Between the Scenes - Who Should Benefit from Reparations?
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 30 March 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:04.6 | You guys have any questions before we move on? Anything you want to chat about? |
| 0:07.5 | No, we good, yes sir? |
| 0:09.0 | You think that like operations should just go to like one like group or like shouldn't target like people that are in the same kind of like soziak and homeroom like group? |
| 0:18.0 | That's an interesting question. What do you mean by that? If I... |
| 0:20.0 | Well, like there are like white people that have like been disenfranchised like recently like... |
| 0:25.0 | Recently is the key. Recently is the key. |
| 0:28.0 | The country like deindustrialized right? So like a lot of people in like manufacturing jobs and stuff like that. |
| 0:33.0 | Right. |
| 0:34.0 | But so to your question, to your question, I think you have to understand what the word reparations means first. |
| 0:40.0 | So reparations you are repairing something that you have broken. |
| 0:43.0 | You are paying for something that you were supposed to pay for. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm not saying that there aren't people living in America today who are suffering and are going through pain and strife because of what's happening when it comes to you know... |
| 0:54.0 | The machines taking jobs, factories becoming industrialized etc. |
| 0:58.0 | But reparations is a specific conversation about a specific time in America and that is black people were slaves. |
| 1:05.0 | You know what I mean? I have even heard people say like, oh but there was some of the Irish who were indentious like yeah let's slavery. |
| 1:11.0 | Look at the numbers, look at the time, look at the level of work. |
| 1:15.0 | You could not work toward your freedom. For most black people in America this was a time when you were... |
| 1:20.0 | You lived and died as a slave and so that's what reparations is about. |
| 1:24.0 | And so I hear what you are saying but I think that's a completely separate conversation that needs to be had about the now. |
| 1:30.0 | Because if you are not careful what you then do is you combine everybody suffering into the same bowl and you make it seem like all injustices have the same weighting and they don't. |
| 1:41.0 | Just like crimes. You know theft isn't the same as murder. We don't try them the same way. |
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