The radical left is pressuring their ally, Vice President Kamala Harris, to continue supporting the controversial idea of providing reparations to black Americans.
Harris remained silent on Monday about whether she would support California's newly proposed reparations bill. Her campaign ignored Breitbart News' requests for comment. The Washington Post Multiple Requests I would like to ask for comment on her current position on reparations.
68% of Americans are against reparations According to In a 2022 Pew Research Center poll, Harris repeatedly promised to make taxpayers pay reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans.
“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?”
During her 2020 presidential run, Harris 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.
The radical left has been harshly pursuing Harris.
“We have a Black woman who has the experience and the heart for the Black community,” said Robin Lou Simmons, a former city councilwoman for the Chicago suburb of Evanston. post“We believe Vice President Kamala Harris is the leader to move this discussion forward at the federal level.”
Trevor Smith, executive director of the BLIS Collective, a group that advocates for reparations for Black and Native American people, said Harris should address the controversial issue.
“We can't keep putting it off,” he said. “In 2020, we were all talking about racial justice and anti-Black racism because we saw footage of a Black man being murdered.”
“It shouldn't take this level of brutality to have these conversations,” he added.
Amos Brown, a member of the California Reparations Commission and Harris' pastor, said black people should accept reparations.
“In California, we're working to return land that was taken from Black people, we're working to implement education programs, we're working to address the issue of mass reincarnation,” Brown said. “We have to be realistic. We have to be thoughtful.”
Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former war room analyst for the Republican National Committee. He is the author of: The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
