Reparations in Kansas City | Flatland in Focus
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Kansas City is beginning a discussion about how it might make amends for inequities toward Black residents through reparations. Flatland in Focus will report on the deeply intentional work that’s already being done within the Black community, documenting the case for and possibilities around correcting racial gaps in health, wealth, homeownership, criminal justice and education.
Kansas City PBS - KCPT, Kansas City
Thank you for shining the light ❤!! Mic'2023 😊!!
Lets talk about why theres such fierce opposition to reparations. Opposition to reparations is about PRESERVING INEQUALITY AND PRESERVING WHITE PRIVALLEGE. Economic inequality is used as a tool to ensure segregation, to ensure black people can't afford to live outside of black areas, to ensure we can't afford certain schools, to ensure our businesses aren't competitive etc.
The preservation of ECONOMIC INEQUALITY is to maintain black people as a permanent UNDERCLASS or at a certain level beneath everyone else . Its to maintain the social hierarchy.
Even a black person who earns 6 figures can't compete for housing, business loans or business development with someone who has had opportunity for 3 generations of wealth building.
The issue of reparations and its potential impact on different interests is a complex and multifaceted one. It is true that the pursuit of reparations may face resistance or opposition from various quarters, including those who benefit from the existing power structures and historical inequalities. White supremacy, as a system that perpetuates racial hierarchies and privileges, may indeed be a barrier to efforts aimed at rectifying historical injustices.
White supremacy operates through the maintenance of systemic racism and the perpetuation of unequal power dynamics. It seeks to uphold the dominance and privilege of white individuals and suppress the political and economic empowerment of marginalized communities, including Black -Americans who descend from slavery. Reparations challenge this status quo by advocating for redress and providing resources to address historical disadvantages.
When your population is 12% and has declined to the point that the Hispanics are now the majority minority black people have lost that position. How do think you could have equal power when you are not an equal population and you don't equally contribute financially you can't be equal if your not equally contributing anything to the cause. It's like your contribution is a dime and you want a million in return... If your population was equal then it would be a different story. AA have 41 million people in America white people have 272 million Hispanics have 62 million and counting... There are more white people than all ethnic groups combined... What is unequal is that white people financially fund everything while black people benefit from everything...
@@avenue8822 You are a clown Black people were largely excluded from wealth building measures like "The New Deal".
@@avenue8822ain’t nothing imaginary about the destruction of black wall street s destroyed by whites .. nothing imaginary about the rape sodomy castration torture lynching etc etc etc . All history run that check and shut the f up.
@@avenue8822 your ignorance must be blissful for you. You don’t know American history, or the depth of the system of laws made from the roots of American history. You’re most likely just happy to be out of your war, torn country and I get that, but don’t disrespect me, unless you have receipts that say otherwise.🤫
Truth. 💥
Great conversation 😊!! Thank you!! Mic'2024
i dont believe it till i see it
Local reparations won't work and hasn't worked yet. With that being said we should all be pushing for it!
We’re all blessed to be in the United States and everyone’s ancestors have went through hardships at some point. No reparations
Reparations in the form of cash payments are due for Foundational Black Americans!
I don't believe someone should get reparation unless it's an immediate family spouse or parents maybe grand-parents it ends there, people shouldn't be fighting for something they aren't entitled too!
Don't think. They owe us after messing up many, many black lives and still doing it.
Lineage over race
Good luck America .
How about investing more time on black on black crime and the decline of the black family.
America owes a debt to ADOS people. Crime has nothing to do with it. Yt men been stealing billions since the country started! All conservatives do I'd lie!
Just give us the money, the other shhh will work itself out . Worry about the opioid crisis & low birth rates in your community.
@@marvin469 get a job. No one owes you anything.
your family?
@@thebossman3894 I smell the yt supremacy on you strongly!
May God blesses them forever. ❤❤❤
What i dont understand is why the common people are not part of these meetings but always full of so called well learned people but some of us lived in those times being discussed, i would think they would want input from people who experienced some of the things they are speaking on. Always a proffessional law petson or athletes speaking for us but last i checked many of us can speak for our selves maybe you all could have the pulse of your community if you had dialogue with the average black americans
Why don't they network with other states instead of individually attacking, the message is written on the wall. PLEASE
You can’t run away from your history, and the harm that you have caused and continue to cause as a society.
History show that I was not a slave owner and you were not a slave. Neither if us had any part of it.
What harm have I caused? I should get reparations for reading such rediculus comments from people who think someone owes them something that they didnt earn!
@@thebossman3894 I swear, the opposition can be so remedial, yall don't bother to do no research or are too lazy. The same lame as, weak talking points. There's no way somebody who knows slave owners were giving millions of land for reparations, and knowledge of all the government handouts white people got from the government that helped build generational wealth but excluded black people would say "giving something they didn't earn'". That tells educated people like me that you lack knowledge in this area and you should go study.
@@thebossman3894FACTS 😂😂😂
@@thebossman3894 did you not look at the video? They discussed slavery, Jim Crow Era and the Civil Rights Movement. They also go into great detail about the harm caused by all of these. Just say you don't like black people or that you don't want to see black people get money that is owed to their families.
Yeah right, kcmo will never do such a thing its prejudices are their reason for living besides reparations is federal debt owed.
Salute to the queen
It’s never going to happen 🤣 keep dreaming 🛌
We will get them just like the Slaveowners received them after the war
Yes it will because what this country sows will be reaped, say the God that laid the foundation of the universe and gave mankind life. It's happened before in the bible's history when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and they were paid for 400 years of slavery. It will happen willingly or unwillingly for God' children. It's also written, "The wealth of the rich is laid up for the righteous." Righteously, they owe us.
Out of touch and entitled people like this are why your city's becoming a crime cesspool
Youse people seriously think that you're getting millions of dollars in reperations payments? Please stop getting these people's hopes up that they're getting millions of dollars in reperations payments. You're gonna have to find another way to buy your gold chains and hair weaves. Hahahaha 😊
Stop begging. It won’t happen
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