Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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We should give back the Black Hills of South Dakota because we promised them in a treaty in 1863.
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A time like this is a good time however to envision and articulate the direction we want to move in. Biden is already talking about emphasizing racial equity, so making reparations part of the conversation is a good thing.
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4/ I don’t think the average American is a racist but rather is woefully undereducated about the history of race in the US. I saw over & over, in the whitest states, how once people heard a thumbnail sketch of our racial history from 1619 to today, they applauded #ReparationsNow.
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3/ Almost 250 yrs of slavery followed by almost 100 more yrs of institutionalized violence against Black people in the American South. If you’ve been kicking someone to the ground for almost 350 years, you owe more than to stop kicking; you owe it to them to help them get back up
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2/ Germany has paid $89 billion in reparations to Jewish organizations. It doesn’t mean that the Holocaust didn’t happen, but it has gone far toward establishing emotional and psychological reconciliation between Germany and the Jews of Europe.
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1/ The difference between race-based policies and reparations Is that reparations contain an inherent mea culpa. They’re recognition of a wrong that was done, a debt that is owed and the willingness on the part of a people to pay it.
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It takes the former chairman of the Republican Party to tell the Democrats what they should be doing now. And he’s right.
Michael Steele is 100% right here.
Democrats need to grow some damn balls — stand up to Mitch McConnell — and tell the Republicans “WE have the majority.”
Michael Steele for the damn win.
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