Kamala Harris on Reparations: ‘Writing a Check’ is Not ‘Going To Be Enough’

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Sen. Kamala Harris said that “writing a check” to the descendants of slaves is just not “going to be enough” when it comes to reparations.

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris said that “writing a check” to the descendants of slaves is just not “going to be enough” when it comes to reparations.

In an interview with Jemele Hill’s podcast released Monday, Hill asked Harris if she was “for or against” reparations.

Harris answered: “complicated.”

Hill, who interviewed Harris during Essence Fest in New Orleans, told her “that wasn’t one of the choices.

The presidential candidate then explained, saying she supports Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) commission to study reparations.

We need to address how we’re going to do it… because back to the point I was making about home ownership…back to the point I was making about disparities around education… you can look at health outcomes when you know that black women are three to four times more likely to die in connection with child birth,” Harris said. “So there’s a lot that has to be about looking at this in a way that is about structural and systemic investment in communities.”

Breitbart report: Harris said she was “reluctant” to give a simple answer on the issue because she fears Americans will not want to talk about structural and systemic inequalities that reparations advocates have argued have been compounding if the government just writes checks to the descendants of slaves.

So that’s why I’m reluctant to have a simple answer to it because frankly I don’t believe that writing a check is gonna be enough,” Harris told Hill. “I really don’t… And the worst thing that I think could happen is that checks get written and then everybody says ‘ok, stop talking about this now’ without addressing the systemic inequities that are deep and require investment.”

Harris previously told The Root that “there has to be some form of reparations”—even for “undiagnosed and untreated trauma”—because “we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery” and “almost a hundred years of Jim Crow.”

We’re looking at legalized segregation and, in fact, segregation on so many levels that exists today, based on race,” she told The Root earlier this year. “And there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred to correct course, and so we are seeing the effects of all of those years play out still today.”

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12 Comments

  1. Let me get this straight: this bitch wants to take money out of the pockets of people that never owned slaves and pay it to people that never were slaves? Forgive my logical assessment. Only pimps are a lower form of humanity than POLITICIANS!

    • Don’t forget the massive numbers of Irish who were also slaves and I don’t mean they were indentured. They were kidnapped and sold into slavery, never to be free. Yet you never hear the Irish asking for reparations.
      Also there’s this – maybe our reparations were already paid for by our ancestors who fought in the civil war to FREE THE SLAVES??? Reparations already made. And a TON of IRish died in civil war we’ve already made reparations. Kamala, you go first, honey, I’m sureyou have lots of money hidden away.

      • 100% right! And I’ll be glad to cash Kamala’s check (Providing she shows ID) as I am 1/128 Cherokee Indian.

      • My ancestors were taken by force from their land in Ireland (Ballyatwood on the Ards Peninsula) to America. I would like reparations! A cheque would be fine… so long as it doesn’t bounce.

  2. These people are so purposely twisted and subverted by their TRIBE Overlords. They have lost their souls and are totally incapable of caring for anyone or anything other than their own personal wealth, because in the end, the final conclusion, this is all about one thing ; MONEY. Money for Elites, lazy good-for-nothing spoiled useless brats and arrogant snobs, slouches, and perverts who just want to extort the entire damn world. NO ONE could beat Donald Trump because not one other candidate is HONEST, and Trump may not tell us everything that he thinks, but this man loves this country and cares about its future and has common sense about what is right and what is wrong, and lemme tell ya ; DEMOCRATS ARE WRONG !! and they are filthy rotten liars and bastards, and America is sick to goddamn death of these corrupt creeps and their stupid Socialism movement. I mean, how STOOOOOOOOOPID can you be to even contemplate Socialism in America ? Truth is, Socialism is a ladder to Globalism. Why do you think college is so expensive, healthcare out of control financially, homes nearly unattainable for young people, opioids so readily available, the border inundated with illegals ? WHYYYYYYYYY ? Because it was engineered to reduce the options of younger voters so that they would see Socialism as the ONLY way out. Do you see that ? Do you know who is responsible for that ? Who masterminded it ? That’s right, THE TRIBE. Now, only a fool would vote for a Democrat, and Trump knows all this, and his formula for this country is WORKING and the TRIBE knows it and they HATE HIM. But WE THE PEOPLE love him, and this is OUR damn country, not the TRIBE’S !! Got it ? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4963d709291a19ebd0998e224d259be781dc769f9fef246702060c1b791167b1.jpg

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