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ay it. I understand if you think it but how in the world could this be politically smart to be the one who gets singled out for being against it? It's such an obvious trap. And here's how I would have played it if I were in Congress. So that just so I don't get caught in this you're against the anti-lynching bill. I would have been more forth than anybody. I would have been for digging up people…
← Previous segment →tee to come up with a plan for reparations or to see if it's practical and they've spent quite a bit of time so far. And here's what they came up with. It's just a preliminary like beginning decision to throw other Black people under the bus. So progress so far by a committee that apparently is largely Black to decide that only people who can prove they were descended from slavery in America would be eligible for the reparations.
So the very first thing that a largely Black committee did was find a new way to divide people. At this time, this time dividing Black people in America. And in so doing they came up with a new standard in which you'd have to be able to demonstrate you were descended from slaves if any reparations were ever approved. Right? So it's all very preliminary. To which I asked the obvious question. Is it not discriminatory to ask Black Americans to have identification for some government process? Because we know that voting, it would be discriminatory to require a government ID. But yet the committee on reparations believes that the same public that would find it a burden, or at least some of them would find it a burden to get a government ID, would be able to plow through and prove through wha
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t I know, DNA or maybe a search of the public records, that they had descended from actual slaves in America. I'm not sure this committee is moving the ball forward if you know what I mean. I think they came up with a standard that is so provocative that they've reduced the chances of reparations. Am I wrong? I think they just reduced the chance that this could ever happen. Let me tell you what y…
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