PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris supplied a powerful non-answer when requested about her assist for slavery reparations Tuesday in a high-profile, softball interview with the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists.
NABJ moderator and Politico author Eugene Daniels famous the Democratic presidential nominee has supported Democratic calls “on President Biden to create” a “fee” to weigh in on a reparations “initiative.”
“Would you as president take totally different actions to create this fee, or do you consider it ought to occur in Congress?” Daniels requested the vice chairman — who responded with a signature phrase salad.
“We have to converse fact concerning the generational impression of our historical past, when it comes to the generational impression of slavery, the generational impression of redlining, of Jim Crow legal guidelines.” Harris mentioned.
“I might go on and on and on,” she added. “These are info which have impression, and we have to converse fact about it. And we have to converse fact about it in a means that’s about deriving options.”
Harris as senator co-sponsored a invoice to authorize the creation of a federal committee to “examine the historical past of U.S. slavery” and study doable reparations funds to black Individuals, as Daniels put it.
“I feel Congress finally could have the flexibility to do that work,” Harris instructed Daniels. “I’m not discounting the significance of any govt motion, however finally Congress as a result of in the event you’re going to speak about it in any substantial means, there will likely be hearings, there will likely be a stage of public schooling and dialogue.”
“And I feel that’s a part of the spirit behind the congressional motion up to now,” she added.
With out naming names, Harris additionally talked about the necessity to “converse fact” about “so-called leaders” who say “enslaved individuals benefited from slavery.”
That’s possible a reference to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Harris attacked publicly for approving new pointers on the educating of slavery in public colleges final yr.
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