The way I see it is that reparations will boost the economy in all types of ways, spending, manufacturing, home sales, some of the homes that the banks are holding for instances, and more. But mostly closing the wealth gap!! Mic'2023

It’s that simple

@KevinGloverpost24 car sales has declined in the last few years as well!! Thank you!! Mic'2023

You didnt make it!

@@thebossman3894 they didn’t either

Okay then just go to jail then?

@@raulsalome7038 Y'all know quite a bit about that, don't you‽

Was Coleman sweating!! Thank you!!Mic'2023 ❤

Money was made, money should be paid

@@MrNovatherebel - paid by who and why?

@@MrNovatherebel That makes no sense at all. Now go get a job because your fantasy about reparations will never ever happen.

And our tax dollars shouldn’t go to Ukraine, Afganistán or Israel, which has nothing to do with the United States but, they are!!! You need to have that same energy for them! At least, this would be something that would uplift this country directly and boost the economy as a whole!

Well, You better say something about your Tax dollars going to a lot of others ' money, investigate because more of your tax dollars are going to those other outlets daily. Those avenues you should be concerned about are just a matter. Your tax dollars are going out while Reparations are working to be paid. By the time Reparations are paid more of your money has gone out in many other ways that You are not aware of!!!

Every group received pain , but some groups overcame their obstacles better than others.

@@user-gu8fg7ft5b Some groups experienced more pain than others.

@@sportsactuary8574 yep like the native Americans, every group just have over come their struggles

@@sportsactuary8574 And you don't think there have been white slaves? You don't think European history isn't pretty brutal? Everyone has suffered, cry more

​@@user-gu8fg7ft5bactually many black Americans especially in the south have at least one full blooded Indian grandparent.. I have multiple that means I'm owed double according to what you are saying.

They will in California and the Taxpayers WILL pay for it.

California is not gonna pay reparations.

Anything goes these days….

@paulthomasbranda7591 74 million Republicans voted for Donald (the first potential Hitler in American history) Trump. Anything goes, is the understatement of the 21st Century.

@@boagBut You Don’t Mind Funding UKRAINE, Billions Upon Billions!!!!

Don’t forget to mention how most indigenous people (the term American Indian is offensive and refers to the the Americans of 🇮🇳 Indian descent) and Japanese Americans didn’t receive the reparations and when they did most people only received 1k-5k. That’s not enough money to lift a whole race out of oppression

Do you believe that black should receive compensations

Yes

Males running around impregnating women increased.

they're a defective culture.

Democrats.

In 1965 yt folks like you were saying black folks didn't deserve anything. You use single motherhood but if we were all in 2 parent homes you would still oppose it.

Prison Industrial Complex, Underfunded Schools - Low Job Prospects = Poverty Crack Epidemic School to Prison Pipeline and other targeted attack policies against a segment of Americans.

SPOT on with your COMMENT!

Thank you for being one of the only logical people in this comment section

I agree with you. Interest on top of interest is owed, yes indeed. The American government stubbornly clutched its pockets intentionally to delay reparations. As there is no way with America being that racist, would ever want to see a black family prosper in those times. Look how long it took them to observe Juneteenth as a federal holiday. That speaks volumes about how long America has been in a stubborn state of mind concerning matters of ADOS.

I disagree . Black Americans got the greatest reward in the USA. They got USA citizenship. That the cost of 600000. American soldiers lives. Plus it is written in the 14 amendment, that federal government will not be liable for slavery. And Liberia was created for the free slaves to return to Africa of their own free will. Now like 160 years later , black Americans want money for slavery? I say no. Too much blood and destruction was caused by freeing the slaves.

@@user-gu8fg7ft5b Respectfully, Nope! Black people served and lost lives, too, during every war, like other Americans with a bonus birthright. Never have we been compensated equally for our lives lost, but rather mistreated like animals, even still. You’ve grossly misinterpreted any amendment that claim that black peoples are not owed reparations. New comers are benefiting from our unpaid services as well. Like I said, with interest. She owes it, she knows it. ❤️

Blood was lost because President Lincoln was ignored.

dbabe3, well said. Thank you.

But you could vote for Donald Trump's Extreme Racism, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate, and still consider yourself a Christian !? Do you want to talk about complicated things, some more ?

Many white immigrants also were given home, small business and college loans that free, tax paying Black American citizens were denied and NEVER given fair opportunities to compete for.

Those of you who arrived later and probably have been able to be further ahead then most blacks who have been here bc of the systems in place.

Genealogical studies, census records and family trees can absolutely determine who are the descendents of slaves. Although indentured servitude is indeed horrible, nothing compares to chattel slavery. That is why it is the central scar in USA history. Pretending that it wasn't so bad just means that you weren't paying attention in social studies class.

Stop this ignorant pushback! Money was made, money should be paid

If slaves didn't get paid, so how did 300,000 freemen got their freedom before the civil war?

The statue of limitations was written in the 14 amendment. Section 4 of the 14 amendment says that the federal government will not be liable for slavery

@@user-gu8fg7ft5b Even if you were right about the government not being liable for slavery (because it says so in the amendment)...It would be a fickle contradictory arrangement. Why? Because if you say that African Americans were awarded citizenship, then What about the OTHER AMENDMENTS that were not honored by the American federal government in the treatment of ADOS after slavery? I say not honored as they allowed things to happen and sat idly by as white mobs, racist individuals, and white supremacist groups, at state and local levels treated black people like garbage and were never brought to justice. There are too many amendments that were broken, or personal boundaries of African Americans that were crossed by white supremacists and bigots that governed with legal and political power. Remember Jim Crow? That was a shameful incident in history that got your opinion looking like a contradiction. Many other things were done to African Americans during, but specifically, AFTER slavery that was unconstitutional and contradicted some of the Amendments based on ADOS treatment in America. Even if you were half right about the 14th amendment, Jim Crow laws and racist horrific treatment of black Americans AFTER slavery was unconstitutional and didn't honor all the other amendments. You know it. The point you made about the statutes of limitations that are somehow in section 4 as a clause to keep America from being responsible to pay the debt of slavery only proves my point that I disagree with Coleman Hughes in the video above. American government back then intentionally put that there for a reason...Yet when it comes to paying reparations or compensation to other groups of people in America that went through distress such as The Japanese, Native Americans, and other groups there is no problem. Why are Black Americans getting these delays to be compensated for their legitimate hardships? Therefore, reparations would be owed for slavery and incidents after slavery as they are treatments that targeted the humanity and livelihood of black Americans. Also, it's not a new thing for the Constitution to be revised by Congress.

And he didn't mention the harms that the Crack epidemic caused on the ADOS community's that we are still feeling the effects of!! Thank you Mic'2023 ps if Coleman doesn't like the idea of reparations, he can opt out!!

Well said!

You’re being taxed for natives Americans Israel and Ukraine’s reparations why aren’t you raising sand about that

You should've been saying no to the benefits your people got off the backs of slaves. While you hollering no, sucka

No thats exactly why you should be TAXED just for being a NEANDERTHAL b1

But Black people have been repeatedly taxed for being Black

What does slavery in Europe with caucasians enslaving their own caucasian ppl. That has nothing to do with chattel slavery in America. Stop including the whole world in what yall caucasians did in America and not just America but everywhere. Thats your way of trying to deflect and not be held accountable. Y’all kidnapped another nation of ppl from thousands of miles away and kept them as property and slaughtered them and treated them less than human.

Jews running full destabilization ops now.

No one cares about none of that! Money was made, money should be paid

​@@MrNovatherebelMcDonald's is hiring where I'm at 19.00 dollars starting pay

Cry more!

Blacks do more harm to each other and continue to do so. Majority love victimizing themselves.

@@ossoduro7794How about you and yours cry less! “Nooooo please don’t give them reparations!” 😢

@@MrNovatherebel y'all ain't getting sheeeeit....get over it. How long have y'all been begging‽ It simply is NOT going to happen. We don't cry about anything because we're privileged that way.

Nobody points out that Jewish descendents are getting reparations! So sick of this bigotry & oppression being played on my people! Enough is enough! We are expected to just get over it but those so-called white Jews are not told the same! I wonder why not and why is my tax dollars going to them & countries like Ukraine we did nothing to them but they have no problem giving to them because they are white it’s only a problem when comes to us!

"Without much of a fight"?.... It's like a couple of them didn't even have to ask for operation

@tmac_3055 we need to charge a Civil Rights Tax!! Mic'2023 ps Coleman needs to Opt out!!

Did you believe Donald Trump's obvious intentional Racist Birther Lie, in the form of a question ?

Why not? You willingly chose to move to a country that was built by enslaved Black people

Yes. You chose to come here and be a tax paying American citizen, right? Our tax system isn’t a la carte.

Ha!! Ha! right that's a really good question !!

@@seensay2132 From what I see, it is.

because there was no slaves in California

@@B86432 Exactly -- California wasn't even a state subject to US law prior to the Civil War? or not for long?

There were more than 2,000 enslaved black people in CA.

You didn't listen to the program. They specifically mentioned that although California was considered a Free State, southerners who came to California for the Gold Rush in 1849 brought their slaves with them. So there were enslaved people in California.

There are examples of those “local issues” all across the country.

Not worried about persuading the majority. Black people are sick of the Democratic Party. I'm not voting for them unless they put reparations on the table. If they don't let the Republicans win and watch the US implode just like that submarine that they've been searching for. That underwater vessel with the ultra wealthy on board trying to sight see the wreckage of the unsinkable Titanic. What an approriate analogy for where the US is headed. The global majority has had enough of the western world's shenanigans.

And we reject it. Get a job.

@bidhrohi12 go troll somewhere else

@@Chidimmaaa How long have you been waiting for the handouts‽ Just shut up and take it to the grave!

May as well, nothing but illegal trash piling up in that state.

Check further and dig deeper. Your research is limited. If your point was correct there would NOT have been a task force that the legislature of the State of California approved and signed by the Governor to develop recommendations.

@@cgcade1I did do my research that’s why I said what I said. I don’t speak unless I’m correct. The government can’t be trusted so I’m not sure why them signing anything makes a difference on the facts. But once again the devil seems to always come for the truth. Be blessed…❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Reparations is supposed to be for the descendants of slaves that’s a fact. That is not the reparations this video was talking about so I’m not sure what much digging deep needs to be done.

@@cgcade1 and if it is true and they signed it I guess that proves my point that they are not to be trusted, but as always they want to come for the people that are trying to help instead of go to the problem. JUST BECAUSE THEY PUT A BIG FANCY BOW ON IT AND CALLED IT REPARATIONS DOES NOT MEAN A THING, IT JUST MEANS THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE CALLING IT TO MAKE YOU PEOPLE HAPPY AND STALL TIME. WOW no wonder they called y’all, THAT WORD… ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 😂 😂 😂

March 2024 New York gave Jews $183 million!!!for the holocaust. Obama did the same 2016.And crickets 🦗. Cut the checks. Stop the BS.

Wake up bro, your people have been saying that for probably the last 7 generations in the UsA. It's time for the US to pay.

We pay native Americans Israel and Ukraine reparations and the US had nothing to do with the holocaust or Ukraine. Where is your opinion on that?

They were given land, tax exemption, and pretty much their own laws and government. I am about 75% Indian and 25% Irish! These Indians can travel anywhere across the United States, and Canada! They have a great life in Democratic states! Maybe not in republican states!

That's because the natives have their own system set up on the reservation they take care of themselves whatever profit the tribe earns all members get a piece of it

Well they tried to white out my ancestors bloodline I'm African, European, and Indian DNA!

No reason? It is an enormous humanitarian crisis. Millions have been displaced, their homes, in ruin.

@@MrCharliebbarkin So? The U.S. isn't Ukraine but the U.S. is Israel.

@@MrCharliebbarkinyour point so what Ukraine has been displaced

They already belong to unions. Maybe the unions should pay the reparations, since the unions stole from so many Americans of all races.

You sure about that? Technically he is half black....So according to most arguments for reparations wouldn't he qualify?

Exactly what I said

@@nobodysfriend876is he just 1/2 black? Or ADOS. I don’t think he’s ADOS OR FBA

@Rahsim a lot of people haven't caught up to our conversation yet. They think we are talking about flat blackness. They have no idea of what we are actually talking about.

I’ve observed this in other public speakers, as well. It’s totally obnoxious. Yes, along with vocal fry and upspeak.

"As wealthy as ours" were literally broke do you not remember the whole debt ceiling debate from a few weeks ago... Where's all this money going to come from add it to the trillions of dollars we already don't have as a nation

Talented historians and genealogists are able to trace who benefited from the slave trade and slave ownership in California. The descendents of those entities should pay into a fund to repay the free labor upon which their families built their wealth. That process can then be repeated state by state.

@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 who's going to pay for these talented genealogists and historians? You must live in some kind of communist fantasy land...So say the people who "benefited" (generations ago) family all went broke in the late 1920s you know in that Great depression thing that happened... And their offspring are poor or even struggling to maintain middle class lifestyles living paycheck-to-paycheck You're going to make them pay into a fund for something they didn't really have any part in?

@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 furthermore how are they going to enforce anyone paying? same way the IRS does with threats of violence and imprisonment?

But you have also factor in the cost of the civil war, the value of the USA citizenship and Creation of the Liberia and cost of 600000 soldiers who died in the civil war. And then the next question do the freemen , the slaves who got their freedom before the civil war , should their families be owed reparations.

How many white people were slave's? How many white people had their property seized by black people? How many black people were running around and hanging white people? The Answer to these questions is None! White privileges still exist! Yes 3.6 % of Black people were able to overcome white privilege out of 41.6 million black people! That's 1,497,600 out of 231,900,000 white people!

Did you believe Donald Trump's obvious intentional Racist Birther Lie, in the form of a question ? Did you listen to Donald Trump's Intentional Lies, that the first Black President in American history is the founder of ISIS and a Socialist and a Secret Muslim ? Did you vote for Donald Trump's Intentional Lies and Extreme Racism ? George W Bush fired all the Iraqi Army Officers who led ISIS. Leaving them with no jobs, no income and no respect. If any American President is the founder of ISIS, it is Republican George W Bush. I ask again, did you vote for Donald Trump's Intentional Lies, Conspiracy Theories, Extreme Rhetoric, Extreme Divisiveness and Extreme Hate directed at the first black President in American history ? If you voted for Donald Trump, even once, then you may not be an unbiased opinion, on anything to do with race relations in the USA

Have you been harassed by police unwarranted ? Were your Grandparents denied mortgage loans in nice neighborhoods regardless of credit? Were you ever turned away for jobs you were qualified for and later found out they went to lesser qualified? Did you ever receive an inheritance (business, money, property) passed down from relatives who profited indirectly from segregation and racist banking and hiring practices?

@@seensay2132 I get a kick out of these racists! They are all talk until you throw some facts at them. Then they have nothing to say! What a joke!

Then That’s On YOU!!!! You Have a 500 Year Head Start & Still Aren’t WiNNING……..Sounds Personal, To Me 😮!!!!!!!

What about the generational wealth that was stolen?

@@witnessforjesus6492 Prove you own it. Prove who has it. Take it. Simple. I personally have created all of the wealth I posess, myself. So; it doesn't apply to me; nor to the vast majority of people.

Yes you are innocent, but you participate in a system that generated its wealth from a crime. The crime was never justified, just delayed... Generations of slaves that built the foundation of America's economic powerhouse, which then allowed for many immigrants to benefit and if not for those 240 years of free labor you or your ancestors would not be here...

Thanks

Good. Stop talking.

Not from my money.

MLK was a crooked immoral pos, why else would his family refuse to release the tapes.

🤣 cut the check hilarious...whatever want money then work for it

​@@jpete3027666😂😂it's always you illiterate 1s with the most to say 😂😂

Everyone who disagrees with you is a “tether”

If they disagree on #FBA getting what is ole us yes.or a 🦝🦝🦝...

Repatriation should be the only payment made.

If they have strong cases backed by historical accounts, have at it. But don’t deny the Overwhelming reparations case of Black American Descendants of Slavery.

And we should pay them too..like we did Japanese

@@brombromsmuva9215And The Jewish & The Native Americans & The Japanese, For WW2 Camp’s. Everyone, Gets To Be Made “WHOLE”, Except Black People. We Are The Only American Citizens, That Our OWN Government, Dropped Bombs 💣 On!!!! No NATIONALITY, Has Suffered at The Hands Of The Very People Supposedly Protecting………… NEVER, For It’s Black INHABITANTS, In This Country 👈🏾😳🤔🙄

Like who ?

Then let those groups make their case for reparations. There has still not even been an official apology for slavery and it's racist aftermath.

Superficial.

This subject is probably impossibly complex to fit into 28 minutes. However, it is brave to attempt to start the discussion. Our nation will never heal if we can't face these issues. Just try to really listen. Try.

@@girlfromthebronxbywayofelb7288 maybe you should take a good look in the mirror first, and ask "who's really keeping me down?"

@@dragonknight9016 Please look in the mirror and question your need to prejudge strangers. I am not directly impacted by reparations. However, I know enough U.S. history to understand that chattel slavery is the central scar in our history. We must be brave enough to examine this horror, to discuss it rationally, then roll up our sleeves and do the repair work. Pretending that this is someone else's problem is irrational at best.

You an agent

They need to pay American Indians back rent for 400 yrs

The Spanish the Portuguese the Dutch the French and the English

They’re been paying Native Americans reparations since 2001

Amen

It's kind of funny; isn't it‽

That'll nvr happen

Germany paid Jewish descendants reparations and they also outlawed hate speech toward Jews while also erecting monuments acknowledging the humanity of those the Government was complicit in oppressing, harming and murdering.

@@seensay2132 nice let’s do some editing lol

USA, Can Do For People From Everywhere, Coming To AMERIKKKA, Just Not For Black People BORN HERE, For 500 Year’s.

Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations. Reparations is actual proven victims being compensated by their actual violators.

​@@seensay2132if it is not paid God will pay. The argument that it was so far long ago voting rights were just impacted 60 years ago not even a full human life span. 😂😂

I dunno about that. Begging for trillions of dollars in 'reparations' is not what most would consider resilient. A few other choice words come to mind, though.

@@MrCharliebbarkinthats what your community owes. Pay up

​@@MrCharliebbarkin benefiting from trillions of dollars of inhumane slavery torture and inhumanity while whinning about a conversation to correct it sounds about right.

​@@BirdPlanGod will bring justice

Black people belong in ships bound for Africa!

Every Black person with a White Slave owners last name came from Slavery like mime Johnson. Not Hard to figure out. My family goes all the way back to the 🚤

Dude, we've been waiting for this made up man to return for centuries. Get your head out of the clouds😂

they dont teach pre 1776 where slavery originated so they can intentionally blame the white man ....its a farce

Reparation are needed but people should not be thinking about a check. The money needs to go to damage that has been done to black people and their communities: slavery, segregation, and discrimination. The USA the ended these practices to then come up with new ones like RED LINING. We clearly see the results of RED LINING you cant not see it. Funding is needed to pull these area targeted by RED LINING to make these areas livable, Healthcare, places of recreation and learning to swim, access to job training facility, Funding for community activism to keep liquor store and businesses that do not support a community out. Funding for parental and community centers for daycare and adult care. Funding to make up for lack of community resources impoverished areas namely the schools. I look and see they are about to get rid of affirmative action so that small number of college students getting in to higher learning center is jeopardy due to a system that they have little control over. Its not their fault they were under challenged in their school district.

Or logic or greed or pride or lack of caring .

@@user-gu8fg7ft5b From either side.

If you take that useless college course, just be sure to pay off your student loan!

We’ve Given Ukraine A Trillion Dollars!! How, Are We Broke?? Chicago FOUND 51 Million, To Spend On Immigrants…..AGAIN…..How Are We BROKE?? We Have Money For FOREIGNERS, But NOT, People Born Here!! Makes No Sense!!!!!

Did You Have That Energy, When Everyone Else Got “REPARATIONS”?? I Think 🤔 NOT!!!!!

What?? Did I have that energy?? Please explain!

@@chillsillego9599 who else got reparations?

@@wyattcole5452 right! Some people just reply without even knowing what the situation is! 😒