Reparations and the History of Economic Injustice: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Robert Reich
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich sits down with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and creator of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones. They discuss the United States' long and violent history of racial economic oppression, how the effects of that history are still felt today in everything from housing to education to wealth, the case for reparations, and what's preventing reparative policies from being enacted.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist and staff writer for The New York Times. She has previously written for The Oregonian and ProPublica, where she covered civil rights and documented redlining and housing discrimination. Hannah-Jones is the creator of the NYT's 1619 Project, a collection of essays, poems, short fiction, and photo essays that re-examines the roots and legacy of slavery, from America’s founding to present day. You can read her latest piece here:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
00:00 Welcome!
4:08 Black reparations and the Black wealth gap
6:23 White guilt - Let’s talk about it!
13:57 Redlining, the wealth gap, lack of access to college and the history of oppression that continues today
17:14 Over half of Black adults are unemployed due to Covid 19. What do we do now?
19:53 What's in store for the future of the BLM movement? There's reason to have hope for this multiracial movement.
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An analogy I use to explain the racial wealth gap is to point to a game of Monopoly. Imagine that the game starts with two teams, one led by Top Hat, the other led by Car. The rules are that Top Hat can go around the board buying property as usual, but Car can’t. Not only does TH collect $200 every time they pass ‘Go’, but when Car passes ‘Go’ that $200 goes to Top Hat, too. TH benefits from Car being in the game since now TH earns more than they would without Car.
After a few rounds the discriminatory rules end, but Top Hat gets to keep everything earned under the old rules, and Car isn’t compensated for the disadvantages. Of course Top Hat can buy all the best property, Car has to pay rent almost everywhere (to TH, further increasing Top Hat’s wealth) whatever property Car can eventually buy (if any) is inferior to what Top Hat has, etc. Top Hat has capital to borrow from the bank, buy and sell from each other, etc.
How would Car ever catch up? Can any amount of time redress the situation without direct methods being implemented?
Can I add, Top Hat managed to wipe out all but 2 of the other players and they only have a dollar left each.
I totally get it. Black people had to start the race after just running 10 k to get to the race.
If only we could retroactively give the white players of the past a 10 k handicap and declare a new, fairly chosen winner.
So a problem that I see with reparations is that while many people agree wholeheartedly with some affirmative action continuing, and the elimination of all kinds of barriers, and the police and hospitals providing fair distribution of service, and blacks playing larger roles in government and all kinds of administration. When it comes to handing out cash, I think that's enough of a turn off, for many, that it could almost inspire a backlash.
For starters, half the country fought against slavery, it cost big money and more than 360,000 husbands and fathers and sons. They didn't get fat off slavery, and I'm sure they don't feel like they owe reparations. Then there's the shrinking and increasingly broke middle class, they never personally had slaves, and if there ever was slave money in their family, its long gone, plenty of white families rent, and plenty of white kids have to put themselves through school or else not go. White families also lose breadwinners, or have members with special needs, plenty in life can set a person back to behind the start of the race. I think asking for cash would just piss them many of them off and maybe even make them less enthusiastic about other programs to level the field.
There is one group that could obviously be asked to pay, and those are the "fine old families" in the South who are still enjoying the comforts they were able to trade for the whole lives of human captives. However they still have enough cash and clout, and likely deeply rooted prejudice that it would never happen.
There's also the question of who would receive the cash, there are now some extremely wealthy black families. And what about all the women forced to lives that were very much like slavery, and didn't get the vote until after black men? There are just too many variables to address them all here, or likely in a public forum or committee meeting.
I think asking for equitable treatment and access is fair and makes sense. But beyond that would look like greedy over reach to many, and instead of arriving at that society that doesn't rank and judge on the basis of color, we would all arrive at a place of anger and resentment and deeper division than already exists.
Wow that IS a good way of hearing this explained. I know you have been doing Social justice work,. But you took out pointing the finger, because white people will Not listen or move forward because of their copability and guilt from this past. At this time in America, especially in the Last 6-7 years there has been a Huge growth in White Supremists groups. Since Trump supported it. A gun violence, and the Armormorment of these groups
Brilliant!
@@TheKim369 I'm not usually in the mood to read long posts after a UA-cam video, but yours is worth the time. Good points. 🇺🇸🗿
@@patrickjenkins6383 Thanks, it's great to know there is someone out there sharing some of the same thoughts, it sure would be great to find a way to peace without hurting each other, and ourselves, more along the way
One worker has a wealthy grandfather to help them get on there feet while the other worker has become the caregiver for oppressed generations in need of the most basic things of life. The thing my grandfather gave me was an appreciation and the responsibility to pay back
Responsibility, especially among the left, is a outdated concept.
Responsibility is not PC.
Pay back is a great honorable idea. I have a fair question - whom do we pay? Blacks, Indians, Chinese, Italians, Irish, Vietnamese, Japanese, and the vets exposed to WWII radiation and their families who were stationed near Hiroshima ? Vets exposed to Agent Orange and their widows ? Today's Latin and Central American immigrants who are or were in cages? The 1 in 3 women who will be or have been raped ? The women in poverty because they earned less than 75 centers for every dollar earned by men ? The homeless who are jeered and spat upon ? Our government, corporations and individuals share a dark ugly past of bigotry and violence against many different peoples and to choose one group over all the others who suffered is disrespectful of their suffering. Perhaps we need a plan that lifts all who suffered and suffer now and also demand bigots pay a greater share of the burden. Bigots come from bigots.
@@silencedogood7297 you are either ignorant or flat out anti-ADOS. The US paid reparations to the native Americans, the Japanese, the Jewish (and American saved them from the holocaust), the list goes on and on; however, NEVER righted their wrong to American slaves and their descendants. That has to happen and it’s okay if you don’t understand.
@@silencedogood7297 You're being silly to avoid restorative justice for ADOS.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER RACES OF PEOPLE THAT WAS INSLAVE ARE THEY GOING TO GET REPRATION TOO?
I appreciate the open dialog here. As a middle-aged white woman I am often afraid to offend because I am so ignorant on the subject. I've worked really hard to educate myself but imagine finding out when you're 50 about Juneteenth. And that's just one example. This horror show has a karmic debt that is just overwhelming. I am very grateful that my formative years we're filled with Gene roddenberry's ideas. For me it was all about treating everyone the same I'm going based on each other's skills. With that in mind and knowing that I do not trust my government to do the necessary work what sort of steps can we as individuals take to remedy the situation ourselves? I have been giving this a lot of thought over the years. I am cautiously hopeful in this time that we can finally make the changes that are necessary. We have the technology we have the ability now all we need is the will.
Hey thanks! I will.
Reparations is the only thing that can fix this problem' It is not a hand out, it is a debt owed for all the horror expounded on African Americans over the last 500 years' Nothing else has worked to even the wealth gap' Only a transfer of wealth into the hands of ADOS will fix that' What white people can do is just be righteous and tell all your loved ones and friends and especially your congress and governmental representatives to make this happen' that reparations is the right thing to do' its only right.
Don't feel bad...if I wanted to hide the truth from someone, I'd hide it from the people who would and who could do something to fix the problems. Everything that Black people get is given to them by White people, even their very lives, except the few that were delivered by black people. That is everything good, bad, right, or wrong, even the very Gospel that we preach!
Government scantioned "red-lining" occurred during my lifetime.
I am not "responsible"... but I DID *benefit*... so, doing nothing about it is not fair...
Mrs. Nicole Hannah Jones Great job keep on doing what you're doing you letting our case be known and you're letting them know what is absolutely right and what they should do and they should do exactly what you say thank you and you have a great rest of your evening and whatever you do from this period on I wish you greatness 🤨🤫🤔!
Thank you for sharing
Her net worth is somewhere between $3 and $5 million. His $4 million. Is she a struggling black woman? These two make money from black people who struggle. It's more about keeping people in those situations, so they aren't able to take their spot and money.
It's time to take our case to the world court.
LUCIOUS BAILEY, WHY? ( THE WORLD COURT? ) Have you seen WHO SITS IN THOSE SEATS? Compliance is all they care about! AND THE WORLD BELIEVES THE BLACK AMERICAN DOESN'T DESERVE SHYT! That we're owed NOTHING! That WE should stop whining over what has been done to us (AND STILL HAPPENING!) This WORLD COURT YOU SPEAK OF, ALSO KEEPS BLACK AFRICANS OPPRESSED! AND THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE IN OUR FAVOR? Okay, how did whites END UP RUNNING THE WORLD ACTUALLY? Go on, ask hoe they did it? WHEN YOU GET THAT RIGHT IN YOUR HEAD... YOU'LL HAVE YOUR ANSWER TO "US" GETTING PAID AND ALL OUR LANDS BACK!
UNDERSTAND THIS... THEY AIN'T "GIVING US SHXT!" WHEN HAVE THEY EVER? MARCH, CRY. BEG, PLEAD, POST PODCAST, PLEA TO THE W.C.H.R. THE INTERNATIONAL COURTS, THE U.N., THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, AND THEY'LL EITHER OFFER US MORE WELFARE, OR MORE JAIL TIME! [ DRED SCOTT V. SANDFORD ] SO THEY AIN'T GIVING IS SHYT! EVEN WHEN WE GO TO THEIR HIGH COUNSELS... SEEKING RESOLVE! AND NOTHING! GET BACK NGGA ARE MANY OF THEIR SENTIMENTS! AND WE'RE STILL BEGGING A LESSER RACE! MAKE IT BELIEVABLE! THEY'RE NOT OUR gods!
Take your case to Africa. They enslaved you.
The world is not racist. Just america😅
@@BlindMellowJellyInc America is the least racist country in the World.
As a white guy, I had a reparations debate with my black girlfriend 10 years ago. We both walked away with our views unchanged.
Since then, I have done a complete 180. From a purely financial perspective, the more the government can tax, the more they earn. Economies are global at this point. Every American should be earning their top potential.
What should be and what is has always been. What is facts is just that fact. God is in control.
Thanks for your 180, the US Government received cash for my Ancestors free labor and loss of our land. The Repair “Reparations” are a must you restore Our Humanity. 🙏🏿🤴🏾👸🏾🙌🏾
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. My president... The United 🇺🇲States is still a British ⛵🇬🇧 haven. King Charles 3 of England..is guilty as Sin. With his 70 Billion dollar's,or pounds. .. 🇬🇧⚔️🇺🇲
Get a life
Every piece from Nikole Hannah-Jones is just so powerful
Great Great, 100%. Economical analysis very appropriate. Will😮 You plan on presenting a children's book catalog in an age appropriate venue?
for real it's some of the best fiction out there right now along with rollercoasters at concentration camps
You mean blaming "white people" for everyone's problems? Yeah, that's really pathetic err I mean "powerful."
She's a disgusting panderer!
LOLOL
Investment in the social safety net, Medicare for all, higher education for all, release from college debts for all, a livable wage for all, equal justice for all and on and on. There are so many issues needing transformation, starting with income inequality that effects everyone.
Well then, anty up! Come up with the cash and don't suggest increasing the Obamadebt.
tim johnson Do we need 800 military bases around the world? 10 trillion in 20 years on Afghanistan alone. Always, plenty of money for the military and its wants, yet what of the American people’s needs.
@@richarthur3069 Absolutely not, you're right, we're always "saving the world" when we should be saving ourselves. We don't need many of those bases and we should shave 20% off the top by eliminating humanitarian missions. We don't need those bases and we don't need 20,000 liars (lawyers) in the Federal government. They are expensive and counter productive. Shave 20% off the Federal and state governments. Leave infrastructure. We could take away that 20 percent and not feel a thing. So much bloat.
@@timjohnson1199 Well...we found $300 million PER DAY...for 20 years...to fight in Afghanistan. So...the money IS there.
@@kipwonder2233 Yes, the socialist elites are sure living well on the backs of the taxpayers. Cap the pensions at $50k/year. THAT would save billions.
Great program, thank you both.
Great interview! I love her! ❤
Why not talk about why blacks sold blacks to whites?
There should also be specific lawsuits to cover specific harms. Black Oconee county Georgia farmers paid the same tax as the white farmers but had to build their own school and received hand-me-down desks, books, and school materials from the white schools in the “public” school system paid for with their tax revenue. This same theft of taxes probably occurred in other counties.
It take money
For what? It would be a class action lawsuit. The lawyers could do it pro bono or take a percentage. It takes the will to fight back against the systemic racism.
Another great program.
One thing about that for40 acres and a mule
That that land was taken from the Aboriginals
People who lived for generations and signed
Treaty’s
Which were immediately Broken.
Reparations, all about.
There’s so much work to be done.
Start with Food, Healthcare, Education,
Adequate Housing and Employment!
With the end of Environmental Racism
Drink no poisoned water
Eat no poisoned food and
Breathe no poisoned air.
It’s not good for you,
Your family and neighbors
Plants and animals too.
Peace everyone.
Great comment, I agree with you!
God bless you!
Consider individual responsibility and doing something for yourself instead of sitting on the ground with your hand out.
Who owned most of the land in America? The answer is the whites and how they acquired all of that land and etc. You filled in the blanks. They have taken most of the land and when they pass away they would pass it to their children and family members. This is why they became so wealthy, and although they turned the land into farmland, and had African Americans to work those lands for free, they didn't have to lift one finger, doing that hard work. Let it be told around the world over and over. God will bless us in the end. If we live according to his words. Continue to worship him and all put all your worries in his hands with belief and faith he will see you through this. Amen.
A bunch of trollz on here. The message does not need a leading voice. And its very annoying to see people do this. Reparations is a voice of it's own. We just as a whole need to keep speaking up.
What's the ratio if you take out the top 1%? Still unfair, I'm sure, but wealth inequality is what needs to be focused on.
Yea and Black American's suffer the most hence the need for reparations.
Seriously, there is a secret, growing belief in what you're saying. A lot of African Americans feel embarassed being ordered to beg for things like reparations. Check out U of Penn professor Adolph Reed and A Critical Look at the 1619 Project | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn Show] (All of them African American professors.)
ua-cam.com/video/8hWQmzgiKXQ/v-deo.html
It's still fairly significant at all levels if you ignore the top 1%. For instance, in her article she notes that a typical poor white family making $27,000 a year has as much wealth as black families that make $48,000 to $76,000 annually, in spite of the fact black families have slightly higher savings rates compared to white americans at similar income levels. If you want to reduce the racial wealth gap, you can't just reduce income inequality generally.
But you are also right that if we ignore class inequality we overlook a lot: www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/06/29/the-racial-wealth-gap-is-about-the-upper-classes/
"In my mind, this information should force us to be more clear about what exactly we are trying to achieve when we talk about closing the racial wealth gap. If we are trying to make the black wealth distribution match the white wealth distribution, then fixing the racial wealth gap mostly involves redistributing a lot of wealth between the white and black upper classes. That’s where the wealth is and so that’s where the wealth gap is.
If we are just trying to make it so the “everyday black family” (defined by the median) looks like the “everyday white family,” then that costs very little (0.5 percent of the national wealth) because it ignores all the people who own meaningful amounts of wealth.
Both ideas seem a bit ridiculous in different ways, the first idea because it’s essentially a squabble between the upper classes, the second idea because it does nothing to really cut down on overall racial wealth inequality. The way through this bind is of course to acknowledge that racial capitalism has concentrated almost all of the national wealth in the hands of a small number of white families and that the proper course of action is to redistribute that wealth to the multiracial lower and working classes, tackling both racial and class inequality simultaneously."
Income inequality lol people at the bottom in America have televisions, smart phones, they’re obese. But please tell me how life is so hard in America while people in third world countries sufffer oppressive regimes and actual poverty.
You people are sad and ungrateful and only want to hear why you haven’t achieved anything in your lives. Hopefully you’ll wake up one day. Can’t imagine it’s fun living such a loser mentality.
@@mumei178 Geez, I just read the original article and I can only conclude that the writer is mathematically impaired. After laying down some numbers and completely ignoring its implications (e.g. that a 6th decile white household net worth is $200k, and a 6th decile black one is worth $28k, which you can work out from his numbers), he blatantly tells us that this doesn't matter because Beyonce has less money than Warren Buffett or something to that effect.
Yeah right. I am sure that having $200k in your bank account is just the same as having $28k.
The argument that redistribution from the super wealthy to the less fortunate generally makes sense in economies where the gap is getting dangerously large, but that moron managed to get it incredibly wrong.
Reparations - not necessarily monetary. Reconnecting us to our culture, history, and our rights is key. How - education, access, and community development. African American cultural exchange programs to Africa. Educating immigrants to this country about positive AA contributions to this country (that impacts/allows - their access today) Things like this that have longevity. Giving money to some (not all) who are poor or uneducated - is short term (not a long term impact).
Monetary reparations are in order, in addition to what you’ve listed here. The Doctor very eloquently explains why this is necessary in the above program.
Bro, PRO TIP... If you are gonna talk about reparations you should really have on Yvette Carnell. The mainstream media is avoiding having her on but she is INSTRUMENTAL in the present discussions of reparations and actually best makes the case. She is the co founder of ADOS along with Antonio Moore. Many of the people who are presented in the forefront (including this guest), borrow from ADOS work. It would really do you a credit to have her on.
Most definitely. Nikole sure is enjoying the revenue and limelight that comes with something so consequential to ADOS. Let’s get people doing THE REAL WORK into more mainstream spaces.
There is no case for reparations. No one alive owned slaves. No one alive was one. An offer was made to return African freed slaves to Africa and only some took it up. Those that stayed made it implicit that they were choosing to live in the US at that time and under the laws of the age. That is not to say anyone agreed to be persecuted or lynched. Of course not. It is acknowledgement to live and work within the system for changes. Which has been excruciatingly slow but progressive.
@@williamhutton2126 ok william , say no REPERATIONS .
Tell me what happened to the " promised 40 acres and a mule,?
Do we at least deserve that , which our government agreed on.
@@spirit13the1st6 YOU don't DESERVE anything. You were never a slave, simpleton.
@@williamhutton2126
They weren't Africans though.
It's not a return to Africa.
They're African Americans.
They were born in USA, and the had ancestors that were born in USA.
Genetic studies show that the average African American is around one quarter European with around 1/3 of African American men having European Y Chromosomes.
Most of the European ancestry in African Americans came from European American men during the slavery period.
She is 100% right. I'm barely on speaking terms with my family because they are constantly trying to absolve me of my "white guilt." I've given them some things to read but, of course, they don't. That is what we are facing as we try to get whites to see that recognition of white privilege is not white guilt.
Zizek has an excellent video in youtube about white guilt. You should watch it.
NO SUCH THING AS WHITE PRIVILEGE!!
Blacks have already enjoyed 50 years of special privileges in education and hiring decisions. Enough already! Most of the poor people in this country are white! But nobody’s even talking about doing anything gif them.
White privilege is a myth!
Sounds like you’re the problem, not your family.
Thank You Both for speaking truths..
Why not talk about the blacks selling blacks to whites? And blacks owning black slaves.
@@user-nx1pe2cs1t can't do that it goes against the narrative
@@user-nx1pe2cs1t and what does that have to do with reparations for AMERICAN SLAVES and their descendants. Not a damn thing. Can’t you come up with something viable? No, you can’t because no one can explain away hundreds of years of slavery, Jim Crow, systemic anti-black laws and terrorist acts against a specific group of people. Your desire to rule over ADOS will be your ruin. And, that’s biblical. Can you quote the scripture?
@@andrewstachowski3375 can’t do it but it doesn’t matter and it doesn’t change the facts which make monetary reparations the answer.
@@BB27626 you were never a slave you get nothing except welfare lol
Just like in court, you cannot ask a family member to testify against another family member; they’re exempt from testimony. They cannot be involved in making judgment. It’s the same for a NATION.
One can’t ask a country to judge itself; that’s not how legal systems are set up to work.
That's absolutely not true. Stop taking legal advice from television.
A wife, for example, cannot be compelled to testify against her husband. However, if she chooses, nothing stops her.
Parents can be forced to testify against their children, and vice versa. None married folks in a family can be compelled to testify against each other in a criminal or civil suit.
@@The10thManRules
okay
How impartial would they be?
If we talking reperations and Yvette Carnell and ADOS is not mentioned in the conversation the discussion is not serious and cant be taken serious. Yvette is the truth, the way and the light❤️👍🏾 ADOS
Thanks for breaking it down reperations is needed for Ados people .
Reparations are needed from these corporations
@Don Gray then speak up when reparations are given to other groups like Japanese, native, and Jewish-Americans.
Or do you only have a problem with Black Americans getting reparations?
So thankful for both of you Nikole and Robert!!
We don't owe them a damned thing, what is owed is anyone making a sub-living wage, they're the ones needing reparations and huge wage increases along with anyone working for tipping!
@@tomasinacovell4293 of course a racist would feel that way. Your feelings don’t represent truth.
@@BB27626 Oh, how so, seems to me you're not even wrong?
First, public school funding should not be based upon the property taxes; inner-city schools should get the same as suburban and upper-class schools. Second, such businesses as Cash Advance should be illegal. Perhaps no or low-interest assistance should be subsidized or through the Post Office. Third, inner-city grocery stores and healthy foods need to get subsidized. Fourth, re-vamp public transportation.
T Andrew finally, a comment providing simple, constructive, life enhancing solutions. Thank you
They get federal funding as well. Crime is why stores leave
You can throw as much as money as you want at inner city schools and it won’t make a damn bit of difference. Why? Because parents don’t discipline their children in this country. It’s against the law. Because they are not disciplined, they have no self discipline and therefore can not learn. Get it together parents!
@@ninadaly7639 , that’s true to an extent, but if such schools had more, then resources could be set aside to get the community involved (slowly but surely).
@@tandrew7175 Resources to get the community involved?? They chose to have the children and they are failing those kids by not disciplining them to be respectful, civilized members of society so they have a fighting chance in this ultra competitive world. If they haven’t done it yet, what “resources” do you think are going to change that? And until it does happen neither the schools nor the teachers can do anything. The sad thing is the kids that do know how to behave are cheated out of an education by these kids that don’t. Did you know that in CA (and this isn’t too far off from many states) only about 1/3 of students graduating from public school reach a proficiency level in reading, writing and math? Did you also know that in CA, there is an actual law that prevents schools from disciplining students for “willful disobedience”? I’m not kidding.
Let's also consider the devastating financial losses our ancestors suffered during race riots that destroyed Black wealth in places like Tulsa and so many others, for which there has never been any compensation. How much would that be worth today?
And if you take everything away.
What happened to the " government promised"
40 acres and a mule?
Some type of reparations sound like a start. But we need to include many different people in any plan. The U.S. and notably southern farmers and companies enslaved Blacks. But we also enslaved Chinese, migrant workers, Indians and women. Do we only help those who were enslaved and their offspring ? Let us include vets and their families. The US exposed troops to radiation and agent orange that injured and killed vets like my Dad, their wives like my Mom with cancer and children (I am one). Corporations and individuals discriminated against immigrants from Italy, Ireland, India, Vietnam and Japan. Let us also include people from Italy, Ireland, India, Vietnam and Japan. Today, bigots discriminate against migrants from central and Latin American countries where we meddled with their governments (under the Monroe Doctrine). So let us include today's immigrants. We must remember that the US government and individuals have made life hell for many different people. I do not know what the answer is, but it must include reparations for all those injured and their offspring, plus education of bigots who are the offspring of the earlier bigots. This has never been a place of white people. Indians were here first. And before them, possibly Asians... Neanderthals...
@@spirit13the1st6 Fredrick Douglas talk Abraham Lincoln out of it . He wanted black people to make it on their own and not be relying on the government. Fast forward to LBJ and the great society, war on poverty and it leads to the break down of the black family. Immigrants today are thriving without the help of the government. Look at Asians, especially Indians who are the top earners in America. Many African and Caribbean immigrants pass up AA without any government assistance. Many immigrants say that they enter the United States with nothing
Stop it. It sounds like you have a possible case for reparations for all of humanity. That’s great, but has absolutely nothing to do with American Slaves and ADOS. You don’t even know what your talking about.
@@silencedogood7297 let’s worry about US first! Native Americans didn’t give a DAMN about Indigenous Black Americans! Why should we!
Reparations yes. And we Native Americans have had trillions stolen. Time to pay up.
I totally agree it’s time that everyone comes together and get this right now 🇺🇸
@joe schmoe Probably the hundreds of treaties signed between the Tribes with England, and then later the US Government delineating those exact rights. Please read Hoawrd Zinn, amongst many other books on the history of the Americas.
I'm a Native American. Been here 4 generations. American Indians have been here much longer. They migrated from Asia.
Or, Whites go back to their native Europe and Americans go back to their native Asia.
Native Americans owned 15% of enslaved Africans and their descendants. #Reparations #ReparationsNow for #ADOS
Awesome lesson on truth 💯
Since I have a grand mother who was Cherokee, I've often thought reparations should be due, to all minorities defrauded by the system then in place. The how was from reading about what Eisenhower said about the education benefits given GIs after WW2- he thought it was the greatest gift America had ever given herself. It also uplifted many thousands of boys from poverty in rural America and brought them into the America of the booming '50s- as well paid engineers and doctors, paying more in taxes than they would have made had they not gone to college. that kind of reparation, that includes all children college qualified from homes below a certain income, say $100,000 a year would ultimately do all that you aspire to- just not in a short period of time. This stew is 160 years old; there is no cleaning this mess up quickly or easily, I wish there was. this does not mean that We the People don't need to live up to the aspirational spirit within the Constitution.I would think two or three generations of this sort of reparations would go a long way to leveling the playing field for all concerned. My .02, anyway.
You're not going to "clean it up" with racist rules. The racists rules are prolonging the divisions. When I was job hunting I did a lot of work, a LOT, to make myself fit a position. You want to make the companies and positions fit some person. No matter how unwilling and arrogant that person is. No wonder the USA is struggling economically compared to Europe and Asia.
The "booming 50s" - up to a point. Don't forget, the decade started with the Korean War and ended with a terrible recession that was more of a depression in many areas. It wasn't all "Happy Days".
@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont No, it wasn't- it was a tumultuous time of strikes, civil disorder and politicians like Joseph McCarthy. FWIW, we did better than other economies after the war, but you are correct, it wasn't easy. My points led to the idea that a "conservative" - and let's be real here, that is the best term you can put on DD Eisenhower- who actually had the skills and talent to lead got us through those dreadful Fifties in better shape than many others could have imagined much less accomplished. I have been a registered Democrat all of my life; but I have on occasion found the GOP candidate more qualified than the lying thief he or she ran against. BTW, way back then, Ronnie Reagan was a Democrat and president of the SAG-AFTRA union in Hollywood. Lots of changes have happened then and since, Where RM Nixon, then a freshman Congresscritter from Bakersfield California introduced Ronnie to Senator McCarthy.
@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont 😊😊😊
yes
It will benefit our whole society because we know the importance of building and contributing to society- it will help everyone!
It's never going to happen!
Thank you Mrs. Jones. You are a great leader and treasure to this country and the world. I pray one day we see a just America for black people. I have zero faith, unfortunately for my young children, that we will. Maybe I'll be proven wrong.
They should talk about the blacks that sold black slaves to the white people.
Why have children when the World is unjust? I don't have children because of my code of do no harm. I often wish I would have someone in old age. Luckily, I am always reminded with observation and bearing witness to so many who had "family" who weren't there. I have no expectations for myself in this regard. I could not raise a child in this World. I'm not that selfish nor do I need a legacy. I have so many siblings, it's unethical, immoral, disgusting and Un-American. But that's another story.
She really put things into a wider understanding for me. 250 years of oppression needs to be removed from our societal plan.
@Don Gray I hope that you dedicated hours on your masterpiece of bullshit, your manifesto of pity, your diatribe of ignorance. And all for nothing, it will go no farther than this pitiful post on UA-cam.
@Don Gray Here is an example of why change will never occur here or anywhere that represents white colonial power. White people understand that for the oppressed to rise, the group in favor must fall. Hence, the only change America will see is destruction.
@Don Gray What! You use that dirty word: responsibility. It's racism that it's for some and not for others.
@@dkpqzm It's pretty truthful and, with the lamestream media and our bullshit politically correct attitude it may not be popular (like the truth). Just remember, slavery used to be politically correct. Fashion is fickle. When the finally finishes destroying the country you'll have got what you wanted. I may be wrong, liberalism is working well in the Soviet Union and Venezuela.
Her whole basis for reparations is that white people have inherited a debt to black people. My problem with that is 95% of white people are not descendents of slave owners. Most white people migrated here in the late 19th and early 20th century. They were very poor and many of which were oppressed and mistreated themselves and packed into ghettos. Many Irish Catholics weren't even allowed to vote. Slave ownership was relegated to a small sliver of wealthy white folks from the south and who were here before 1860. Not to mention the 600,000 white Americans who died in the civil war to stop slavery, do the descendents of those people still owe black people money when their ancestors gave their lives and never owned slaves? And what about native Americans and the many other races who were hurt in America? What about the Japanese and Germans put in concentration camps in the 40s? It just seems too complicated and unfair to make people pay up large sums of money based on their skin color. Let's talk about solutions to poverty but this reparations thing is puzzling.
She did a lot of thought process and reach Research into our work I'm kind of surprised only impressed
All that research. Nothing has changed.
Her net worth is somewhere between $3 and $5 million. I don't think she's struggling. And this white guy who's net worth is $4 million, is ecstatic, I'm sure, about telling people they can't do something. Her, too. Although, she's succeeded in life, she's telling other black people they can't do something because of discrimination. She ought to be preaching the opposite. Neither of these two challenge each other's ideology, because they think the same way. I'd like to see these two when they are challenged.
Thank you for your efforts
Thank you, I needed this, Nicole is a soldier and you Sir, are a soldier in this army of waking up this country to doing the right thing. I am 75, will I see the reparations we so deserve, I don’t know, but I hope something is done soon. America has done right by EVERY SINGLE GROUP accept the African American. This is just crazy, and the nerve of people saying we should forget what our ancestors went through and the hell we face still. We have gone through hell in this country for 400 years. Something has got to be done soon.
Sister, everything you wrote is truth and facts, these people know especially the government they just don't want to give us Reparations, a Black President Obama gave the Jews of the Holocaust Reparations, America had nothing to do with the Holocaust, Germany had already given the Jews who were Holocaust victims Reparations. Imagine, a Black President giving Jews Reparations when America had nothing to do with that evil and a half Black man just ignored Blacks plight here and we showed great affection for someone who cared nothing about Black people for he really did nothing significant for Blacks at all. History will show his failure too endeavor to level the playing field.
Has the US done right by the Mexican Community?. The US bullied a weaker Nation into a War, took half its territory. A territory where Black Americans would have a GREAT economic benefit, e.g. California. Blacks benefiting from their disgrace. Reparations for Blacks paid by white folks AND reparations for Mexicans by White AND Black folks. GIVE ME MY MONEY!!!
Yes the time has come ACTUALLY black people of America are overdue. We have done more for this country then any race of people.💯 Yes we have fought in every war you have had. From the civil war to WWII even the Vietnam war black folks was still unable to have the right to Vote. And of course the enslavement of my ancestors it is time for you all to pay 💯😎
You are wrong. Read history. Read actual documents online. America has NOT "done right by every single group except African Americans". Wrong. So wrong.
Some type of reparations sound like a start. But we need to include many different people in any plan. The U.S. and notably southern farmers and companies enslaved Blacks. But we also enslaved Chinese, migrant workers, Indians and women. Do we only help those who were enslaved and their offspring ? Let us include vets and their families. The US exposed troops to radiation and agent orange that injured and killed vets like my Dad, their wives like my Mom with cancer and children (I am one). Corporations and individuals discriminated against immigrants from Italy, Ireland, India, Vietnam and Japan. Let us also include people from Italy, Ireland, India, Vietnam and Japan. Today, bigots discriminate against migrants from central and Latin American countries where we meddled with their governments (under the Monroe Doctrine). So let us include today's immigrants. We must remember that the US government and individuals have made life hell for many different people. I do not know what the answer is, but it must include reparations for all those injured and their offspring, plus education of bigots who are the offspring of the earlier bigots. This has never been a place of white people. Indians were here first. And before them, possibly Asians... Neanderthals...
The Natives that was here 3500 before white man landed....and there was a black slave that landed with the pilgrams...they (pilgrim's) were just trying to escape from the same thing that's happening here and now...history is something we need to explore...get and ancestry text, youll learn a lot of interesting information. information
This podcast was 2 years ago and not one single law has be pass to address reparations.
It's time to pay up it's simple as that,and action speaks louder than words.
Excellent presentation. Much better reparations plan than Clyburn nonsense. I'm glad she also argued the benefits the nation will receive. Although after all this money is being thrown to the wealthy and corps., Americans should understand there is no scarity of funds and also demand the universal programs she talked about. But take care of all your business, reparations being a priority. You get more bang for your buck, social benefits and economic benefits.
Thank you [from this old white lady] for your magnificent NYTimes Magazine piece this weekend and for your clear oral presentation here, I hope your audience grows and grows and grows. And can’t forget the 1619 project of course! Thank you thank you thank you.
Its globalist revisionism.
Mr. Reich, I wish you would consider interviewing Yvette Carnell and/or Antonio Moore. They are WORKING toward changing the economic conditions of ADOS.
Well said Nikole Hannah-Jones and Robert Reich.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Knowledge is key so, thank you both for sharing and explaining problems as well as giving solutions.
Doing is the solution
Awesome thanks Mrs Jones how can we donate to the project. God bless you 🙏❤
Thank you for this wonderful video!
Antonio Moore was the first person to tell us about the wealth gap tone talks is the expert on this issue. #ADOS
Thank you for your hard efforts to help Black people but unfortunately we are not getting any reparations. We don’t even know how to apply for these grants let alone how to get them that came through Civil Rights Movements. All other groups are also the minorities including immigrants who is getting the help. So good luck on that. Your book writing is worth reading to help you and your family
Oh yea of little faith. Every word you wrote, you call into your life not all of ADOS.
Can't no one stop what my heavenly father got planned so go on with your negative talk
Mr Robert Reich, I've always been a fan of yours since your days in the White House. This is nothing but an excellent interview and exchange of reasonable ides and a meeting of the minds.
Great Work!
Thank you for what you do (Educating). I would like to make my confession that I am sadly ignorant of my own history. Starting today, I want to know what can I do to make a positive difference? Starting with where I'm presently living in Richmond, Virginia.
Phenomenal interview! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😀
Trolls even here. Trolls need to read credible information sources thereby educating themselves on the issues. The “Fake News” branding only ends up stifling the free exchange of information between people. The people who push the term “Fake News” limit the information that they and the rest of us need to intelligently debate issues. Educate yourself. Get involved and vote.
I don't want reparations for my ancestors who were enslaved; I want reparations for my grandparents and great-grandparents who were blackballed out of FDR's "New Deal!"
WE DONT NEED TO BE MARCHING IN THE STREETS !!! WE NEED TO FLOOD EMAILS & MAIL CERTIFIED & PRIORITY MAIL ETC FOR FEDERAL COURT PETITIONS FROM EVERY STATE.
The thing to me with reparations as a payment along racial lines is, you’re essentially saying poor non-PoCs deserve their situation more than poor PoCs do.
The drive to right historical wrongs as an impetus to help the lower class and reform a system that abuses them (be it along racial lines or otherwise) makes perfect sense.
Rendering aid based not on who needs it, and not on who is themselves being abused, but specifically based on whose _ancestors_ were abused I don’t think makes sense.
Paying an abused person’s children or grandchildren neither undoes any of the wrongs done to them, nor is it the most efficient way to alleviate suffering or income inequality.
She is wonderful and Right on. I'm so sorry and am SO distressed that my ancestors were so abusive!!
I am extremely ashamed, IF,..... in the next life, I plan to ream them a new one!!!!
What makes you think "your ancestors" did anything? Becuase some asshole on youtube made a video that you want to virtue signal about. Grow up. The first slaves in America were Irish and some of the biggest slave owners/traders were black. Your cartoonish outlook on life, the revisionist garbage pseudo-history that the idiots online promulgate is truly pathetic.
What part of Capitalism is balanced? How can you have an economically eqaul society using a system that is structurally imbalanced? This is the critical issue that is sadly missed by most including this platform.
Sorry to burst your bubble but utopias don't exist. There will never be a perfect and balanced system. The goal is to constantly improve and get better. History has shown that the most successful economic system is some form of capitalism. So far the closest we've come to perfection is "Rhine capitalism" which is the system found throughout most of Europe. Socialism failed miserably and that's why every single socialist country in the 20th century has transitioned into capitalism. It has pulled millions out of poverty.
@@ericg4915 There is no utopia. However, we can do better then capitalism. While some have made it out of poverty, a tremendous number remain in poverty even though we have to capability to remove poverty.
@@egbutler114your definition of capitalism is the problem here; you need to define clearly what you think is wrong & how to fix it; speaking in generalities about vaguely defined terms goes nowhere fast.
@chrisfreebairn870 it's not my definition. Market Capitalism is behind the unequal and stratified society we see today. The system has to change to remove these system results.
@@egbutler114 the term is too broad, market capitalism is constrained or ameliorated by many factors, as are the alternatives. Rules & regulations, taxation, trusts, estate duties etc. Union power affects share of profits to wages etc.
Your comment is vague & imprecise, it says nothing of value; why did you make it; why unprepared to say what you mean?
What alternative do you suggest that is not a variant or modification of capitalism?
One component of reparations should be a collective, financial literacy
program on how to build wealth.
Why wasn't reparations discussed during reconstruction?
This video is the formula to really make America great!
Thank you for the making of this video.
God bless you!
How ?
By being lazy? Even more???
It’s about time that we teach REAL Black history! 💪🏾💯‼️
Excellent interview
Is that an authors picture/ drawing/ image, in the background?
Amen, Amen, Amen 🙏🌅🙏
American must write the wrong.
Americans we want our Reparations.
Debt is owned.
I THANK WHITE PEOPLE FOR SPEAKING OUT IN SUCH A BIG WAY, gives me hope for the future,this struggle is not just for black people most of us blacks are thinking about MANKIND.
Denial shields one from feeling an obligation to agitate for change. It is far more comfortable to believe the myth that America has progressed into a post-racial/post-inequality era and that Whites needn't worry about racial and economic injustices.
How's has this presentation impacted trying to created for positive future going, how have you been able to resolve these problems from the past so far... 🧐 Any progressions Robert.
I have always felt that reparations is necessary in some form, not because of the slavery but because of the betrayal by the Federal Government, to give the African-American community the same protections and assistance given to the Whites after the Civil War. Instead after Lincolns death, they let the States restructure their control mechanisms in a way that the Freed slaves were still very vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. The Southern states are to this day still playing games to slow down those efforts. Witness the Confederate battle flag use by the State of Mississippi until just a few days ago.
I am British , like you I want reparations from Italy , middle east , Scandinavian countries for holding Britons slaves for 400 years ,I'm up in arms about how good my life is ,if black Americans think it bad ,go to Africa where slavery is still going on , colonizers made your life ,it not easy for anyone , don't think black people had it so hard , that just racist my friend
What your answer to other enslaved people ,it was Africa kings who sold them , will they pay
If they make right what was done wrong maybe this curse will be lifted off this country. it is bad out here in every aspect and getting worse and worse
I wish Spike Lee would remake Roots and just "flip the colors".
That's a great idea, but even that wouldn't change their ws minds.
Robert is so smart. He knows it doesn’t add up. Cut the Check...
He's smart enough to tap into this racist Politically (In)Correct BS to make money. Now he's rich off you fools.
We don't owe you anything.
Thanks for this wonderful interview. So important to all of us. Understand the practicality of Reparations. Not just because it is the right thing to do. It would make our country whole. It would benefit all of us. It would make us so much better. Reparations.
Should Indians get reparations to
I'm aa construction contractors, estimate the cost to installation of foundations. I took the software program and placed a dollar value of each item and USA owns me $42.800,000 and with 2% interest rate for every year is close to 8million plus
All of the research has been done and documented Yahoo Finance has done the estimates on Reparations
Yes, reparations are needed in order to heal our country. The steps to making this possible should be set in motion.
Yes, reparations are needed to help Trump get his racist supporters to the polls. Because that is what you're doing with this. Waves from gay man who lost half his brain because he didn't have health insurance and has epilepsy due to it. Apologies for my priviledge. I hope this helps Whoopi sleep tonight.
Who is going to pay for it? I didn’t do anything wrong. Are you going to ask native Americans or Latin Americans or Asian Americans to pay? Will 100% of the population (including African Americans) pay? If reparations happen will African Americans all in a united way decide “ok, we are good now.” Assuming only white people pay, if the white part of my family came here after slavery ended am I exempt, or am I “guilty” because of the color of my skin?
Who pays? How much? And is that the end?
There is no question that (generally speaking) African Americans have been and are treated worse. This isn’t an easy topic.
How do we demand reparations? Where do we even start?
I would refuse to pay them. They were never slaves and I was never a slave owner.... even the bible says you can't revisit the sins of the father on the son, but still - not a slave owner
@@deanyoung8812 It wouldn't come directly from you. Its a debt that the Government owes...are you saying that you are the Government? If so you do owe!
@@82958MJJ where does the government get the revenue for paying the - reparations? From taxes? I an Idea! since we can genetically trace back (or however we are doing it) ancestry to slave brought to America, we should employee the same technology to see who is a descended from historical slave owners - they they should be the first to pay. Then all the people who have continued to oppress African Americans (which I guess is no longer about decedents of slaves) for people who have moved here from other countries) ALL THESE 2ND LEVEL OPPRESSOR are people in government in various ranks president's senators, congress, local mayor, sheriffs and such but they ALL have on thing in common, beside skin color, their rich or very well off which is how they are able to run for these offices. Then you have the third level of oppressors - that jack asses that range from using racial slurs in a hurtful way (sometimes education requires it and I use them to illustrate just how small minded these slurs are and as small minded as those who use them in a hurtful way - any confusion please watch Blazing Saddles and see Mel Brooks commentary on just how stupid racism is). My family has never owned slaves, unfortunately my family has never had money - so being part of the system of oppression senator, mayor, police chief, dog catcher has never been within reach... Kevin is good friend, he and I are both are software engineers. We make sure our cubicles are next to each other so we chat, insult and/or throw things at each other. We are a lunch duo and on the weekends goof of or watch sport. In the first week I met him, he said "I never knew I was black until I was stationed in Idaho." - he was in the military. I stopped him right there and gawcked "you're black???" and told him that I wish he hadn't told me, because now I couldn't talk to him any more, we can't go to lunch and he needed to start parking in the far parking lot.... He laughed the whole time full well knowing I was just giving him friendly ribbing and I meant none of it. We are still just as good as friends as we ever were. ... So when I march or help organize WITH BLM (as I have done actively)but I believe in equality no one is to get preferential treatment. I forget wich civil rights leader it was but he was not in favor of an affirmative action type program he believe that he was every bit a man with intelligence and skill to achieve everything on a level playing field - instead he wanted equality.
Reparations will create dependence on this system which is another type of control - rather than raise you wages - here are reparations instead so we don't have to change what we are doing..... not the right message.
@@deanyoung8812 You wrote all of this for what? Listen hun! Just like the Govt is able to give out Stimulus checks for millions of American's and offer support to illegal immigrants and also refugee's, while offering foreign aide to impoverished countries they sure as hell can give reparations to the descendants of slaves! Convo over babe!
@@82958MJJ btw - we are the government. of the people, for the people by the people
Amazing conversation
Reparations is a kind of "loaded" word. If you look in a dictionary it is money the victorious nation extorts from the losing nation as a punishment. The freeing of American slaves was reparation the northern u.s. inflicted on the southern u.s. as punishment for starting the civil war. From what I have read (I do not know if it is true) the monetary value of these enslaved humans was a large percentage of the south's wealth.
This instance of "reparations" caused an exodus of whites and blacks from the South
as the southern economy struggled to recover. I was astonished to come across one of Abraham Lincoln's speeches to his fellow Republicans (to someone named Hernedon) in which he proposed that his party raise taxes to compensate the Southerners for the loss of their slaves and negotiate a peace. Lincoln said he thought it would cost less money than continuing the civil war. It seems that his suggestion was rejected. Perhaps Pres. Lincoln and other whites had not given much thought to what would become of the former slaves if they were freed. History shows us that an attempt was made to settle some former slaves on Africa's west coast where these mostly illiterate people could use their farming skills to provide for themselves and build a society to their liking.
W arren Buffett said that his secretary paid an effective tax rate higher than his own. We know
there are tax incentives for investors to risk money, which his secretary cannot afford to do. It is
also said that low income Americans pay a larger percentage of their income to charities that
30:16 provide food, clean water and basic shelter than billonaires and other wealthy people, who tend to give money that is used to build buildings or fund scholarships with their names on them. Average What If the Walton heirs paid the same tax rate as the customers of the Walmart stores and matched the percentage of money that ordinary people donate for basic needs in their charitable giving?😮
I believe that Robert Johnson's proposal of $14 Trillion should gain momentum. I would like to know from Robert Reich if that number would be enough, because I think it should be more to the tune of $8T for cash payments, $5T for community investment, and $3T for business grants to ADOS individuals making a total of $16T for a reparations act.
@Don Gray The only people that have been given money over and over again has been billionaires, and they haven`t contributed anything to fixing a damn thing. Jewish, Japanese, native, and handicapped Americans have all been paid reparations in the past and it didn`t damage the fabric of society; so shut your racist mouth and stop with the strawmen and slippery slope arguments. Learn your Goddamn history, ADOS are American not African. America needs to pay the debt to the slaves that built this country.
The total US debt is $21 Trillion. Are you suggesting adding $14 Trillion to that?
$8 Trillion is cash payments??? That would work out as around $200k per black person in the US!
If you keep this line of reasoning, no sane white person will ever vote democrat (or whatever party crazy enough to support a kind of wealth transfer of this magnitude) ever again.
@@FordFlatSix 'America needs to pay the debt to the slaves that built this country'. True, but they have been dead for 100+ years.
America should do something to get black people to the same economic level than non blacks, but I bet my balls than going about it in purely racial terms will achieve the exact opposite that you are looking for.
@@jaimegarcia8447 If 2020 has taught us anything it is that money doesn`t exist. Wall Street ate $5T in 2 weeks and did nothing to solve any problems. Before covid we gave billionaires the lowest tax rate in US history and it solved no problems. The federal minimum wage has not been raised in 10+ years and rents keep rising, and our solution is to keep pumping money into a system of banks? It is time to give that money to working people and create an economy that works for everyone.
@@jaimegarcia8447 That is why this is an heritage issue. There is documentation of those who were bonded into slavery and we can trace their descendants. I would argue that those who fled to other countries in order to gain freedom would have access this these programs as well. Remember that race was a tool created by the American slave economy in order to control labor; people can identify as black, but only their legacy makes that descendants of slavery. In other words, Senator Kamala Harris would not have access to any of this money, but Senator Tim Scott would.
Incredible history lesson with connections to the present-day structural racism.
Where is this structural racism?
And it all started with blacks selling blacks as slaves.
This is so illuminating, etc.
I once saw (about a week ago) a calmment on a YT video telling like the timeline of when reparations have been made'n paid over this last century and, i think, slightly before. A Truth for Reconciliation Commission (commitment) starts off a conflict resolution process, as done "way back when" resolving South African Apartheid. This would/could take place between all victim and perpetrating groups that will interestingly overlap. If North America did this, ASAP, we could then together work to avert climate chaos.
My Irish indentured servant ancestors were owned by a black slave owner who owned black slaves too. My native American ancestors were slaughtered by black buffalo soldiers. When do the millions of us get our reparations and from whom ?
A truth for reconciliation committee is straight up kafkaesque communist shyte.
@@franklinloll2229 Naw, truth reconciles & piles up into context which redeems. Kafka was about that inherently contradictory Retributive Justice that persists as our legal model, when it's anything but that. Remember The Trial?
@@franklinloll2229 The truth, as ruthless as it is, will set you free too, whatever the truth is, cuz context redeems.
We not only need reparation We also need a passport to get the h*** out of here and a place to go
You don't even have enough money or will to get a passport to leave. 😂 I can't believe that those masters beat your ancestors so hard that you still have slave mind.
YES !!! Let's go back to our home, Africa! Then we can get the blacks that sold other blacks.
YES PLEASE LEAVE
Thank you for helping to share this very valuable information and have you received the copy of my book that I sent you, Rise and Fall of Great Empires? If so have you had the opportunity to read it?
The Legend (or) Let’s call A Spade A Spade: [For those who lack the cultural background -- I don't know if the term is still being used, but when I was in San Diego in the late fifties, blacks were frequently called "Spades."]
Once upon a time on the outer reaches of the far perimeters of the universe there existed a small, almost insignificant system of planets that surrounded a small, almost insignificant sun. Among these planets there whirled unobtrusively with its eight companions a small almost insignificant planet that showed signs of life. Sometimes. It was never abundantly clear to objective observers, but every now and then it would seem that there were emanations of rudimentary forms of fleeting consciousness. Upon close scrutiny it could be seen that there were indeed beings that walked upright on two legs. They had the same general form as one another, and their appearance manifested in different colors. Some were darker, some were lighter. This was not to be wondered at, since other beings that walked on four legs, as well as those that swam in the water, also had fur and skin tones of different colors. The strange, inexplicable characteristic that accompanied the different colors in the beings that walked upright, as opposed to those that walked on all fours and swam, was that they took careful note of these color differences. The ones with darker appearance noticed the ones with lighter appearance had a lighter appearance; the ones with lighter appearance noticed the ones with darker appearance had a darker appearance. Had it gone no further, this might not have been a particularly noticeable characteristic, but these strange two-legged beings took their noticing of the color differences to levels of choosing sides and actually feeling superior to their fellow two-legged creatures of other colors. This strange manifestation was made even stranger by its inconsistency. None of these strange factions formed by the color differences agreed upon the group that was superior; each of these groups claimed superiority for itself. Further close scrutiny would reveal the young children of these different “races,” as they referred to themselves, knew nothing of these color differences. They only became aware of the differences as they grew older. There was no doubt; the attitudes were sociologically learned.
Strange legends abounded as to the origins of the noticed differences. One told of the Legend Of The Enwards. At the dawn of the “races,” went the story, there were the various colors, each indigenous to its “race.” The first family of each had its own name, and the name of the black family was Edwards. But they were all born harelip, and when asked what their name was, would reply, “Enwards." And all blacks were referred to by everyone thereafter as the Enwards. But it was only a legend and nobody ever really knew for sure… -- RHM --
U blowhard!!!
And Native and Mexican Americans should be included
please go to www.ados101.com google tonetalks n breakingbrown our claim is a specific justice claim we #ados are not divisive #reparations #repair we have no casinos n don`t want any casinos n mexican americans your claim is specific so claim it ..........#ADOS built this country n a debt is owed
and the Japanese interned during WW2
and the millennials who have now suffered through 2 economic collapses
You hit on the EXACT case for why reparations should never be enacted.
T James Thank you, and it needs to be paid.
Thank you for this informative historical lesson. As to why Black Americans are seeking Reperations!
Laziness.
@#3 That's what most Blacks say about white folks.
@@sunshine9717 who's the one always asking for free free free??
exactly..
@@user-nx1pe2cs1t Um white folks, From the moment they arrived in America.
I personally don't think we will ever see it . Honestly I don't want individual reparations on my part. Take that money and put better schools, grocery stores , community centers , technical schools, neighborhood police stations, computer centers, libraries etc. Create better housing opportunities etc. Create banking that has a program on becoming a business owner. In the city I live in they totally went in and changed a desolate area and the people are taking care of it. It is pretty nice and clean. Yes we deserve reparations but I am more concerned about lifting our communities up as a whole.
70svibe53 Resentment and hatred will be engendered by such 'special treatment.'
Whereas people of today are NOT guilty for what anyone in the past did we are ALL responsible for humane conditions to be provided for every one of our fellow Americans.
AND WE WILL NOT BE DISTRACTED. WE WILL FILE THESE PETITIONS BEFORE THIS OCTOBER 2023. PREFERABLY BY LABOR DAY BECAUSE ITS A MEMORABLE HOLIDAY CONCERNING LABOR.
Please speak to Ms. Yvette Carnell of the ADOS Advocacy Foundation. This is where Nikole gets her rhetoric and is the main organization putting the REAL work in on Reparations. Nikole seems to only be in this for the recognition, money, and connections. If she were really fighting this fight, she’d be with us out on ground-level doing the ACTUAL work towards justice in the form of Reparations.
Don M. How about just appreciating the work she's doing and seeing it as an addition to instead of trying to dismiss her work/effort. The division you are trying to interject does nothing for the cause and only provides fuel to the opposition.
Remember that time the Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews for 400 years?
Does Egypt owe reparations to Israel? Just asking.
I BELIEVE EVERY BLACK STUDENT SHOULD DROP OUT OF COLLEGE, GET WORK & BUILD. COLLEGE HAS NOT GIVEN US STABILITY. I PAID BACKY DAUGHTERS LOANS & THEY DIDN'T OFFER HER ANY GREAT JOBS NOR BAD ONES. THEY GAVE HER AN OUTDATED LIST OF MOSTLY RETAIL STORES SHE HAD ALREADY WORKED AT BEFORE SHE GRADUATED. WHAT A SLAP IN THE FACE.
Great discussion!
What about Indiginous peoples. Reparations would begun with giving back Turtle Island, entire.
You don't mix different class action law suits. Indigenous people's main claim is the theft of property like Turtle Island. Also complicated by written contracts and land previously distributed to them. American Decendents of slavery main claim is theft of labor with no written contracts or land grants.
The American Indians need to make their voices louder. They need to get more into political parties.
An enllightened young grandchild/bride seeking advice from her grandmother while they prepared the ham for the Thanksgiving feast, wanted to know why grandmother always sawed the bone off the end of the ham. "...so it will fit in the roasting pan". That's a very old joke and reveals my age 😂! And things are not that simple in life. But to my way of
thinking nothing will ever change , different book cover, same text. Because the DNA that makes America America is already established. Like that Thanksgiving table there is too much to choose from, we don't know what we want first. 😮 We continue to protest, we continue to march, we all want to be heard...we have the solutions. But the only way to bring change is to have 😊a change of heart ❤.
I listened to this and read the article. All good stuff. Eloquent. But there was a palpable lack of numbers. I am not trolling. I am genuinely curious if anyone has seen proposed numbers either by Nicole or other leading activists?
Professor Darrity at Duke university has the numbers.
A big screen tv, a lifetime supply of Popeyes, and a Nissan Altima with gold trim.
By your post we can see, you have no test in cars, food, or electronics. You poor sap.
Look ma! A troll!!!
The point is how much do they get to spend on general consumer consumption versus on the investments they were never allowed to make? Or are we going to assign a financial advisor to each black person?
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The point is...it's none of your business! White people have squander trillions of their and other people money for decades now... why are you not there telling them how to be fiscally responsible?
With hair like that I can’t see her as anything other than an entertainer.
Why
You forgot her tasteful low cut dress. She also makes no sense. Does she needs reperrations for that as well?
Lil_Treebeard sorry, I’m not willing to spoon feed you
What does her hair have to do with this topic? If you are white this is your people's racist way of disrespecting African Americans. If you are an African American then self-hate or stupidity.
Good interview
Thank you!
And everyone forgot to mention reparations for the American Indian Nation. I propose handing all of the USA land back to it's rightful owners, Monetary reparations as well, and the rest of us, returning to wherever we descended from, Africa,Europe Asia etc.
Black Americans are the Indigenous Americans. They are the “Indian”
American Black Peoples are NOT African.
Again, why doesn’t the United Nations convene on behalf of this (similar to what they did for Jewish people and the Natzis)? That would be the most neutral third-party.
How did she get to where she is?