Posted on 02/11/2019 1:09:48 PM PST by Red Badger
Sen. Kamala Harris said this morning she supports “some type of” reparations to black Americans for slavery.
In an interview with the “Breakfast Club,” a radio show on New York City’s Power 105.1, host Charlamagne asked Kamala Harris about reparations. “Where do you stand on some form of reparations for black people? Here you see Mayor De Blasio saying the marijuana economy could be a form of reparations. Marianne Williamson says black people should get a hundred billion in slave reparations–like, where do you stand on it?”
Harris responded:
Well look, I think that we have got to address that again, it’s back to the inequities. There, through–look, America has a history of 200 years of slavery. We had Jim Crow. We had legal segregation in America for a very long time. The Voting Rights Act was only strong for 50 years and then they wiped it out with this United States Supreme Court in the Shelby decision, to the point that 22 states immediately thereafter put in place laws that one court found were crafted with surgical precision to have black people not be able to vote.”
So we’ve got to recognize, back to that earlier point, people aren’t starting out on the same base, in terms of their ability to succeed and so we have got to recognize that and give people a lift up. And, there are a number of ways to do it. Part of my initiative again around the ‘Lift Act’ is that same point–you lifting people up who are making less than a hundred thousand dollars a year. What I want to do about rent is the same thing. What we need to do around education and understanding disparities, what we need to do around HBCUs. But we have a history of racism in America.
Charlamagne asked again, “So you are for some type of reparations?”
“Yes I am, yes I am,” Harris responded.
Donna Brazile and April Ryan are also out there pushing for a handout…
FDR and LBJ took care of that transfer decades ago, and it is ongoing.
I guess once us old white guys become a minority of the population as predicted that is gonna become a tough sell.
$17 Trillion and counting.
I thought Obama was the reparations. It cost just as much.
She’ll be backing away from that in a day or two just like she backed away from the Medicare For All.
Democrats owned slaves. Democrats should pay reparations.
I agree. Whoever enslaved her should face criminal charges and pay.
Reparations?
She done smoked too much dope. Last I looked, we never did import slaves from either India or Jamaica.
She should have gone pro with Willie and received her reparations up front.
Willie Brown?......................
Go back. We won’t stop you
Would giving you the presidency without an election be a start?
Commie agitator trying to make the chip on the shoulders of the prospective revolutionaries grow. . . need more Bolsheviks for the revolution.
Guess what...the vast majority of black Americans are descendants of WHITE slave owners.
Vast majority of white Americans are NOT descendants of white slave owners.
Why the hell should I pay for what your great granddaddy did to you great grandmother?
Harris got her start in politics by sitting on Willie Brown’s staff.
Another one that wants to destroy the US ,Oh Goodie
The Spanish introduced slavery to the New World.
Make the Latinos and Hispanics pay....................
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