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In today’s article, I discuss Kamala Harris and her support for racial reparations.
In 2019, Kamala Harris appeared at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention. Kamala delivered a well-received speech at the end of which Sharpton came up and asked her a question. “I know you’ve already taken the appropriate position, but in the area of reparations for the descendants of Africans who have been enslaved, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has proposed a bill to form a commission to study how to do reparations. If you are elected president, would you sign that bill if it came across your desk?”
“When I am elected president, I will sign that bill,” Kamala replied to thunderous applause and black power fist salutes.
The bill, H.R.40, blamed high crime rates and unemployment on slavery and discrimination, and set out to “establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery” and determine how “any form of compensation to the descendants of enslaved African is calculated.”
The commission would examine, among other things, the “lingering negative effects of slavery on living African Americans and society.”
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee had famously referred to herself as a “freed slave.”
You can see the video of that exchange here.
“When I am elected president, I will sign that bill.”
Watch Kamala Harris promise Al Sharpton to sign racial reparations commission bill pic.twitter.com/Zj22gHnvFM
— Daniel Greenfield – “Hang Together or Separately” (@Sultanknish) August 28, 2024
Now her campaign is playing coy about her current position of writing checks to people based on their race.
The Harris campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment on her current position on reparations.
As usual, Kamala either backs away from her past extreme views or simply refuses to discuss them. But we know what she believed and wanted to do, and it’s a safe bet that nothing has changed.
Algorithmic Analyst says
They already have free everything, they should be grateful.
Bob says
Obama phones, food stamps, public housing! Guess they want some spending money.
Angel Jacob says
Spending money for drugs.
Algorithmic Analyst says
And alcohol. And cigarettes.
RS says
Back and forth on the issues. she is just as deceptive as Obama is.
Harvey Meister says
If the government starts handing out money in almost any amount, let alone the ridiculous amounts most of the reparations proponents are asking for, it will trigger the greatest scamming industry in history.. even now there are people likely figuring out devious ways to get their hands on free money and the industries of scammers soliciting complainants will make every ambulance chasing attorney and grifter homping at the opportunity
. Can.we say fake documents, fake blood tests, fake DNA samples, and who knows what else. In today’s world, there is no way to sort this stuff out. The lawsuits for those who will get denied or less than they feel entitled to will be in the h e millions.
You could create realistic looking photographs, genealogies, birth certificates and more. No commission can prevent this. As soon as the law is enacted the scammers will already have their schemes well figured out.. The lawswill actually tell them exactly how to do it. No matter how it might play out, it’s going to be alot of money being handed out. And the sharks are already circling.
SPURWING PLOVER says
How about making the Democrat Party to pay for it all after a ll it was t he Democrats that Owned Sold Bought traded abused and hunted down all those slaves and separated all those Families in the first place its only fair the Democrats payed for it all and not the American Tax Payers
Richard Johnston says
If a reparations bill ever passes, can we all identify as black?
How much would Oprah get?
Poetcomic1 says
Go ahead and pass reparations, I will invest in Chinese made top of the line athletic footwear. and clean up.
Angel Jacob says
So the street criminals who steal, deal and kill have found a way to steal from the tax payers.
Anything but getting a job and paying their own bills.
Of course the bill will be signed, the criminals in charge only care for other criminals.
Black Popcorn says
you speak of scams occurring if reparations are paid, if your ancestors were moral people and didn’t own slaves there would be no reason to negotiate anything, due to the horrible atrocities and the refusal to leave us alone because your racist, i have a answer to racist cops killing Black men, take all the white cops and put them in white neighborhoods, contrary to popular belief black people can police themselves. and keep sending the billion dollar budgets. and since we all know the united states of america wasnt built with any good intentions for the black man, why wouldn’t after all these decades of torture make black folks tax exempt since the money will never come in cash payment. and to talk bad about black people after they worked for free for 400 years, and all yall can do is get on here and spew racist language.