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FBeckenbauer4
August 5, 2020 at 8:52 am
I’m obviously a minority here I fully support reparations, every single slave owner in the US should pay reperations to the slaves they owned.
Casey Weimar
August 5, 2020 at 10:20 am
Unfortunately, there’s been no slave owners nor have there been slaves in the u.s. since 1865 so thats not gonna work
FBeckenbauer4
August 5, 2020 at 10:23 am
@Casey Weimar …sounds to me like the problem solved itself.
Martijn van Loon
August 5, 2020 at 9:08 am
This man should read the works of Thomas Sowell.
Malcolm Jones
August 5, 2020 at 9:42 am
All LIVES matter.
More identity politics.
Harshit Garg
August 5, 2020 at 9:45 am
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You have send me one e mail
Tammy Stockley-loughlin
August 5, 2020 at 10:04 am
50 year old white lady here…and I think reparations are needed, as well as a real reform of our legal system.
Equality benefits all.
Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself during this pandemic and social crisis
Tammy Stockley-loughlin
August 5, 2020 at 1:54 pm
@Rick James thank you…I’m also a human being and able to see where society needs to change/advance.
I think it will benefit all Americans and humans across the world.
Lei P
August 5, 2020 at 8:24 pm
No reparations are needed at all you mean. Not going to happen.
Tammy Stockley-loughlin
August 5, 2020 at 8:45 pm
@Lei P heck, they were supposed to get 40 acres and a mule…around here 40 acres has a lot of value. In my town, it would translate to about 20 house lots and they go $80,000 each, WITHOUT THE HOUSE, WELL, AND SEPTIC. No idea on the value of the mule.
Not that the USA is very good at honoring the treaties made, we have treated the native Americans horribly also. And yet both groups continue to volunteer for our Armed forces. Many times over the 50years I have been alive I am angered at the lack of respect for other human beings by my country and other countries around the world.
Mx. Matthew D. Hudson They-Them
August 5, 2020 at 10:26 am
I really think we should just seize the assets of everyone descended from the traitors in the first civil war. They really haven’t changed and their ancestors got away with treason for the sole purpose of slavery—with absolutely no punishment even though they earned capital punishment at the end of a rope. Still they are the same exact thing as their ancestors were today, but wear Red Hats. Same flag of southern failure though. Let’s use eminent domain to seize their property and return it to the people who actually worked for it: the slaves, or rather their descendants. The entire south should be black and bigots homeless.
Andrea
August 5, 2020 at 10:59 am
As someone eager to understand this idea, I wished they tackled harder questions, like for example
1: why only this particular historical injustice needs fixing while others don’t? I am thinking native americans probably got it worse. Should not we be rolling back injustice as far as we can?
2: why the target level of compensation should be wealth parity with white folks? I don’t think that slaves were ever on parity even before colonialism. And then which white families should you consider? How about damages to the african countries?
3: among whites, there’s plenty of inequality with some families having a lot and other a little. With reparations it could be very well that a much flatter distribution is produced for blacks and we don’t know if that is good or bad.
4: how would you count ancestry? is 1 slave ancestor and 30 living descendants going to generate 30 payments? Do we pay the older descendant or the younger or both? what about mixed descendants?
5: how come monetary wealth is the only intergenerational form wealth? What about culture? We all know that the “new rich” is still not on par with old wealth. Values are selected with generations as much as genes. The value of intergenerational accumulation itself is probably the most important one.
6:ok, we do this. Is racism ended and we are all friend? can we lift all other policies for minorities?
Haleem Muhammad
August 5, 2020 at 8:37 pm
Fight to fix em
TCELL24
August 5, 2020 at 11:35 am
MUH REPARASHUNS
The power of Books
August 5, 2020 at 12:19 pm
Great speech . congratulation. Thanks for sharing with us.
Mummi and Me
August 5, 2020 at 2:00 pm
LOL!!
Rick James
August 5, 2020 at 1:48 pm
Sounds about black
Andrew Manzi
August 5, 2020 at 1:55 pm
Vote your consciousness, you/me 2020
Spaghetti Monster
August 5, 2020 at 1:56 pm
someone should do a ‘get woke go broke’ segment about TED Talks. I have not been here in over 2.5 years and I wonder how many other people stopped supporting TED talks for the same reason. TED Talks use to be a great resource for creativity and innovation, but ever since they started cowering to the sjw marxist nonsense out of fear TED Talks has become just another propaganda arm of the democrats. Shame on you.
Catbus Driver
August 5, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Now where are my reparations from Italy for the Roman Empire?
ThunderChief_69
August 5, 2020 at 3:07 pm
Can i have reparations too! As a native American my people suffered greatly. Ofcourse im kidding , the past is the past, and America continues to evolve into what the founding fathers envisioned. Im smart enough NOT live on reservation, and prosper greatly at my own hand. Ive had alot of racist acts committed against me, from keying my vehicles, comments, and being made to leave a lake because i supposedly didn’t have the proper safety gear ( which turned out to be false….i checked with another DNR agent). I dont blame the government for any of these people’s acts…..i blame those racist people. And over the course of 50 yrs, i can tell you most of America is not racist. So have a good day! And go make something of yourself!
Miss Kitty
August 5, 2020 at 4:12 pm
I read Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z are owners in the private prison “industry” so I’d think twice about who I idolized,they are “The Man” welcome to every persons nightmare…nothing is as it seem 👉💩y
Garrett Ederer
August 5, 2020 at 4:35 pm
*Shmita*
xsvmalice
August 5, 2020 at 4:44 pm
How about the half of my family that descends from natives that were slaughtered treated as second class citizens given small patches of land no one wanted and enslaved?
Johnnie James
August 6, 2020 at 12:33 pm
Why have the Native Americans not asked for reparations? 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
xsvmalice
August 6, 2020 at 2:32 pm
@Johnnie James why haven’t the Chinese the Irish or the Jews ?
Tuco Pacifico
August 6, 2020 at 8:51 pm
xsvmalice Some Native American tribes not only supported the Confederacy, about 3% were slaveholders as well. History isn’t just black and white or right and wrong.
Bro bro bro
August 5, 2020 at 7:38 pm
It would be ignorant to not acknowledge all the benefits white americans gained from the enslavement of African Americans. The accumulation of wealth and opportunities that made it possible for them to thrive, was denied to the minorities. I understand his frustrations, that recently in the relief bill, a butload of money was given to large companies. While a measly amount, not enough to pay rent for one month was given to everyone else. And that was that. It seems like the government is only happy to give free money to the rich, if given to the poor it’s panhandling. Why is that?
VIPVeral
August 5, 2020 at 7:38 pm
what if we just created a new currency for those in the black community, that could only be accepted by those in the community, that way the USD wouldn’t be effected, and the money would stay in the black community!
howdydutt1e
August 5, 2020 at 9:18 pm
Great video, I wish people would take the time to learn the history of this country.
Spritefound
August 6, 2020 at 10:06 am
Like this? I quote here “Between 1525 and 1866 in the entire history of the slave trade to the new world, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World 10.7 million survived the passage, disembarking in the Caribbean, South and North America. And how many of these 10.7 million were shipped directly to North America? It is estimated about 388,000. That’s right a tiny percentage”. I too wish people would take the time to learn the history of this country.
Haleem Muhammad
August 5, 2020 at 9:59 pm
Great book on chapter 12!
Kirk Turner
August 5, 2020 at 11:57 pm
325,000 Union dead, 225,000 Union wounded and maimed, reparations have been paid in full.
Nikkitaz Lanez
August 6, 2020 at 12:01 am
That was your personal war. Had nothing to do with slavery, you people get off your High Horse! you’re so misinformed & ignorant.
Kirk Turner
August 6, 2020 at 11:09 am
@Nikkitaz Lanez What an ignorant response, do you even know what I’m referring to?
Nikkitaz Lanez
August 6, 2020 at 1:41 pm
@Kirk Turner the civil war.. Um duh.
Nikkitaz Lanez
August 6, 2020 at 1:43 pm
@Kirk Turner why would America fight/ for slaves they burned whipped and raped?? Use common sense & critical thinking! That’s why I say you people are Ignorant!!
Yes No
August 7, 2020 at 1:06 am
@Nikkitaz Lanez The website you provided is an OPINION and is biased. The civil war was against the North and South. The South had a slave dependent economy while the North didn’t. Abraham Lincoln become president and wanted to slowly get rid of slaves. Then the South states just left the country. They had a war. Eventually the North won. You are the ignorant one here.
Nikkitaz Lanez
August 7, 2020 at 1:24 am
@Yes No how stupid can you be?? Did you not read the second post after my Biased article? Again!! Why would Northern rich white men (Robert Gould) fight/ die for inferior slaves???
Melech Yahanan
August 5, 2020 at 11:58 pm
“And YAH! said unto ABRAM, Know of a SURETY that thy SEED shall be a STRANGER in a LAND that is NOT theirs, and shall SERVE them; and they shall AFFLICT them ‘400-YEARS!;’
And also that NATION, whom they shall SERVE, ‘Will I JUDGE!:’ and AFTERWARD shall they COME-OUT! with ‘GREAT-SUBSTANCE! (REPARATIONS).’ Gen. 15:13-14 & Acts 7:6-7”
Panya Rerksakunchai
August 6, 2020 at 1:23 am
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spaz tor
August 6, 2020 at 3:30 am
Have another one
Panya Rerksakunchai
August 6, 2020 at 1:23 am
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XxmattitudexX
August 6, 2020 at 5:44 am
NOPE
Charley Edwards
August 6, 2020 at 6:20 am
this is dumb and reparation’s have only ever been mud on the wound. what were really talking about are the once in a lifetime situations that allow for successful people of any color. those situations need to open to anyone period . the way to do that is to make education and fundamental life goods like unprocessed foods should be free for everyone. empty the prisons and send the ones who wont allow themselves to rehabilitate to colonies and move the rest into rehabs. only once we no longer have to fight and struggle just to survive can we actually begin to thrive
Spritefound
August 6, 2020 at 9:28 am
I quote here “Between 1525 and 1866 in the entire history of the slave trade to the new world, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World 10.7 million survived the passage, disembarking in the Caribbean, South and North America. And how many of these 10.7 million were shipped directly to North America? It is estimated about 388,000. That’s right a tiny percentage”. But this doesn’t fit your narrative. About 388,000 original black slaves and now you think that 42.6 million deserve reparations.
Spritefound
August 6, 2020 at 11:31 am
Unsubscribed from Ted Talks. To many idiots with agendas.
Phil Ellison
August 6, 2020 at 12:31 pm
These comments sadden me so. All the “you, them” and “me, us” is disgusting. We are ALL americans, have diverse and complicated social histories and have faced our own challenges. Reparations should be as follows:
1. US government apology for slavery and discrimination of ALL races including Irish during the famine, Japanese during WW2, Middle Eastern descendants during the most recent war etc
2. Removal of statues honoring confederate generals from public places – not including memorials of fallen soldiers
3. Law against flying confederate flags from government buildings
Let me know what you all think
Yes No
August 7, 2020 at 12:59 am
You right.
Johnnie James
August 6, 2020 at 12:32 pm
This is such a brilliant, thought provoking, and accurate assessment of this subject. There are some other components that I would include into this discussion like the funding of Black INSTITUTIONS, like Grammar Schools, High Schools, Black Banks, Black Development an Construction Companies, and Black Business Development.
サテライトnsf
August 6, 2020 at 1:59 pm
I wish Thomas Sowell would start doing interviews again. Time to unsub from TED channel.
Mitchell Gates
August 6, 2020 at 3:09 pm
I’m okay with reparations, with the condition that it’s a one time, lump sum and that after that we are equal and it’s not brought up again
ImaginaryStranger
August 6, 2020 at 4:41 pm
So you suggest modern white skinned americans should pay reparations for something their ancestors did 150 years ago? In what kind of crazy world do you live in, TED?
Yithmaster
August 6, 2020 at 4:58 pm
If we give reparations then will they stop blaming whites for everything? I think not
Mark K
August 6, 2020 at 5:29 pm
This guy has more cash than me. No fair.
Amachtinger
August 6, 2020 at 6:10 pm
What a joke.
andres aguirre
August 7, 2020 at 1:52 am
Im learning inglish, I would like to speak with native person for improve, I speak spanish and also could learn this language
復帰切望Light
August 7, 2020 at 5:51 am
In Japan and I’m Japanese, racism isn’t major and this is why I watched it just now and the thing that I understood from this video was “the existence of differences between black and white.” Is it possible to fight against racism just recognizing these differences?????
(I’m English Learner so maybe there are weird expression..sorrrrrrry)
David O'Neill
August 7, 2020 at 6:42 am
Don’t judge people for the sins of there ancestors. I’m Irish we were slaves for 100s of years. Had our country dominated. It was wrong but move on. Holding onto the ghate creates the chaos your seeing in America.
Aries Rogue
August 7, 2020 at 10:32 am
Nope
Robert Fedich
August 7, 2020 at 11:48 am
My grandparents came to the US just before WWI 50 years after slavery ended. No one in my family ever owned slaves or benefitted by owning slaves. Why should we be penalized ?
Adam J
August 7, 2020 at 1:57 pm
it’s gonna be a no from me
Sai Balaji Education Center
August 7, 2020 at 3:36 pm
👍👍
yubtypin
August 7, 2020 at 4:13 pm
AA life > African life
किम जोंक ऊन उत्तर कोरिया
August 7, 2020 at 5:10 pm
हमें मौतों के कारोबार को रोकना चाहिए। पूरी दुनिया को मेरे रास्ते में जाना चाहिए और हर देश को मेरी तरह शांतिपूर्ण बनना चाहिए।
जय हनुमान ज्ञान गुन सागर. जय कपीश तिन्हु लोक उजागर
August 7, 2020 at 5:10 pm
हमें मौतों के कारोबार को रोकना चाहिए। पूरी दुनिया को मेरे रास्ते में जाना चाहिए और हर देश को मेरी तरह शांतिपूर्ण बनना चाहिए।
ब्लादिमीर पुनीत Бладимир Пунит
August 7, 2020 at 5:10 pm
हमें मौतों के कारोबार को रोकना चाहिए। पूरी दुनिया को मेरे रास्ते में जाना चाहिए और हर देश को मेरी तरह शांतिपूर्ण बनना चाहिए।
Brett
August 7, 2020 at 5:41 pm
When will people quit thinking of themselves a victims? If you were harmed, file a lawsuit.
킴스데반
August 7, 2020 at 9:51 pm
26:00
maria s
August 8, 2020 at 12:32 am
These comments are the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. Guys.
Bill Utley
August 8, 2020 at 1:55 am
Ted has jumped the shark
Really Madonna
August 8, 2020 at 3:02 am
They are coming whether you like it or not. Deal with it.
Best Boxing
August 8, 2020 at 3:26 am
He spoke correctly. I support him forever.
Pw America
August 8, 2020 at 4:39 am
I’m going to my good friends house tomorrow
We will bbq and have a great time
his house is bigger than mine and he has taught me so much in our field of work
Lamont is a great guy and I’m proud to know him.
TED….wtf?
Hammer Ology
August 8, 2020 at 6:28 am
You don’t deserve it you didn’t live it that’s it! All greed….
Roberta Kernan
August 8, 2020 at 6:34 am
A complex approach to a supposed fix led and implemented by who in government? when we can’t even figure out an equitable and affordable healthcare and education system in this country right now. Those are everyone’s priorities along with employment.
Dhiraj Davari
August 8, 2020 at 6:41 am
Please don’t add advertisement in between video … possible to to start or end instead..👍
Vyacheslav Ushakov
August 8, 2020 at 6:47 am
Искусственный интеллект или искусство интеллекта. Вячеслав Ушаков http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chbzIQz–sw
Teagan Patell
August 8, 2020 at 2:48 pm
For our Collective Moral Future
& our Collective Social Future
Collective Culture & Consciences
In the vain of Richie Richie Speculative Fiction:
Lets’s Consider:
Modern ‘Merican Monopoly
V
Reparations
Let’s Build Assets for Black Americans
( & Indigenous Americans, too)
0. Precise Step (for substantive & symbolic reasons): Direct Payments to Individuals
1. trust accounts
2. Endowments
First: reject scarcity principle, EMBRACE ABUNDANCE PRINCIPLE (see Buckminster Fuller, see COVID-19 timeline precedence: 2 & 1/2 trillion dollars, see Special Field Order No.15 “Forty Acres & A Mule”
Modern Value in 2020 hindsight?
Only 400,000 acres were settled,
then the settlement was reversed & the
Land Restored to those who formerly OWNed SLAVES.
In Conjunction with:
Homestead acts in West
Whites seized lands from indigenous populations.
Essentially, we need to transfer a fair amount of red houses, green hotels, and some railroads and utilities to the black community.
We need to stop racist
Go 2 Jail “chance cards”.
We need to level the ‘Rat Race’,
pass blacks past GO several times over,
that they may collect $200 to the 40n degree.
How about we play a
Modern American Monopoly
Where Everone Wins
& We all have fun?
Let’s move our talisman in unison.
All One
🔺
🖤❤️💙🙏
(It may be long odds,
But it’s something
I Am obligated
To pursue)
Read Richard’s Book:
Wealth of Racists
& Advocacy MAP
& Forecast for House Legislation 40
Let’s revise & Bolster before Passage
& take a key step
Moving in the direction of a
Comprehensive Reparations Program
For Black American Descendants
Of U.S. Slavery
Minivan Recon
August 8, 2020 at 2:53 pm
Show me on this Teddy bear where the 1860’s touched you…
Minivan Recon
August 8, 2020 at 3:21 pm
When half the Ted Talk viewers thumb down your reparations scheme you know you’ve got problems.
Max Kronader
August 8, 2020 at 5:20 pm
Everyone alive today who was a slave should receive reparations from everyone alive today who owned slaves.
Any other policy is simply government engaging in theft.
Theft doesn’t stop being theft just because a bunch of politicians vote in favor of it.
Max Kronader
August 8, 2020 at 5:25 pm
I had relatives who died fighting for the Union and helping to end slavery. How much of those reparations are the recipients going to pay me for my ancestors’ sacrifice to free the slaves?
Happybidr
August 8, 2020 at 7:22 pm
Never going to happen. This is the opposite of an “idea worth spreading.” Why? Because it completely ignores the facts about the history of slavery in the world. Historian, economist and author Thomas Sowell has studied this subject for years. His comments are worth hearing, as opposed to this man’s. He says, “Slavery is a very big subject. The sad fact is that slavery has been a universal institution for thousands of years as far back as you can trace human history. What we are just looking at here as if slavery is something that just happened to one race of people in one country…Reparations will have to go both ways. Because the number of Whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the (Black) Barbary pirates exceeded the number of Blacks enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that, put together. Yet no one is going to go to North Africa to ask for reparations because nobody is going to be fool enough to give it to them. Yet here [like this TED talk] we have intellectuals who can imagine a different history from the rest of the world.”
ussarn g
August 8, 2020 at 7:41 pm
I’m mixed and I think this guy is an idiot.
4 generations out from slavery and still blaming inequality on slavery. He could probably do better by getting black people to mentor black youths and inspire them to achieve a better life. A one time grant of money will no more raise up most poor blacks then it would poor whites, Hispanics, asians, and Native Americans.
Deserve or merit??? Oh my gosh. How many people came to the US and workered their way up without any government assistance. Geh most every body.
This man is an economist and doesn’t understand how the COVID-19 payments will eventually make their way back to the taxpayers. Or add to a national debt that the country could never repaid. Not like that debt is not repayable already, while taxpayers provide aid to poor countries while US jobs leave the country. And why do those jobs leave … yeah because US citizens want a livable wage.
I’ve given up listening to this fool.
Noah Morris
August 9, 2020 at 5:19 am
He wants reparations for what exactly? No one alive today was a slave and nobody alive today owned a slave. Get over it.
Archie James
August 9, 2020 at 1:59 pm
Native Americans and others get it why can’t we
Amber's Punching Bag
August 9, 2020 at 8:19 am
DAVE CHAPPELLE SKIT ALREADY COVERED THIS. WATCH THE CHAPPELLE SHOW
Jersey Devil
August 9, 2020 at 2:54 pm
Slavery was horrible, but it was a long time ago and if you want a life go out in earn it. You are entitled to nothing like ever one else.
Homär Simpsön
August 11, 2020 at 10:47 am
but if it’s much easier to demand something you don’t earn, it’s worth a try – it is a classic “give an inch – take a mile” case – blacks are factually privileged in the usa and still they play victimhood-games, that’s not the american spirit
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Alan
August 9, 2020 at 8:54 pm
Professor Darity is focused on equality of racial results, eliminating the modern income gap between African Americans and Caucasians. He is using “reparations” from the Civil War (155 years ago), along with claims of “Jim Crow” (50 years ago) to justify a transfer of modern society’s wealth. This time passage since the damages makes the modern claim an emotional issue, with cross arguments of historical facts, rights, victimhood and sacrifice/payment from other groups.
I would rather see Professor Darity come up with a modern program that creates “reparations” or “opportunities” base on raising the modern lower economic classes out of poverty regardless of race, color or creed.
Goy Goddess 2
August 10, 2020 at 2:25 am
I am getting sick of this increasing victim mentality nanny state. Whatever happened to rugged individualism and self reliance??
Bill Norris
August 10, 2020 at 2:30 am
We are in NO way responsible for the sins of our great great grandfathers..
Jonathan Yu
August 10, 2020 at 3:50 am
I’ll say the quiet part out loud: reparations is (very) thinly veiled Marxism. There very well might be injustice, there is almost certainly room for improvement in racial equality of opportunity, but any redistributive justice is a contradiction in terms. This man’s rhetoric echoes that of my native country in the 1940s. Except it wasn’t black v white, it was rich v poor. Mao’s supposed solution was the same as this man’s for the most part. That hasn’t exactly fixed the problem…
GrifFungin
August 10, 2020 at 6:13 am
The only emotion I can muster from watching victim-hood spew so freely is, pity.
GrifFungin
August 10, 2020 at 6:15 am
He can’t help it, he truly believes he’s owed. Poor thing…
raharu000
August 10, 2020 at 7:56 am
He lost me at 8:55 when he suggested fixing the racial wealth gap problem by making “direct payments to eligible recipients or descendants of black slaves.”
That is a horrible solution to the wealth gap problem. Black or white, most poor people don’t have the tools to create wealth. Give them money and they’ll give it right back to that Jeff Bezos. It’s such a stupid idea that the only reason I can imagine they came up with it, is because they want it to be popular.
Wouldn’t it be a better idea to actually invest in COMMUNITIES and not individuals? Invest in education and infrastructure that supports poor black families. Don’t just write checks to individuals… This man is a professor?
Srishti Verma
August 10, 2020 at 11:33 am
Please do check out my poems, I’d be really grateful 🙂
vic365
August 10, 2020 at 9:44 pm
The guilty party is the US Government? Okay, by making the Government pay you are really taking away a portion of the taxes, since that’s the only source of income for the Government. And who pays these taxes? I pay these taxes. I did not discriminate and enslave anybody. And my black neighbor who is also paying these taxes, didn’t. So why make ME and HER pay? Enough with this communist crap.
Hagge Bänke
August 11, 2020 at 12:37 pm
Unsubscribed. Tired of left wing extremism.
Patricia Barrett-Day
August 11, 2020 at 12:58 pm
White Americans have already paid reparations for the enslavement of people of color. Do you not remember the civil war ? Hundreds of thousands of white people gave thier lives saying stop slavery . This video , while truthful , is is just a “look at poor me” attempt to get something for free. I’m sick of hearing it.
zama202
August 11, 2020 at 8:52 pm
A far better idea than Reparations is ……….. *Repatriation.*