Positions within the Democratic Party vary widely, and 2020 candidates have made starkly differing commitments to a hypothetical reparations program.
on reparations for slavery for the first time in more than a decade, renewed attention has been paid to the 2020 Democratic candidates and their positions on the issue, which vary greatly.
But beyond his sponsorship in the Senate of a companion bill to H.R. 40, the House measure to establish a slavery reparations commission, Booker declined to offer specific policy commitments in his statement."We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities," her statement to the paper read.
When moderator Wolf Blitzer pressed Sanders on his specific stance on reparations, he demurred:"What does that mean?" The current conversation around reparations has been reinvigorated, in part, due to author Ta-Nehisi Coates's 2014 essay forfor federal reparations as a way to help heal the wounds that still remain from slavery and institutionalized racism.
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