'Slavery is a nagging, unrelenting shame of America,' says Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper. 'And I think that we have to own it, we have to recognize it and I think at some point there has to be an apology.'
It was simple, specific and he put it plainly to a number of the top-tier 2020 Democratic presidential contenders who visited his National Action Network conference in New York this week.Would they support a House bill, first introduced three decades ago, that would create a congressional panel to study the possibility of reparations for the descendants of slaves?One by one, the candidates answered yes -- some not for the first time.
40, including South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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