perfectly fair for me, as an evil freckled person to make up for the wrong-doings of those who have shared my genetics...

[@Avarioth]

@@sunmanpatoo - Also, when you determine whether or not someone is guilty by looking at their skin, don't be surprised when people get pissed off. How soon we forget...

[@b-side3682]

_Meanwhile, Italians...._

[@Ballajd1]

Reparations are the soft bigotry of low expectations

[@afonsodeportugal]

Amen.

[@rr965]

Bloody well said. 👌

[@juliantheapostate8295]

I would argue that is the prime bigotry. It's a very dangerous idea

[@nikkisalazar6726]

You said it friend. It serves to hinder the potential of a person by indoctrinating him as a permanent victim.

[@maverick87ful]

My great great grandpa died in the civil war, I don’t deserve to pay reparations, he already did with his life.

[@Shannon_Stamm]

Randy Arnold That’s what I say! People forget about the Civil War.

[@MyBonee]

@@Shannon_Stamm the Civil War was about Greed. they could care less about the so-called slaves, and blacks also died in that war

[@billmeriwether605]

Yeah, I lost relatives on both sides - I don’t think people should pay me for relatives I lost fighting for slaves they never owned - they didn’t “pay” a substitute to fight in their place although they could have (most were wealthy) - Rockefeller was a hero to me until I realized he was paying “subs” while considering himself a staunch patriot

[@MyBonee]

@@billmeriwether605 the Civil War was a wolf economical status for the Caucasian. Abraham Lincoln said If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would" and even if your relatives wanted the best for black people, your devilish ass sure doesn't

[@billmeriwether605]

773bone yeah, well thanks for the self- congratulating virtue signaling - - Its Bad to be a Racist but it’s GOOD to be the one that determines who is racist and why! Thanks for your input judge

[@MAPologeticsIPeter315]

"judge a man, not by the color of his skin, but the content of his character (sic)" MLK Jr.

[@rifter6176]

Yes, and leftists emphatically do not believe that statement. They believe, teach, and enforce the exact opposite.

[@efraim3364]

thats seen as racist nowadays

[@amolkhobaragade]

@@rifter6176 That's your assumption.

[@isaac14ac]

Idk why the left doesn’t take notes from that amazing man. He would be so disgusting disappointed on what America has become. It’s like his dream was throw out the window. It’s like The left just res everything he worked hard for.

[@anexplode7268]

@@amolkhobaragade Thats not an assumption its what the left shows us.

[@robertfield4103]

Camalla Harris says we need a 'conversation' about reparations. I think we just had that conversation. Thanks.

[@rumrunner8019]

That buffoon is part Indian, part Jamaican. She's even less African-American than Elizabeth Warren is Native.

[@superbird6176]

Thank you for spelling her name wrong.

[@anexplode7268]

@ Race baiting white hater.

[@gavindy_Sv2]

The ironic part is that her ancestors actually owned slaves while mine didn't and yet she demands reparations from me?

[@TheRisky9]

@tart70 Where in the Bible? What I see in the Bible is the restitution of the who did wrong, giving restitution to the one wronged. Not wait 5 generations and then decide you need restitution. That's a completely backwards cause of thought. But let's step away from the Bible and look at practical wisdom. If I looked at issues facing black Americans today, which ones will restitution actually solve? Will it solve race relations? Right now, just the thought of them sparks a lot of anger. One big problem is the lack of fathers in the household. Will that bring fathers back in the home? No. What about failed government policies? Nope! Even if we gave every penny owned by whites to blacks, it won't solve any of your problems. So why is this even a conversation?

[@Bobsheaux]

The only thing I owe you, sir, is my respect.

[@48petey]

He's an idiot

[@janickchristiansen7108]

@@48petey please explain why you called him an idiot.

[@BarbaraJoanneBJ]

And he definitely has my respect!

[@SandyTheDesertFox]

Don't tell me you're a pragerU fan Bobsheaux 😟

[@gretelandcat6393]

Bobsheaux oh my god, Bobsheaux! Huge fan!🌸

[@rutheqc]

"Good character cannot be bought by bribery." I'm going to make a poster

[@mrjoseph4745]

Did you end up making that poster?

[@siriusnoir2995]

God Bless you man. You're a shining beacon of inspiration.

[@JT-hv1mn]

God Bless you, Burgess. Your Grandpa was an exceptional man, as are you!

[@terryeallen-stoda2152]

SECONDED!!!💪🇺🇸👍🇺🇸

[@Ethan7s]

It’s so unfortunate that this man will be called hurtful names by many his own people for this well articulated and reasoned speech.

[@julychris2275]

ironically no. only a minority of lazy black teenagers will call him that, the other mostly white lefties

[@inkmage4084]

Black Americans like him, are increasingly separating themselves, from black ignorants.

[@NotAnotherKuromi]

@@julychris2275 Unfornutly it will be both.

[@pep590]

No surprise as 10's of 1000's of blacks love and demand to be victims and Hate White Americans.

[@uno9331]

@@julychris2275 no you think that but what ACTUALLY happens is they watch this then a week later contradict themselves because they call another man like him names basically they dont comprehend what they just agreed to its extremely hard to change the ghetto youth in cities trust me I went to the worst school in my area of Philadelphia I tried to speak my mind as much as I could

[@lukeo2982]

Conservatives NEED to elevate black conservatives like Burgess. The more blacks hear what he has to say the better.

[@DeathBone4656]

Uhhh,Elevating black conservatives puts us in the same boat as the lefties,WE ARE ALL EQUAL

[@caramelspice7244]

@@DeathBone4656 I don't think that's what they mean...but even if they did, the media would mock and suppress them.🤷🏽‍♀️

[@ertyderty7]

@@DeathBone4656 Thank you, was about to say something very similar.

[@リンゴ酢-b8g]

this approach had been tried countless times. and coaxing blacks into positions of power and prominence just to prove you aren't racist won't work. they have to earn it themselves. and if they wish to voice their worldview, they should be able to do that on their own as well

[@OppoRancisis]

@@caramelspice7244 Conservatives are doomed from the start really. If you have a white person talk about this, the left will say they’re racist and will never understand. If you have a POC talk about this, the left will say we’re using them for propaganda and they’re brainwashed to be racist. Basically, they just don’t want to hear what we say and they also don’t want others to hear what we say even if they want to. I’ve seen the right do this sometimes too but I find the left to be the bigger culprit.

[@rickasante]

I'm African. Never been or lived in America. I endorse this message!

[@MrJm323]

Well, keep your head down, before a black American decides that it was YOUR ancestor who captured HIS ancestor and sold him to the whites on the west African coast!

[@princereek9893]

@@MrJm323 that's fact, right along with those Arabs

[@Gapeaches77able]

Shut up.

[@rickasante]

@@MrJm323 Right! And yet they'd never want to trade places, if I want to right the 'wrong' of MY ancestors to HIS ancestors.

[@NoName-oq9bx]

Africa was colonized and has the natural resources stolen from European settlers....if there’s no reperations...we need revenge in some way shape or form

[@kaidan4122]

Can i ask compensation from the turkish? My Greek ancestors had 400+ years of slavery...

[@anquanpham4287]

@arronnov r/whoooosh

[@raedwulf61]

@arronnov (e_e)

[@Aidames]

@arronnov Since reparations would have to be paid by white people who haven't even had ancestors in America when slavery happened, its fair to say that America should pay for other's experiences with slavery. Its only fair. Would you agree?

[@James_Bee]

@arronnov This is America? Looks like the internet to me.... weird!

[@BloodgodArmor8]

arronnov Oh you just missed the point COMPLETELY!!!

[@hinkosever-koren9911]

My ancestors from the age old Habsburg Monarchy had never even seen a black person in their lives before they came to the US and now their offspring has to pay the "guilt" in cash for something that my family never even commited

[@cojones8518]

Of course you do, you benefited from the labor of black people, someway, and should feel guilty, somehow, and pay the money you owe, for some reason. - SJW logic Gets even more illogical when you factor in black people that immigrated after the Civil War from the Caribbean, Africa, and other countries of their own free will.

[@katerinatheantired]

I also love how the leftists talk about "white people" like the US is the only country on Earth. I'm white, born in USSR, half of my ancestors were stripped of their posessions by socialists, the other was sent to concentration camps. What a privilege! Don't even want to start on white people being murdered in South Africa right now

[@zerotodona1495]

Катя Катерина don’t worry, they ignore the damage done to the Irish in America which was even worse than slaves.

[@katerinatheantired]

@@zerotodona1495 true! modern leftists realize very good that they can't turn Irish into handouts slaves

[@rmccaw7]

I have to take my hat off to whoever writes these things. It's so concise, and clear, and without any fluff or bluster. Mathematical almost. Well done

[@lallagammon5027]

"Deceit's favorite role is playing the victim." Paul Galindo

[@robinluich5576]

Satan always plays a poor me victim.

[@lallagammon5027]

@@robinluich5576 One of the best songs written about that, "Sympathy For The Devil" - So if you meet me Have some courtesy Have some sympathy, and some taste Use all your well-learned politesse Or I'll lay your soul to waste, Pleased to meet you Hope you guessed my name,

[@jonathancole3149]

@Fracking Saves Typical lying lowlife racist scumbag leftist idiot twisting what others say.

[@janickchristiansen7108]

@@jonathancole3149 can we please be civil here?

[@janickchristiansen7108]

@Fracking Saves what did you mean by "volenteers for slavery"?

[@rasdan172]

An eye for someone else's eye, for someone else's eye.

[@DODDZPBC561]

Rasdan 17 an eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

[@Sylvertaco]

You realize the few people pushing for reparations describe it as a form of aid instead of 'punishment' for others right? Unless you think that all social programs are 'punishment' for others...

[@rasdan172]

Just to be clear, I don't agree with reparations at all. As far as social programs go, we can try and help poorer communities. But it doesn't mean I have to pay out of guilt.

[@rasdan172]

@@DODDZPBC561 absolutely.

[@Sylvertaco]

@@rasdan172 - As long as you are paying your taxes, you can have whatever reason you want for making the payment...

[@wrathnyx6378]

Burgess Owens is inspirational. Love this guy.

[@holoholohaolenokaoi2299]

this needs to be shown in schools

[@bosse641]

True American. Honorable.

[@pingas6941]

I have both German and Czech ancestry, and as such I demand reparations from MYSELF because Germany invaded Czechoslovakia right before WW2! Wait....

[@markh9875]

Actually, Germany invaded that country _before_ World War Two.

[@pingas6941]

Mark H meant to say that, my bad.

[@Thvndar]

Germany was forced to par reparations to holocaust survivors and the families of holocaust victims. Germany was also forced to pay to help the formation of Israel.

[@jamesdorpinghaus3294]

I'm of German ancestry, perhaps Germans should receive repairations as well because of how Germans were treated during the American Civil War when they refused to fight for the Democrat controlled south. Or perhaps for how German heritage in the United States was systematically stripped away and German-Americans were sent to internment camps during the First and Second World wars. How about the Asian people who looked Japanese and their treatment as well? Hell, if we're going to give people repairations, perhaps the left wing should go and apologize for the trail of tears as well as every other atrocious law passed to benefit only their elites. Every single policy in United States history that has hurt the minority population has sat on the desk of Democrat presidents. And the only Reason that LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act was because he knew that if he didn't, the Republicans would and the Democrat party would never win an election again.

[@Msyt92]

Germany didn’t invade Czechoslovakia Czechs was given to them in a conference no blood and Slovakia was puppeted

[@jamesmeuwissen7823]

My only question here is why is PragerU uploading at 4 AM? Is the KZbin algorithm asleep then?

[@marcietee3841]

Depends what time zone you're in it's 2 am here.

[@LolLol-bu7jp]

11am here

[@cream1955]

4pm here

[@mgabrysSF]

@Sheldon Cooper (or for people who do side-work in the wee hours)

[@famoterlhh4993]

It is evening

[@shanewhitefeather6298]

To hell with political parties that want to define us, limit us, and tell us what we CAN'T do on our own!

[@straithill5965]

I echo others. This man is a great American. I'm proud of him, his heritage, and the legacy that he will leave to others- especially his family!!!!

[@djgroopz4952]

True dat

[@jonathancole3149]

@Fracking Saves Shut up lowlife racist scumbag idiot.

[@letuspopular8419]

@Fracking Saves you must be a democrat supporter, hmm i wonder, who is the true racist now?

[@kurtsinger3061]

How is this not sarcastic?

[@canadaqbank]

This is the best PragerU video . . . and I have watched almost all of them. Wonderful explanation of why we should never expect anyone to just give us things for free.

[@JaIch9999]

Why is PragerU (mis)using the misleading title "university"? PragerU is not a university or academic institution.

[@russellgay9442]

@@JaIch9999 Free speech. Dennis Prager had been teaching and inspiring people through his radio show since 1999. Why is it you have nothing to say about the content of this video?

[@Scoring57]

CanadaQBank Like free labor to create your country. It's not free or for nothing you dichead it's for compensation for injustice. Not that hard a concept to grasp

[@arklave]

@@Scoring57 You, nor I, or anyone else living had anything to do with slavery. Period. Therefore you, nor I, or anyone else should profit from it. Not a hard concept to grasp. Your victim mentality will win you no awards and although your ancestors had to endure being shackled, you will never be free until you unshackle your mind.

[@Scoring57]

@@arklave F&ck off with that b.s whyte logic. You only group people into generations when discussing racism and american history. Why are you an american citizen? Why do your children get to inherit your wealth or be provided for / taught by you? Suddenly all whyte people are uber individuals when discussing racism. That's not how the world works, things don't exist in a vacuum and clearly whyte racism has affected black america through generations. And clearly efforts by whyte people like you to come up and argue against reparations is an example of you not being individuals. So not only was harm done, it _does_ have something to do with me and you, with this country benefitting your family and race and harming mine. It's also basic logic that if you don't pay people for their work it only makes sense to pay their descendants or anyone else associated with them. Unless you're going to stop using everything that has been made possible by past actions? I'm sure you'd love for me to "unshackle" my mind if it means whyte people not paying reparations. Your appeals to some sense of higher existence or moral virtue when talking to black people are so transparent and bullsh!t. You go on about "victim mentality" all day while claiming to be victims yourselves cause people point out your hateful behavior which has been a habit for centuries now

[@leftright6301]

When it's other people's money, idiots have no problem wasting it.

[@lostboy583]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5ObpHWElJ2XatU

[@leftright6301]

@Chelsea Love No, but you just did.

[@Eaglejake]

"idiots" = Career Politicians.

[@Russyda1]

When it's other prople doing all the work for your country u got alot to say innit lol

[@Thvndar]

yeah, because no black person has ever paid taxes in the history of the USA

[@enzosperandio9481]

God bless this channel

[@malibu64]

Enzo Sperandio God Bless America

[@ivanthegreat2.070]

@@malibu64 god bless all of Mankind.

[@clarkpavarin2790]

Amen

[@GermanRojas-wf3hr]

Mike Jones actually many people who follow this Chanel aren’t necessarily religious.

[@GermanRojas-wf3hr]

Mike Jones plus what misinformation?

[@westfieldartworks8188]

That was one of the best PragerU videos I've ever seen. I wonder if the local college would show it....probably not. But thank you.

[@dgmisal1979]

Not sure about your local college, but I use Prager U vids in many of the courses I teach at my university. I use them for content purposes, but also to teach rhetorical and logical techniques and fallacies (they aren't always flawless, and I point out both where they do well and were they don't). I'll be using this one this coming week, most likely.

[@DaDARKPass]

@@dgmisal1979 So you teach propoganda?

[@robertilles100]

@@DaDARKPass Propaganda? It is teaching kids to use they own brain instead of let themselves indoctrinated. That what a teacher should do.

[@DaDARKPass]

@@robertilles100 Except Prageru does the opposite. They try to get people indoctrinated into this and then pretends that they're trying to help.

[@robertilles100]

@@DaDARKPass Have you actually watched this video we are all talking about here? Please explane what is indoctrination in it?

[@HardPhoenixRock]

I've developed a saying for this: Learn from the past, success and failure alike, but never dwell on it.

[@jasoncheck4856]

Very wise saying. Think about anyone who has had any kind of trauma in their lives. If they dwell on that all of their lives it would be very hard for them to prosper and be happy in life. I wish a psychologist would chime in with this idea.

[@cooloox]

That was a superb, honest and accurate speech. You follow in your great great grandfather's footsteps when it comes to wisdom.

[@holoholohaolenokaoi2299]

chip off the ol block

[@usbiv223]

One of the best lines I ever heard was this: "Imagine if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to you were your fault?" Fortunately, Chance does not discriminate. Here's to helping everyone maximize all of their chances.

[@SovereignStatesman]

"One of the best lines I ever heard was this: "Imagine if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to you were your fault?" It sounds empowering.

[@EverstillGhost]

@Fracking Saves But they did...? Slavery word came from "slavs", as they were so enslaved and for so long that their name became the name for the act of being enslaved.

[@CrispiJones]

@Fracking Saves bible was based on stories from dark colored skin society, with big percentage of black citizens, while slaves in those societies were brought mostly from christian or pagan countries and were white. Read it again and include geogrphy, biology and history into it. Jews and christians were mostly responsible for that trafficking at the time.

[@jonathancole3149]

@Fracking Saves And you are a lowlife racist scumbag idiot.

[@CrispiJones]

@Fracking Saves Any argument? Give us just SOMETHING valid.

[@workhard9513]

True American with True American Values...

[@spalm3887]

aka White supremacist surviving off of ill-gotten gains and unearned privileges.

[@אוהדאריאליופה]

some liberals: "your ancestors were spoiled mean slave owners" my ancestors: *fighting WW1, WW2, Spanish civil war, russian revolution, six day war, yom kipur war, surviving the Holocaust, getting expelled from Spain during the inquisition, suffering from pogroms, escaping from the ussr, getting enslaved by the romans, ext..*

[@thesalandarian3314]

ניסים מזרחי אדרי בן זכאי ikr

[@אוהדאריאליופה]

@@thesalandarian3314 yes

[@thesalandarian3314]

ניסים מזרחי אדרי בן זכאי I support Israel from England

[@אוהדאריאליופה]

@@thesalandarian3314 i support England from israel, love English people, my uncle has married a English women, he is living in England

[@GabrielleTollerson]

EXACTLY

[@MatthiaGryffine]

Definitely one of the most heartfelt speeches ever on PragerU

[@willhiggins9563]

Novaura Autism All their ‘speeches’ are garbage.

[@justalittleturtle5600]

I also really liked that one where a lady was talking about how her grandfather was a slave and eventually came back to buy the very plantation he worked on as a slave years later.

[@TuhljinTampergauge]

@@willhiggins9563 Projection.

[@willhiggins9563]

Tuhljin Tampergauge Projection of what?

[@willhiggins9563]

Ronald Mc Donald Not t’il five.

[@ainternet239]

A welcome voice of sanity in these crazy and irrational times

[@spalm3887]

Your bitch ass came here because it's a safe place.

[@patrickcleland6065]

Well stated.

[@obviousgreyman]

Everything about this is spot on. I don’t know how you could watch this and disagree.

[@AllTrickss]

I can’t wait to show this amazing video to my liberal friends and get yelled at.

[@reddash358]

Make them cry by telling them that they are delusional and big babies. Works for me all the time!

[@ba_2three458]

Hahahaha

[@pammcdan]

I wonder...did you share this amazing video with your liberal friends? And if you did, what was their reaction?

[@kappadarwin9476]

Good luck with that because this video is poorly constructed.

[@DK-zy5fm]

@@kappadarwin9476 how so?

[@anthonypicciano3803]

I’m Italian. I wonder if they pass these “reparations” would I have to pay. My family wasn’t even in the country until after the 1900s

[@fogandwhirlwind]

Shut up and check your white privilege.

[@tenhirankei]

What about how your "Roman ancestors"? You have much to account for! LOL

[@anthonypicciano3803]

tenhirankei so because my ancestors had an empire 1000+ years ago I should pay reparations to black people that were in America enslaved by people that weren’t my ancestors. My family immigrated in 1913. My family had nothing to do with slavery so why should I have to pay?

[@anthonypicciano3803]

Black American why would I leave a country that love living in?

[@anthonypicciano3803]

TheRenownedReviewer great redaction

[@propabilityfpv303]

I was showing my liberal friend this and he said (when talking about the people who died to end slavery) "but the civil war wasn't about slavery" and instantly realized what he just said 😂

[@davidford3115]

My ancestor Johnathan Strange Bishop(28th Iowa, 11th Louisiana Union-Black) in his letter to his wife made it quite clear that he viewed slavery as a scourge on humanity, not just blacks but whites as well. He was very much of the abolitionist cause as were all of my ancestors who fought for the Union. Indeed abolition is why they volunteered in the first place.

[@prestonbrower762]

My ancestors in Missouri where driven across the planes by the other whites for being abolitionists and were ordered to be "exterminated or driven out of the state" by the governor. (Mis. Executive Order 44.) That order was not repealed until the 1970s.

[@pixelgoat7317]

@J. D. M. And you guys are much worse!

[@sterlingg.759]

As I've been told, the civil war was not truly about slavery, atleast not in the beginning. I recall it starting over states' rights, the south didn't want Lincoln to make slavery illegal throughout the whole country. To try and keep the country together, Lincoln said he wouldn't ban slavery. But when he was elected, the southern states seceded. This is where the states' rights come in. The south believed that states have the right to secede if they believe the federal government is tyrannical, or something of the sort. The north believed otherwise and so the war began over the right of states to secede. This continued for awhile. Eventually, Britain began to notice there were problems with their cotton supply. At this time, Britain's textile mills were HUGE, they were the main thing at the time. So, when the south's cotton supply was being hindered by a war, Britain felt the need to step in to preserve one of its largest industries. This is where Lincoln used his political knowledge of this to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This freed slaves in all Unions states and captured confederate states. The Proclamation seems useless if it only freed already becoming free northern slaves from slavery. This is the genius of it, though. The proclamation made the war about slavery, something Britain had already gotten rid of, making it immoral to help the slave-keeping south. There you have it, the Civil War not about slavery (in the beginning).

[@detectiveofrivia311]

Sterling Gjesvold the war on states rights was an issue touted by the south only after they lost the war. There is clear documented evidence of confederate leaders, such as Jefferson Davis, only writing about this after the war. Proponents of secession would go to town halls throughout the South rallying states to join the cause so they could keep slavery. They did not mention states rights. This was revisionist thinking on the South’s part to make themselves look better in the aftermath of defeat.

[@artnickel1664]

Well stated. I constantly tell people that today’s “Diversity” movement is nothing more than segregation of the 1920s

[@PolishBehemoth]

exactly. The whole idea of having set quotas on the job of peoples skin color is insane! Its beyond dumb! True diversity cannot be forced. If it is, its no longer diversity, its just "hating the white people" for forcibly removing white candidates based on something that has nothing to do with them.

[@artnickel1664]

@@PolishBehemoth The way to make diversity happen is to prosecute the bigots, not beat up those doing it right.

[@jonathancole3149]

@Fracking Saves You Demonrats are the racists.

[@guner1014]

Jonathan Cole yeet

[@artnickel1664]

@SIEGE OR DIE No, the Fascist Left has Newspeaked Segregation into Diversity. They are all up with Diversity even going so far as to state people will "be more comfortable with their own kind" a number of times. That is the same excuse they used for Segregation. I don't know where the "gunpoint" crack comes from other than you are a troll for the Fascist Left.

[@pnp6408]

My ancestors (like millions of others) came to America in the early 1900’s, slavery was already abolished.

[@pep590]

Same here.

[@pnp6408]

Jim Smithers Technically the African people should be paying the reparations to the African people, since they are the ones who sold their fellow man into slavery.

[@pnp6408]

g % Agreed. Just making a point as to where slavery of Africans originated.

[@Thvndar]

Your family still benefitted from the wealth created by slavery.

[@Thvndar]

You do know that without slavery there would've never been a USA, and that those who came after slavery were attracted by the unprecidented amount of money, infrastucture and opportunity created by slaves, right

[@meganmckenzie3389]

I wish I could have met Grandpa Silas. What an inspirational man. I am hopeful knowing that his spirit lives on in you.

[@Miatacrosser]

As a very famous person once said when answering the question, "name one thing good about us(the caller was a black man) being brought here as slaves". His answer: "It allowed me to be born here instead of in some primative tribe in Africa." The caller was speechless because he had never even considered that thought. The commentator was Thomas Sowell

[@JH-tc7wb]

While I appreciate Thomas Sowell and am thankful to be a black American, not all African communities are "primitive", far from it in fact. Mr. Sowell's statement is unnecessarily demeaning and myopic.

[@commenteroftruth9790]

@@JH-tc7wb Yeah but america is just better in general lol

[@JH-tc7wb]

@@commenteroftruth9790 Other than some short visits to other countries and news reports, I have nothing to compare America to. Granted, I love the U.S., but I can't say it's necessarily "better" than the entire African continent.

[@soaringgrasslands3148]

@@JH-tc7wb what areas of Africa are developed then? Cause it all seems pretty down trodden. In the words of african refugees crossing via boat to Europe "I'd rather die at sea than remain in Africa" so perhaps dr. Sowell is more right than you would want to admit... African refugees would not be coming to Europe in droves otherwise.

[@michaelwhitmire9015]

Watch-out tho.Ok if Thomas sowel loves america and i do aswel but he made it quote unquote.And black people that tend to make it over time become arrogant,cocky,selfish and entitled aswel.While in the hood you have be careful and witty.Thomas sowel has money but doesn't connect well with blacks he only cares about himself.Granted he doesn't need to run to the projects and give all his money but he doesn't speak with us but for himself.

[@thelogicalfallacy4635]

This almost brought a tear to my eye. Thank you. This man deserves the reputation he is getting.

[@mrgone658]

"Good character cannot be bought by bribery." BOOM!! [mic drop]

[@Freshnewz10]

I believe in reparations. I believe that it should be the democrat party that should pay the reparations

[@rdr6269]

Exactly. Their ancestors were the slave owners, the KKK, and they initiated Jim Crow. They are still the party pushing racism today. Republicans fought and died to stop them. Democrats owe this country big time.

[@rhpicayune]

RdR 👌👍🏻👏👆🏼THIS !!!

[@marvintaylor4907]

Those who feel guilt should have a mechanism where they alone can pay. Those who don't feel guilt simply won't

[@brendaflores9641]

White Americans shouldn’t have to pay anything .

[@nipnop4954]

you are dumb then

[@BoeJlden]

I want reparations from Bernie Sanders because my mind was enslaved by him a few years ago

[@willhiggins9563]

Shen Bapiro Why Ben Shapiro seems to own your mind. You must feel like your living 12 Years A Slave.

[@RoboVenturer]

Will Higgins that’s not even a good retort, in fact it’s a very racist one

[@Jsnipes98]

Will Higgins booo wack comeback 👎🏾

[@mariannelynnlatjow5641]

Touché 👍🆓

[@BoeJlden]

Will Higgins Actually no. Ben is a bit too far left for me.

[@cacildeasa]

This guy's body language and speaking projects so much respect.

[@Milanor]

Body language... My boy didn't even move...

[@kennethstokes5102]

@@Milanor What a stupid comment!

[@Milanor]

@@kennethstokes5102 😂😂😂👌👌👌💯💯💯💪💪💪😎😎😎🔥🔥🔥🅱🅱🅱

[@lanardfletcher1422]

Luis Henrique for a black guy

[@bechemayuk7206]

"When you hold a view of yourself as a victim, you become your own oppressor." Candace Owens

[@extranolugar4588]

"The condescending evil of racism" (3:50). Read "The Mind of the Master Class" - this quote exactly reflects aristocratic slaveholder belief that slaves were childlike and could never survive on their own. I think this attitude thrives today in the American left and that it has festered in the policies of Democrats since the inception of the party.

[@wilshirestrasse2220]

@Blue Dress agree.

[@kblackav8or]

The sinister racism of low expectations. They can say the platitudes and probably believe them but always see them as victims and treat them as such and bear self loathing. The left is feelings driven by and large and are pretty easily manipulated.

[@congresswallah]

You Sir are the epitomy of the AMERICAN DREAM. God bless you

[@robinj.9329]

This man is EXACTLY RIGHT! And I agree 100%.

[@Emppu_T.]

He's right, im sure being called the victim gets tiring.

[@Emppu_T.]

@Fabian Kirchgessner yeah, about that. Is it the government saying that or a certain group of people?

[@shawnaguilara2752]

I’m sorry but it seems to me that every black I know treats every white person as if they are owed something because they are black

[@Todd.T]

If you are mixed, do you just pay yourself??

[@iamevyahno9760]

Todd T 🤯😂😂😂 best comment! I’ve never thought about that

[@shanesnyder77]

LOL. PERFECTLY STATED!

[@justalittleturtle5600]

that's....a good question....what if you're a turtle? Do you pay the hares?

[@chadsperandeo7626]

One of the most sensible and effective statements I've heard lately. This guy is brilliant.

[@zer05tar]

I mean, he's reading a script.

[@NoName-oq9bx]

No. This is stupid and he is hurting blacks by having them think in this unrealistic alternate reality

[@jimmyandtimmy8514]

@@NoName-oq9bx No. To you, this is stupid having blacks think independently.

[@NoName-oq9bx]

Jimmy and Timmy no, don’t twist my words. U gotta be realistic and take a look at American history and see it for how it really is. Remember blacks were never paid reperations

[@georgeharvey3062]

A true and proud American. I’m happy to hear you families story. Thank for sharing.

[@GodotOfficial]

This video should be shown to every single sheeple of the BLM movement

[@shawnaguilara2752]

If they showed the video to BLM. They would burn the video and direct their followers to loot and burn the city down cuz they were shown the truth. Something BLM is not worried about. The truth... the stuff that comes out of BLM’s activists is insane. Sean King said that “Catholics can’t have their stain glasses windows cuz they are racist”. Because Jesus is depicted as being white. That’s the most retarded thing I’ve heard in my life. White privilege is having a mother and a father. All those things make perfect sense right? BLM makes perfect sense. If you’re the Manson family.

[@joemama3489]

@@shawnaguilara2752 I agree with your points but what do you mean with "white privilege is having a mother and a father" ? I don't get it since my mom left us and I'm white, I mean the statistics do say that whites have a higher chance of having 2 parents in the home but I don't really understand, could you please explain that to me?

[@d4dr4g0n]

@@joemama3489 That's what makes it so insane. They make every single thing about race regardless of whether if it is factual or not. According to Oprah, she is oppressed despite being a rich black woman with numerous admirers from many different backgrounds. This pervasive idea of white privilege states that a rich black person is less privileged than a homeless white person. That simply does not make sense. They want to reduce people down into groups and labels without regard to your own individual identity or circumstances.

[@gpalmerify]

This is the best description of reparations. The personal account makes it all the more powerful.

[@nipnop4954]

you mean emotionally?

[@TobyGarcia]

"Good character cannot be bought by bribery." Well said. And we could add extortion.

[@3089280288]

But y'all bought humans like cattle.

[@territmoderitmo9190]

@@3089280288 Toby bought humans like cattle?

[@territmoderitmo9190]

@Black American Sure 😂

[@territmoderitmo9190]

@Black American Go easy, one thing at the time

[@territmoderitmo9190]

@Black American For who, for what?

[@shaun1293]

Can I have reparations? The Vikings invaded my country in 793 AD, then the Normans in 1066.

[@BloodgodArmor8]

SlovesL I just schooled a friend of mine about that same subject. Everyone on the planet has done each other wrong. Yet none has received reparation for the wrong.

[@JAG8691]

Take a ticket and wait in line my Lusitani ancestors in Iberia were invaded by the Romans and had a genocide attempt on them before being enslaved,losing their lands and having their culture,religion and language forcibly replaced by the Romans. I demand my reparations first (Ok the Cartheginians also invaded and conquered us but they have no direct remaining descendants while the Italians or at very least the Vatican can be targeted for reparations. )

[@shaun1293]

joolz might ask Greta for reparations 😂

[@Eh-Mungu-Nguvu-Yetu-q8p]

Start with the Romans 😂😂

[@ferocious78]

"Good character can not be bought by bribery" Those are powerful words!!!!! Blessings

[@Neworldisordered]

Such a graceful & grateful outlook. Thx Mr. Owen's. Attitudes like yours give me hope.

[@kurt6410]

Reparations should have been given to ex slaves at the time of the end of the civil war not today

[@kurt6410]

@Vladimir O'Brien excellent point.

[@macclift9956]

History in the making: www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49850408

[@JamesSmith-vk2ky]

Exactly!

[@brantpam222]

Mac Clift, still at it for a thousand years!

[@AxenfonKlatismrek]

Where are the reparations for Africans, who sold Black people to American Continent?

[@blane404]

"Who happens to be black." Love the description.

[@Phantom8589]

This is what every American should strive to be. Proud, personally responsible, self reliable, and honest. 👏👏👏👏👏🇺🇸

[@TheMormonSorceress]

I remember one time I saw my cute 3 year old at the time nephew running around playing with some children that came from India and they didn't seem to care about each other's skin color. You guys need to be more like these children that's only interesting in playing with each other.

[@rickasante]

Fellow Mormon! :)

[@rickasante]

@Mike Knight thank you.

[@damoclesecoe7184]

The metal band Disturbed made a top tier song titled "Who Taught You How to Hate?" which deals on that very topic. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3nTkmmDm8iMbrc

[@somebody7938]

Because children don't have xenophobia, they are only afraid of height and loud noises.

[@Guraguao73]

Cant we all just get along?

[@no1bandfan]

Oh look! Less than 100 views and already demonetized.

[@spam9176]

XD

[@ScottWilliamson]

They have an SJW, TDS hater assigned to Prager.

[@linkinparkrulz2275]

Well The Young Turks once literally had an office in Google's YT HQ... the party shift is real, and they don't like it.

[@ScottWilliamson]

@LeSpunPeBune MuieStangii it's on the dark web. Are you new?

[@TexasGal-sj9lv]

Exactly! If you are a "victim" today, it's of your OWN doing & and YOUR life choices, NOT MINE!!

[@nipnop4954]

how stupid is that everyone is affected by their environment.

[@jhljhl6964]

I wish the rioters and looters would listen to this.

[@myguitartwerks7825]

They never cared. All they cared about was an opportunity to be a thug.

[@lol.59493]

@William Kievit god what is wrong with you

[@lol.59493]

@William Kievit nah you're lacking intelligence

[@lol.59493]

@William Kievit read you first comment and tell me then who the biased one is

[@lol.59493]

@William Kievit don't know i am not one of them

[@richardm5884]

This is enlightening. I'm a genealogist and learned in college that my third great-grandfather fought as a volunteer for the Union Army. He even lied about his age in order to serve alongside his older brother. I'm grateful for my American Heritage.

[@acsiata]

In a world of "reparations" every descended of Americans that never owned a slave would have to pay taxes for this. Every descendant of Americans that died to abolish slavery would have to pay. People who never were slaves would receive the benefits of what can only be called a policy based on skin color. Can't imagine anything more racist.

[@princereek9893]

@@acsiata the same people who pay reparations to "Israel" when the atrocity never happened on American soil or the western world, as if the Holocaust could compare to American chattel slavery and everything that came afterwards

[@cptkilgore]

You sir have my respect.

[@daveowen5583]

I like how he says "Good character cannot be bought by bribery", I teach my boys "Bad company corrupts good character". I have found something to add to that.... thanks Burrgess

[@pst702]

The reparations movement is in direct opposite of the Equal rights movement of the 60's and the ideology of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[@douglassfrederick381]

It actually isn't. Not even MLK believed that a group of Americans that basically had been guaranteed poverty by government actions for generations could make but so much progress w/o some form of redress (Civil Rights is just ceasing the harm, not redress). Especially given all of the wealth-building tools handed to other Americans during that same time that black Americans did not have access to.

[@pst702]

@@douglassfrederick381 waaaaah you're breaking my heart...gimme a break...reparations doesn't solve the problem (read your history)...fact: most caucasians today are direct descendants from the mass immigration movement of the late 19th century and early 20th century...the actual percentage of caucasians directly link to great grandparents who were around the time of slavery or even colonial times is relatively small in numbers...reparations, be serious....most people are opposed to the idea on many counts...even a percentage of African Americans oppose the idea based on the definition that it's DEMEANING...like affirmative action..the premise basically states that a African American ISN'T qualified to do a job so the government steps in to FORCE institutions to remedy the system by the use of tokenism...in reality, there ARE many African Americans who are qualified for many jobs or have the ability to be in a institution of higher learning...affirmative action is really tokenism...institutions are LAZY, let me repeat that key word....LAZY in looking for the right qualified African American for the job or placement in a college or university...tokenism is just grabbing any Tom, Dick or Harry to get the government or organizations off their backs...that has been proven time and time again. African Americans are qualified for any job in this country, unfortunately because of this neanderthal practice the really qualified individuals are left out...the ideology means well on some part but the reality is that it hurts more than it helps.

[@douglassfrederick381]

@@pst702 We're talking about both slavery and Jim Crow here. It's irrelevant to my point, but the immigrants you mentioned were here during the Jim Crow regime. It's irrelevant because it was the government in the wrong for upholding and even spreading Jim Crow to all regions of the country. Nothing I said had anything to do with Affirmative Action, which was an anti-discrimination measure. To the affect that it even exists today, there's virtually no data to support that American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) are even the primary beneficiaries. The bottom line is that even post-slavery ADOS were both literally robbed of property & rights and robbed of the American Dream that was ultimately opened up to all of the immigrants you mentioned. There is no group of immigrants that had every level of government passing laws that guaranteed their disproportionate impoverishment for two centuries. There is no other group that was locked out of the wealth-building social benefits for at least 90% of that time either. That easily amounts to trillions of dollars. That is what I was talking about. It's one thing if you don't believe trillions of dollars of wealth matter. But if, like most people, you believe it does, you'd have to conclude that this is a problem. And yes, various forms of redress could definitely resolve this issue. For example, if the social policies with respect to housing that locked out ADOS could help create the largest middle class expansion in the US, it's kind of ridiculous to believe that something similar specifically for ADOS could not help now.

[@johnnyappleseed5029]

Burgess Owens, great tight-end, greater American. Thank you, sir

[@jerrynewberry5050]

Burgess Owens was a Safety. But I agree with your sentiment.

[@johnnyappleseed5029]

@@jerrynewberry5050 Noted and corrected, Thanks

[@jerrynewberry5050]

@@johnnyappleseed5029 No problem!

[@semperparatus3685]

Sallis Owens is an honored man in our home. I would be honored to have him as a great-grandfather.

[@martinheath5947]

This is so simply put and well argued it is going to upset today's leading college intersectional academics who will call for it to be banned as "hate speech"!

[@PatrickHealy]

I love this video. It's amazing, in a time where some are so quick to call others racist that people don't see exactly how racist things like affirmative action and reparations are? How can you expect that people will be treated as equals if they don't have to perform at the same rate as others to get to the same place?

[@PatrickHealy]

@Chelsea Love but can can somebody be taken seriously if they are not required to perform at the same level?

[@PatrickHealy]

@Chelsea Love nobody, that's why it's insulting to not hold them to the same standard.

[@PatrickHealy]

@Chelsea Love I feel you. It's not an easy problem to solve. There's a bunch of different ways to look at all of this and, unfortunately, everyone has their preference. So that's where you get these debates.

[@ba_2three458]

Affirmative action is legalized racism and reparations is white guilt at its finest. There's my 2 cents.

[@douglassfrederick381]

@@PatrickHealy Nope. Given that, how should we look at the fact that white Americans were given preference over black Americans regardless of merit for (at least) the 1st 189 years of this country?

[@ShaunsCollectibles]

Once again, PragerU says it better than I ever could.

[@macwelch8599]

It would’ve made more sense if reparations were paid after the Civil War, but how are you gonna pay everyone? Raise taxes

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

rob from peter to pay paul... it's how communism works too...

[@macwelch8599]

Rebecca Conlon yes

[@frozenkilt]

Knowing full well that the civil war wasn't just all about slavery, I still think that over half a million dead was probably payment enough. Money is what it is. Blood is something else.

[@sbyrstall]

The Civil War was not about slavery, it was about states vs. Federal rights. Lincoln three the slavery issue in at the last minute.

[@cojones8518]

Many tried after the Civil War to pass "Forty Acres and a Mule" laws, but Lincoln himself was against it. Most of the proposals wanted to seize the plantations and turn the land over to the freed slaves. Lincoln felt that it would cause a lot of resentment in the South and possibly a new war, in the states that were already trying to pick up the pieces after the war. Not only that, but a lot of the South's economy was built on farming and taking that much land would have destroyed any hope of the southern states rebuilding.

[@SteveGergetz]

Thank you for your humility, your integrity, your clear mind, your candor, and your courage to speak up and speak the essential truths of the matter.

[@raulmaximo5810]

That was savage: "Good Character cannot be Bought by Bribery"

[@Randomgolfguy]

*Good Character cannot be bought by Bribery* I felt that.

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

I'm French. I want reparations from Italy for the conquest of Gaul by Caesar !

[@Duke_of_Lorraine]

@Ad Lockhorst From Lorraine, north-eastern France, which was the usual battlefield area for the last 4 centuries, every time there was some disagreement between France and the Habsburgs or Germany. But one thing at the time. Money please, Italy !

[@Darcel.Brown.]

Ad Lockhorst This conversation alone shows the differences between the issues

[@Darcel.Brown.]

appletonrd Are you saying no one deserves reparations? That position makes no sense because they’ve been given multiple times. The differences I’m references are that, reparations for A.D.O.S. are owed by America not Italy, he should take that up with Italy. Secondly, reparations for A.D.O.S. are owed for much more than just slavery and some issues are kind of modern not a 100 years ago.

[@Darcel.Brown.]

appletonrd So you don’t believe in inheritance? That’s what the reparations discussion is really about, a stolen inheritance. Democrats and Republicans are responsible, neither party had a great stance on slavery or segregation.

[@Darcel.Brown.]

appletonrd If your ancestors deserved reparations and didn’t receive them, logically thinking wouldn’t you be missing your inheritance?

[@100percentSNAFU]

Every single one of my white ancestors came to this country long after slavery was outlawed. They also all lived in the North, where there was no segregation or Jim Crow laws. In fact, my grandfather played on baseball and basketball teams in the 1930's that were integrated.

[@septicsauce322]

I had family here since the 18th century! Woot! ^^

[@Avarioth]

@@Chris-wn6wg - Wha...?

[@jonathancole3149]

@@Chris-wn6wg Back then, those that were lazy were kicked out anyway.

[@jonmkl]

Chris Bello It was easy for everyone to come in then, there weren’t racial limitations. Additionally white immigrants faced MASSIVE racism after they immigrated, especially Irish, polish, Italians, jews. The population of the nation was tiny then, there was no reason to limit immigration, and no white person claims that their ancestors weren’t immigrants!! Immigration controls are _not racist._ Europeans still have to wait to come here too.

[@estebannemo1957]

No segregation in the North? In what parallel universe? Ever heard of The Green Book? Blacks used it in every part of the US up until 1966 to find hotels and restaurants that would accept African Americans. The US military wasn't integrated till the Korean war.

[@mena94x3]

. . . Currently at 986 dislikes . . . How anyone could dislike this message is beyond me. Did they even listen to it?!? It’s truly astounding.