reparations
Republicans say it's time to move on from the "original sin" of slavery, even though its ill effects have lingered.
Although slave labor created the economic basis of U.S. agriculture, the long-term effects of racism and systemic discrimination from U.S. Department of Agriculture programs continue to sideline African American farmers from land ownership.
The evolution is part of a larger shift in American attitudes toward race in the past five years.
2020 candidate Cory Booker floated the idea in a bill this week, but Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) says it’s “not even a realistic possibility.”
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The measure would create a commission to review proposals on the matter.
Rev. Al Sharpton asked the Democratic presidential candidate on Wednesday whether he would support such legislation.
"Why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property?” the former HUD secretary asked of his fellow 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful.
This is the first time these black-led organizations linked to the decentralized Black Lives Matter movement have banded together to write a comprehensive foundational policy platform.
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