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  • Just another nigger who feels the world owes them something. Niggers have been paid back every fucking day since 1964. The welfare, free housing, free food stamps, and all the government entitlements that go with it every fucking waking hour. Sponging, leeching parasites those niggers are. She wants reparations so badly, go back to west Africa and visit the nigger children of the original nigger slave masters who sold you into bondage to begin with and are filthy fucking rich because of it.

  • Another crybaby who thinks the world owes them everything for nothing.

  • She doesnt deserve reparations at all she should give reparations to Jews and Africans who were enslaved thousands a years ago for being related to African people who owned slaves too! And those Africans need it more than her. Let me tell you a story. My great great great pa was a pirate he stole Africans from Africa along with their African dealers who also were black so no one owes shit to any one you want freedom well fight like the Irish slaves of barbados, Jamaica, Cuba, and panama.

  • @Theasshole85 you are wrong more blacks give me Change percent wise than the whites and I perform country music!

  • @klorel400 Because white people who work and earned their money do not give it away y to strangers. That's bad business. Business101. It's like the story of a bum knocking on a millionaires front door asking the owner for a dollar. His logic is that because the owner is rich, he should have no problem in losing a single dollar, but the rich man says to the bum, "if I gave out a dollar to every bum who asked me, I wouldn't be rich, now would I".

  • Lol would like a recipt

  • so now panhandling is an art form?

  • what about the black slave owners? what about the african tribes who conquered and sold other tribes to the jewish slavemongers? Im tired of blacks twisting history to their bebefit

  • SHE'S SO YOUNG TO HAVE BEEN A SLAVE

  • No one deserves reparations unless they are or were a slave and no one should pay them unless they are or were a slave owner. There were slaves of all colors if you go back far enough in history. And there were black slave owners as well.Thank God slavery is over.

  • "You can pay right here, it's very convenient."  Lol!

  • its funny how everyone tries to abolish stereotypes yet ive witnessed first hand all sorts of black stereotypes almost every day of my life.

    for example

    in restaurants

    99.9 percent of the time white people leave tips

    99.9 percent of the time BLACK people don't leave tips

    same thing goes for pizza/ chinese food delivery

    another example is homeless people asking for change

    from what I have witnessed

    99.9 percent of whites will give a homeless person their change

    while 99.9 percent of blacks dont

  • less than 10% of living whites are actual descendants of slave owners,yet blacks want reparations and an apology from ALL whites. Wanting money from someone based on their ancestors actions is absurd alone, but black people want ALL white people to pay. they want reparations from people based on the color of their skin and ONLY based on the color of their skin. They go around crying racism 24/7 yet THEY, BLACKS ARE THE BIGGEST RACISTS OF ALL. THIS IS A FACT.

  • this is how it is in america anyway. In other parts of the world, black people aren't so pathetic.

  • all that money she gave back to blacks was spent on crack and booze later that night.

  • so blacks live in a country that belonged to a people that had the same thing happen to them done to them....so blacks owe native americans reparations. kind of being hypocritical there. since native americans went through the same thing as blacks did, but before black slaves arrived in america. native americans should be given reparations first. today i see many black people who have prospered.....name ten native americans who have or at least 1-3. native americans are becoming extinct

  • She's hilarious and deep at the same time.

    (It's a performance, for those who didn't realize)

    BTW, who noticed the hand at 4:11 ?

    I bet that happens....quite a bit...

  • @auth76 Yes! Thank you!

  • @auth76 Deep? Really? Wow, why am I not surprised at such a ridiculously low standard? It's hard to imagine anything more shallow than the idea of reparations. Beyond its obvious absurdity, it's just pathetic in concept. Obviously you, like the ditz in this video, have zero dignity or pride. It's pitiful and embarrassing.

  • (part 1)

    Interesting how most everyone completely missed the fact that is a PERFORMANCE. Furthermore, in the description, it states how she- a conceptual artist- would take the donations given to her by white people and give them to other African Americans. She explained it well enough where there should be no confusion that she's isn't simply asking for handouts (and instead, trying to make a point).

  • (part 2)

    In doing this and her other works, she talks about the issues of race and relations openly and hopes to inspire dialogue about them. Most of these angry comments assume that all Black people don't have anything and that it is there fault- relying on stereotypes and completely ignoring the issue at hand.

  • I was going to get pissed when I saw this, but it shows reparations for what it truly is, african americans begging for hand outs. They should work hard, use the special programs the government extends them, and strive for their success. They have every chance to succeed.

  • begging for white peoples hand outs

    embarrasing really, africans put african americans to shame economicaly & academicaly, proving the biggest issue is self pity & victimization.

  • african americans are nothing without white peoples help, nothing. you turn some of the greatest cities into complete shitholes, thriving suburbs into section 8 hell holes, you are not a proud race, you are self pitying. its why africans out perform you economically & academically, you hate asians because their succes proves what a bunch of losers you are.

  • Oh wait, I see where it's gotten you.. well, good luck riding that wave of White Guilt as far as it'll take you.

  • Damali, this is racism on your part.. you don't know anything about those white people you were asking other than the color of their skin. How do you know their families kept slaves? The only thing you know about them is they're white, and that makes it racist. It makes sense to talk about these things, but are you sure you're not just pissing people off with your street act? That accomplishes nothing.. You need to drop the whole victim thing, it will get you nowhere in life.

  • What about the trillion dollars we have spent on welfare for the past 45 years?We see how that worked.

  • 8:01= ♥

  • I figure she is being sarcastic...

  • wow, another blow to IUPUI. You would think you would actually LEARN something in school and NOT do stuff to stir up race relations. No one living today owes your race anything. Get the racist chip off your shoulder and quit blaming everything on race.

  • Holy god damn, why should anyone alive today be expected to pay for something they didn't have any fucking thing to do with.

  • @notgoodwith XD I agree dude. To be honest the whole concept of reparations in today's society just seems to draw lines between people. For one expecting someone to make up for their ancestors faults is bullshit. Relation is no grounds for blame or involvement, but more important asking for cash just cuz your black and that guys white is no less discriminating than racism even if people are too racially sensitive or scared to call it offensive.

  • This is brilliant, funny, and well put together. Thank you.

  • hahaha..That lady know what time it is... "sorry I am in slaved by the irs"... Shorty better get with it.She on that bullshit, right now.1

  • By the way, my family history contains no slave owners, so if you were to look at me in shame for being against paying that shit, youd be pretty fucking arrogent.

  • Almost every one of those receiving reparations didnt deserve it. Why do any of thos young black people needreparation? None of them were inslaved or hosed down, beaten , lynched, or even segragated. If any of that money "deserves" distribution it would be to someone atleast, Atleast 55- 60 plus years old. Stop being such a victom.

  • Aheh...I remember my dad (black) coming home with burns on his hands and arms because for almost 20 years he worked his ass off for our family and got very little recognition for it.

    And still all I can say bring myself to say about this woman is you arrogant fucking fool.

  • What about people who had indian ancestors? Wheres there reparations?? This video is stupid!!

  • the "indian ancestors" that you obviously care so much about have had some reparations, african american have not. this country was built on slave labor--that means for 400 years, no one got paid, you see?

  • many people walking by does not know what reparations means for christ sakes. lol

  • If you want reparations because your ancestors were used as slaves, why don't you start by asking the people whose ancestors sold your ancestors into slavery in the first place? If you need help spotting them, they have black skin and live, or had ancestors who lived, in western Africa.

  • excellent! im going to do th same thing but ouside of corporations whose legacies were built off slave labor past & present.coca-cola,jansport,lev­itz & microsoft to name a few!

  • what about Native Americans, Irish, Japanese Americans? a lot of people have suffered. Black people are just lazy and want money. White people today didn't create slavery, they shouldn't be held responsible for it. Period. Get it black people??!!??

  • Geez i couldnt express how not sorry I am for slavery...not because i am for slavery in anyway or condone it at all..it was a terrible thing and really never should have happened...but I am not sorry because I was not there I never owned a slave...knew a slave..i really dont believe I have benifited from anybodies suffering regardless how black people think i have just cause i am white... family didnt arrive until 1900 so I am not sure how I oppressed anybody..this is just a sad display

  • haha black people may not know much but they sure as hell know what reperations mean haha

  • my food stamps kame late dis month, just anoter case of da white man keepeng me down.

  • A lot of you are not realizing the point. It's really all about the dialogue it creates.

  • So does this mean the Egyptians owe the Jews?

  • Nobody today owes anyone anything... These kind of people keep America in the ditch.

  • This is only making people feel bad for something they didn't do, and rewarding people for something they didn't do. Trust me when I say I haven't bought any slaves.

    Believe it or not, blacks weren't the only group historically slighted.

  • I can't wait till you have a 'reparations-jam' in Africa, for/from the very people that sold you down the river.

    But hey don't just take any box with you for collections - to be truly virtuous - take PANDORA BOX. ;)

    Word baby.

  • WoW i am amazed i have seen some bullshit in my life i really have but this is right up there. I don't know who to be more pissed at the blacks (but then they are what they are) or the brainwashed "whites". The world TRULY is fucked up. Love how whitey always carries the blame.

  • A beggar is calling herself a "conceptual artist". LOL

  • what about reparations for native americans they were screwed the most by white ppl

  • And they fucking wonder why so many people are racist.

  • Funny how it wasn't the white man who wasn't the slave.

    Strange how that worked out, right?

  • U.S. whites know the truth. They had more time to build assets, but not if you've no land or if you're a slave and can't go to school or make connections to people with money or marry in. Or when people burn your town down and kill your people because they don't want competition. WASPs "allowed" non-English Euros whiteness to shore up their own numbers, thus all Euro immigrants benefit. So much willful ignorance, but in the end, it is all about money, so no wonder about the savage comments here.

  • Are you talking about what occured 200 years ago, or the current slavery occuring in the Sudan, right now ?

  • how is this different from the last 300 years of back history? reparations are already being paid its called welfare 5 babies+ no job+ no education = a brand new escalade and free housing yet you still think that i owe you something

  • Get a job.

  • She does have a job, she's a professor at PSU and is a published author.

  • excellent

  • u make me wanna do a video, lol

  • I'm Canadian, and white, I deserve a cut of that money for my ancestors work in helping end that brutal, tyranic, white american way of life...PAY UP BLACK FOLK!

  • thanks for perpetuating racial stereotypes. pretty much what YOU do best.

  • 14Words.....

    I'm gonna go out on a limb here and make a 'stereotypical' assessment based on your 'stereotypical' statements...

    I think that you may be a product of inbreeding

  • it's funny how some people assume she's planning to keep the money. she's a conceptual artist, for crying out loud. she makes money doing radio shows, interviews, designing clothing, etc. she's got enough. more than likely the money went to a charity of some kind (just my own guess). it's a sociological art performance, people. grow up.

  • Typical of a black to sit on their butt and ask for money

  • Typical of a white to spit some stereotypical bullshit like u just did

  • go fuck urself

  • god what a dumbass. if you do the research, less than 10% of living whites are actual descendants of slave owners. There is almost as many living Blacks that are descendants of BLACK SLAVE OWNERS!God get an education.

  • This is awesome. I'm curious though: What percent of white ppl willing to give and what percent of black ppl were willing to receive?

    What would you do if someone was mixed (half-black/half-white)? Let them choose?

  • If you are mixed, your left hand gives the money to your right!

  • you people need to get over it. I never enslaved one of you, nor did my parents, grandparents, or great grandparents. Get off your butt and get a job.

  • My grandparents came over on the boat around the turn of the 20th century, roughly 35 years after slavery was abolished. How am I on the hook for reparations?

  • Let us all go to Avenue Q, for Everyone's a Little Bit Rascist!

  • Any time I have any delusions that somehow the United States of the 21st century has become a less racist and, moreover, less hateful country, all I have to do is look at the youtube "comments" section for nice dose of reality. Wow, there's a lot of closet-racist, defensive, reactionary and probably over-privileged people out there!

  • Dear black people,

    I would say a majority of you would accept those reparations, not just because of oppressive slavery but because its free money, and you do not care how you receive it since its free and most of u have considerably lower wages. but please do not fuck the delivery pizza guy, most of the time i deliver to a black person, they stiff me. it pisses me off. most of them, not all of them.

    sincerely,

    the asian guy

  • you want to make a better impression,street perform for your donations

    But if you prefer to spang then stop looking so pretty and stop wearing designer clothes.basically people seem to enjoy their spanger when they look like shit and own a dog or two and at least one back pack

    - The Saturday Market Card Magician-

  • They want me as a white man who has never owned slaves to give money to a black person who as never been a slave?

    What is the purpose?

  • yea blacks still always looking for a handout dont wanna work

  • Wow, if this was done world wide imagine what can be accomplished. No offense but it's easy for whites not to understand what the blacks feel and what goes on, on a daily basis. Look at your news the scale is not balanced. I wish it was and our young people are being taught hate and a sense of entitlement over your blacks which is wrong.

  • shit we gotta get it some way i'm gonna tart my own here

  • Didn't mean to confuse, but the contrast between the comments was obvious.

  • Thanks for your candor and sarcasm too by the way.

  • First of all the "worthy of mention" comment wasn't directed towards you. The second one was though. Anyway, are you really collecting reparations or are you just like all the other panhandlers down by Pioneer Square off the MAX line?

  • This is a statement for those few you don't get it!

  • You have done what worthy of mention?

  • Actually, his comment is entirely correct. 19th and 20th century European colonialism is very likely the largest factor in today's global crises.

  • This is silly. We as a people have much, much power than this. I respect activism on the part of any well meaning group or individual, but people of African descent fought much too hard to use this strategy to get what we deserve.

  • soooooo, I guess you're trying to make the statement that the concept of reparations are ridculous? Wow, I guess we should just call you "Uncle Tom's Ho" huh?

  • I love this

  • i think this is brilliant. The reason for the conditions of blacks around much of the world is due to slavery and the horrors of European colonialism. Its due!

  • Blacks in America have the highest standard of living of any black people in the world. In turn blacks commit 59% of all felony murders even though they make up 13% of the population. And white people put up with their atrocious behavior and keep giving them more free stuff!

    How about a freaking thank you!!!!!

  • yeah, blacks are "lucky" to be here. yes, their ancestors ASKED to come here. they're so LUCKY that white people put up with those dumb niggers, we should just ship them back to africa amirite?

    fuck you kelt, go educate yourself, you racist piece of shit.

  • Yet look at the positives from their suffering. Their decendants now get to live in a prosperous western nation rather than live in Africa.

  • mhm, and if the european colonists had never come to africa in the first place, it would be an incredibly prosperous country. before you say it, africa wasn't some huge land of barbaric tribes and constant warfare. in some places there were lots of tribes and war between them, but in other places there were huge empires, like the mayan or inca empires.

  • Europe was a constant warzone through the middle ages, yet eventually prospered. And africa is the oldest human occupied continent in the world, they had a head start even. Yet I suppose its easier to blame white people than face reality.

  • heh. are you implying that whites are just smarter and better than africans?

  • africa *was* a prospering continent before colonialization. it's had empires for thousands of years. do you honestly think the only african empire was egypt?

  • most of the problems in africa DO come from colonialization.

    ex: during the apartheid in s. africa, blacks were not given a greater education than how to become laborers for whites. now that blacks are in control, many don't know how to manage businesses. but SA law requires companies to have 80% black employment. who's at fault, the white colonizers or the modern-day blacks who don't have the proper education for the jobs they hold?

  • things are a lot more complicated than 'europe is doing great while africa is a hellhole, that must mean europeans are better!'

    (also: damn youtube's character limit)

  • The only "empires" in Africa were raised by Nilotic or Semitic people such as Egypt. The ruins of Zimbabwe have a clear middle eastern connection. Where are these African empires? Where are the scrolls, the written languages, the alphabets, the architecture, the mathematics? Show me your voyages of discovery, your poetry. What, did we steal all of it? Destroy all evidence because we were concerned you'd oneday make this ridiculous claim? There were infant, unsophisitcated kingdoms. That's all.

  • I do agree that, but for colonialism, Africa would have been more peaceful. And remember, I'm asking for Bantu, negoid, empires. Not Egyptian, Middle-Eastern offshoot or Semitic/Nilotic empires. Black African.

  • Welfare, food stamps, public housing, public transportation, subsidized utilities, free health care, free schools, massive over representation of blacks holding lucrative federal jobs. Blacks hit the jackpot, when Jews and Arabs purchased them from their own people and shipped them over here.

  • Thievery, brutal killing, racist hatred, colonization, imperial thuggery, back stabbing, capitalist, christian patriarchal rule, lies and more lies, the slaughter of tens of millions of people around the planet: this is the history of European/White dominate people. (I'm referring to the White dominate elite and power structure. Not poor and working class Whites/Europeans.) We don't need to ask for anything from these kind of people.

  • I'm white and I won't pay you shit because 200 years ago my ancestors also lived in a dump so shut the fuck up and get a job you leeching fuck.

  • You deserve reparations! A dollar for every day you were a slave! So that comes to a grand total of ZERO dollars and ZERO cents. Unless you are trying to raise enough money for a one way trip back to Africa. That I could support.

  • if reparations are paid , money used for welfare , food stamps and free medical should be removed . also crime victim compensation and costs of incarceration should be subtracted , because if all whites owe for what few did , the same should apply to blacks

  • also, blaming all whites for slavery is bigotry; what about those who's ancestors came in the 10's and 20s? what about the northerners who advocated and fought for the end of slavery?

    demanding that I pay someone who's benifiting from their ancestors' suffering soley based on my skin color is racist, ignorant, and just plain stupid.

  • this country is now the a world leader because of the free labor from slavery. you should not have to pay anything because you are not personally responsible. But companies who benefited from this labor, and continue to make millions, should pay.

  • ...WHAT? the US became a world power during the industrial revolution and through world war II, the US was still a backwater colony at the time of slavery, and those companies aren't run by slave owners, its punishing individuals to pay others, neither victim or offender alive at the time of the crime.

    I mean really, when's the cut-off? should Italy pay decendants of Roman slaves reperations for the abuses that were laid on them?

  • Ummmm... there are more slaves in africa now than there ever was in the US

  • will i have to pay reparations as my indonesian ancestors were oppressed by dutch colonists but i'm half white?

  • You're only beating a dead horse, bitch.

  • I like the logic - my ancestors never owned any slaves, but just because I'm white I should pay reparations to a negro whose ancestors were probably never slaves. BRILLIANT! Way to combat racism!

    Fucking stupid. Bitch needs a real job.

  • black people need to stop making excuses and blaming their behavior on other people

  • You are a fucking idiot.

  • This is just reverse racism, and it only further tries to draw the border between races when we should be past the damn color barrier by now. You freaking racists.

  • So get over it, it happened a long time ago? You got it better today than most white people do, what with college foundations and equal opportunity laws and other things that force people to accept black people over an even more qualified white person. It's done, we shouldn't have to pay anything for something that happened a long time ago cause your being paid every day with equal opportunity laws that give you the advantage if you're willing to not be lazy and take it.

  • Do you honestly think that black people would have been better off if slavery never existed? Yes, it was a horrible thing back when it happened, but guess what? Without it all your ancestors would still be back in Africa fighting off lions on the way to school and appearing on the "5 cents a day will make a difference" commercials. I mean, you claim to be treated so badly, and yet you stay here and don't return to Africa. Why? Cause Africa sucks compared to America and you know it.

  • Of course Africa "sucks" now, Europeans have destroyed it and ripped it of it's natural resources.

  • no, Africa has been a combat zone since the dawn of humanity. Even before the Europeans colonized it, there was rampant tribal warfare and war prisioners, who were sold by cheifs to the spanish.. those who started the north american slave trade.

  • I love this. Especially the receipts. :)

  • Excellent! Now pay up! :)

  • Cool, I'm Catholic living in Northern Ireland. Gonna go over to all my friends' houses who are Protestant and ask for reparations for the 400 odd years of oppression from them. Oh wait, I'm not a fucking idiot and my brain can calculate that Protestants today and even Protestants in the past did not personally oppress me.

  • AWESOME!! AWESOME!!

  • The Spanish should pay the reparations. They are the ones who sold them to the Americas in the first place.

  • what about the technology white people have invented surely this makes up for previous wrongs. life expectancy has gone up by more than double so how about all blacks pay reperations to whites after they turn 30

  • Idiot.

  • Fair enough I didn't make my point in a sensible way but I think you can understand where I'm coming from in respect to whites contributing to the global good and yet were being hounded for handouts by people who weren't wronged personally and who benefit from white contributions already.

  • I apologize for this silly argument, I was only trying to make a point. I hope my other comment clears up what my actual point was.

  • miss ayo should ask one of her parents to give reparations also as her light ass isnt all african. on the other hand maybe she should just FUCK OFF !

  • This was wonderful. I loved it!

  • i personally know a black guy that went back to the "mother country,he told me the general feeling was less than cordial,they dont want you over there either antarctica is open though and i would gladly buy a one way ticket for you

  • now they can buy more crack.

  • dey gonna go get jiggy wit it....dem reparations....

  • We aren't all crack dealers

  • we have a bunch of faggits here on this video commenting crap like "nigga power""the white man is the devil" go back to africa if you love it so much.

  • We didn't ask to come here thank you very much

    so why don't you take us back?

  • there was an African country purchases for freed slaves... also remember there was black on black slavery in Africa that didn't end until after slavery ended in the US

  • Also remember their was black on black slavery in America. There were 3000 black slaveowners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too?

  • or the blacks in Africa that sold the slaves to the United States, should they pay as well?

  • Did the "Jews" that participated in the holocaust of their own people pay for their reparations?

  • I apologize, I meant those of NOTICEABLE African descent...

  • Amen- I was never a slave, and I never owned one. Neither has any other living American. If anyone needs reparaitions, its me, for all the taxes I have been forced to pay, to support the welfare state.

  • Steve, more Caucasions are on welfare than those of African descent....educate yourself...

    reparationsthecure(dot)org

  • I guess this is the next best thing to 40 acres and a mule...

  • its also funny to think that most of the black people she gave money to also have ancestors that were slave owners either in the united states or in africa

  • its sad that most people dont realize that paying reparations makes no sense. to pay for something that your ancestors may or may not have done and give it to someone whose ancestors may or may not have been slaves is like the dumbest idea ever.

  • Honestly I was looking for something else when I found your video: panhandling for reparations.

    I enjoyed it very much. You made your message very clear. Nice and funny way of putting it. I love it. Make more of these. Good luck. Thanks a lot.

    Bill from Amsterdam Holland.

  • whites are killin us and whites make us kill each other. the white man controls where the society will go, and they are going in the direction of extinction of the black man because of their economic plan

  • You do a fine job killing each other as it is without whites

  • Hey man, anybody can own stocks, you just have to have the money to get it. Like Peter Griffin of Family Guy once said, "It doesn't matter what color you are, because the only color that really matters is green."

  • corporations are controled by the ceo and board of directors. they are all white people. the stockholders may own the corporation, but they are also mostly white. it's all about the white supremecy. i don't think u understand economics. Do u own stocks?

  • Go watch pursuit of happyness ignoramus.

  • corporations are owned by the white man. the white man controls what the corporations do and we's bein oppressed cuz what the white man wants and us blacks want is totally different. do u know any black ceos?

  • wat u mean white people work? they don't work, they just sit in front of computers all day playin. black men do all the real work. whites ain't goin extinct. there ain't that many blacks left in the world today, and u whites tryin to kill us

  • Do white people smoke menthol? Do u know what is in menthol cigs? So i should be content that the corporate greed is color blind whiles they killin us? Black people are goin exstinkt everyday.

  • u have gotta undastand that the man has a financial advisor/planner. they are tellin him that the black man is too expensive to keep around because of glowballization. So now we are obsolete and they realize that the maximum profit point would be to extermination with a profit.

  • He's not paranoia, he has a high degree of awareness. because he is outside of society, he has a different perspective lookin in. I guess u don't know what DNA Banks are an retinal scans cuz if u did, u would agree.

  • u need to look deeper, below the surface. the black men are dyin cuz the white man's cigaretts. the white kill blacks for hate crimes. the blacks kill other blacks cuz the white man's controllin him, and they's warehousin us in prisons to kill ourselves

  • I just don't understand why Dr. Kambon doesn't want to talk about the reasons why the white man wants to kill us. He said there are many, but i don't know what they are. Do you know?

  • Dr. Kambon does not like ebonics and he doesn't like black colleges.

  • there's no way i will be mistaken for a prostitute, maybe a pimp

  • The reality is u will never know reality cause you's prejudice. why is it that u thinks u see reality? u thinks we's all stupid and ignorant, it's just cuz u's prejudice. You don't know me, but have already condemned me as stupid cuz I'm black

  • You thinks uself is smart cuz u likes math, but u ain't so smart.