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Burgess Owens takes new tack at reparation hearing: 'How about the Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race...' bizpacreview.com/2019/06/19/bur… via @BIZPACReview
The former athlete went on to say that America is a “special country” that affords each generation the opportunity to do better than the last. Each generation was told this. “We now tell kids something a little bit different — that they don’t have the opportunities that we had,”
“I do not believe in reparations because what reparation does is it points to a certain race, a certain color and it points to them as evil,” Owens said. He added that reparations also turns black people into “beggars.”
The most shocking moment from Owens’ testimony came when he called out the Democrat Party for their historical ties to racist movements, as well as the policies they currently push that he says hold minorities back.
He said he believes that he believes in “restitution” from the Democrat Party. “I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found out the misery that that party brought to my race,” Owens said.
He added, “I do believe in restitution. Let’s point to the party that was part of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, that has killed over 40% of our black babies, 20 million of them. State of California, 75% of our black boys can’t past standard reading and writing test, a Democratic state.
Let’s pay reparation. Let’s pay restitution. How about a Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race.”
Owens’ testimony was very different from the others given during the hearing. Actor/activist Danny Glover and writer/activist Ta-Nehisi Coates both gave testimonies in support of financial reparations from the federal government.
“White America must recognize that justice for black people can’t be achieved without radical change to the structure of our society,” Glover said. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was even booed when he brought up the simple fact that even Barack Obama has said he is against reparations
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