Why I Don’t Want and Don’t Deserve Reparations | 5 Minute Video
The Reparations Movement — a government payout to descendants of slaves — is making a comeback. Super Bowl star Burgess Owens, who happens to be black and whose great grandfather was a slave, finds this movement both condescending and counterproductive. He wants no part of it. In this video, he explains why.
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Script:
My great-great-grandfather, Silas Burgess, came to America shackled in the belly of a slave ship.
He was sold on an auction block in Charleston, South Carolina, to the Burgess Plantation.
Orphaned by age 8, he was, fortunately, surrounded by elder slaves who, though physically chained, mentally envisioned themselves as free men. They escaped, taking young Silas with them, making their way to West Texas.
Silas worked hard and saved his money. Eventually, he became the owner of 102 acres of farmland, which he cultivated and paid off within two years. I proudly carry the name of my first American ancestor—who, like millions of others drawn or brought to our country, struggled past overwhelming obstacles to live the American Dream.
Silas founded the first black church, the first black elementary school in his town. He was a Republican, a Christian, and a pillar of his community. He was proud and industrious and taught his children to be the same.
Now, because great-great-grandpa Silas was once a slave, so-called “progressives” want to give me money.
Never mind that, like him, I am an entrepreneur who received an excellent education, built businesses, raised a remarkable family and, unlike most white Americans, earned a Super Bowl ring.
Because of work I’ve never done, stripes I’ve never had, under a whip I’ve never known, these progressives want to give me money I’ve never earned. The fact that this money will be forcibly taken from others who also dreamed, worked and sacrificed for it, I’m told is not my concern.
But it is.
At the core of the reparations movement is a distorted and demeaning view of blacks and whites.
It grants superiority to the white race, treating them as an oppressive people too powerful for black Americans to overcome. It brands blacks as hapless victims, devoid of the ability which every other culture possesses to assimilate and to progress.
The reparations movement conveniently forgets the 150 years of legal, social, and economic progress obtained by millions of American minorities. It also minimizes the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of white Americans and a Republican president who gave their lives to eradicate slavery.
I think Grandpa Silas would have seen this loss of American lives as payment in full. Every grateful black American, then and now, would feel the same.
The reparations movement also reinforces a view of racial relationships that undermines America’s Judeo-Christian foundation. It defies the ideals of forgiveness and second chances and scorns individual accountability.
Proponents of reparations believe that black Americans are incapable of carrying their own burdens, while white Americans must bear the sins of those who came before them. Proponents do not take into account the majority of white Americans who never owned slaves, who fought to end slavery, or who came to America long after it was ended.
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Im from Hungary, our country was invaded and occupied for 150years and neighbour countries too, for 150years people were killed and taken as slaves by ottomans, when we will get reparation from Turkey?
We learned thats happened, thats in our history, we dont circulating hatred towards Turkish people.
History is there to learn from it, not to repeat it..
Only 1% of the people own slave .reparation amount to punishment against 99%of the population whose ancestor has nothing to do with slavery.
Hell yea bro
Reparations violates the US Constitution.
Wouldn't it be great to talk to Grandpa Silas? I met a black man years ago before he passed. I called him by his first name, Mr. Sam. I asked Mr. Sam one day when I bought his lunch, how he felt about discrimination in the 40-60's. He said that he didn't like it, but he didn't let using the back door or a water fountain define him as a man. What a great answer from a great man! RIP Mr. Sam!
My ancestors marched south hundreds of miles in all kinds of weather, fought in forests, fields and towns, bled, died, lost limbs to free black slave. Forget reparations, I’m not asking for reparations! How about a simple “thank you”?
"The fact that this money will be forcefully taken from others, who also dreamed, worked and sacrificed for it — I'm told it's not my concern… but it is."
-a true American
This guy is a powerhouse, the way his grandfather must have been.
LOL. Why can't you all just accept that slavery was the most horrific thing to ever happen in U.S. history, and that reparations need to be paid to right that wrong? Its demonic that you cant acknowledge that. What do you all think would have happened had reparations been paid out when they were originally promised? The wealth would have been passed down through generations and created economic equality that does not exist today.
There’s a lot of people no interested on history all they want is easy money n the crook politicians stay in power thnx to hard working peoples money
The Mongols would have to pay a lot of reparations … also the Incas to the other natives and the Visigods? and the Minoans to Athens… damn.. we need to gather information from the death…bu the victim and defendant have been death for centuries?
Very good presentation but here is the BEST analysis of "Reparations" i have seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj2V4eBqEO4.
Well said sir …
BUT, it really boils down to one simple point.
Money …
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Everyone has lost something at one time or another. Let us forget about this and focus on the future.
“That’s okay now, but at the time it would have been justice.”
Chris Rock on whether African-Americans should get reparations
If we were to pay reparations to everyone whose ancestors were enslaved from everyone whose ancestors were enslavers we would basically end up with everyone at 0
Well said sir
Wait? "Great Great" gets a guy who lived in the early 20th Century. But we get the point, it was several "greats" plus the slave trade was abolished in the early 1800's unless this man's ancestor was brought here unlawfully.
God bless him.
Germany doesn't pay money to all jews.
They only gave money to holocaust survivors.
Race entitles you to nothing.
Race convicts you of nothing.
Sharing the race of a victim does not make you a victim.
Sharing the race of a villian does not make you a villian.
Being related to a victim does not make you a victim.
The dead owe and are owed nothing.
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.
Nobody gets paid reparations for being a race.
That reminds me Lil Wayne, "I'm black, young and rich, white kids love me, and you're telling me about white privilege?! "
One injustice can not justify another. One racist policy can not justify more racism.
Correct: they don't want to 'give' you money, they want to BUY YOUR VOTE by STEALING someone else's money to 'give' to you.
Your talk struck a deep chord within me. My parents came from humble backgrounds, but they worked hard, were frugal, and entrepreneurial.
Although my only inheritance from them was their example, it was enough. As a young man I believed it was up to me alone to make something of myself, and that no one owed me anything. Although I struggled for years, I eventually became successful and able to enjoy the fruit of my labor.
I was able to provide my 2 sons with a college education and a used car, and told them the rest is up to them. I did not want to deprive them of the opportunity of struggling to stand on their own two feet and make their own life. I told them it was sink or swim. They decided to swim. They are both successful and happy, and we are close to this day.
When you tell someone they were somehow cheated and cannot do well on their own, and must be helped for life, you are stealing from them. You are stealing their ambition, their dignity, and their sense of self reliance.
Blacks cant stand whites to this day!
Some blacks still want money!
TRUTH
Here here. Those people got a free ride over here, guaranteed job for life, some of the house Ns got to live the life of the privileged whites they were working for. They were encouraged to multiply like rabbits so there was no restrictions on their sexuality, they got food clothing and shelter, after work they got to play banjos and sing spirituals and work songs, (one of my favorites is Swannee River or I wish I were in the Land of Cotton) they were treated as good as any other livestock as long as they behaved and didn't do something terrible like sass back the master or look at a white woman in a bad way, you know with that look of lust in their eyes. Would there be an NFL or an NBA today if it wasn't because of the selective breeding from slavery. If anything the descendants of slave owners that were deprived of their property should be reparated.
Still not a good enough excuse not to give reperations.
● WITH THE *ENDORSEMENT*,
OF *SUPER BOOT-LICKERS*.
"WHY WOULD AMERICA'S" *"SEVERELY DEPIGMENTED PEOPLE"*,
WHO ARE NOW,
*"AN ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT"*.
WILLINGLY WANT,
THE DESCENDANTS OF SO CALLED,
"BLACK PEOPLE OF THE DIASPORA"
TO,
"RECEIVE REPARATIONS" ❓️🤔💭
👇🏿
*"IS IT BECAUSE THEY'RE"*,
"DEEPLY MELINATED" ❗😔💭
👇🏿
…."ECCLUS 12:10" ❗🤔💭
https://youtu.be/WUI54BNuzzA
We should have a holiday after his great grandfather! He really capitalized on the American dream!
Based in his statement: 《Why are they forcing me to receive something that I didn't work for?》
He forgot to add to His great great great grandfather and his fellows: 《《To YOU christians; HOW YOU DARE to have received SALVATION‼️. How you dare to receive something that you didn't work nor die for??? 🤔🤔🤔
Thank you, Mr. Owens!
There are so many more who need to hear your message. Too few do not realize that the progressive, most often Democrat, "sympathy" is the same as the southern Democrats of the early 1800's.
Laughably shit video
Speak for yourself