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Can you do a video essay on how the indigenous peoples and the minorities in the United States (and maybe the rest of the world) are the most heavily impacted by climate change?
Even worse is the fact that attempts to create a higher level of education has been met with fierce opposition. Those that disagree have opted to take their children out of public education all together. It's extremely frustrating!
I would love a take on how the green revolution can be attained without further exploiting the countries that contain the minerals needed for the transition. These same countries are already suffering twofold, one from our destabilization and from the effects of climate change. Or how do we reconcile the issue with the Shoshone nation's protest of a lithium mine on their land but support the banning of keystone...either way we further marginalize this group and as you know anytime extraction services enter indigenous land here in the US is worsens the socio economic condition of nearby res populations.
I'm not anti transitioning from fossils fuels I'm just not a lib and willing to justify going from protesting blood for oil to being pro blood form lithium cause owning a Tesla makes me feel ethical.
You might want to give the Freakonomics podcast “is economic growth the wrong goal?” a listen. They interview the author of Donut Economics about their theories and how they’re currently applying them in a few cities. I think it’s one of the most useful things that we can implement currently which countries are likely to be open to. Maybe not the final answer but I do think that it’s a good place to start.
The key to resolving this perceived problem is to not let yourself be pressed into overly binary thinking patterns. A lot of engineers & scientist who talk about a "green revolution" seem to think that the current, often wastefull, lifestyle of the upper classes may not be questioned, and the only relevant questions are about how to generate the energy and materials that support this lifestyle. In reality, a broad range of lifestyles are possible, many of which do not rely on the consumption of materials & energy that some of us consider "normal" today. There are some obvious wastefull behaviours that can be given up with no real impact on our quality of life: Excessive long-range traveling - before CoVid, I was often asked to board a plane and travel for 6 hours (each way) just to be in a meeting "in case" my managers needed the team scientists point of view. Now I just put on headphones and listen in on tele-conferences, and in my experience, exactly zero meetings have failed their purpose due to the lack of physical co-location so far. So business flying seems a very obvious waste to stop immediately. Excessive short-range traveling - Commuting seems to be a widely accepted "normal" behaviour these days, but why should it be? Why would it make sense for a person to live & work at two places that are too far removed from each other to walk the distance daily? This seems to be annother topic we may resolve in the wake of the CoVid situation, since more & more companies may become willing to release their centralised control over the workforce, and allow distributed contributions, either by the "home office" approachs for virtual workers, or hopefully by a "distributed manufacturing" approach yet to be established. Commercial Lighting - Even late at night, a lot of business sites are kept heavily illuminated, just for a imagined advertising effect ... which of course is entirely neutralised when everybody is doind the same thing. And is not a useful behaviour from a communal perspective in any way. And of course, this behaviour just escalates around the christmas / roman new year period, when not only the electrical lighting get's much more excessive, but some people also revel in launching explosives into the sky because the flashs & bangs are considered entertaining by some, who somehow do not consider the much more impressive capabilities of modern CGI to be an appropriate replacement for it. Maybe the second biggest one - wasting heat & cold. To this day, I'm not aware of a commercial solution that combines the heating & cooling requirements in a home. Fridges & AC units tend to just dump their waste heat into the environment, while heaters, boilers & stoves generate their heat from electricity like there was no waste heat available anywhere. Centralized concepts of heat distribution & storage can actually achieve much more than just replacing the electrical source for heat generation from a fossile source to a "regenerative" one (that is still using up silicon, lithium & copper). Definitely the biggest one - the hirarchies: Politicians & Managers that consider themselves so important that they need to constantly travel the world to make political declarations about the future of their country/company/mankind/whatever. Armies that constantly travel the world just to destroy civilian infrastructure based on some bronce-age concepts of good & evil, just to declare that there is a new evil now they are done with (or have given up on) the old one. Billionaires spending millions on getting shot to space just for fun. Scientists making the public spend millions, so they can research the impact of low gravity on the growth of some random plants, in the hope they won't get as much flag for it as the billionaries that go to space for fun. But if all those concepts seem to big for you - take it one step at a time. Whenever you have the time & motivation for it, consider any action you are planing on doing, in terms of - How much energy & ressources will this take, and how does that compare to me having a home and eating regularly. Because for just about everybody who has the time to write & read comments on UA-cam, just getting rid of the obviously excessive stuff will already get the planted into a much more sustainable future very quickly.
This channel has been so eye opening for me on how bad our capitalist culture is! This video reminded me of what the author of Donut Economics said: “There is No such thing as a free market. All that happens when there are no rules is that the person with the most money makes rules in order to ensure that they have an advantage. So don’t you want to be a part of making the rules?”
There is another channel “HistoryVille” who has topics like this that are also very eye opening and unique to explore. It’s centric to colonialism in Africa, but goes hand in hand with this kind of content. You would love!
Saying that on your capitalist phone. Claptilsm is the reason you have every thing. Has it gotten out of control ye, but if we get rid of it the say good by to your luxuries life.
Finally, people are realizing that the free market isn't free. It's controlled by spoiled brats who inherited wealth and controlled by politicians who stole wealth from the public treasury.
I love the contrast between OCC's thoughtful take on racism in agriculture vs Steven Crowder who literally just made racist 'jokes' for a full segment on his show.
Reminded of James Baldwin’s description of being a black man in the United States that the amazing Gabor Mate always repeats - to be a black man in the US is to exist in a state of suppressed rage. Great video ❤️
Yea, they pretty exclusively support the rich white farmers. And even then, they forget about them quickly after they’re in office. Trump for instance wrecked soybean farmer’s ability to sell their crop with his trade war. He handed out some subsidies as a result, but many of them just moved on to worrying about the next harvest.
In addition to the reasons stated in this video there’s another reason why Black farmers are dwindling. Lack of a Will or a Trust and fractional family ownership of their land. Greedy developers and unscrupulous investors have bought millions of acres of land worth billions from Black families for pennies on the dollar. Most of the family members may be spread out across the country and not even be aware that their land is still occupied and farmed by some other members of their families. They may not have ever seen their property or realize it’s true value. Generational wealth is forever loss literally for chicken change. Furthermore, sometimes the Government obtains the land by imminent domain for development of highways, railways and other infrastructure. The Government has also allowed corporations and wealthy investors to claim imminent domain for developmental purposes too.
@@achinthmurali5207 I don't know what your talking about. I grow everything our family needs. We grow all kinds of Fruits and Vegetables. We even have Bananas
True, so remember when ever you hear the phrase that;" black folks are lazy and they don't want nothing" or pull yourself up by your own bootstraps", or when foreigners come here get government help surpass blacks; then go to talking about they came here with nothing(which is a lie), so why can't you guys do the same etc,etc. Just remember that from the very start everytime the black excelled in economics, business, inventions, patents,etc,etc. Know that it has always been opposition; particularly the US government, and white racist terrorism that has always contributed to the setback.
Great video! It reminds me of the old joke; one day two young fish are hanging out and an old fish swims by. "How's the water today, boys?" the old fish says as he swims by. Baffled, one of the young fish asks the other, "What's water?" In the USA racism is the water we swim in. Many well meaning and otherwise educated, intelligent people genuinely don't see racism when they look around because it's the status quo default situation in which they've lived their whole lives. It's the air they live in, the water they swim in.
Given that the whole two continents, were invaded, pilfered, cleansed by slavery and genocide is a non-stop HOLOCAUST for 400 years - best read / understood in these two books. 1. A Peoples History of America - Howard Zinn 2. Open Veins Of Latin America - Galeano
I’m honestly curious what stuff I might learn when I have a kid who goes through school. It feels like every week I’m learning about new stuff that I was never taught because it was suppressed. But it also sounds like more people (in my area at least) are pushing to suppress less and teach more real history.
Thank you: many important points in this video, which absolutely has a great deal to do with addressing climate disruption. A couple of times the land being "twice stolen" is mentioned, but none of the calls to action included explicit reference to learning from, solidarity with, and seeking justice for First Peoples. Pursuing justice in a land still bearing the wounds of centuries of chattel slavery has also wrestle with the fact that the same land still bears the wounds of dispossession and genocide. This is very difficult, but crucial. So, at the risk of telling an excellent creator what they ought to do next, can I put in a humble request for a future video on land back and decolonisation?
Not much to do with race, but I really think we should be taking a hard look at vertical farming with passive lighting solutions. With our current food production, using vertical farms instead of traditional agriculture would mean saving two thirds of our current agricultural land use. This is land that could be rewilded, used for recreation, and to provide sanctuary for indigenous peoples and wildlife across the globe.
Also looking into microfarming, where people use free/communal space for gardens. Generally on unused rooftops. Get rid of lawns, use every chunk of land for something useful!
I wish people that hate themselves would stop asserting themselves. If you want to hurt yourself to prove a moral point keep it to yourself and don’t drag the rest of us down with you
Whether the nuclear deal is a succes or not, a wise man said : “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” (Albert Einstein)
Thank you for addressing the core issues of what the US had done since history. As a citizen, I am ashamed for the what the country had done and they still continues to do so. The European/white settlers that first settled on this very land were also immigrants of this very nation since they technically stole this land after wiping out majority of the Native Americans. To top that, immigration laws were made to sway toward white supremacists' favor when this country propose to be a "diverse country" with no main official language at its' core. Then why continue to make the immigration laws even more difficult/complex when the country want to be known as a "diverse nation?" An unfair irony indeed! 😤 P.S.: This comment was accidentally deleted in the past by myself. I wanted to respond to another commenter of my comment, and the person happens to be a racist calling me a racist. A psycho indeed! I just wanted to be clear here: I'm not a racist, and my above comment by no means are in favor of a group towards one group nor another. I don't practice ethnocentrism! I simply want to address the injustice happening in a dystopian society.
And I find it very interesting how you can't make comments on UA-cam short videos so I have to make the comment on your previous video Think about it 😞
@SharienGaming Acting like no one one else on earth did that. African tribes fought over land and conquered all the time. Spanish conquistadors, Imperial Japan. The Roman's etc.
@@carlosforbidden1429 so if enough people have done something horrible its okay to do it? that way of arguing is headed for maximizing misery, because it does not strive for improving matters and fixing problems, but for normalizing and distracting from those issues
@SharienGaming No. That's not what I mean, what I mean is you can't cherry pick who is right and who is wrong when literally everyone else did the same thing. If you're going to call out America or whoever, call out the entire world. Instead of just nit-picking. Plus it was a different world back then, with different standards.
ONLY one word has the power to begin to right these age-old injustices- *_| REPARATIONS |_* For ALL Black descendants today who aren't already wealthy, and for all Native communities who have likewise been systematically violently robbed of their cultural and natural heritage.
@@anderhagea553 lol sure why not? We all can strive to better ourselves, but that skips over the broader issue. I'll be fighting in the halls of power for whats right. Only working on "ourselves" doesn't change public policy.
I’m curious if you’ve considered your terms as far as race goes? You called people of European ancestry “white”, African ancestry “black” but American ancestry “First Nations” (I assume you’re Canadian)? People from Asia are Asians, people from the Polynesian areas are Polynesian but Europeans and Africans just get a color? Please consider updating your concept from inaccurate colors to race. You wouldn’t call Asians yellow or NAs red now would you? I realize those are accepted terms but it doesn’t make them the best to use either. Same with First Nation. It’s not accurate. Native Americans are not the first people to create nations. I’ve enjoyed your videos but this is so bad I now doubt the veracity of them all. Unsubscribed 😕
Is stealing land necessarily race motivated? And who doesn't or didn't steal land. Humans have always been a bunch of war waging, land taking, people murdering bunch. Nobody is responsible for their race's past or grandfather's misdoings. We can learn from the past to do better. We can not repay all the wrongdoings of the past.
Yes. Lets focus on the past. This really matters. The world is on fire, but lets focus on the history of farmland with a twist of past racism. Thank you for fueling malice for the sole purpose to monetize it. :)
Even though I generally agree with the underlying message and the sentiments of most of your videos (and I keep watching them), I do think that so heavily loading each and every video with the same "standard rhetoric" and keywords does disservice to getting the message across to the wider public - especially new viewers. The amount of subscribers and likes and dislikes of course seem very favourable, but this may just be an indication of an "echo chamber" developing. While most people do agree that social injustices exist and need to be corrected, far fewer see (e.g.) capitalism as an absolute evil that needs to be somehow demolished. If every video is laden with revolutionary message and heaps guilt on people who don't associate the (current or historical) events and realities with themselves, it becomes a lot harder to get through to them. Just something to consider.
I'm curious who you think this is meant to make feel guilty. If you're empathizing with slaveowners and racists to the point that learning about American history makes you feel guilt, then you need to work on yourself.
@@Treebark1313 I wasn't talking about a personal point of view. Public attitudes and structures within society can be improved upon without the need to find a "guilty party" behind every issue. It is precisely the point that there are plenty of people wanting to institute positive change but don't feel they are personally responsible for ill deeds of their ancestors. My concern was about not getting the message across if it is made unpalatable to Joe Public, and it wasn't only about this video but the channel in general (and also applies to their Second Thought channel). Make of it what you will. Keep calm and carry on.
@@lippenserver5583 You're reading a lot into the video that most people (evidently) don't see. I mean this sincerely -- it's something to take up with yourself (or your therapist, I guess), not with people advocating for reparations.
@@Treebark1313 "Empathize with racists"? "Take it up with your therapist"? Just lukewarm attempts at personal insults disguised as suggestions of "self improvements". Is this the standard methodology of "communication" you have chosen for yourself? You seem to expend considerable time scanning comments (as mine was quite far down the page) and I am sure with minimum additional effort you could find others in the comments that actually disagree with what this channel (and Second Thought channel) is trying to achieve. I don't. Good luck, and happy hunting!
@@lippenserver5583 there are lot of things that OCC and other channel like Second Thought have ignored, the negative consequences of the solution they proposed, just because you have a great solution, doesn’t mean the outcome is all positive, every solutions have negative consequences no matter how great the solutions are, this is the thing that OCC and Second Thought i have problem with, they tend to be pro on those solutions without even thinking the negative consequences of these solutions, OCC revolutionary solution would have lot of negative consequences like conflict, this is something that OCC completely ignored in order to spread his message around the world, OCC is so blinded with his utopianism socialist idealism that he completely ignored the history of socialism alongside communism, and political reality of the world, so this is the problem i have with many social commentary content creator, they tend to be extremist and too liberal that they are out of touch from reality, so you are right, OCC revolutionary rhetoric isn’t gonna work, and don’t know how @what have 4 likes
Many good points, several things I would disagree strongly with. But In general, I strongly approve of increased small-scale domestic agriculture, especially if it will be a way of increasing the wealth and opportunity of dispossessed people. However, I strongly believe in private property, so it would be appalling to see that land collectivized. But I understand this channel is not exactly for those of us that believe in private property.
Seize the means of production. You can still have your funco pops. That private property is fine. You aren't allowed to unilaterally control the food that keeps people alive.
When has this channels argued against owning land? This video is support black land owners. Also know the difference between personal and private property. You can criticize capitalism without arguing to have it completely abolished. You're implying there's only 2 extremes.
@@Praisethesunson I do not care about the nicknacks. I care about the land on which I can grow food/produce that I could sell for a profit. I do care about controlling the food I produce on land I control. That is literally the most important kind of property ownership.
@@108nighthawk Lol then you don't know how modern farming works. Let alone the private property you clearly don't actually have. A handful of mega conglomerates control everything on the farm and own everything on it. All you have is a scrap of paper that says the land is temporarily yours, if you can keep paying off your debts to the actual owners. 95% of private property is owned by mega conglomerates. At best you might have a small plot of housing you own for the moment(assuming you aren't in debt of course). That's as close as you get to private property.
Is it that this event happened very recent that people saw/see it as a problem? Not to make these atrocities tiny but the original slaves where slavic people the romans had millions of slaves for there fields and we still have slavery today.
Were those white farmers & business owner once slaves or are they descendants from slaves. Those present day White farmers & business owners in Africa acquired lands that were brutally stolen from apartheid Africa. Please know ur history before u become a cry baby on YT
Difference is those same farmers stole the land before, and were part of the apartheid system Not saying they deserve that, it shouldn't happen since them as individuals aren't necessarily guilty of those things, having time passed and apartheid being state enforced and not only backed up by society, but historically that's different from people being slaves, receiving a bit of land and seeing even that stolen
Your family benefitted from racism throughout all those generations. White working class folks have to struggle, but black working class have that same struggle and on top of that even more struggle. It ain't us versus them, when you deny the struggles of others you are also denying your own family's struggle. Basically you are just telling the comments section you are spoiled and adversarial towards fellow working class folks.
This is the wrong perspective. Uplifting minorities with universal policies helps everyone except the mega wealthy individuals and corporations. There's really no good reason to resist it.
@@aprilk141 Not spoiled at all. I worked for everything I own. So does my Belizean wife who doesn’t buy into this progressive stack nonsense. She actually became annoyed when I read her your comment, she says it implies that Black people are incapable of doing things themselves and assumes they always need a leg up from white people to advance at all. Do you talk to Black people regularly about this?
This is guy that does casting jewellery and he makes money off UA-cam good channel veg oil guy I told him to not do shorts you're not going to make money off it and he stopped doing it and he just started going back to his regular content now I don't have any videos or anything and I was able to influence him and he was a sizable channel too this please listen to my advice it's in your interest and it's in my interest I don't look at shorts companies follow these garbage trends this is popular Just because it's popular it doesn't mean it's good Just saying 🤗
The amount of UA-cam shorts you're doing on this channel I'm very very very tempted to unsubscribe and it's a shame because it's a really well done program and you have put effort and high quality into it and it's such a shame you're giving into the UA-cam short b******* it's not in your interest it's in the corporate interest of UA-cam and it's going to wreck your channel it's the ruin of the whole platform don't give in to it fight against it you're better than that 😀
❓ What should reparations in the U.S. look like?
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Can you do a vid about native Americans?
reparations need to start with reinvestment in disadvantaged communities of color
Yawn, this is obvious enough, after all the USA was a settler colonial country ti begin with.......
Can you do a video essay on how the indigenous peoples and the minorities in the United States (and maybe the rest of the world) are the most heavily impacted by climate change?
Should be zero reparations. Why are you so racist?
Well-researched, well-crafted video! So much valuable historical information packed into this episode. Thanks for sharing!
Safe to say people need to hear about this. It's such a shame that US history education sucks so much.
Even worse is the fact that attempts to create a higher level of education has been met with fierce opposition. Those that disagree have opted to take their children out of public education all together.
It's extremely frustrating!
Your interpretation of facts sucks, I'll say that much.
I would love a take on how the green revolution can be attained without further exploiting the countries that contain the minerals needed for the transition. These same countries are already suffering twofold, one from our destabilization and from the effects of climate change.
Or how do we reconcile the issue with the Shoshone nation's protest of a lithium mine on their land but support the banning of keystone...either way we further marginalize this group and as you know anytime extraction services enter indigenous land here in the US is worsens the socio economic condition of nearby res populations.
I'm not anti transitioning from fossils fuels I'm just not a lib and willing to justify going from protesting blood for oil to being pro blood form lithium cause owning a Tesla makes me feel ethical.
You might want to give the Freakonomics podcast “is economic growth the wrong goal?” a listen.
They interview the author of Donut Economics about their theories and how they’re currently applying them in a few cities. I think it’s one of the most useful things that we can implement currently which countries are likely to be open to.
Maybe not the final answer but I do think that it’s a good place to start.
The key to resolving this perceived problem is to not let yourself be pressed into overly binary thinking patterns. A lot of engineers & scientist who talk about a "green revolution" seem to think that the current, often wastefull, lifestyle of the upper classes may not be questioned, and the only relevant questions are about how to generate the energy and materials that support this lifestyle.
In reality, a broad range of lifestyles are possible, many of which do not rely on the consumption of materials & energy that some of us consider "normal" today. There are some obvious wastefull behaviours that can be given up with no real impact on our quality of life:
Excessive long-range traveling - before CoVid, I was often asked to board a plane and travel for 6 hours (each way) just to be in a meeting "in case" my managers needed the team scientists point of view. Now I just put on headphones and listen in on tele-conferences, and in my experience, exactly zero meetings have failed their purpose due to the lack of physical co-location so far. So business flying seems a very obvious waste to stop immediately.
Excessive short-range traveling - Commuting seems to be a widely accepted "normal" behaviour these days, but why should it be? Why would it make sense for a person to live & work at two places that are too far removed from each other to walk the distance daily? This seems to be annother topic we may resolve in the wake of the CoVid situation, since more & more companies may become willing to release their centralised control over the workforce, and allow distributed contributions, either by the "home office" approachs for virtual workers, or hopefully by a "distributed manufacturing" approach yet to be established.
Commercial Lighting - Even late at night, a lot of business sites are kept heavily illuminated, just for a imagined advertising effect ... which of course is entirely neutralised when everybody is doind the same thing. And is not a useful behaviour from a communal perspective in any way. And of course, this behaviour just escalates around the christmas / roman new year period, when not only the electrical lighting get's much more excessive, but some people also revel in launching explosives into the sky because the flashs & bangs are considered entertaining by some, who somehow do not consider the much more impressive capabilities of modern CGI to be an appropriate replacement for it.
Maybe the second biggest one - wasting heat & cold. To this day, I'm not aware of a commercial solution that combines the heating & cooling requirements in a home. Fridges & AC units tend to just dump their waste heat into the environment, while heaters, boilers & stoves generate their heat from electricity like there was no waste heat available anywhere. Centralized concepts of heat distribution & storage can actually achieve much more than just replacing the electrical source for heat generation from a fossile source to a "regenerative" one (that is still using up silicon, lithium & copper).
Definitely the biggest one - the hirarchies:
Politicians & Managers that consider themselves so important that they need to constantly travel the world to make political declarations about the future of their country/company/mankind/whatever.
Armies that constantly travel the world just to destroy civilian infrastructure based on some bronce-age concepts of good & evil, just to declare that there is a new evil now they are done with (or have given up on) the old one.
Billionaires spending millions on getting shot to space just for fun.
Scientists making the public spend millions, so they can research the impact of low gravity on the growth of some random plants, in the hope they won't get as much flag for it as the billionaries that go to space for fun.
But if all those concepts seem to big for you - take it one step at a time. Whenever you have the time & motivation for it, consider any action you are planing on doing, in terms of - How much energy & ressources will this take, and how does that compare to me having a home and eating regularly. Because for just about everybody who has the time to write & read comments on UA-cam, just getting rid of the obviously excessive stuff will already get the planted into a much more sustainable future very quickly.
@@ShieTar_ thank you. This is comprehensive
What about just giving them the rights to their land? Then they can weigh the costs themselves
This channel has been so eye opening for me on how bad our capitalist culture is!
This video reminded me of what the author of Donut Economics said: “There is No such thing as a free market. All that happens when there are no rules is that the person with the most money makes rules in order to ensure that they have an advantage. So don’t you want to be a part of making the rules?”
There is another channel “HistoryVille” who has topics like this that are also very eye opening and unique to explore. It’s centric to colonialism in Africa, but goes hand in hand with this kind of content. You would love!
Also recommend a channel called 'second thought' and the podcast they are in called 'the deprogram'.
So they pass their wealth to their kids to continue their rule
Saying that on your capitalist phone. Claptilsm is the reason you have every thing. Has it gotten out of control ye, but if we get rid of it the say good by to your luxuries life.
Finally, people are realizing that the free market isn't free. It's controlled by spoiled brats who inherited wealth and controlled by politicians who stole wealth from the public treasury.
10/10. Only OCC touches this topics nobody even dares to talk about. My respect you stand for social and racial justice. Keep them coming.
NY Times 1619 project podcast has 2 full episodes about this as well.
? what do u mean communist talk about stuff like this all the time
This Channel is nothing more than an echo chamber
@@seankilburn7200 indeed!
I love the contrast between OCC's thoughtful take on racism in agriculture vs Steven Crowder who literally just made racist 'jokes' for a full segment on his show.
Reminded of James Baldwin’s description of being a black man in the United States that the amazing Gabor Mate always repeats - to be a black man in the US is to exist in a state of suppressed rage. Great video ❤️
The Republicans say they support the farmers but never talk about this.
Yea, they pretty exclusively support the rich white farmers. And even then, they forget about them quickly after they’re in office. Trump for instance wrecked soybean farmer’s ability to sell their crop with his trade war.
He handed out some subsidies as a result, but many of them just moved on to worrying about the next harvest.
this is awesome, thank you for making videos and spreading the word.
Thank you for the video and for, as usual, posting your resources so we can read about it even more!
In addition to the reasons stated in this video there’s another reason why Black farmers are dwindling. Lack of a Will or a Trust and fractional family ownership of their land. Greedy developers and unscrupulous investors have bought millions of acres of land worth billions from Black families for pennies on the dollar. Most of the family members may be spread out across the country and not even be aware that their land is still occupied and farmed by some other members of their families. They may not have ever seen their property or realize it’s true value. Generational wealth is forever loss literally for chicken change. Furthermore, sometimes the Government obtains the land by imminent domain for development of highways, railways and other infrastructure. The Government has also allowed corporations and wealthy investors to claim imminent domain for developmental purposes too.
Can you make a video about Victory Gardens and why we should produce our own food and build community instead of relying on Grocery stores
Growing your own food doesn’t allow you to eat most things. Only what you can grow. We’ll still need stores restaurants and the like.
@@achinthmurali5207 I don't know what your talking about. I grow everything our family needs. We grow all kinds of Fruits and Vegetables. We even have Bananas
@@jaridkeen123 you do realize not everyone lives on a farm and all it takes is a bad year and then you have no food.
Man why isn't stuff like this more widely known. Wow
True, so remember when ever you hear the phrase that;" black folks are lazy and they don't want nothing" or pull yourself up by your own bootstraps", or when foreigners come here get government help surpass blacks; then go to talking about they came here with nothing(which is a lie), so why can't you guys do the same etc,etc. Just remember that from the very start everytime the black excelled in economics, business, inventions, patents,etc,etc. Know that it has always been opposition; particularly the US government, and white racist terrorism that has always contributed to the setback.
Excited to watch the second part of the video on nebula! Thank you for educating us OCC
^-^
This man does not miss
The status quo has been: “you can own stuff, but not capital, how’re we gonna keep you dependent on us?” Textbook abusive behavior.
Great video! It reminds me of the old joke; one day two young fish are hanging out and an old fish swims by. "How's the water today, boys?" the old fish says as he swims by. Baffled, one of the young fish asks the other, "What's water?" In the USA racism is the water we swim in. Many well meaning and otherwise educated, intelligent people genuinely don't see racism when they look around because it's the status quo default situation in which they've lived their whole lives. It's the air they live in, the water they swim in.
Yeah sure blame the new generation for past atrocities they did not commit.
Also you legitimately have no idea what racism is do you?
@K lake indeed.
Given that the whole two continents, were invaded, pilfered, cleansed by slavery and genocide is a non-stop HOLOCAUST for 400 years - best read / understood in these two books.
1. A Peoples History of America - Howard Zinn
2. Open Veins Of Latin America - Galeano
Thank you
Add 'In the American Grain' to that list. by William Carlos Williams.
Civlization is a Holocaust Machine
Okay and? What are we gonna do about it?
One of the HUNDREDS of reasons we demand reparations to this day...
Thank you for a real history.
This should be preserved and taught in schools.
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School has different role - to teach you how to become exploitable resource.
You've been mistaken to think otherwise.
I’m honestly curious what stuff I might learn when I have a kid who goes through school. It feels like every week I’m learning about new stuff that I was never taught because it was suppressed.
But it also sounds like more people (in my area at least) are pushing to suppress less and teach more real history.
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I agree thats the fact
Very unfortunate
But i hope USA can be more civilized and not imperialist anymore
Many people are trying to make it illegal to teach this in schools.
I was born in NC. This is an awesome report. Thank you.
Also , it was over 14,000,000 million acres that was taken.
A great look at agriculture and the sick legacy of slavery in the USA.
3:32 you accidentally said 1965 instead of 1865
Thank you: many important points in this video, which absolutely has a great deal to do with addressing climate disruption.
A couple of times the land being "twice stolen" is mentioned, but none of the calls to action included explicit reference to learning from, solidarity with, and seeking justice for First Peoples. Pursuing justice in a land still bearing the wounds of centuries of chattel slavery has also wrestle with the fact that the same land still bears the wounds of dispossession and genocide. This is very difficult, but crucial.
So, at the risk of telling an excellent creator what they ought to do next, can I put in a humble request for a future video on land back and decolonisation?
Not much to do with race, but I really think we should be taking a hard look at vertical farming with passive lighting solutions. With our current food production, using vertical farms instead of traditional agriculture would mean saving two thirds of our current agricultural land use. This is land that could be rewilded, used for recreation, and to provide sanctuary for indigenous peoples and wildlife across the globe.
There’s definitely a lot that needs to be done with farming, and I’m sure at least some of it will be going vertical.
Also looking into microfarming, where people use free/communal space for gardens. Generally on unused rooftops. Get rid of lawns, use every chunk of land for something useful!
Yes and No, but he did an video on it
@@samtalksaboutlife464 Which was incredibly poor. That video received a fair amount of justified criticism
This is such an important topic!
Thank you so much for this video. Excellently made
Thank you for this
AMAZING VIDEO!!!!! Thank you for teaching people
Thank you for making this important video!
Consistently I am glad for the collab that brought this channel into my awareness, keep up the great work!
Thank you for this video!
Greta video, I had no clue about this!
Absolutely love that I had a PragerU ad before this vid. Yt really knows how to read the room. 🤦
its because those propadandists pay a premium to specifically run ads on channels like this - its not the algorithm or randomness... its by intent
@@SharienGamingYup. Because quite a few conservatives like to hate-watch anything that talks about oppression of minorities
@@0SilentStone0 weaponizing the targeted advertising can also wreak havoc with the discovery algorithm on youtube
Interesting topic.
Phenomenal video!
The low views and the algorithm of this is not on.
Red Salute
I wish people that hate themselves would stop asserting themselves. If you want to hurt yourself to prove a moral point keep it to yourself and don’t drag the rest of us down with you
Indeed.
When I’m insecure I go to UA-cam to yell at nazis. I don’t bother ringing other people down with my insecurity and misery 😬 force for good
Usda ploy to clean the plow with its a/a producers should be declared a disaster
I use your video in my diversity class and everyone is just in awe. Thank you for being so detailed on the information you provide.
This needs to be more widely known.
Quite profound
public schools should be teaching this
This makes me proud to be a part of the american communist tradition.
Why don't you talk about the real settler colonialism in Israel?
no need for the music
Summary: turn the Midwest into Zimbabwe
Mr Gates impact now and going forward is...?
Wrong date stated: 1965?
Coach Guy Neighbors
3:40 *1865 g
Whether the nuclear deal is a succes or not, a wise man said : “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” (Albert Einstein)
the hidden truth
hmm....
and here i assumed you would be talking about the land stolen from the natives of this continent.
hmm.....
Thank you for addressing the core issues of what the US had done since history. As a citizen, I am ashamed for the what the country had done and they still continues to do so. The European/white settlers that first settled on this very land were also immigrants of this very nation since they technically stole this land after wiping out majority of the Native Americans. To top that, immigration laws were made to sway toward white supremacists' favor when this country propose to be a "diverse country" with no main official language at its' core. Then why continue to make the immigration laws even more difficult/complex when the country want to be known as a "diverse nation?" An unfair irony indeed! 😤
P.S.: This comment was accidentally deleted in the past by myself. I wanted to respond to another commenter of my comment, and the person happens to be a racist calling me a racist. A psycho indeed! I just wanted to be clear here: I'm not a racist, and my above comment by no means are in favor of a group towards one group nor another. I don't practice ethnocentrism! I simply want to address the injustice happening in a dystopian society.
And I find it very interesting how you can't make comments on UA-cam short videos so I have to make the comment on your previous video Think about it 😞
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I notced one important mistake you made. You called this land "stolen." It wasn't "stolen" it was conquered.
so you are saying they seized someone elses property by use of force? so a special kind of theft called robbery
Same thing same.
@SharienGaming Acting like no one one else on earth did that. African tribes fought over land and conquered all the time. Spanish conquistadors, Imperial Japan. The Roman's etc.
@@carlosforbidden1429 so if enough people have done something horrible its okay to do it?
that way of arguing is headed for maximizing misery, because it does not strive for improving matters and fixing problems, but for normalizing and distracting from those issues
@SharienGaming No. That's not what I mean, what I mean is you can't cherry pick who is right and who is wrong when literally everyone else did the same thing. If you're going to call out America or whoever, call out the entire world. Instead of just nit-picking. Plus it was a different world back then, with different standards.
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ONLY one word has the power to begin to right these age-old injustices-
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For ALL Black descendants today who aren't already wealthy, and for all Native communities who have likewise been systematically violently robbed of their cultural and natural heritage.
No one's stopping them from succeeding now. That's the past stop living in it.
@@anderhagea553 I'm sorry?
@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 instead of complaing make something of yourself it's not that hard chief.
@@anderhagea553 lol sure why not? We all can strive to better ourselves, but that skips over the broader issue.
I'll be fighting in the halls of power for whats right. Only working on "ourselves" doesn't change public policy.
@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999 Of course you can succeed without racially based interference is there really anything wrong?
How about a slogan "Make America Great for Everyone?" in the next election?
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This is a 2nd thought video...
Nothing about comunism??? This videos are just against SUA
I’m curious if you’ve considered your terms as far as race goes? You called people of European ancestry “white”, African ancestry “black” but American ancestry “First Nations” (I assume you’re Canadian)? People from Asia are Asians, people from the Polynesian areas are Polynesian but Europeans and Africans just get a color? Please consider updating your concept from inaccurate colors to race. You wouldn’t call Asians yellow or NAs red now would you? I realize those are accepted terms but it doesn’t make them the best to use either. Same with First Nation. It’s not accurate. Native Americans are not the first people to create nations.
I’ve enjoyed your videos but this is so bad I now doubt the veracity of them all. Unsubscribed 😕
Well you should unsubscribe, because of his socialist communist leftist rhetoric, and he has no idea of how the world works
Bye, you won't be missed.
@@ahorseofcourse7283 And that's another reason to dislike this channel.
Is stealing land necessarily race motivated? And who doesn't or didn't steal land. Humans have always been a bunch of war waging, land taking, people murdering bunch. Nobody is responsible for their race's past or grandfather's misdoings. We can learn from the past to do better. We can not repay all the wrongdoings of the past.
If your grandfather killed a family and stole their house, you don't get to keep squatting.
@@Treebark1313 squatting? What do you mean.
@@Treebark1313 yeah you do
Yes. Lets focus on the past. This really matters.
The world is on fire, but lets focus on the history of farmland with a twist of past racism.
Thank you for fueling malice for the sole purpose to monetize it. :)
It's important to know history
OCC made this video in the past. You watched it in the past. Why you still angry?
Lets ignore past and present discrimination because your people weren't the ones sufffering
@@IbrahimNgeno Ah yes you definitely deal with slavery and mob attacks on the daily stop using you're elders suffering for your own gain.
Even though I generally agree with the underlying message and the sentiments of most of your videos (and I keep watching them), I do think that so heavily loading each and every video with the same "standard rhetoric" and keywords does disservice to getting the message across to the wider public - especially new viewers. The amount of subscribers and likes and dislikes of course seem very favourable, but this may just be an indication of an "echo chamber" developing. While most people do agree that social injustices exist and need to be corrected, far fewer see (e.g.) capitalism as an absolute evil that needs to be somehow demolished. If every video is laden with revolutionary message and heaps guilt on people who don't associate the (current or historical) events and realities with themselves, it becomes a lot harder to get through to them. Just something to consider.
I'm curious who you think this is meant to make feel guilty. If you're empathizing with slaveowners and racists to the point that learning about American history makes you feel guilt, then you need to work on yourself.
@@Treebark1313 I wasn't talking about a personal point of view. Public attitudes and structures within society can be improved upon without the need to find a "guilty party" behind every issue. It is precisely the point that there are plenty of people wanting to institute positive change but don't feel they are personally responsible for ill deeds of their ancestors. My concern was about not getting the message across if it is made unpalatable to Joe Public, and it wasn't only about this video but the channel in general (and also applies to their Second Thought channel).
Make of it what you will. Keep calm and carry on.
@@lippenserver5583 You're reading a lot into the video that most people (evidently) don't see. I mean this sincerely -- it's something to take up with yourself (or your therapist, I guess), not with people advocating for reparations.
@@Treebark1313 "Empathize with racists"? "Take it up with your therapist"? Just lukewarm attempts at personal insults disguised as suggestions of "self improvements". Is this the standard methodology of "communication" you have chosen for yourself?
You seem to expend considerable time scanning comments (as mine was quite far down the page) and I am sure with minimum additional effort you could find others in the comments that actually disagree with what this channel (and Second Thought channel) is trying to achieve. I don't. Good luck, and happy hunting!
@@lippenserver5583 there are lot of things that OCC and other channel like Second Thought have ignored, the negative consequences of the solution they proposed, just because you have a great solution, doesn’t mean the outcome is all positive, every solutions have negative consequences no matter how great the solutions are, this is the thing that OCC and Second Thought i have problem with, they tend to be pro on those solutions without even thinking the negative consequences of these solutions, OCC revolutionary solution would have lot of negative consequences like conflict, this is something that OCC completely ignored in order to spread his message around the world, OCC is so blinded with his utopianism socialist idealism that he completely ignored the history of socialism alongside communism, and political reality of the world, so this is the problem i have with many social commentary content creator, they tend to be extremist and too liberal that they are out of touch from reality, so you are right, OCC revolutionary rhetoric isn’t gonna work, and don’t know how @what have 4 likes
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Many good points, several things I would disagree strongly with. But In general, I strongly approve of increased small-scale domestic agriculture, especially if it will be a way of increasing the wealth and opportunity of dispossessed people. However, I strongly believe in private property, so it would be appalling to see that land collectivized. But I understand this channel is not exactly for those of us that believe in private property.
Seize the means of production. You can still have your funco pops. That private property is fine. You aren't allowed to unilaterally control the food that keeps people alive.
When has this channels argued against owning land? This video is support black land owners.
Also know the difference between personal and private property.
You can criticize capitalism without arguing to have it completely abolished. You're implying there's only 2 extremes.
@@Praisethesunson I do not care about the nicknacks. I care about the land on which I can grow food/produce that I could sell for a profit. I do care about controlling the food I produce on land I control. That is literally the most important kind of property ownership.
@@108nighthawk Lol then you don't know how modern farming works. Let alone the private property you clearly don't actually have.
A handful of mega conglomerates control everything on the farm and own everything on it.
All you have is a scrap of paper that says the land is temporarily yours, if you can keep paying off your debts to the actual owners.
95% of private property is owned by mega conglomerates. At best you might have a small plot of housing you own for the moment(assuming you aren't in debt of course). That's as close as you get to private property.
@@Praisethesunson well explained bro
what does this have to do with climate change
Alright I'll unsubscribe after this BS.
why?
@@alexandergeorge7215 I'm guessing because of the overall white shaming vibe of this channel
Don't hit the door on your way out
@@kailawkamo1568 it be nicer if it did it to you to be honest.
Oh no, he's losing a racist subscriber.
And by the way if you don't you're a hypocrite and you're for the corporation and establishment Just saying 🤗
Stop the insanity.
Reparations? Are you outside of your minds?
I know right the people who do deserve reparations are almost all dead. Almost no one in the past 20ish years has even dealt with REAL racism.
Thank God I'm not American!
Is it that this event happened very recent that people saw/see it as a problem?
Not to make these atrocities tiny but the original slaves where slavic people the romans had millions of slaves for there fields and we still have slavery today.
Im not being a crybaby, but the same take place in Africa but with white farmers or owners of business
Were those white farmers & business owner once slaves or are they descendants from slaves. Those present day
White farmers & business owners in Africa acquired lands that were brutally stolen from apartheid Africa. Please know ur history before u become a cry baby on YT
@@bicycles-as-far-as-im-aliv5725 And black farmers in the US had land that was stolen from the indigenous people by the white people too.
Difference is those same farmers stole the land before, and were part of the apartheid system
Not saying they deserve that, it shouldn't happen since them as individuals aren't necessarily guilty of those things, having time passed and apartheid being state enforced and not only backed up by society, but historically that's different from people being slaves, receiving a bit of land and seeing even that stolen
jfc where did the apartheid apologist come from???
@@gabrieleporru4443 Boers have been in South Africa longer than Bantus
I feel for these people, but I owe them nothing. My family came here dirt poor on a boat in the 1900s and did nothing to black farmers.
Your family benefitted from racism throughout all those generations. White working class folks have to struggle, but black working class have that same struggle and on top of that even more struggle.
It ain't us versus them, when you deny the struggles of others you are also denying your own family's struggle.
Basically you are just telling the comments section you are spoiled and adversarial towards fellow working class folks.
This is the wrong perspective.
Uplifting minorities with universal policies helps everyone except the mega wealthy individuals and corporations.
There's really no good reason to resist it.
@@aprilk141 Not spoiled at all. I worked for everything I own. So does my Belizean wife who doesn’t buy into this progressive stack nonsense. She actually became annoyed when I read her your comment, she says it implies that Black people are incapable of doing things themselves and assumes they always need a leg up from white people to advance at all. Do you talk to Black people regularly about this?
@@RBEmpathy except how does it help me when they say I should deliberately sacrifice and make my life harder by choice?
@@murdoch3396 what are you even talking about, specifically? How would it be a burden on you at all?
This is guy that does casting jewellery and he makes money off UA-cam good channel veg oil guy I told him to not do shorts you're not going to make money off it and he stopped doing it and he just started going back to his regular content now I don't have any videos or anything and I was able to influence him and he was a sizable channel too this please listen to my advice it's in your interest and it's in my interest I don't look at shorts companies follow these garbage trends this is popular Just because it's popular it doesn't mean it's good Just saying 🤗
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Ukraine is just another bad US politics
You just unlucky lead by a clown
The amount of UA-cam shorts you're doing on this channel I'm very very very tempted to unsubscribe and it's a shame because it's a really well done program and you have put effort and high quality into it and it's such a shame you're giving into the UA-cam short b******* it's not in your interest it's in the corporate interest of UA-cam and it's going to wreck your channel it's the ruin of the whole platform don't give in to it fight against it you're better than that 😀
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