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Black NYT Writer Mocks Blacks Testifying Against Slave Reparations: They ‘Have No Apparent Qualifications Other Than Being Black’

Hank Berrien

A black writer for The New York Times, apparently incensed that other blacks might not support the move toward reparations for American slavery, ripped the black witnesses testifying against reparations, tweeting that the witnesses “have no apparent qualifications other than being black.”

As The College Fix notes, New York Times writer Jamelle Bouie, formerly chief political correspondent for Slate Magazine, was infuriated by the idea of former NFL player Burgess Owens and Columbia University philosophy major Coleman Hughes testifying, writing on Twitter:

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