California’s Hidden History of Slavery: The Case for Reparations

California’s Hidden History of Slavery: The Case for Reparations, a video from the ACLU of Northern California's Gold Chains campaign, tells a story that was deliberately left out of official CA histories. Watch and learn why reparations are not only just but necessary.

[ninadaly]

How does this guys example show there was slavery in CA??

[ksande]

We must study our history and learn from it.

[lordvonmanor]

Okay, the South was designated for Blsck slavery and the West specifically California and Australia was designated for White slavery.
It was the California gold rush is what led to the abolition of White slavery in year 1850 and eventually led to the abolitionis of Black skavery in the south in year 1865.🧐
Have to remember Southern slave system was corrupted by Briton which was a very big problem for Blacks.
But on the other hand California Mexicans had no need for White slaves and rather slaves could find their own jobs.
White slaves in Australia like this idea Mexicans had and revolted against Briton and eventually adopted Mexicos policies.
Because of it today slaves have the rights to choose where they spend their time as slaves😅
You no longer have to work for the dame Plantation until the day you die. Now you can seek employment elsewhere and die on a different plantation

[williemuhammad]

THANKS 😊 SO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS GREAT INFO, OBVIOUSLY IT WAS HIDEN LIKE SO MUCH OF THE TRUE HISTORY IN THIS COUNTRY, GOD BLESS 😊

[SupItsJ]

BRO R U FKIN KIDDING. This is just infuriating. I waited 37 years to learn real black history talk about controlling the narrative.

[michaelpcoffee]

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.
I don't know of anybody who opposes that.

[muslimwillingandunwilling]

Whether their were "enslaved folks" in California or not is not relevant. California is one State of The United States (of America) and there never would have been a United States (of America) without The Black Only Slavery (continuing?) that began in 1619 on the North American Continent. Without The Black Only Slavery the tussle over land and nationality would have been between those who were here before (Native...?) and those who came in later (Colonists from...?) Remember that the first 8 Presidents of the U.S.A. had much "sustenance in The Earth" (Torah) in the form of Black Slaves with them in The White House. Those Black Slaves (and others elsewhere) helped the new Nation called The U.S.A. to get up on its feet as it were and start walking competitively with England and the European nations. Else why have slaves in a White House when "All men are created equal." had made the enslavement of anyone by anyone illegal? So because California is a State among the other States that make up the United States (of America) and because there never would have been a U.S.A. without the concomitant Black Only Slavery, the State of California owes Reparations to Black Californians - even if there never was any Black Only Slavery in California - because Black Californians are citizens of the U.S.A. which would not exist today without the Black Only Slavery (continuing?) that started in 1619 on the North American Continent before there even was a U.S.A there at all. Amen?

[MaddyClifford]

Thank you so much for this excellent explainer video. There's so much ignorance about what Black Americans endured in this country and how it relates to economic injustice today. Reparations are long overdue.

[b.whisky]

This is so wrong I can't even imagine. I'm an immigrant, my family's history are not slave owners. Why am I being force to pay for this reparations? It is my tax dollars that are paying for something myself and my ancestors never been involved. To those who think this will not come out of people who have never been involved in slavery, you're fools. If anyone who has to pay, make the democrats pay for it. They are the party who tried to keep slavery. How about those ancestors who fought to end slavery? Are they being forced to pay for it. Trust me, California is the testing market and it will spread throughout the states.

[Mike-tbgj]

THe story checks out I guess. However, it does not imply the case for reparations is "just and necessary".
Nobody living in America today has ever been a slave in the sense of the word they mean. Nobody in America today has even owned slaves, in the sense that they mean.
Logically, that means money would be paid to people who never suffered, by people who never made them suffer. By the same logic, I want the French or the Italians, maybe even the Danes, to pay me bundles of money; perhaps the descendants of the Barbary pirates can also chip in...!! See how stupid it is?!
The whole thing is another grift, playing the victim card and trying to claw some wealth out of those who have given the world almost everything that helps us live our modern lives.
In contrast, what have black people bestowed on the world, pre-1900? Precious little, I would suggest. Before the Europeans went to sub-Saharan Africa, to plunder and carry off thousands of men to work in the Caribbean, America and Brazil, etc., the wheel was unheard of.
Many famous and renowned black scholars and experts exist now, but previously, the product of black people world-wide has not been what one would call, 'prolific'.

[theowner]

You can tell who didn’t finish the video. It literally states that reparations are for slavery AND segregation, redlining, job & housing discrimination& mass incarceration. Depriving the community of economic wealth & opportunities.

[nathandirkmaat]

INTERVIEWER: “Excuse me, sir. Could you tell me if you support financial reparations for African-American citizens of the U.S.A.?”

MAN ON THE STREET: “Yes.”

INTERVIEWER: “On a different topic, do you believe that a billionaire who has been convicted of a felony should be allowed to donate money to a charity as an alternative to serving time in prison?”

MAN ON THE STREET: “Absolutely not. If you do the crime, you do the time.”

INTERVIEWER: “What if that billionaire offered someone money to serve the jail sentence FOR HIM? ‘Do this for me and your family will be set for life.’ Would that be an acceptable arrangement?”

MAN ON THE STREET: “That’s crazy. You can’t do that. It would be a perversion of our justice system. People can’t just throw money around as a way of avoiding accountability.”

INTERVIEWER: “Forgive my confusion, but I thought you said, a moment ago, that you support financial reparations for present-day African-American citizens? You agree with the idea of U.S. citizens who have NEVER BEEN slaves being financially “compensated” via taxation of OTHER citizens who have NEVER OWNED slaves, all the while acknowledging that those individuals who actually suffered under slavery, years ago, will never see a penny of that money. And you suggest that this arrangement will somehow “repair” a past injustice. But now you face a conflict: if a person who has not committed a crime or an injustice may be PUNISHED for that crime or injustice, and, meanwhile, OTHER individuals may financially BENEFIT as an indirect result of that injustice, then why would our system of justice not apply such fundamental principles to all U.S. citizens EQUALLY?”

MAN ON THE STREET: “Now, hold on, that’s not . . .”

INTERVIEWER: “Should a U.S. citizen of Asian descent have LESS of a right to sue for redress than a U.S. citizen of African descent?”

MAN ON THE STREET: “Of course not, but . . .”

INTERVIEWER: “Should two U.S. citizens of any conceivable socio-economic category experience different systems of justice when falsely accused of a crime, ESPECIALLY when the two individuals are of different ethnicities?

MAN ON THE STREET: “No. The law should be applied equally. Race shouldn’t matter.”

INTERVIEWER: “Well, if race shouldn’t matter, then such a fundamental principle would apply REGARDLESS of the crime, correct?”

MAN ON THE STREET: “Look, I’m going to be late. I need to go . . .”

INTERVIEWER: “It’s a simple question. Should those suing for redress under the U.S. system of justice be treated differently based on race?”

MAN ON THE STREET: [walking away at a rapid pace]

INTERVIEWER: [calling after him] “Oh, don’t worry about giving me an answer . . . because you just did.”