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Cory Booker Wants Pro-Farrakhan Organization To Support His Reparations Bill

Hank Berrien
Cory Booker Wants Pro-Farrakhan Organization To Support His Reparations Bill
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a 2020 US presidential hopeful, speaks during the “We the People” gathering at the Warner Theatre on April 1, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

New Jersey senator and Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker recently wrote to an organization asking for their support — and that organization is closely aligned with racist and anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan.

In an exclusive report, Ashley Rae Goldenberg of the Capital Research Center details that Booker wrote to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA). Howard University Department of Afro-American Studies chair Greg Carr posted on Twitter the letter which Booker sent on June 5. In the letter, Booker asked for the organization to support Booker’s reparations proposal (S. 1083) in the Senate. Booker stated that his bill was the first slavery reparations bill to be introduced in the Senate, and asserted that America is still plagued by racism, arguing, “Reparations represent one way for the United States both to reckon with its past and to address the real consequences of historic and continued racial discrimination.”

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