June 26, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
14:30
Should Black People Get Reparations?
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Anyways, we're here out in Hollyweird, California, talking to people about reparations.
Basically, this is the idea of actually giving back monetarily to certain groups that faced injustice due to things like slavery.
We're going to find out if the people here in California are down.
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There's a debate today about people talking about giving reparations to black Americans for what happened during slavery.
Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, they just had a Senate hearing about providing back payment to black Americans specifically and payment for slavery.
People are debating today whether or not we should have reparations and repayment and give money to the black people today for the slavery in the past.
Yes or no?
unidentified
Oh, damn.
It's a good topic.
It's a good discussion and everything like that, but it's kind of pointless to have because it's never going to happen.
You already know what my feelings is on it.
I feel like, hell yeah, what's your feelings on it?
You the white person.
A lot of white people have a lot of white privilege, all right?
But racist, the U.S. is inherently racist.
Race has been vital to our existence.
We're nothing without slavery.
That's how we started as a country.
So it really come down to you because if you're willing to stand up, then okay, then your culture feels like, all right, well, why not?
Let's give them a shot.
And it's hard for a lot of us minorities.
I'm not just going to say black people because it's a lot of minorities out here.
That's hard for us to work.
It's hard for us to just be in this world as in society.
I think you may need to look at who actually enslaved people.
And it kind of comes down to no one alive today was actually there at the time, which means no one can actually be held accountable because they're all dead.
Yeah, Abraham Lincoln wanted to promise reparations.
I think it was actually the Republican Party, and then Andrew Johnson from the Democrat Party vetoed it because, you know, the Democrat Party originally started as the party of slavery.
I think the Democrats and the Republicans as a whole have completely lost touch, not only with minorities, but look at what happened with Donald Trump.
Even white people started to feel like the government wasn't representing them.
They started to look out for their own interests, and I feel like they went rogue.
They don't give a crap about us.
They just want to stay in power.
unidentified
No, I agree.
Even George Washington, the first president, was like, oh, the Democrat, I mean, the parties are going to destroy our country.
He warned, right?
The two parties.
He warned us.
He warned us.
It really was because it's all about politics.
It's all about big machines.
It's all about special interest groups are obviously influencing our parties.
A lobbyist, like, it's all about money now.
It's no longer about the people.
It's been about money since the 1800s.
If anything, they should do like how Alaska has it done.
Into purposely being cocky and assuming that I'm right, I'm...
I'm definitely probably wrong on some things, and I agree with that.
I was able to concede to that girl that there are some things that she probably knows that I don't.
But it didn't really seem like that was necessarily the case.
Because what happened is when you start whipping out facts and you start bringing out the truth, it's really hard to refute.
And luckily for us, though, in that situation, she actually was reasonable.
And that's why I don't want people to confuse passion and being upset with the lack of reason.
If you just calm someone down, say, hey, cool, I'll listen to you, I'll hear you out, and then you provide them with counterfacts, she was very reasonable and open at the end.
Said, yeah, it's probably true, and they moved along.
And that's how you handle it.
It's just simple.
It's chill.
It's easy.
You listen and then you speak.
That's how it's done, folks.
unidentified
Not everyone is black just because they're from Africa.
Then she's from Tanzania because there are a lot of people from generations back.
Tanzania.
Uganda.
My sister-in-law's from Uganda and Tanzania.
unidentified
If you're being an African-American, you actually have to come from Africa, you know, and then get American citizenship, and that would make you an African-American.
She would be an African-American if she gets citizenship.
And then there's black people who technically were never involved.
So how do we like, you know what I'm saying?
How do we delineate between who gets the money?
unidentified
I think it's more of a skin color thing at black as in black because if he's Nigerian, he's going to get treated the same way that we would be treated walking down the street.
He's going to get the same opportunity, the same lack of opportunity, I should say.
That's like asking legal immigrants should get like legal citizenship automatically or just free money, like, I don't know, like financial help automatically GR and shit just because paid no taxes.
Just because, just because like, you know, they're getting deported back to the to Mexico and getting locked up with their families in cages and all that.
You know what I mean?
So I mean, I don't know.
I think everybody deserves an equal shot, you know what I mean, at freedom and coming to America or whatever, you know, when it comes to slavery or immigration, whatever.
So I would just say, I would say no.
Once we don't have Trump ripping people apart from each other, all right, then let's start to make this better.
You know what I mean?
America was never great.
So let's just make this better.
Woke up this morning with a smile on my face.
Hopped out of bed, took a shower, made me some breakfast.
Two scrambled eggs.
Grease.
Grab my keys, grab my wallet, grab my jacket off to work.
