The Black Church has lost all credibility with many in our communities because of acts just like this. Instead of standing for what is right, they choose glitter and glitz or some other meaningless showing.

I am a white guy and I really feel that America needs to pay these reparations. These reparations should be not only for slavery but also for the 100 years after slavery when Blacks were lynched and lived under Jim Crow conditions. it's so unfair that we whites are still in denial.

If you inherited the loot, you owe the people.

Everytime we talk about it every other race says why should I care my people didn’t come till after and than some that say what about all the other races shit kills me everytime it never fails when they are talking about African people enslaved in America

A commission to establish a study. That means nothing.

You can’t undo the past, but you can start the healing process now.

Amy - as usual you’re on top of it! You never cease to amaze me. Thank you is not enough for all the years you have been with us. Please forgive me if this seems out of place - but I’ve not been able to stop wondering if the young white man that died with the young black man many years ago when Blacks were trying to establish voting rights - was he related to you?

I am a 36yr college graduate, college was a live changing experience but that can't be top on the list when it comes to reparations... We need cash payments and land, that's top priority, those 2 things can really change lives

Wow! Very nice. We need more intelligent people like this lady working with Reparations committees. She is knowledgeable and truthful. Thank you very much.

EminantDomain initially meant to abscound the Indigenous land. Meanwhile Homesteading for European peasants. A form of AffirmativeAction... Confiscating of Indigenous Lands, must be countered by perpetual land leases especially by developed land masses. Anything less would be acknowledging Europeans were here first. They dont even make that claim.

I would love to see either Yvette Carnell or Antonio Moore of the ADOS foundation on this show to talk about slavery reparations..

I wonder if this will ever happen not only in America but in the Caribbean and in Africa as well.

What about Federal reparations?

Can we have a Reparation march in the Summer?

Whenever I see an American black speaking on reparations on a major platform it’s never the people that I’ve seen speaking on reparations all day every day on social media for years. Where do yall dig these folks up from?

Your Brain On Liberalism: Slavery=Bad+Evil, Capitalism=Fair+Good

How can a people who support and believe that you have no right to inherit anything, believe that you have a right to inherit your ancestors suffering?

Why did you not have Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore? This is a weak interview.

When the wall came down in Germany, East Germany was a lot poorer and underdeveloped. West German citizens have been paying high solidarity taxes ever since in order to create equality in the country. As some here in the comment section claim, they have been burdened with the aftermath of Slavery.....well think about it, the reparations are a form of creating a better future with more equality in the country, and believe it or not, that is good for all Americans.

I'm surprised Sandy Darity is not part of this conversation. He's the most formidable proponent of reparations i've heard to date.

I owe nothing to no one but God

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She has a hard time calling those of us who ancestors was slaves in America Americans. She didn't use Americans at all.

Philosophy Trending 2 Trending 2 - PaulTeich-©️10/31/2023 When random acts of kindness are trending through the land When kind becomes the magic word And the thing we do is lend a hand We won’t worship a bird of prey, but one of peace and love When kindness is trending, instead of snuggies and skittles Everyone will have homes No one will be starving for vittles There will be full bellies at dinner tables instead of bombs If our minds move in the direction of our most dominant thought Peace, love and kindness is, perhaps what we ought Steering away from bread and circuses Rather to help the needy with health and human services Brothers and sisters we are all one Separation is painful from the real and the unicorn And it is surely not as much fun As to live in a democracy, not in need of agrarian reform The trend today it’s for the rich not to share Poor people are not vulgar we need to learn to care Paul Teich. “The Poet”. 2023

Humanity LIVES. Shedding tears over here for sharing family history together IN THE PRESENT. Let us learn from the past.

People who come from the lineage of Slavery in the United States would have been a more clear description

REPARATIONS is justice...Cut the check...

Thank you, "Amy Goodman." 🌹

Reparations should be paid in the "Form" of Free Education for all Descendants..(4 years) (Education not $$$.. ) Education allows an Individual to compete on an Equal Playing Field... Education is the "Key" to Equality!!!

Bless you, much gratitude for beginning the reparations process to restore justice to humanity. We can not undo the past by repeating it, we can transcend it by opening our hearts and paving a new path. Much love and respect for the great work you are doing.

Curious whether an excavation of Native American title to the lands being looked at in this region ties into these stories… slavery was a grave sin in American history, but not the original sin. This reparations discussion is long overdue, it is vitally necessary to see reparations paid- however, it doesn’t get to the root of all that requires investigation, atonement & repair.

Thank-you "Democracy Now" for spotlighting this movement. Please continue to do this. 😊❤

Smacks of another okie doke.

Free education please part of the catch up process.

It's ABOUT TIME, AMY. WAKE IT UP AND HAVE ADOSAF ON!

Thank you for this piece of information.

Studies are straight cap.

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 AN AWESOME VIDEO. I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY.

💯🔥🔥 Foundational Black American Folks

That throat clearing speaks volumes.Shame pasted on from ancestors.Heavy,Heavy burden to bare.The truth will set us FREE!😢

Descendants of enslavers can be the most helpful by lobbying Congress to pay reparations instead of placing the debt of slavery on their own inheritances. The debt belongs to the federal government, the Treasury, some central banks in Europe. It's too massive to be handled locally or by enslaver descendants unless they're in Congress. In that case many are in Congress or are local lawmakers. Maybe that's why there's been no progress.

We must not forget our past, but we can’t let it dictate the future either, otherwise we will never be free.

So people who never owned slaves should pay reparations to people who never were slaves?

The Atlanta episode!

So beautiful to see these steadfast and courageous people revealing these brutal truths of our collective history and moving towards co-creating something new. May we all be liberated and share peace despite our cruel history. xo Peace, M

No words only a million tears.

If you talk about this you have to show the whole picture without taboos, including the fact that African rulers sold black slaves to Europeans, and the fact that in Africa today there are black people enslaved by other black people.

What was the cause of the Civil War?

Omg stop bringing up the one in Evanston it was not reparations it is only for people who still live in Evanston it was not for the descendants that are still living there that rent and not own

South Carolina was the richest state in the union only because it owned the most slaves and it was the first southern state to succeed

QUIT YOUR GRIPIN GET YOURSLVES A HOBY ITS TIME TO HEAL

THE MOST HIGH YAH WILL HANDLE IT ! IT IS OUT OF THE HANDS OF ANY LEADER AT THIS POINT! PRAISE THE MOST HIGH! HALLELUYAH! PSALM 148:14 & 1PETER 2:9

Great piece, but we cannot form bonds of repair with people who deny slavery’s role in American and Western wealth…. For Nicke Haily to stand there like a deer in headlights about the question of slavery and the civil war tells you everything…. Their story and our story are 2 totally different thing’s….no one would want the evilness of what these people did to surface. It brings a whole new way of looking at who the savages were and are today. Pale people are the only people in history to go all around the world killing robbing raping other people, in the name of Christianity, and all along calling those they kill- the savage We Got Next APTTMHGY

Land and money way overdue 😳

I don't owe anybody nothing...

My thoughts on reparations are simple: " It's my 💵 and I want it now!!!!" When you owe some one something you pay them what you owe, you don't turn around and ask the person you owe money to. Well if I pay you back what do you plan to do with those funds.....It's mine & I want it, it really shouldn't matter if we all decided to spend it, burn it, or 🚽 flush it, it's ours 😡

More than any other kind, we need _class-based_ reparations. The very existence of staggering wealth inequality and "lower" classes is a direct result of systemic injustices that go back to the very beginnings of the nation.

Love you, Amy The Pursuit of Happiness Paul Teich©️12/25/2023 The end of deaths life To see my mother again To be with my wife and children And bake our birthday cakes When will Life’s life start again? For the oppressed life’s life never started in the first place When we see American actors on TV they remind us what this means And it’s not very nice But so everyone can understand Our actors on TV on our advertising talk shows that are teaching us what shows we like and actors we like, as if we didn’t know or couldn’t decide ourselves Our actors tell us now that I have had my first movie, and my life can begin And what they mean And what they are snobbishly, distainingly and looking down on us to say is that now that they have millions of dollars their life could start Their letting us know that they feel they had no life before these millions of dollars and fame And now that they have millions of dollars and fame their life can start In retrospect, they are letting us know, in an underhanded and superior narcissistic way that our lives have never started. We are beneath them and we don’t have the money or access to the right people to even consider that we have a life. Many people have spoken of this kind of laughing, chuckling self importance and pride of joining the one percent What are they telling to people who are truly poor? What are they telling to people that are under occupation? What are they telling to people that are bombed and not for Christmas by corporations who decided they’re going to make munitions and billions of dollars and are they complicit in millions of peoples death as well The only people that are not complicit are the oppressed are the bombed When will Life’s life start again? For the oppressed, life‘s life has never started End the wars End apartheid End all occupations End disparity Share Peace and love brothers and sisters

Reparations for colonialism

All reparations should go to stop current slavery. All reparations should go to help current slaves.

What a bunch of crap .

Thank you professor black truth

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Isaiah 14:21-22 [21]Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. [22]For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

WOW

It’s about time!!! Long overdue.

I knew the comments would be full of level headed, totally not racist remarks. 🙄

If African Americans think they deserve "reparations" only those from slaves should locate and find the families that owned slaves and file civil suits against them. That is the only fair and equitable way. Otherwise, it is simply trying to find a way to steal tax revenue and money from the poor who never owned slaves and give it to their friends. Rich people don't pay taxes, only poor people do.

"There is only organized power against organized power; I see no other remedy, as much as I regret it."Albert Einstein

At the height of slavery 1.6% of the population owned slaves. The very idea, the demand that people alive today who had absolutely nothing to do with slavery take their hard earned money and give it to people who never experienced slavery is absolutely abhorrent. This is the rich and corporations passing off their debt to the poor and others who have zero responsibility for those acts. America inherited slavery from European countries and ended the practice within 1 generation. Seek your money, your reparations from the corporations that still exist today that benefited from slavery. Banks, insurance companies, all the Universities. Seek your reparations from the actual enslavers in Africa. In Europe. Citizens alive today have zero responsibility or guilt for those actions and owe nothing.

It is time

Please discuss the last 3000 years of slavery which includes all races and nationalities throughout the entire world.

Take none of these convo serious if its no mention of ADOS MOVEMENT,YVETTE CARNELL AND ANTONIO MOORE

If these people want to pay other people, let them. But leave the rest of us out of it. I do not owe any debt.

We also need to talk about reparations for soldiers' families who were drafted while rich men were allowed to buy "substitutes." Perhaps it would be most fitting if the descendants of people who actually benefitted in any financial or material way from the war to pay the reparations, rather than asking descendants of union soldiers who were drafted, while Rockefellers, Astors, VanDerBilts (Hi Anderson Cooper!) and others profited. I will be eagerly awaiting the reparations check for my ancestors' sufferings.

Nope. We never had slaves and fought a Civil War. That's all you get.

Without ADOS YVETTE AND Antonio Moore this show about reperations would not exist. They avoid talking to them at all cost. The people they have speak os using wrong language and verbiage . This resperation movement is flaw without ADOS YVETTE CARNELL AND ANTONIO MOORE . THEY need to be at the head of any of these disscussions if they are to be successful.

Spades have been getting gibs and other special treatment for decades while at the same time destroying everything they come into contact with.

Lol im not paying a single penny hahaha

As a matter of fact I would say you should be thankful that even though slavery was a horrible thing that happened to many people not just Africans.. Today blacks benefit the liberty and good life here in America.. That other people from other countries which they could benefit from ....That through that horrible act hundreds of years ago has brought you blessings here...Don't you all think so...I mean you could still been in Africa picking up water from the rivers like 3rd world countries still do....

I think all the slaveowners should pay reparations to those they enslaved. Not very practical, though, since they're all dead. Oh well. Never-were-slaveowners don't owe anything to never-were-slaves.

What about the Native Americans that were originally kicked off ALL of the US land? Talk about a good case for reparations!

The government literally makes money. Pay them.

@Democracy Now! Ms. Amy I think you should consider interviewing Yvette Carnell concerning the REPARATIONS topic.

Thanks, Amy Goodman

Road up on me? What you say lady ?

ADOSAF SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THIS SHOW. WE CREATED THIS MOVEMENT!

Dr. Claud Anderson has done this study long ago. However, the local level seems the way to go because we only get excuses on the federal level.

We need reparations put into a black bank where people can draw from 60% of reparations should help black ADOS to build infrastructure creating busineses not schools let government repair and open closed schools that America dismantle.. black America needs infrastructure to create towns that were destroyed roads and hospitals lost wages lost hope that needs to be restored

This comparison makes no sense. It is not related to the reality of hundreds slavery in the USA making this the wealthiest country in the world.

"Teach a man to fish and he'll never go hungry." "Educate a man and he'll cease to be poor." EDUCATION IS THE KEY TO EQUALITY!!!

This is our lives everyday. Everyday I’m not being paid reparations says it’s ok to treat people this way you can get away with it. They wonder why we just can’t get it together work hard and is all you have to do African American. Well my people worked the hardest and have nothing. I just took out a loan to help my daughter have a house a place to live in. I shouldn’t have to do that I have the money it’s just with the wrong people. I need my reparations over due.

Why not divide it up between the Federal Government and each State as slave states should be involved in an agreement that could include reparations of both land and money also education… ✌🏾

According to 23 and Me, I'm 1% Native American. I demand reparations from the American government for the land stolen from my ancestors by the early settlers!

Im from the Island where slaves were taken to...My Island was enslaved almost 400yrs.. My ancestors work as slaves and I dont go around saying who owes me because the sins of hundreds of years ago... These people just want money...

Benefits of investment & costs of deprived income should be emphasized when the reparations subject is covered, lest tax- burdened non-black voters' "exhaustion" cause them to impulsively tune out(?).

Study for what .. more BS

I’m from the large number of immigrants who came to America long after slavery was abolished. In my opinion, those rich families who benefited from slavery should be the ones to pay reparations. Those of us who arrived poor (and continue to struggle) should not be funding reparations through our taxes. So take the land inherited by the descendants of slave owners and take the businesses developed on the backs of slaves and use that to pay reparations.

Scoffers are lurking in the latter days. Laughing at the word of the living God. Pray that you repent of your sins that salvation comes to you.,., 0:10

Where do any of you think the money is supposed to come from? The estimates START at 14 trillion and go way up from there, depending on what "group" you talk to. This country is 34 trillion in debt right now. The financial devastation would be catastrophic if this were ever to pass. The stock market would crash and your reparations would not be worth the paper it's printed on. And before somebody responds with the "Jim Crow" thing... you were free to leave this country a long time ago.