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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 12:55 PM Jun 2019

Booker blasts 'ignorance' of McConnell reparations comments

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/449331-booker-blasts-ignorance-of-mcconnell-reparations-comments

Booker blasts 'ignorance' of McConnell reparations comments
© Greg Nash
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader’s comments this week in opposition to reparations for descendants of slaves displayed a “tremendous amount of ignorance.”

“You hear things like that, and talking about somehow electing Barack Obama was tantamount to reparations. Just leaving that alone – it’s hard to do that, frankly,” Booker told Sirius XM host Joe Madison Wednesday.

“I think that one of the big strikes of ignorance that he says there is that somehow this is about a compensation, in other words, writing a check to somebody and reducing the urgency of this conversation to simply that,” added Booker, who has introduced legislation to study the issue.

The senator and presidential candidate also noted that advocates for reparations believe they are necessary to counteract not only slavery itself but racist policies that maintained white supremacy after slavery was abolished, such as segregation and housing discrimination.

“The goal for me in pushing this effort is to make sure we get to the end that we seek, which is equality of opportunity, a leveling of economic playing fields, health playing fields, housing playing fields,” Booker said.

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Booker blasts 'ignorance' of McConnell reparations comments (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jun 2019 OP
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I guess I should stop being surprised murielm99 Jun 2019 #2
Looks like someone advised Booker to start rogue emissary Jun 2019 #3

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murielm99

(30,656 posts)
2. I guess I should stop being surprised
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 02:08 PM
Jun 2019

by anything McConnell says. This immediately struck me as being very much like, "Some of my best friends are Negroes."

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rogue emissary

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3. Looks like someone advised Booker to start
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 03:41 PM
Jun 2019

Standing up for your belief.He's moved away from love everybody message he started his campaign on.


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