The city of Asheville, North Carolina, which is in the 11th Congressional District I am running to represent in the next Congress, threw itself into the national conversation on race Tuesday when the city council voted to approve reparations for the city’s black residents.
The debate about reparations is not new but has taken on new resonance following the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests, some of which have been mindless, violent, and nihilistic. Conservatives need to offer a direct and thoughtful response that defends our founding principles and Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, while also countering the destructive impulses of the woke progressive mob.
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