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We are the ones that why injured enslavement, stuff the people who are owed for slavery are no longer here. I want to check. I don't and reparations is a good idea. Everyone should be given the damage that was done to their family cash payments on one November. Handle reparations should be welcomed by all some folks bay. What checks, but what we are really talking about is closing that wealth. And making people hole. We are on the corner of wall and broad street when almost like famous corners in America. It's the seed of capitalism.

Standing at the feet of George Washington, founder of our country, whose looking across Wall Street at the New York Stock Exchange this is it. This is its smaller than I looked more abreast even pitcher I was doing a little research before we came down here Erika and you know the valley, of the company's contained in New York stock exchanges. Over thirty trillion dollars that's ten trillion dollars more than the nations GDP every year, Ordinarily Amazon and how you and the amount of trading that is done every day that money that passes through there is, I think over. Hundred and sixty billion dollars every night at when you think of Wall Street. What do you think of I think of this I mean it's beautiful

stone is all these really beautiful, polished, bronze doors with sparkling glass in. Lot of really decorative iron work around in it's kind of cells everybody will, if your white men you can come in, but we body else, they are meant to intimidate the Dutch. It's not only intimidating two new Yorkers, but I think it's midnight. Relating to the world. What I didn't realize is that directly across the street is that resolves, walk up their little bit. Erika were standing, front of Federal Hall Memorial that's another gothic building out front of it. There's a statue of George Washington really struck me. I saw us the founder of our country and he's looking across the street at the stock exchange as if he's looking at the Capitalist Foundation of the country, but this is where he took the oath of office upstairs in this building.

They really did a nice job on the bronze work near his crutch and it matters you're, looking up at him in your mid to see his penis first and then go up to his face and follow his eyes to the stock exchange. At least that's what I see that our back is George

shoot him. If we look to our right, we can see Trinity, church oldest church on these well those church in the country. Illustration, your! If you look across the street directly in front of us is a stock exchange and then, if you look down the street to the water, you know what's down that street the location of New York's first slave market that with founded in seventeen eleven. So we should have liked the four points of the Compass in America. We have politics, money, religion, slavery. That sounds right. Black people always make up the four points and in fact none of these things could exist, these politics, that religion or that money without slavery and ass, the unfortunate part for them to have white freedom and white success,

They need a black bodies. You know when I met you Whitney. I had no idea that I would be stuck with you for this long he'd been talking about reparations for two years. It's only been two years us, but it's been a hundred fifty years for a country, did you ever imagine yourself, making a project what reparations with a guy named Whitney Burton DOW from the car. The Cambridge Massachusetts know you, like you, often point out the drawing of a wasp or a colonist. Well yeah. I guess it will come from where's Massachusetts and unique met. We didn't he burned down. You look. Little whitish yeah. Who, better than you represent your people. If you don't know white people- yes, yes, language April, yeah, you're, the guy white people in America, as you will haimaires Hollywood, you know you're no pauper, I've seen your house. If you did, you wouldn't be saying that if I may reparations

this is what is anybody. I am no Cambridge, Whitney DOW and I didn't just pop into people's movie screens and on stages and in theatres out over the world. An origin story. We all origins stories and wars stories are how you live, they don't hopefully determine who you aren't there about the stories we tell ourselves, in, like a story shape our present reality, and I think that's where every story starts. Every good story is between reality and miss like what's possible, telling the truth, will you setting a pretty high bar that you and I are going to get to the truth. Everybody lives different truce. I think your truth is mixed with La La thank exe. The hell. Are you talking to me personally, Erika or collectively, as the White guy here, both reparations, it's a complicated issue

and I'm not sure, if I'm the right person to tell the story with you Erika, I might be to white ma- am extra black an extra crispy black out? What does that offsets over my whiteness? Is that what you say? No, no! No you! While you wait, you get away with it, any my problematic coattail on you blackness, who, by the way this is a conversation. If we're going to go on this journey about reparations it ain't about ouch. No, you would say it is about you, but I'm here it's charge. You hear me I'm here to rescue my people in the last time I checked, we just got a new black woman VP. So right now feel like a nothing too big for me and if not, you win,

he then who step up. If we're going to do this, we ve gotta make a plan for government experts. We got, you know, find people who actually know what they're talking about close your eyes and make a wish count to three hit ass calmly, ass jack. Suddenly, that's congressional hearing on HR, forty jubilee, two thousand nineteen America is a place that welcomes the diversity of thought. We even welcome the diversity of thought among the Multi College, chocolate people that our african Americans did. You hear that Indians the color chocolate you see how she got down on all girl. As a lawyer, if we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further about turn on you, like MR caliber reparations by definition, are only given, The victims victims in hard milk is sent up release both to say I keep you permission

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your bed, I'm a storyteller, a lot of good luck stories in my life, but I know good luck. Should apply to everyone, and not just in fairy tales. Good thing shouldn't only favour the few eighty anti gets this, so they making a big change and giving all their customers, both new and existing? The same great deals? This is huge whether you ve been with eighteen tee for years or you just starting to think about switching visit, http dot com, slash best deals to learn more restrictions apply. The New York's municipal slave market. There's a sign here. Are we less than two feet across and just over one foot high it is drawing on it and has a green New York parks implemented

DES on Wall Street between Pearl and water, streets and market, that auction enslaved people of african ancestry. Does it satisfy a common council law on November 30th, one thousand seven hundred and eleven? This is New York, miserable slave market. Sign But you can look up from this site. See, Trinity Church and you can see the New York Stock Exchange and foundation of it all Americans slavery gets do by two plaque. I've been here before This is the first time I'm saying this similar pissed off I dont know why it's not more prominent. I don't know why. I just sign. Look, there's a big o step,

George Washington, over their big buildings that we talked about with stones with like it to be here in this, look like it be between knocked over by hard win. How does it make you feel thinking about all this you're visibly upset you're shaking shaking upset I mean I really wish? I could read that sucker out, it's worth it being there and they also man, because I am familiar with their people walking through their immigrants, got it

when they got all their families, they should be able to see it should be the stain of it in New York or should have to live with it. They should have to learn about it, vision be confronted with it. I want them to really acknowledge slavery. I want them to give us justice. Black people want justice, we deserve it, you should have it hiding means necessary. A part of that justice is that you should not be able to come and walk by a slave market marker and not be moved by fort bees have to reckon with it all see that was so brutal being there were the Erika, some new I care about and seen this reaction, the pain that it caused you to be their left me feeling cut a helpless I know that if I'd been alone, if I'd been thereby myself, I would find some way to push myself away from it and the absurdity of it, and just kind of intellectual life.

Where being there with you forced me to honour to bed, but that's my problem, not yours. What is your problem and black people's burden to bear gave you money and paid the Vigo in your local needs bootstraps when they ve got friends like you with me. That's what I mean early. When I said your truth is filled with a lot of lies, these realities, they short for me, every may be well you're under water thinking, you're real estate has value what I'm thinking about it. Oceans and I really believe the only way to A true reconciliation is to create a funded reparations programme and White America's F decide if they want to rise with black Americans or fall with them, ass e Whitney down you do is you are here, you are working on it, you're talkin about it, but don't expect parade. Props were shown up to clean up the mess

you ve made it is a big mess and Erika you told me in the past that you feel like James Ball, Norton Hussy coaches. That you don't really believe you don't really have faith that white people are the ability to change. I told understand that if I were black I imagine I would feel the exact same way especially looking at the events, the last you know few weeks and we ve had three or four thousand white people storm in the key capital and it looks horrible. Those images were just like atrocious, but at the sea, time. We ve also millions of white people in the street, marching alongside black and brown people protesting police violence, so Does make me look optimistic? I hope it is sound we need that. I do believe we can change right. Maybe I feel like a kind of have to believe we can change

can Evanston Illinois things are changing. I've noticed Reparation Robin and Rosa Parks. Now, so that's different how bout that She's a rock star. Four hundred years after the first enslaved Africans got off the Aldermen Robin Ruse, Simmons Peasant first Reparations bill in America. Oh man and talk about the long arc began. Keep an eye on her. We will, but I will say something first So Erika tell me: what do you see here? What are we would worry walking up to where D An ELM street in its is african burial. Ground and away. So the really a federal building, a two hundred

fifty six million dollar building when they broke ground. They discovered this burial ground. What does it say here? Changing landscape obscures the past african burial. Ground was labeled negroes burial ground on this one thousand seven hundred and fifty five map it right. Colonial New York laws, banned african funerals in officially consecrated graveyards, prohibited gatherings of large numbers of enslaved Africans and decreed that funerals had to be held. Daylight and the less Africans and their descendants help. Rio ceremonies in cemetery outside the city wall near a ravine as New York City expanded northeast burial ground was closed in one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, and eventually divided into lots for sale. The land was filled in in buildings were constructed on top for almost two centuries New York City's growth obscured waves and the african burial ground was nearly forgotten till we tried to put a Starbucks

it's a metaphor right. The foundation is african. Americans, Americans built on top of it they turn their burial ground into real estate, but that foundation was paid for less bait for blood suffering. I think fifty percent of the people buried here were children. So we talk about reparations for work and value created, but what bout reparations for all the people that were destroyed by fifty percent of it is children, the people who actually never had a light. So this is showing the levels of different centuries and what they built. On top of those coffins, the diagram,

ground level, right yeah, work, ground level, so that on top there's three different centuries in the lowest right here. At least seventeen hundred people were buried in individual coffins up to three deep, but that looks exactly like the slave ship diagrams coming across that's interesting from Africa, so they went out like they came in ass, a cold cold. Let's walk up to the next marker. This one is says: Africans in early New York before American Revolution York had more enslaved Africans, its most valuable commodity, that any other colony the north you leaving out the most important thing here is not that these people,

here they say and they give an account of their work. Women, sewed, cooked harvested and care for owners, children, labors, tore up, cobblestone streets, duck, trenches, laid and the pipe sections and filled in the trenches pay one dollar a day and slave workers. Wages went to their nurse s real. Yes, and you know what the real one of the reasons why the slave market was established on a Wall Street was because there were so many enslaved Africans here, and the actual way the labour poor, structured, wasn't really struck their descending people out in the street. Like earn money and they want a sort of like codified, something more struggle by the way. This whole thing is about white fish, yeah. You should be fucking afraid, because if we ever get what we deserve and if we ever start to balance those books there there's no stopping

and it's over. It's not just to read. Browning of America is the black nation coming into its own. So yet I try to barriers to black too strong eighteen, ninety is dollar. Seventy. Ninety four, an estimated fifteen thousand enslaved and re Africans were laid to rest and african. Barely fifteen thousand bodies are here then burial mounds mark the locations of three tournaments there are they are over here? So this? Is it the mounds here? Oh my god, not to me. This is significant by guy. Look at that was, it makes you feel to stand here. Look at Well, I'm very proud, I'm glad to see them, and I don't know I can't comfort from them being here out here need my lunch with them. But do you think it's funny because you know, you look over the stone and it's all represent.

No, this is so much more concrete. These are real barrel mounds and knowing that the remains lying beneath it and knowing that there are in a certain way with their heads facing Africa, things beautiful, it's beautiful. I just want to say how happy I am to be the black affect network hosting reparations, the big pay back with my friend Eric Alexander. We ve had a lot of impact for gas who have helped me see the world in new and complex ways. Now the difficult subject and activists, artists, writers and thinkers who visited our show have voices and messages that need to be heard and share. I've seen first and listening leads to change, and eighty anti understands this too, from long time. Their customers have been saying that it isn't fair for new customers to get better deals than existing customers. We the eighteen t start listening, and they made a big change that eighty,

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It wasn't enough and she won't live to see a new world, that's created through the application of reparations. So like the Africans underneath those buildings gonna be beyond her flesh and bone. But that means it's fertile ground. It's very fertile, my mother's, in fact less than a highly favoured will really strikes me about America's that it's called the Afghan burial ground, but it's not just african history. Its way, history, too, and its history, its Laird across generations, and it's not just about what happened before haven't hundred years You can also seen it how its impacted, what today and how you and I, how our own families living within the legacy of slavery like it, it a member Billy COP and my sister's, the social worker, they work within the races system. We're talking about every day. You know. That's how they make their living and weird parties. If systematic reformation

needed and reparations is part of the cure. We have to get ready because there is a whole lot of black folks that are baked into the current arc. Picture in England get out something it's rough ride. It would disrupt everything, so we gotta be careful what we wish for do no harm. Maybe we need to step up our current reality. Rhythm barber says that we are in the third reconstruction, so we need this. Is our opportunity to map out a blueprint to charge any destiny to decide who are builders? Are Architects are machinist. You would probably me if you arsonists, grabbed to tear some things down along the way, but first we need vision imagination. You mean a re, imagining

Resolute change. Guph was amazed at what a good composition as a way. Ok, I'm ready big. Well, let's be real. You always do your best beginning. I hope I'm ready here. I hope I bought a black power boy this season, our reparations, the big pay back didn't have a lot of skills. I was bad student. I was kind of this historic trawler got thrown out of schools. I was always going to fight for you. That's why you To raise work because you were mediocre, provide, the whip. He said what you're saying I beheld everywhere else, a brace of me and I made a career out of it, and that is what we need is a community of Egypt's Possum, what we have to define reparations some people, defined regulations as a give me a Czech. Doesn't

revelations. They treat us like animals more or less like human beings. We are the ones who our lives, building this country and get paid, not one dime for me, but everybody else is reaping the benefits. That's happened. Money. My life revolves primarily around my discovery that my ancestors were the largest slave trading family. In? U s history! When I looked at your Wikipedia my GAD Brother, you not play it. You, like the agenda, was of the aristocratic the inspiration for me abrasions? I know that the injustice and the discrimination and racism is a shared problem, but which has to be confronted if we're going move on successfully together life would be different if I was black, his is the core of who you are Everyone has a bird, it's how you handle the burden, and so I truly don't feel that there is the privilege

Whatever was we will stay there and suddenly the window shatters. The policemen told me that he was trying to kill some black bird meaning my children, who were standing at the window. Had it not been for mobile pay windows- probably I would add, that morning lost two of my children. If I had enough money to ease the disparities and enough programmes directed rub by black people to help us then I would be well in that to Hell Camel heresy. Vice president, what when you playlist reparations famous, play for my students. It ended semesters. When will we get paid this odd gases produced by Eric Alexander than our non and witty death. The executor produced

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