Discussion on Racism and Slavery

When we came over here in slave ships, was that racism?

No.

That wasn't racism?

It wasn't?

Uh-uh.

He, he's, he just playing.

Why, why do you say that?

What kind of show we on, yo?

Why,

why do you say that was racism?

To capture and force people to go somewhere that they don't wanna

go.

And who were the racists promoting that, doing that?

Who were the people doing that?

The so-called white man.

No, that's not true.

It's not true?

Black people were sold into slavery by Blacks, uh, wealthy

Arabs.

Let's get Psalms 83.

That's, yeah, that's-

And it was, it was the Arabs.

Let's get Psalms 83 real quick.

Let me just finish this.

All right.

And then we'll get to that. We will get to that.

Okay.

It was the Arabs who sold the Blacks across the world.

It wasn't white people who just tiptoed over to Africa

and just bought white, you know, took white folk.

They were being sold by other Black people. Is that racism for Black...

And they're still doing that today in parts of Africa where Blacks

are

enslaved by other Blacks and Arabs. Is that racism?

Well, every Black person is not the s-

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait

... Is that racism?

... is not the same either.

Okay, so you wanna, you wanna justify-

At what point will the Blacks stop begging and blaming?

Begging?

And blaming.

Who's begging?

The Blacks.

I don't know who's begging.

For reparations.

What are they begging for?

Affirmative action.

Arguing that we deserve reparations and affirmative action?

Affirmative. When will they stop begging?

When you give it to us.

And, and what is it that you want?

I want reparations. I want my money.

You want money.

Yes.

Your money.

That's, I'm a foundational Black American.

I want money for what my ancestors went through.

And how much do you want?

Um, you could give me, um...

I'll speak for myself. I think give me between

300,000 to a million.

Y- you, you personally want 300,000 to a million-

Yes

... of your reparation money?

Right.

And what did you do to earn that money?

I was born, um, and I come from the lineage of- ...

Black American slaves, and we never got our,

we never got our reparations.

They gave white slave masters reparation.

Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, who was a Republican, right?

He gave white slave masters reparations, and didn't give the

Blacks, who he so-called freed, he didn't give them any reparations.

That doesn't make sense.

You speak very well, and you're Black.

How did that happen?

What does that mean?

You speak well. You speak like a white person.

How did that happen?

How do I speak like a white person?

All proper and right, and

he can understand you. You're using the right

words, and

how did that happen?

I, I'm, I'm confused by your question.

How, how do I-

You speak like a white man.

I do?

Yeah.

Or, or-

And that's good, not bad

... oh, or, or-

But I'm just wondering how did that happen.

Or, or do I speak like a Black man?

No.

Oh, I don't speak like a Black, Black man?

You speak-

Black, Black men are well-read.

What that mean?

We go to college. We, uh, take care of our kids.

Well, tell me.

We pay our taxes. We, we are-

Right, tell me

... we do our responses, our, our responsibility, so I don't,

I don't know how

that is white. I know, I know that's what Black men do.

That's what I know.

Our, our religious heritage is rooted in the regrettable

experience of slavery.

You used to be a slave?

Yes. We used to be slaves.

You were a slave at one time?

No, I was not a, I, no, I was never, I was, I was born in the 1950s, so

that's, so-

Oh

... so slavery was l- was long gone.

Right.

But I still experience

the legacy of slavery.

How? In what way?

The legacy of discrimination.

In what way?

I st- when I experience barriers that

exist simply because of the color of, of my skin.

Those barriers are still real, and they still exist.

So, how did you get to, uh, uh, APU and

do all that, and be the dean- ... and do all that if barriers

are in your way?

Yeah, that's, that's, that's amazing, isn't it? That's, that's a miracle.

That, that's a miracle.

Is it possible because they were not there,

at least not for the white folks?

That, that who was not there? The-

Barriers were not there. It was all in your mind. It's not real.

Honestly-

Simply speaking up is, is-

So they have the freedom to do that

... exactly. So, but-

But-

... on the flip, you're gonna say that radical homosexuals

are attacking straight

people-

They are

... because we're speaking up for ourselves.

No, you're trying to impose it. You're not-

No, it's not imposing

... for example, homosexual marriage, same-sex marriage.

There's a difference between, there's a difference between stepping up

and saying,

"Hey,

I'm a homosexual, and I'm worthy of love"-

But no one cares