A local in Tampa City, Florida, USA, claimed that the government should pay “$3 million per person” for the decades-long slave trade that White people engaged in against Black people and that, in his opinion, has financially disadvantaged generations of Black people.
“All this nonsense, homelessness and all this other garbage you all talk about. Police violence and all this stuff — don’t nobody care about that,” the man said in the clip posted on Thursday, May 18.
“We care about our reparations. And we have to put white people on notice that we want our reparations. That our fore parents and we didn’t work for free and underpaid and all this nonsense and the white folks get away with it,” the man added,” while “they talk about the great city they’re building.”
“No. We want our reparations. $3 million per person. $3 million per person right here in this city. That’s the only [thing] Black people have to care about. All this other little nonsense… we do not care about.”
This occurs as left-leaning MPs call for national reparations.
The resolution, Reparations Now, was unveiled by Representative Cori Bush, D-Mo, in a press conference on Wednesday. It states that “the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its massive harm on the lives of millions.”
She estimated that the overall sum would be at least $14 trillion and referred to this as the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites.
“Black people in our country cannot wait any longer for our government to begin addressing… all of the harm it has caused since the founding, that it continues to perpetuate each and every day all across our communities, all across this country,” Bush said.
“Let us speak this truth, uncomfortable as it may be: Our country was not founded on the principle that all people are created equal. It was founded at the expense of the lives, freedom and well-being of Black people, African folks who they stole.”
