Vice President Kamala Harris remained silent Monday on whether she would support California's reparations bill.
According to a Pew Research poll, 68% of Americans are opposed to reparations. Found 2022.
“I think there needs to be some form of reparations, and we can debate what that is,” Harris told The Root in 2019 when asked “Should Black people receive reparations?”
of Press Democrat It reported on an effort by the California Democratic Party to “make direct cash payments to African-American descendants of people enslaved in the United States.”
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California had been working for years to become the first state in the nation to get a reparations bill to the governor's desk and have it signed into law, but in the final hours of this year's legislative session, two key bills to compensate African-Americans descended from slaves for harms came to a tragic end.
In other bills 14-bill reparations package While a bill introduced by the state Legislative Black Caucus passed this session, Democratic Sen. Steven Bradford of Englewood was unable to persuade his caucus or legislative leaders to advance two ambitious bills he introduced alone to the Assembly.
Bradford's Senate Bill 1403 and 1331 Probably. Established a new institution And also Funding to support implementation The policy, recommended last year by the nation's first state task force, also includes eventual direct cash payments to African-American descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. The envisioned California American Freedmen's Affairs Bureau would help black Californians trace their genealogy, verify their eligibility for reparations and expedite their claims.
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Harris' campaign did not respond to Breitbart News' request for comment on whether she continues to support reparations payments and whether she would support a California Senate bill that would facilitate direct cash payments to African-Americans who are descendants of people enslaved in the United States.
Harris, a California native, has repeatedly pledged to make taxpayers pay “reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans.”
During her 2020 presidential run, she told MNSBC host and activist Rev. Al Sharpton that she would sign a reparations bill if she became president.
“In the area of reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans, if you were elected president, would you sign that bill? [Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act proposed by Representative Shelia Jackson Lee] What would you do if it arrived on your desk?'” Sharpton asked.
“If I'm elected president, I will sign that bill,” Harris replied.
When she ran for president in 2020, Kamala Harris told Al Sharpton that she would sign a reparations bill if elected.
Al Sharpton: “In the area of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans, would you sign that bill if you were elected president?”[CommissiontoStudyand…[CommissiontoStudyand…pic.twitter.com/NuawfxhUQJ— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) September 1, 2024
Kamala Harris: I think there needs to be some form of reparations, and we can debate what that is. pic.twitter.com/4w5QvmZttC
— Mike Berg (@MikeKBerg) July 30, 2024
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