Congressional Hearing on Slavery Reparations Draws Huge Crowd

1. As a white guy that lived in the projects and have been beaten, robbed and belittled for the color of my white skin you look stupid right now and entitled more than I have ever seen. Not one day a slave and you can rob people like this. That's dumb

2. I don’t give a dang what white ppl say. That white legacy lives on. We ain’t asking for your money. We’re asking for OUR Money!!

3. First of all we were not brought here on ships that is a white supremacy lie we have always been here this is our Land so yes we deserve reparations but not just a single check we deserve reparation

4. if you don't want to be here you can go back how many of your African brothers and sisters would love to stay in this country and they can't

5. If it wasn't for all the white men that went over there and fought for the blacks for slavery there would never h a d been an end to it where are where are where are where are where are there where are where are the where are their reparations where are their reparations

6. What about all the white men that fought in that war what about all the white man that died in that Civil War that help them out with their families reparations I'm not talking about the southerners I'm talking about everybody else that went over to the southern states and fought and died we were their reparations to their families

7. What I find funny with these organizations for Reparations prior to this moment in time have done nothing to get us closer to reparations. I feel they should take several seats because they have proven who they stand for and it is not ADOS.

8. I like the way she interview so graceful and real.

9. You have "black" people who don't know their history asking for reparations. There were no slaves ships 😂. America is your land and everyone knows out except " black" people. You better stop calling yourself "African American" 🤔

10. Most white folks have no clue a war was wagged against black folks. They've been brought up to believe America is a good place for all when historically speaking it clearly isn't. I don't expect them to get why this is necessary on an economic level when most Americans as a whole don't understand money to be debt.

11. A few years back a woman from the United Nations (can't remember her name- has a French accent) said the U.s. owes us reparations. Obviously, it was ignored.

12. Omgosh this is our land alot of us have been here

13. White people still own slaves today ,it's called prison!!!!!

14. Why do it seem Black Americans, motivated by the ground root movement called ADOS is being shamefully ignored? Because If that's the case, than that is a shameful mistake because all Black Americans fighting Reparations, should be in the reparations fight and not just that one ego driving reparations movement that is going to speak for all Black Americans while being out of touch with the real Black Americans that are at ground level only to be for Black celebrities or those overall educated selfish Negros that just don't give a damn about.other Black folks they viewed as throwaway because they view them to be stuck at the bottom and its always their fought etc.

15. #ADOS, It's so disingenuous and Un- American, when I hear any White Americans say they should not be held accountable for what their ancestors did in the past concerning slavery. Would make good sense to Black America if White America was not reaping present day benefits in creation and ownership of all major Corporations and Industries held by White America's Monopoly of wealth from the free labor from past slavery.

16. ADOS

17. "CUT THE CHECKS !!!"

18. TALK IS CHEAP, CTC, CUT THE CHECK

19. I can see that it's already going off the rails. The guy who said "we want reparations for all of the African people" around the globe. That's a mistake. This fight is for ADOS – AMERICAN Descendants of Slavery. It's not for latinos. It's not for blacks who were born in an African or Caribbean country. It's not for LGBTQ. (Yes, I've been hearing people try to throw them into our pot). It's NOT for that "people of color" garbage and nonsense. It's for ADOS. Let everybody else do their own fighting.

20. I'm disappointed that TRNN didn't interview any #ADOS people to get their perspective on the hearing. I know for a fact they were in the building lobbying whoever they could while they were there.

21. Ok well let's see. The following are next..

    Native Americans
    Irish
    Puerto Ricans
    Hawaiians
    Guam..Chamorros
    Marshall Island Natives
    Azores Natives

    Their just looking for money….PERIOD…

22. Not to mention the billions spent on building & funding C.E.R.N alone with technology, pharmaceutical industry & these are billion or even trillion dollar companies.

23. #reparationsNOW!

24. Huh? 10 trillion a piece? MFers can't pay us enough.

25. HR40 is a sham!

26. Yer right , a little money Will make it All better. Right?

27. Some of the entities that owned slaves and profited the most from them are still around; why should EVERY CITIZEN pay while these entities don't pay a dime because they're not individual people?? Also how about Trump — his father made well over 100 millions over screwing black people, and definitely planned them to be poorer intentionally on top.

28. I wish them the best 🙂

29. Why did you skip past #ADOS N'COBRA legacy as one founding org., is acknowledged. However they had nothing to do with shifting this political will, momentum now and rather than offer deference and appreciationed are scrambling to hijack it, under some universalist romance of shared struggle rather than the specificity of mounting our US reparative justice claim. And that's exactly what they said.

    They didn't even have a twitter account until last month until they were nudged out of their slumber.

30. Why should I pay for something I didnt do? Only the rich owned slaves.My family has been here since 1637 and they never owned slaves. I cant even find a full time job so wheres my priviledge. I've been overlooked for 2 jobs because they had to hire a minority. Even though I was more qualified. Now its ok to be racist against whites. Two wrongs dont make it right and nobody alive today was ever a slave.

31. So how much of that 10 trillion dollar payout will the black community be handing over to the Union soldiers decedents who fought and died freeing the slaves during the Civil War? My guess is zero.

32. I just hope that whatever reparations occur that it goes to the those beyond just the Black Bourgewazie intellects and upper caste and reach those lower caste of the society especially !

33. In the 1940's the U.S. Internment (and related actions) were recognized as having financially harmed those involuntarily displaced/incarcerated for a few years. A little over 40 years later, Congress recognized the harm and issued an apology and authorized and disbursed a token Reparations payment of $20,000 (tax-free) for each of those still living at that time.

    Between it having been a Democratic POTUS that signed the EO to uproot and intern them – and a Republican POTUS that signed the Civil Rights Act of 1988 and a Republican POTUS that issued the formal apology – many former internees (including my Father) remained registered Republicans for the rest of their lives.

34. Not one single ADOS person on the panel. This is the reason for this push in the my generation.
    Reparations for slavery – reparations are speculative; that is, they have never been paid. They can be contrasted with compensated emancipation, the money paid by some governments to some slave owners when slavery was abolished, as compensation for the loss of the property.

35. The conversation is incorrect. Fundamental changes need to be made to the system and tearing down the system. The trillions are still blood money. Change how everyone is taxed. Why does Amazon pay 0 in taxes? End prisons. Reconfigure every poor neighborhood, black/white/Latino, to be invested on without profit. End capitalism which enslaves us all. Make every company a worker co-op. Retrain all police departments. Stop illegal searches. Job guarantee. Medicare for all. These are the conversations that need to be had.

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