Ta-Nehisi Coates & Danny Glover Make the Case for Reparations at Historic Congressional Hearing
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2019
- In June, a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a historic hearing on reparations for slavery-the first of its kind in over a decade. The hearing coincided with Juneteenth, a day that commemorates June 19, 1865, when slaves in Galveston, Texas, finally learned that the Emancipation Proclamation had abolished slavery. Ahead of the hearing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "I don't think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea." Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover testified at the historic congressional hearing on reparations.
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How about Mitch pays for his current crimes.
He gets the bullet first.
A far better reparations package would be the abolition of the capitalist system
Great point! I'm white and I won't celebrate the 4th of July until Congress and the nation celebrates the passage of Juneteeth. ------Oh say can you see / by the drone's early flight / what so proudly we heil / at eternal wars streaming. / Doctor Strangelove's red glare / riding bombs everywhere / gave proof through the night / that our MIC was still there. / Oh say does that star-swatted hammer yet wa-ve / o'er cycles of bigotry-ee / and the wealth of the depraved.--As MLK once said, a country that spends more money on the military than it does on social uplift, approaches spiritual bankruptcy
@@grantmarcus5675 good one! Yeah Juneteenth ought to be a national holiday
@@staatsfeindlich9939 the New July 4th is JUNETEENTH!
@soflo23 My color is Red What about me?
After James Earl Jones, Danny Glover : happy birthday USA.
Whether or not reparations should be paid is debatable. Unfortunately the treatment of the first nations should give you a clue as to what will happen with reparations.
Depends on what form they take. Why do folks always assume its writing a check?
@Mike C Did you miss the part where the are still "reparations" being paid out to the descendants of Confederate generals right? Actually read what they're proposing here then in this instance, and stop making asinine assumptions. You're merely spreading misinformation based on your myopic and lazy worldview.
So when do the native Americans get some of their land back?
Ya, Broken Treaties! The U.S. is the all time expert at that.
Gour Kernow
You got casinos!
They already got their reparations. In fact every group that was ever systematically oppressed in America got reparations except black Americans.
@@dantheman4838 ignorant statement
@@staatsfeindlich9939 The truth cannot be ignorant but denying the truth like you just did, is ignorant.
I'm all ears... Should there be any limit to the reparations granted? Can someone accurately monetize this harm? Should it just be a one time payment or a forever commitment? For how many generations? How best to enforce them? Taxation? Forcibly taking assets? Who should pay, and who should be paid? Should there be any limits or exceptions? Who will oversee this so as to ensure justice is served and no further injustice is created? Anyone whatsoever have any of these specifics? I hear a lot of rhetoric, but I'm eagerly awaiting specifics of how this help can be provided.
My family (all of them) didn’t arrive in the USA until 1917. My grandfather was an indentured servant until he could pay off his passage to America.
Do I owe reparations because I’m white? How will that work? Do we really think this idea stands a chance with a white Republican Senate and White House?
Valerie where are you reading that all white people will have to pay for this out of pocket? You're just sounding frightened and ignorant right now.
Emily; name calling doesn’t help- quite immature actually. I am SIMPLY ASKING QUESTIONS, right?
Seems to me that we have bigger fish to fry. Currently, of all federal spending, 23% is for Social Security, 26% for four health-related programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program, tax subsidy for ObamaCare), and 10% for paying the interest on the national debt. Because of demographic changes in our population, the costs of these programs are going to increase in coming years. The debt is primarily because Social Security has been under-funded by employees for many years, and the shortfall met by borrowing. Note that all of the social programs I cited effect both Blacks and Whites.
Morris Wilburn Yet you failed to mention the many tax perks given to the upper 1%.
@@gingerp6631 You can point to some gross injustices. But the absolute number of people in the top 1% is so few that the number of dollars is trivial compared to the cost of the social programs I cited.
Why didn’t you use Julianne Malveaux’s name in the headline for this video? Her excerpt is the economic case for reparations. Probably more important than the previous male speakers. Great video, but give equality to the three speakers. Men and women!
Somehow, the children of the slaves did not have land. Should land grants be the reparations payment. The land could be lived on, sold or handed down in the family. It could also make The United States more like a country of different races living side by side.
I find my thinking to be somewhat more influenced by the words and facts said by 3 black Americans. However I still think reparations is a too simplistic idea. A bandaid on an chronic sore. I would rather have all laws eradicated from the books that disenfranchise black, native, poor. And other minorities. I would have communities built up to white standards. I would have education funding be equal to the wealthy. And small business loans that are exempt from taxes and interest. Meaning a no payback loan. My idea of reparations is to give tax exemption to black Americans for the next 100 years. My idea is to fund the black communities & minority communities with incentives. For the residents, of the community. I would give those communities police who are from the community for the service & protection of the community. Answerable to the community. Which is what all police should be anyway. There is far more, but these are but a few things that I have in mind.
Exactly! Also, I have always believed Reparations should start with where we've been disenfranchised the most: free housing, schooling and healthcare.
Not a check. Action!
Yeah, and I'm still waiting on the apology they owe my people...NATIVE AMERICANS. I know they wont pay for the land they stole , even though we still have the deeds...Its now the Cherokee Country club on the Chattahoochee river...rich peoples play ground...I'm still waiting. ????? Anyone ????
Why are you waiting? Why not start putting in the hard work like many Indigenous people already are? Why not take the inspiration this panel displays in amazing fashion and do what they're doing? There's literally nothing here stopping you. And look, are the people you see in this segment merely waiting? No. There's also nothing stopping you from reaching out and learning from their efforts. Black Americans are the descendants of enslaved Indigenous Africans, supporting their efforts and being inspired to do the same would be an amazing act of INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY. It's really refreshing, you should try it, especially because it makes for safer spaces for Black Native children and allows for easy communication between minority groups. Just saying.
How do you decide who pays and who receives? Do families who never owned slaves have to pay? How about blacks who did own slaves, do they just pay and not receive or both? How about families of whites or blacks that came to America after the Civil War, are they included in paying or receiving reparations? How about blacks that are worth as much as an average white family? Are they eligible as they are not apparently effected by the impact of slavery? How much should be paid? And finally the biggest question, if all of these hurdles are decided and reparations paid, does this finally settle any future claim of racial discrimination based upon slavery?
This is sad. An actor and a journalist. This was not "the case for reparations" this hearing was to decide to STUDY the POSSIBILITY of what it WOULD look like. And every other group can't leave themselves out of it ( including Native Americans who held slaves BTW and treat their Black decendents like step children LOL let's tell truths).
Great speech...wow
all I see is someone caring about their own race as if other races weren't enslaved or otherwise oppressed. There's a word for someone that prefers their own race above all others. Racist.
So, according to your logic, The native American Indian and Jews are racists that only look out for themselves .
While we're at it, given we created a million orphans in Iraq, what compensation are those children due? Syria? Afghanistan? A long growing list.
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind They need to get in line. Ados first!
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind -- Depends in what form it takes. Readjustments, not necessarily a check.
That depends on how you pay for it, doesn't it? When you say "WE", who is that? When you say BANKRUPT, bankrupt WHO? A poorly designed plan doesn't fly. Obviously.
@@owlnationlegal4228 -- Just another way of saying, "no reparations for ados".
The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind : Er, kinda like millions of people were sacrificed to the Wall Street cheats in 2007? What about all of those wonderful incredibly expensive tax cuts for the wealthiest amongst us?
Wow, Coates is such an amazing speaker. I listened to the audiobook version of Between the World and me, and his masterful skill as a writer comes through in this address, as it did in that book. Also, his masterful pacing and vocal evocation is wonderful.
If we can bail out banks and wall street , we can do this and the societal benefit will be even greater than that.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T !!!
nice cuz i'm broke
Dr. Claude Anderson is an EXPERT on this subject. Probably the best but one of many that should have been there. Reach out to him please! Glover and Coates are some of our best but they're not our communities experts on this.
He ain’t sh!t!
Beware of Hellywood !
Actors in front of congress, Malcom X would laugh 👏🏽 Humans are a joke
Not one thin dime
But plenty of apathy.
Someone became confused and accidentally pointed out that "Alaska had slavery? Oregon? Nevada? Hawaii? Utah?" These states would not have existed were it not for the forced free labor that would finance the dream of "manifest destiny" westward. He tried to block my response, but history and facts will not be denied.
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind Why would African immigrants receive Reparations? JAQ
Oh! There was a lot of slavery in the past!?! No way! And the impact on it still exists today? Wow. I did not know. Crazy. And it will be solved by mailing a bunch of people a check? Cool.
Thanks for letting me know! Happy Independence Day!
Craig Bowers Slavery, theft, murder human trafficking, wire fraud, red lining. All the above. The. criminals should have already paid restitution/reparations but they just keep running up the tab with state sanctioned extrajudicial killings and further discrimination.
No not a pay check. Legislation to equal the playing field and change/add policies to help grow the community.
@@Jaedee0408 And as many are saying, money could also be given to community leaders to redevelop and rebuild communities.
I love how McConnell here admits that the civil war was about slavery and not states' rights, that the civil rights movement was a good thing and that Obama was a poignant chapter in the rectification of the "original sin of slavery." Too bad he's only saying this now to try and rewrite history and pretend he comes from a state that was in the Union, a legislative body that supported civil rights, and somehow not the man who was up until two weeks ago PROUDLY responsible for the most egregious and racist bullshittery during Obama's terms in office. Lmao. How rich.
Our taxes should pay for this. Tax the wealthy, tax corporations.
Fix the schools. Fix the broken families. Fix the cities and neighborhoods. Reparations will just be a waste of money.
@ Big John - in order to fix the schools, the families, the cities, and the neighborhoods, a massive redistribution of economic and political power would have to happen. That would require white supremacy to undergo a moral and ethic epiphany.
As previously mentioned, the foundation of the U.S. is intentional systemic and institutionalized racism, economic and political exploitation and materialism, and for profit militarism that only benefits wealthy elites.
You have no moral or ethical ground to stand on what is or isn't a waste of money regarding reparations. The "money" wouldn't be free, it would be returned for unpaid or exploited labor.
I suggested you actually watch the video with the sound on and turned up. You can't have an understanding of anything without a lot of context.
Reparations isn't just about the centuries of enslavement. Its also the century of Jim Crow era, red lining, exclusion for the new deal, segregation and "separate but equal", exclusion from the GI Bill, police brutality, the war on drugs, the war on poor people, the prison industrial complex, etc.
@@The10thManRules another liberal who thinks a plethora of words equates to some type of correctness. Giving somebody a check is not going to change someone's life, fixing their schools and neighborhoods will. Facts. Deal with it.
@@bigjohn6846 And many people ARE saying the money should go to rebuilding communities, not just checks. No one is saying it HAS to be checks, that's just one of many ideas. Though even if it was just cash that money would end up straight back into the economy, would still benefit our society. And whatever is done it would be a symbol of finally doing what is right, making amends for the damages that still echo down the decades, would mean far more than just what the money itself would accomplish.
@@vintage_violet the money wouldn't benefit s*** going back into the economy. What a joke. What the hell do you think people are going to buy without money.? Do you think they're going to buy their young children and education? Don't be so naive. If we're going to give away trillions of dollars it would be a complete waste instead spend the trillions of dollars on the communities themselves.
SNORE
It seems that the panel sided with the responses from the racial dissenter
Rather than monetary reparations how about free or subsidized housing for all destitute and poor folks in general; like how certain states have offered free housing to any homeless who need it because it saves the state 3fold by reducing trash cleanup, police services, thousand dollar taxis (I mean ambulances) and ER visits.
Like in Proverbs how it says the virtuous woman extends her hand to the poor and extends both her hands to the destitute.
Money isn't the ultimate answer. But bitter lack of money makes it seem so.
Shelter isn't the most important thing in the universe until you don't have it.
Rather than adress reparations for every African American how about adressing poverty in general, everyone enslaved by poverty and doubly enslaved by destitution? Because would we really be talking about monetary reparations if poverty and economic injustice and hate and/or apathy in our souls didn't lead African Americans en masse (and po' folks in general) --like cattle to slaughter-- to prison and early death. If we'd dealt with poverty we might already be in World to Come.
Happy fourth and happy Rosh Chodesh Tammuz!
Totally agree. That can be brought about by the abolition of the capitalist system. Give the wealth back to the people
I don't understand this argument. Black people advocating for their own liberation does not preclude or prevent a fight for liberation from a class based, capitalist society. What is the impetus to try and turn them away from this effort? There are already fights for just that happening, and many on this panel participate in such activism. When Black people advocate for themselves is suddenly selfish, even though the entire society benefits from the spoils of chattel slavery and modern prison slavery, poor or not. It's absurd to me, that people supposedly well versed in the fight for civil rights would ever look at Black Americans advocating for their own survival, rights and reparations and say "but why aren't we just fighting for all poor folks in general?" When Black Americans gain anything in this society, the entire society benefits. Literally. Black Americans fighting for civil rights fomented every other rights movement in the nation, and was happily in solidarity with other groups and in the class struggle. Stop derailing Black history with a bunch of ahistorical flowery rhetoric, as if they aren't blazing a trail for us all. As usual.
McCorrporonell
You start where you stand. Wish in one hand...watch which hand fills up first .
I REALLY LOVE DANNY GLOVER!!!
Look at these IGNORANT COMMENTS MY PARENTS KNEW SLAVES FACE TO FACE MY GRANDPARENTS FOUGHT FOR REPARATIONS AND WERE LYNCHED FOR IT
I know I WANT REFUNDS FOR ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE'S REPARATIONS I PAID FOR MY PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS PAID FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S WHILE THEY WERE OPPRESSED
NOPE!
@@marktprodicus6997 well that's the same answer as to why we gonna fight for the BLOOD DEBT OWED TO OUR ANCESTORS THIS OLD JUSTICE CLAIM PEOPLE DIED FOR AND FROM
OK✌️
This thing needs to be bipartisan or it won’t work
i assume they realize that the slaves were transported by the BRITISH SPANISH DUTCH AND DON'T FORGET THE FRENCH
And then bought and enslaved, raped, tortured and tormented for centuries by Americans.
Don't forget the Portuguese too.
I assume you realize the British are Americans.
And brought to America, which was enriched by it. Let's be clear on that, too.
@@paultrought267 -- as are French, Dutch and Portuguese.....
God YAH YASHUA sees THIS INJUSTICE
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind it doesn't go to BLACK IMMIGRANTS we are 10% of the population
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind an IMMIGRANT would file a claim with the nation he came from
We really should have received REPARATIONS WITH THE HOMESTEAD ACT
BUT BLACK SLAVE DESENDANTS WERE FORBIDDEN FROM PARTICIPATING IN THAT
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind why the name calling I WAS SAYING THAT BLACK IMMIGRANTS WERE NOT SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES SO THEY'D GO ELSEWHERE
WHAT THE F*** IS YOUR PROBLEM 🙄
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind here's another fun historical fact for the 4 of July
The original draft of the Constitution did ABOLISH SLAVERY BUT THEY CHANGED IT BECAUSE THE SOUTHERN DELEGATES WOULD NEVER GO FOR IT
Just like our REPARATIONS TODAY THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO GIVE US OUR BLOODDEBT AND HONOR THE JUSTICE CLAIM
OH WELL FOR ANY " BELIEVERS " OUT THERE YAH YASHUA ROHUAK KADESH SEES ALL AND KNOWS YOUR HEARTS
.GOOD LUCK 👍 EXPLAINING THIS TO HIM SOMEDAY
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind let me clarify blacks desendants from United States slavery are 10% of the population
BLACK IMMIGRANTS ARE LESS THAN THAT AND ANY JUSTICE CLAIM THEY HAVE WOULD NOT BE HERE OK ✌️
There is none! Boom mic drop
LOL NOPE I refuse to pay reparations.
Now I'm getting too old for this shit, reparations is a severely idiotic idea
This hearing was at least a week ago. And this is all WHINING.
You speak from abysmal ignorance. Mind your business and tend to your own nation's problems.
@@hisbeautifultruth5931 That was pretty good.... gotta give it to you... PROPS.
Lets give the land back to the Native Americans!.....wait that land belongs to the Neanderthals!! .....wait Mother Earth. I say all land should be public earth land!
I'm a slave to this economic system....and a slave to British colonialism before that!.....wait I did not even choose this life to be a mere human either! Id rather be one of my dogs.....sleep....eat....play in field....play in pool..snuggle....treats....repeat.
Oh yeah! 😂👍
My GreatGrandfather died at Andersonville fighting the South. I want him replaced.
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He didnt volunteer.
Those of us in the Reparations movement, the last four to five years, wonder why Congress called on a panel of people who have no expertise in this area. Dr. Sandy Darrity of Duke University, Dr. Claude Anderson, Dr. Antonio Moore, and Yvette Carnell were never sought out, nor consulted? This Reparations movement isn't going anywhere, and the Democrats will have to come to terms with the independence of this movement. The aesthetics of the HR-40 hearing was appreciated. I'm sure Congress was more comfortable in picking and choosing its panelists, but did it pick and choose for the African American (ADOS) community Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer? We've (the African American community), only discovered the insidious nature of the Congressional Black Caucus, an organization made up of opportunist who have been entrenched in trafficking Black identity symbolism for their bread and butter. We'll see them at the voting polls where they are going to be summarily dismissed from the dereliction they have imposed on our community. Our neglect has been one of methodical socioeconomic engineering. We've decided to get off that train. Change has jumped the train tracks. Conductor, engineer? Hold on!
Search McConnell hemp" helloooghhhhh
CADÊ AS LEGENDA PELO AMOR DE DEUS
Mitch's argument that "those responsible for slavery are no longer alive" doesn't hold water. Many people still alive BENEFITED FINANCIALLY from slavery and it is time to give some of that money back to the exploited slaves's descendants. This is a matter of fairness and justice and we hope it may go toward healing our country. We need a BLUE wave in 2020 to help move the reparation process forward.
Alaska had slavery? Oregon? Nevada? Hawaii? Utah?
There would be no Alaska, Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii, Utah without the free labor that allowed a country to prosper before its "manifest destiny" westward. That's called "history." Ever hear of "Jim Crow", "Red Lining?" Guess you didn't listen to Coates, probably like hearing and believing what you want to.
@@atonsungod so black Alaskans benefitted from slavery. They should pay reparations.
@EmpireFall yes, they never had slavery.
@EmpireFall who believes paying "blacks" will end racial intolerance? They will keep blackmailing America, or riot.
Great speech Mr Coates.
I find it amazing that ppl will not admit the crimes against a race that has basically built this country with literally their blood sweat and tears.
The fact that most blacks suffer from so many forms of mental illness due to the poverty and unjust we have suffered and still suffer till this day is telling!
For those of you , white and black that dont want to see this happen and or can't seem to understand the implications of what the past had and still has on this nation . I pity you
“Dramatic discrimination” vs all out slavery..two vastly different things
Ridiculous!
Coates didn’t say a damn thing about actual monetary reparations!
And Mitch said aloud what Democrats feel secretly.
Slave labor made the US the richest country so I do believe in reparations but how will it work. I'd really like to know how this will work and unfold.
Hahahahahahah 😂😂😂
My bike was stolen by a black guy 25 years ago..
All Black people need to pay me for my bike...
Don’t know about paying for your bike, but I’m sure we could do something to hook you up with some education and a little bit of common sense to go along with it 💡
@@kaderathebeekeeper22m3 a bike is not the same as a STOLEN LIFE SO STOP IT WOULD YOU SAY THAT TO A NATIVE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR DESENDANTS
WOULD YOU COMPARE IT TO A STOLEN BIKE 25 YEARS AGO
I agree that the reparations idea is no good, but thats coz its an extremely narrow minded idea. Think bigger...MUCH bigger.
Im talking about bringing proper balance, understanding and fairness. Not just giving SOME people some pocket change to buy new clothes or a car or wareva. Think properly
Tabrez Moorad : How about that 40 acres and a mule?
😂😂😂yankees are insane
STOP IT....black Americans know who is truly dedicated to reparations for American descendants of slavery. Can someone tell this white woman about Yvette Carnell? (I bet she already knows)