"House Democrats thought they had an easy issue for rallying the black vote: bringing up reparations for slavery as an election issue and holding congressional hearings.
What better way to rally coveted black voters than to hold out a big pile of reparations money along with lot of talk about victimization derived from evils committed in the past?
It didn't work out the way they thought it would..."
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Here are John McWhorter and I at Harvard discussing affirmative action and reparations: youtube.com/watch?v=g0VgJB…
But this was far from the only exploding cigar for the Democrats.
There were also those who asked for a good look at just who was behind slavery, creating a very uncomfortable subject for Democrats:
There were also those who asked for a good look at just who was behind slavery, creating a very uncomfortable subject for Democrats:
U.S. gov't did not own slaves. Republicans did not own slaves. Democrats did. Democrats passed and enforced Jim Crow. Democrats founded the KKK. Slavery ended 150 yrs ago and lasted, after America became a country, for 78 yrs. To pay for #reparations, will dems sue themselves?
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