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Black Democrats Want Vote On Reparations This Month

Ashe Schow
Black Democrats Want Vote On Reparations This Month
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Black Democrats want party leaders to agree to hold a vote on reparations this month, following the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

The Hill reported that members of the Congressional Black Caucus visited Tulsa, Oklahoma, last month on the anniversary of the massacre, and now they want “to stage a reparations vote” in order to get Congress “to launch a study into the delicate question of whether the country owes Black Americans restitution for slavery.”

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