ABC News personality Sunny Hostin sparked a wave of backlash on Monday when she claimed that January 6th was among the worst moments in American history — and proceeded to compare it to &#8220;World War II, the Holocaust, and chattel slavery.&#8221;
Hostin claimed on &#8220;The View&#8221; that &#8220;you don&#8217;t move on&#8221; from the riot that took place on Capitol Hill on January 6th, 2021: &#8220;You don’t move on because January 6th was an atrocity. It was one of the worst moments in American history. And when you think about the worst moments in American history like World War II, things that happened like the Holocaust, chattel slavery.&#8221;
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The View&#39;s Sunny Hostin is melting down: &quot;You don&#39;t move on because January 6th was one of the worst moments in American history, like World War Two, the Holocaust, slavery.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zO6krRRgDB">pic.twitter.com/zO6krRRgDB</a>
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Critics called her out for making the comparison, noting that a three-hour riot during which one person was killed was hardly comparable to a global war, slavery, or the systematic slaughter of more than six million Jews.
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&#8220;Left-wingers are so mentally deranged that they think a three-hour riot where no one was killed except by police is comparable to &#8230; the Holocaust. The. Holocaust,&#8221; Red State&#8217;s Bonchie posted.
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Left-wingers are so mentally deranged that they think a three-hour riot where no one was killed except by police is comparable to&#8230;the Holocaust. 
The. Holocaust. <a href="https://t.co/pZtRG6i4Tk">https://t.co/pZtRG6i4Tk</a>
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&#8220;The dumbest person on daily TV, Sunny Hostin, compares January 6th, 2021 to the Holocaust, says it was similarly bad,&#8221; OutKick founder Clay Travis added.
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The dumbest person on daily TV, Sunny Hostin, compares January 6th, 2021 to the Holocaust, says it was similarly bad. <a href="https://t.co/ykLYSpYpQi">pic.twitter.com/ykLYSpYpQi</a>
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&#8220;What an insult to every Jewish person on the planet, past and present. Breathtaking minimizing of one of the worst things to happen in human history. ABC will have to apologize, I bet,&#8221; CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings.
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and for that matter, an insult to the memory of every slave who was ever held or veteran who died defeating the forces of tyranny in WW2. Geez. This statement doesn&#39;t get any lower.
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&#8220;&#8230; and for that matter, an insult to the memory of every slave who was ever held or veteran who died defeating the forces of tyranny in WW2. Geez. This statement doesn&#8217;t get any lower,&#8221; Jennings concluded.
&#8220;Look how stupid everything has become,&#8221; Omri Ceren posted.
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Look how stupid everything has become. <a href="https://t.co/3rDhth2CbI">https://t.co/3rDhth2CbI</a>
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Others pointed out that beyond the United States&#8217; role in helping bring about its end, the Holocaust was not an American historical event — and that her other two comparisons had been global rather than solely American.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think America did pretty damn good winning World War II,&#8221; Ben Domenech posted.
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I don&#39;t know about you, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think America did pretty damn good winning World War II. <a href="https://t.co/sTy0mhrN0m">https://t.co/sTy0mhrN0m</a>
&mdash; Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1876347334457516083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘This Statement Doesn’t Get Any Lower’: Sunny Hostin Blasted For January 6/Holocaust Remarks

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“The View” host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sunny-hostin">Sunny Hostin</a> said she didn’t want to move on from what happened on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6">January 6th, 2021</a>, and compared it to World War II, the Holocaust, and slavery.
During the <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/1876312352108564833">ABC talk show</a> on Monday, Hostin said the country needed to find “moral clarity” and said the blame for what happened on January 6th, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol needed to be placed at the feet of President-elect Donald Trump.
“You don&#8217;t move on because January 6th was an atrocity,” Hostin claimed. “It was one of the worst moments in American history. And when you think about the worst moments in American history like World War II, things that happened like the Holocaust, chattel slavery.&#8221;
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The View&#8217;s Sunny Hostin is melting down: &#8220;You don&#8217;t move on because January 6th was one of the worst moments in American history, like World War Two, the Holocaust, slavery.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/zO6krRRgDB">pic.twitter.com/zO6krRRgDB</a>
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“We need to never forget,” Hostin continued. “Because past becomes prologue if you forget any race.”
The audience agreed and clapped along at the host’s comments and several of the people on the panel agreed as well.
Hostin’s cohost Sarah Haines <a href="https://x.com/TheView/status/1876335580226712046">suggested</a> that what happened on January 6th should be “commemorated every year” because watching those videos “shook” her to the core, suggesting that future generations won’t know about what happened four years ago unless people continue to make sure it is talked about.
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“And hopefully, every year we will continue to show video of January 6, cause I won’t tell you how to feel, you just watch that video and you tell me what you see,” Haines said, without explaining further. 
On Sunday in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/05/president-biden-jan-6-democracy/">Washington Post</a> Op-Ed, President Joe Biden also urged Americans to not forget about what happened on January 6th four years ago, labeling it a day when “violent insurrectionists attacked the Capitol.”
“We should be proud that our democracy withstood this assault,” Biden wrote. “And we should be glad we will not see such a shameful attack again this year. But we should not forget. We must remember the wisdom of the adage that any nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it. We cannot accept a repeat of what occurred four years ago.&#8221;
He also wrote that the “unrelenting effort” that’s “underway to rewrite — even erase — the history of that day” must not succeed, adding that “we cannot allow the truth to be lost.”
&#8220;The summer of 2020 was marked by riots fueled by allegations of police brutality, none of which resulted in arrests and prosecutions as aggressive as those targeting January 6th rioters,&#8221; The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-still-aggressively-prosecuting-january-6-defendants-as-pardons-loom">reported</a>. Only one person was killed on January 6. Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed Trump supporter, was shot by Michael Byrd, a police officer with a lengthy <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2024-11/11.20.2024%20Letter%20From%20Rep.%20Barry%20Loudermilk%20to%20USCP%20Chief%20of%20Police%20Manger_0.pdf">disciplinary record</a>. 
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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10.30.24-Rubio-Letter-to-FDA-DHS-re-Ban-on-Pharmaceuticals-from-Xinjiang.pdf">letter</a> to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding they guarantee that goods imported to the United States are not made with slave labor.
In 2021, Rubio introduced the <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-merkley-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-becomes-law/">Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act </a>(UFLPA), which was signed into law. The Act would “ensure that goods made with the slave labor of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and elsewhere in the People’s Republic of China do not enter the United States,” Rubio’s <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-merkley-uyghur-forced-labor-prevention-act-becomes-law/">website</a> noted.
In the letter, Rubio noted “recent reports identifying two pharmaceutical producers based in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that are permitted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to distribute their products in the U.S.,” adding, “This is in clear violation of current law which prohibits imports from the region due to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) egregious human rights abuses, including genocide, forced abortions, and forced sterilizations.”
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“Recent analysis by the Centers for Advanced Defense Studies exposed that the FDA currently allows at least two pharmaceutical producers, Xinjiang Nuziline Bio-Pharmaceutical Co. and SEL Biochem Xinjiang Co. to import APIs and drug products into the U.S.,” Rubio continued. “Both of these companies are linked to slave labor in Xinjiang and are not listed on the UFLPA Entity List.”
“The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act assures the American people that the products they purchase were made without slave labor,” Rubio wrote. “It is clear that the lack of oversight by the FDA has not made this true. The FDA and DHS have a responsibility to rectify this dangerous error and uphold the law. Therefore, I demand both departments and the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to immediately place Xinjiang Nuziline Bio-Pharmaceutical Co. and SEL Biochem Xinjiang Co. on the UFLPA Entity List. I also ask that the FDA and DHS complete a thorough review of every company authorized to distribute pharmaceuticals and API in the United States to ensure compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.”

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There have been a lot of moments in American politics when candidates realize they&#8217;re trailing badly in the polls, so they do something extreme in an effort to win some support. It usually doesn&#8217;t work out too well. Think of the &#8220;Dean Scream&#8221; back in 2004, which was supposed to rally the base after a tough loss in the Iowa caucuses. It ended up being played about 600 times on cable news until Dean dropped out of the race. Or if you want to go back further, think of George McGovern&#8217;s plan to shake up the race in 1972 by picking a totally unvetted running mate. That was exciting right up until it emerged that his running mate had received electro-shock therapy several times to treat his chronic mental illness. McGovern ended up losing 49 states. 
As we enter the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election, it&#8217;s clear that the Kamala Harris campaign now finds itself in a similar desperation mode. They&#8217;re trailing badly in pretty much every important poll and prediction market that matters. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz admit that they&#8217;re now the &#8220;underdogs&#8221; in the race. And so, inevitably, they&#8217;re feeling the pressure to do something unthinkable in a desperate attempt to win back votes. They have to throw out the playbook and try a new strategy.
In recent days, we&#8217;ve learned what this last-minute Hail Mary looks like. It means that Harris will actually go out in public and speak without a script. This clearly wasn&#8217;t the plan when she first entered the race. For the first month of her candidacy, Kamala Harris was completely shut off from the media. It was one of the most surreal periods in modern presidential politics. We had a presidential nominee who wouldn&#8217;t talk to any journalists at all — even journalists who are friendly to her campaign. 
But now Harris has no choice. She&#8217;s facing a blowout loss. So, now she has an interview with Fox News planned for tonight. She&#8217;s also participating in &#8220;radio town halls&#8221; with hosts like &#8220;Charlamagne Tha God.&#8221;
Unfortunately for Harris, already, this strategy isn&#8217;t going well. Like so many other Hail Mary&#8217;s in presidential politics, it&#8217;s backfiring. And it&#8217;s backfiring because every single time Harris opens her mouth, it becomes very clear why her campaign was hiding her away for so long. 
Let&#8217;s start with one of the questions asked on &#8220;Charlamagne tha God&#8217;s&#8221; show, because the question raises a bunch of its own issues. It concerns taxpayer-funded reparations for black people. Watch:
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Vice President Kamala Harris says she&#39;s open to using taxpayer&#39;s money to pay racial reparations: &quot;It has to be studied, there&#39;s no question about that.&quot;
She adds: &quot;In terms of my immediate plan &#8230; as it relates to the economy &#8230; I grew up in the middle class&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HPjdHSgB29">pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29</a>
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The first thing he says is, &#8220;We all know that America became great on the backs of free black labor.&#8221; So, I guess we&#8217;re pretending that slaves didn&#8217;t cost anything, for starters. That&#8217;s being conflated here with the idea that &#8220;black people weren&#8217;t paid.&#8221; That might seem like an irrelevant distinction but actually, it matters quite a bit in relation to the argument he&#8217;s making. As a factual matter, slavery involved massive investments that ultimately slowed the progress of this country dramatically. It turned out to be a much worse investment than the alternative.
A professor at Brown University named David Meyer has <a href="https://fee.org/articles/no-slavery-did-not-make-america-rich/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that, in the South prior to the Civil War, “investments were heavily concentrated in slaves,&#8221; relative to the North. And that led to the South&#8217;s failure to, “to build a deep and broad industrial infrastructure.&#8221; That includes services like railroads and schools. Once slavery was abolished, that infrastructure is what led to this country&#8217;s success in the generations following the Civil War. We became the top economy in the entire world once we jettisoned slavery.
What didn&#8217;t lead to this country&#8217;s success — before or during the civil war — was slavery. The majority of slaves were involved in growing or picking cotton. But as the Foundation for Economic Education has <a href="https://fee.org/articles/no-slavery-did-not-make-america-rich/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, cotton didn&#8217;t account for a big portion of the overall U.S. economy. Economic historians, &#8220;have observed that although cotton exports comprised a tremendous share of total exports prior to the Civil War, they accounted for only around 5 percent of the nation’s overall gross domestic product, an important contribution but not the backbone of American economic development.&#8221;
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So, if you&#8217;re saying that slavery was instrumental to this country&#8217;s success, you&#8217;re vastly overstating the case. And it&#8217;s an argument that applies to many other countries far more credibly than it applies to ours. Africa was the last continent to officially abolish slavery, and that didn&#8217;t happen until the 1980s. So, why exactly is this America&#8217;s burden to bear? Why are we uniquely responsible for slavery? And why would we want to stoke the kind of generational race hatred that&#8217;s led to the murders of white farmers in places like South Africa?
And for that matter, when is Kamala Harris going to pay her reparations? The Washington Free Beacon has reported that Harris was the &#8220;descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica.&#8221; So, why hasn&#8217;t she pulled a Robin DiAngelo and opened her purse to offer black Americans some of her own money? She hasn&#8217;t even handed over a single dollar as far as I can tell, much less 20 dollars. It&#8217;s an outrage.
But it&#8217;s not one that Harris has ever addressed. Maybe she&#8217;ll explain her reasoning in my next movie. 
Instead, in this &#8220;radio town hall,&#8221; Harris predictably chose to focus on the &#8220;systemic&#8221; ideal of reparations. And here&#8217;s her plan in that regard:
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Vice President Kamala Harris says she&#39;s open to using taxpayer&#39;s money to pay racial reparations: &quot;It has to be studied, there&#39;s no question about that.&quot;
She adds: &quot;In terms of my immediate plan &#8230; as it relates to the economy &#8230; I grew up in the middle class&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HPjdHSgB29">pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29</a>
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She starts rambling again about growing up in a middle-class family or whatever, even though she didn&#8217;t actually grow up in a middle-class family, and even though (as always) it&#8217;s completely irrelevant to what she&#8217;s talking about. But already — just from this short, 30-second answer — it&#8217;s clear that Harris herself doesn&#8217;t even know what she&#8217;s saying. In response to that question about reparations, here&#8217;s what she just said: &#8220;It has to be studied. I&#8217;ve been very clear about that position.&#8221;
But she hasn&#8217;t been &#8220;very clear&#8221; about that position. In fact you can find multiple clips of Harris stating that she supports reparations. She doesn&#8217;t support a &#8220;study&#8221; of reparations, she actually thinks they should be paid out, in some form. Watch:
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&quot;There have to be some form of reparations&quot;
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So, this is, once again, a complete retreat from what Kamala Harris previously claimed to believe. We can add it to the list of policies that she supported back in California, but disavows now. That&#8217;s a list that includes decriminalizing illegal immigration, providing free healthcare to illegals, abolishing private health insurance, banning gas-powered cars, banning fracking, confiscating guns, and so on. Now &#8220;taxpayer-funded reparations&#8221; are on the chopping block, at least temporarily. Now Harris says that reparations must be &#8220;studied.&#8221;
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But that&#8217;s already happened too. And it happened in Harris&#8217; home state of California, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-reparations-grift-is-finally-collapsing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> earlier this year, all the way back in February. California established a &#8220;reparations task force.&#8221; That task force suggested that it would be a good idea to pay more than a million dollars to every descendant of a slave — which, altogether, would cost something like a trillion dollars. And then a bunch of lawmakers decided to reel that back in. They suggested that &#8220;reparations&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t consist of cash payments after all, after Gavin Newsom pointed out that the state is broke and doesn&#8217;t have the ability to pay anything. This was a whole conversation that lasted for years, in Harris&#8217; home state. But apparently she&#8217;s not aware of this conversation. She wants to keep having it, again and again, for the rest of time.
This is a dodge that&#8217;s meant to hide the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has already announced massive race-based reparations plans, and continues to do so. They started with billions of dollars in race-based aid to black farmers. They continued with various affirmative action programs in the government — which, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-shockingly-easy-test-has-been-deemed-racist-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> last week, now involves filing a lawsuit against any fire department or police department that declines to hire black people, regardless of how unqualified they are. And just the other day, Kamala Harris herself personally announced an openly racist policy to send money directly to black people, solely because they&#8217;re black. Here&#8217;s an image of the plan Kamala Harris&#8217; account posted on social media:
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Black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better. <a href="https://t.co/cUCdsvvYZ6">pic.twitter.com/cUCdsvvYZ6</a>
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Here are the key bullet points: &#8220;Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. &#8230; Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe. &#8230;. Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry.&#8221;
So, first of all, a loan that&#8217;s &#8220;fully forgivable&#8221; isn&#8217;t actually a loan. It&#8217;s a cash payout. The government is never going to see any of that money back. But even if this were just a loan, it&#8217;d still be a completely unconstitutional, overtly anti-white policy, to the point that it&#8217;s insane that any presidential candidate would ever put this in writing. This is a stage of desperation that has no parallel in American politics. Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign is now so underwater among black voters that they&#8217;re straight-up offering to hand them cash, and get them some weed.
Oh, and they&#8217;re going to &#8220;protect cryptocurrency investments so black men know their money is safe.&#8221; You can read that 20 times, and still have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about. Does Bitcoin work differently for black people? And why wouldn&#8217;t we want to make sure that everyone — not just black people — feel that their crypto is &#8220;safe&#8221;? No one knows. Kamala Harris doesn&#8217;t know. Imagine asking her to explain what that line means. She probably has no idea someone wrote that and posted it to her account.
What&#8217;s underlying all of these proposals isn&#8217;t just anti-white racism, although that&#8217;s a big part of it. This is also about Kamala Harris&#8217; deep and abiding disdain for America and its history. This alone makes her unqualified for the position she&#8217;s seeking. It&#8217;s the same reason she posted on social media the other day about &#8220;Indigenous People&#8217;s Day,&#8221; instead of Columbus Day. She&#8217;s previously gone on the record saying Columbus Day should no longer exist:
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Kamala Harris: I&#39;ll eliminate Columbus Day, make it Indigenous People&#39;s Day <a href="https://t.co/sM2Um8YrFF">pic.twitter.com/sM2Um8YrFF</a>
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We&#8217;re at a point in this country where the political Left and Right celebrate different national holidays. And we&#8217;re in this position because of politicians like Kamala Harris, who have nothing to offer. So, in the absence of any substance, she&#8217;s trying to destroy anything Americans have in common. She&#8217;s trying to revise America&#8217;s history, which is the go-to move for communist dictators throughout the ages. And for good measure, she&#8217;s looting the treasury for the benefit of her preferred racial groups. 
Fortunately for the Trump campaign, Kamala Harris isn&#8217;t capable of hiding any of this. Every time she sits down for an interview, Kamala Harris makes it very clear she doesn&#8217;t know anything. She also doesn&#8217;t have any idea what she&#8217;s saying. She wants to simultaneously signal that she&#8217;s backing off reparations, even as she proposes explicit payments to Americans on the basis of their skin color. This is the kind of incoherence that defines the last days of a desperate campaign. And it&#8217;s a sign that Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign — like so many other transparent train wrecks in modern politics — is on a path to a very public implosion in just a couple of weeks.

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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a formal apology on Thursday for the state&#8217;s &#8220;role&#8221; in slavery just one day after the governor vetoed two reparations bills.
Assembly Bill 3089, which Newsom signed, mandated that the state offer a formal apology along with memorializing the apology in a plaque on the state Capitol, the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-26/newsom-signs-formal-apology-for-california-role-in-slavery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Slavery was never legal in California after it became a state in 1850, but some argue that the state&#8217;s laws allowed slave owners to keep slaves even after the practice was outlawed in California&#8217;s 1849 Constitution.
“The State of California accepts responsibility for the role we played in promoting, facilitating, and permitting the institution of slavery, as well as its enduring legacy of persistent racial disparities,” Newsom said in a statement. “Building on decades of work, California is now taking another important step forward in recognizing the grave injustices of the past — and making amends for the harms caused.”
Democrat Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer added, “Healing can only begin with an apology. The State of California acknowledges its past actions and is taking this bold step to correct them, recognizing its role in hindering the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness for Black individuals through racially motivated punitive laws.”
The apology, however, doesn&#8217;t take any steps toward reparations as Democrats in California take heat from reparations advocates for the lack of progress on the issue, the LA Times reported. California was the first state in the nation to appoint a reparations task force.
On Wednesday, Newsom vetoed two reparations bills, one of which would have allowed black Californians to reclaim or be compensated for property that was taken by the government through eminent domain decades ago, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-eminent-domain-30e904077112f67690b402a7899120a8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
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Newsom said that if he had signed the bill, it would not have gone into full effect because lawmakers previously blocked another piece of legislation to create an agency tasked with reviewing reparations claims.
&#8220;I thank the author for his commitment to redressing past racial injustices. However, this bill tasks a nonexistent state agency to carry out its various provisions and requirements, making it impossible to implement,&#8221; Newsom stated.
The second reparations bill vetoed by Newsom would have expanded California&#8217;s Medicaid program to include medically supported food and nutrition. The governor argued that the bill &#8220;would result in significant and ongoing general fund costs for the Medi-Cal program that are not included in the budget.&#8221;

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The leftist New York City Council passed legislation on Thursday that pushes the largest city in the U.S. closer to a program that would hand out reparations to black residents.
The passage of two bills sponsored by Councilmembers Crystal Hudson and Farah Louis means NYC taxpayers will now fund a &#8220;Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Commission&#8221; along with a reparations task force, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-council-passes-slavery-reparations-legislation-yield-material-solutions-from-us-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The legislation will also require information signs to be posted at the site of New York City&#8217;s &#8220;first slave market,&#8221; according to a <a href="https://council.nyc.gov/press/2024/09/12/2692/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the city council.
&#8220;The legacy of slavery and systemic racism has impacted all facets of our society today, and it’s important that our city recognizes and takes steps to redress these longstanding harms,” NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said. &#8220;By creating new processes to fully examine the present-day impacts of injustices inflicted on Black New Yorkers and communities, we are advancing necessary efforts to consider potential remedies that can lead to healing and reconciliation.&#8221;
Hudson, who sponsored one of the bills, said the passage of her legislation is a major step in her &#8220;Black Agenda for New York City.&#8221; She added that &#8220;it is [her] hope that as the nation’s largest city––with the biggest municipal budget––our truth, healing, and reconciliation process will work; it will identify racist, anti-Black policies at the foundation of our city’s institutions, and it will yield material solutions to address these foundational cracks.&#8221;
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Louis, whose bill focused on starting a reparations task force, said, &#8220;Throughout my tenure in the Council, we have heard countless testimonies and conducted numerous hearings revealing the ongoing impacts of historical injustices. Black women, in particular, continue to be disadvantaged in both public and private sectors, facing systemic inequities that hinder their progress and well-being. Addressing these compounded injustices is essential to forming a more just municipality and society.&#8221;
Republican City Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli blasted the legislation, telling <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/11/us-news/nyc-council-expected-to-back-taskforce-to-study-reparations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the New York Post</a> that he would move out of the city before paying reparations.
&#8220;If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave I’d be happy to consider it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But until then, I am not paying a dime as a reparation for a harm I did not cause, nor condone, nor once participated in.&#8221;
Numerous cities — and the states of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-creating-task-force-to-consider-race-based-reparations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-budget-black-25a4e549c64fafde3f71f77c201b3030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> — have created reparations task forces in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death and the protests and riots in the summer of 2020. Many of the task forces have failed to yield any significant results, and two members of Detroit&#8217;s reparations task force <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/members-resign-from-detroits-reparations-task-force-over-lack-of-progress-no-broad-strategic-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a> last year after expressing frustration over the lack of &#8220;progress.&#8221;
Even though slavery was never legal in California, the state&#8217;s exploration into slavery reparations has seen the most success, with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a state budget in July that included <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-budget-black-25a4e549c64fafde3f71f77c201b3030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$12 million</a> for reparations legislation.
Vice President Kamala Harris has also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-now-mum-reparations-she-signaled-support-2020-white-house-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed her support</a> for reparations, saying in 2019, &#8220;I think there has to be some form of reparations, and we could discuss what that is, but look, we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow.&#8221;
She also said as a candidate in 2019 that if elected president, she would sign a bill that would provide reparations to the descendants of African slaves. The Harris campaign has not said if the Democratic nominee still supports that position.

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Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) compared former President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters — particularly evangelical Christians — to segregationists and slavery advocates during a recent interview, suggesting that they must be answering to a different God.
Warnock joined host David Remnick for a lengthy conversation that aired over the weekend on &#8220;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/senator-raphael-warnock-on-americas-moral-and-spiritual-battle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New Yorker Radio Hour</a>,&#8221; and Warnock insisted that the political fight against Trump was also a &#8220;moral and spiritual&#8221; battle.
It was Remnick who raised the question about pro-Trump evangelicals and what he called a &#8220;movement&#8221; among them to call for becoming a &#8220;Christian Nation with laws instituting Christian principles.&#8221;
&#8220;The enormous number of people of earnest faith, who look at someone who lives the way he does, who’s now been convicted of multiple felonies, how do you analyze that?&#8221; Remnick asked.
Warnock responded by suggesting that evangelical Trump supporters were no different from the Christians who had at one time supported either slavery or segregation.
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&#8220;Well, there were a number of Christians, a whole lot of Christians, who were pro-slavery. And, there are a whole lot of Christians who were pro-segregation,&#8221; Warnock explained, adding, &#8220;There’s a recurring line by Martin Luther King Jr in his letter from the Birmingham jail. He says it a few times, and in his speeches — he says, &#8216;I am so disappointed in the American church. What kind of people worship there? Who really is their God?&#8217; That’s the question for this moment. &#8216;Who really is their God?&#8217; Particularly when we’ve been told by a lot of folks on the far right for years that their focus is family values.&#8221;
Warnock went on to attack evangelicals for their position on &#8220;matters of private morality,&#8221; such as sex and gender issues.
&#8220;And those same people now are lined up behind Donald Trump,&#8221; Warnock kept hammering the point. &#8220;A man who has, had several marriages who found himself caught up in the crosshairs of, his decision to having an affair with a porn star, and these same folks who raised these issues around family values and private morality are the ones who are speaking as if he is the Messiah of God. I think the question that Doctor King asked all those years ago is especially relevant at this moment: &#8216;Who really is their God?'&#8221;

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A Democratic lawmaker proposed exempting black people from paying taxes as a form of reparations last week.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas said on an episode of “The Black Lawyers Podcast” that a celebrity – she could not remember who – inspired her to look at exempting black people from paying taxes, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/democrat-congresswoman-suggests-black-people-be-exempt-from-paying-taxes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>.
“I don’t know that that’s … necessarily a bad idea,” Crockett remembered thinking when she heard the proposal. “One of the things they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time because … that puts money back in your pocket.”
Crockett said that a tax exemption may be a more palatable reparations solution to get behind rather than “actually giving out dollars.” The shortfall is that the proposal would only help those black people who are currently paying taxes.
“If you do the no tax thing, for people that are already, say, struggling and not paying taxes in the first place — ” Crockett said.
Progressive Democrats have backed reparations as a way to pay black Americans for the United States’ history of slavery for years, though the proposal has failed to gain popular support. Even in deep blue California, nearly 60% of voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-60-of-california-voters-oppose-cash-reparations-for-slavery-poll">said</a> they opposed such a policy. Just 28% of California voters support it, according to a September poll by the University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
Elected Democrats have continued to push the policy, however. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul in December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-creating-task-force-to-consider-race-based-reparations">signed</a> legislation creating a commission to study the issue. The bill set forth a nine-member committee tasked with examining “the institution of slavery” and making “determinations regarding compensation.”
In January, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) called for reparations in a post on X. Bush said that the United States “owes” the descendants of slaves.
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“Our country owes – OWES – a debt to the descendants of enslaved Black people, not just for slavery, but for what followed, like Black Codes, red lining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cori-bush-demands-reparations-gets-a-virtual-earful-instead">said</a>. “That’s why I introduced my Reparations NOW resolution. This country has an obligation.”
Aside from its unpopularity with Americans, reparations have faced other hurdles, such as questions over legality and who would qualify for the special treatment. Critics have said that such a policy would be racist against Americans who had nothing to do with the historic racism against black people.

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“Anti-racist” activist Ibram X. Kendi on Friday declined Daily Wire host Matt Walsh&#8217;s offer to debate the topic of world slavery following a viral exchange the pair had over its history.
Kendi last week accused Walsh of engaging in &#8220;White savior&#8221; rhetoric after Walsh noted that white people did not invent slavery &#8220;but were the first to abolish it.&#8221; The racial activist&#8217;s vague reasoning for declining the debate offer relied on &#8220;many historians&#8221; supposedly proving Walsh&#8217;s claims wrong, though little other information was given.
&#8220;Kendi declines my invitation to debate the history of slavery because, he says, &#8216;many historians&#8217; have already said that he&#8217;s right,&#8221; Walsh said on X on Monday, quoting a post from Kendi.
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Kendi declines my invitation to debate the history of slavery because, he says, &quot;many historians&quot; have already said that he&#39;s right. <a href="https://t.co/AutVKNw8O9">https://t.co/AutVKNw8O9</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1757049102813020268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The exchange started after Walsh posted a response last Tuesday to a post on X that claimed, “Slavery is white history. How we survived it is black history.”
“Slavery is world history,” Walsh reacted. “White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn’t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981.”
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Slavery is world history. White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#39;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981. <a href="https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt">https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1754861562987196517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Kendi was apparently irked by the post &#8212; which has been viewed more than 6.8 million times &#8212; and replied to Walsh, “The ultimate White savior statement.”
In turn, Walsh offered to debate Kendi on the topic, posting, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say [Ibram X. Kendi]?
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Why don&#39;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ibramxk</a>?
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Days later, Kendi told Walsh he would not debate him because it &#8220;would be a huge waste of my time&#8221; and accused Walsh of &#8220;producing propaganda about the superior greatness of White people for White consumption.&#8221;
&#8220;Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong,&#8221; Kendi wrote. &#8220;It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you. What is factually right and factually wrong doesn’t seem to matter to you. You seem intent on producing propaganda about the superior greatness of White people for White consumption.&#8221;
The Critical Race Theory (CRT) guru then suggested Walsh was wrong because of his supposed implied emphasis, not necessarily the facts Walsh stated.
&#8220;Your propaganda, this time, can be boiled down to three ideas: (1) White enslavers are hardly responsible for slavery in the Americas—but White people *are* responsible for the global abolition of slavery. (2) White enslavers are hardly responsible for enslaving Black people, but they are responsible for saving Black people from slavery. (3) The world and the historian should be praising White people for abolishing slavery and saving Black people,&#8221; Kendi posted. &#8220;The ultimate White savior statement.&#8221;
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Many historians have already explained why your statements about slavery are wrong. It would be a huge waste of my time repeating what has already been shared with you.
What is factually right and factually wrong doesn’t seem to matter to you. You seem intent on producing…
&mdash; Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1755988813384405064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Kendi, who gained prominence after George Floyd died in 2020, developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Kendi would receive a $625,000 five-year grant for research. Kendi, who says that America is systemically racist, often charges steep fees for speaking engagements.
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In 2020, Kendi also started an education center at Boston University that focused on “anti-racist research.” Last year, however, Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> around 20 staffers, and the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-x-kendis-antiracist-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would launch an inquiry into the center after complaints about its culture.
Since publishing “How to Be an Antiracist,” Kendi has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. He has also faced criticism for his book “Antiracist Baby,” a children’s picture book that introduces children to the concept of anti-racism.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report. 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-challenges-crt-proponent-ibram-x-kendi-to-live-debate-over-slavery-after-viral-social-media-exchange" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh Challenges CRT Proponent Ibram X. Kendi To Live Debate Over Slavery After Viral Social Media Exchange</a>

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Sunny Hostin of ABC’s “The View,” who recently discovered that her ancestors were slave owners, insisted that she still deserves slave reparations.
Hostin was <a href="https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/far-and-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> on PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” by host Henry Louis Gates Jr.
He informed her that her great-great-great grandfather, born in 1824, was the son of a merchant who was likely involved in the slave trade. Her great-great-great grandfather owned at least one human being, Gates Jr. stated. That side of the family came from Spain.
&#8220;Wow. I’m a little bit in shock; I just always thought of myself as Puerto Rican,&#8221; Hostin, whose husband comes from Spain, responded. &#8220;You know, half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think I was a – my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.&#8221;
“So how are you feeling, my friend?” Gates Jr. asked.
“I think it’s actually pretty interesting that my husband and I have shared roots, so I do appreciate that,” she answered. “And I think it’s great for our children to know this information. I guess it’s a fact of life that this is how some people made their living, on the backs of others.”
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The View host Sunny Hostin is a staunch proponent of slavery reparations.
She went on PBS to explore her ancestry.
Turns out, she is the descendant of slave-owners from Spain who owned Africans.
This was her reaction when she found out: <a href="https://t.co/yFBgjMOSGc">pic.twitter.com/yFBgjMOSGc</a>
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On Thursday’s episode of The View, Hostin spoke of the revelation regarding her family, stating, “At first I was deeply disappointed.”
Co-host Joy Behar chimed in, “This slave thing, it’s a bummer.”
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“It’s a bummer,” Hostin repeated, then continued, “I still believe in reparations, by the way. So, y&#8217;all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I&#8217;m a white girl and I don&#8217;t deserve reparations! &#8230; I still believe in reparations. I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice.”
Hostin spoke of her mother, saying, “Her race is white, She’s European,” adding of her mother’s reaction to the news of her ancestry: “She was deeply disappointed. She actually cried about it. And then she said maybe that&#8217;s why I have been so connected to black culture because it&#8217;s an atonement in my spirit. And I received that. I also found out – and there were slaves on both sides of our family, mother’s and father’s. But we are seven percent indigenous Puerto Rican!”
In October 2022, Hostin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-host-sunny-hostin-fumes-being-called-racist-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “People need to start just looking up what the definition of racism is. It’s really a power dynamic. It’s not just about the color of your skin, and I think when you talk about those who committed crimes that owe reparations, those are the people who committed the atrocities of slavery, who stole land, who killed indigenous people.”
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Daily Wire host Matt Walsh challenged “anti-racist” activist Ibram X. Kendi to a debate after the leftist author said Walsh’s take on slavery was “the ultimate White savior statement.”
Kendi was irked by Walsh’s response on Tuesday to a post on X that claimed, &#8220;Slavery is white history. How we survived it is black history.&#8221;
“Slavery is world history,” Walsh wrote. “White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#8217;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981.”
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Slavery is world history. White people did not invent it, and were not the first to practice it, but were the first to abolish it. The last place in the world to still have legal slavery was Africa. It wasn&#39;t fully legally abolished on the continent until 1981. <a href="https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt">https://t.co/ZfTvdLXydt</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1754861562987196517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Walsh was applauded by numerous people for his take, including X owner Elon Musk, who simply replied, “True.” Walsh’s post, which was viewed more than six million times, triggered a huge response, including from Kendi, who <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk/status/1755249100532891764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quote-tweeted</a> Walsh’s statement and described it as “The ultimate White savior statement.”
While Kendi’s post was slammed by numerous social media users — including the popular X accounts of The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry and End Wokeness — Walsh replied to the Critical Race Theory apologist’s comment with an offer.
“Why don&#8217;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>. “You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say @ibramxk?”
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Why don&#39;t we have a conversation live on camera about this issue? You can explain to me in person why my statements about slavery are wrong. What do you say <a href="https://twitter.com/ibramxk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ibramxk</a>?
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1755423531549024571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The author of “How To Be an Antiracist” has yet to respond publicly to Walsh’s offer for an on-camera debate. Kendi, who gained prominence after George Floyd died in 2020, developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Kendi would receive a $625,000 five-year grant for research. Kendi, who says that America is systemically racist, often charges steep fees for speaking engagements.
In 2020, Kendi also started an education center at Boston University that focused on “anti-racist research.” Last year, however, Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> around 20 staffers, and the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-university-announces-inquiry-into-ibram-x-kendis-antiracist-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would launch an inquiry into the center after complaints about its culture.
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Since publishing “How To Be an Antiracist,” Kendi has drawn criticism for promoting the theory that all racial disparities are due to racism. He has also faced criticism for his book “Antiracist Baby,” a children’s picture book that introduces children to the concept of anti-racism.
Leif Le Mahieu and Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

Matt Walsh Challenges CRT Proponent Ibram X. Kendi To Live Debate Over Slavery After Viral Social Media Exchange

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