So when you start reading all this history and how they were part of it, they were a small part of it, but in our history it was like a big part of it. They were a small part of it,

but in our history it was like a big part,

a big legacy of ours that we knew nothing about.

So without even knowing all this history,

your family was being guided in some way to like put the puzzle

pieces together. Yeah I mean it was just very very emotional and really shocking.

I'm going to tell you a story.

It's about reparations, but I bet it's one that you've never heard before.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back

marked insufficient from. For generations, Black Americans have pushed for reparations.

All of that slave believer that was amassed in unpaid wages is due someone today.

An overdue payment.

Seems that America owes black people a lot for what we have endured.

It's an argument that's been on the lips of some of our greatest leaders.

Are the liberals willing to share their salaries with the economically insecure

black people they so much love?

It's been addressed at the local level.

Any demand was made that the church raised $80 million

and turned it over to black people.

The demand came from James Foreman.

A militant who believes churches should pay black people reparations for injustice. And as a matter of national debate, the matter of

the national debate. The matter of reparations is one of making amends to say that a nation is both its credits and its debits.

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