By Diana Glebova
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supports issuing reparations to the black community, making him the most prominent 2024 candidate to favor the controversial policy meant to atone for slavery and legal segregation.
President Biden has largely been silent on the issue, leading to frustration among the far left.
Kennedy — who ditched his Democratic primary challenge to Biden earlier this month — has spoken out in favor of issuing federal dollars to “rebuild black infrastructure” like banks and businesses, and as well as “direct redress payments or tax credits” rather than no-strings cash giveaways.
“Communities that were specifically targeted for destruction need to be specifically targeted for repair,” he states on his campaign website.
“During Jim Crow, Black banks, businesses, hospitals, schools, and farms were targeted for destruction. Racists knew that without these, the Black community had no chance of building wealth. We must set federal dollars aside to rebuild Black infrastructure.”
“These programs complement direct redress payments or tax credits to the descendants of the victims of Jim Crow and other victims of persecution,” the pledge continues. “RFK Jr. will find ways to offer this redress that are legal, fair, and win the approval of Americans of all races.”
Kennedy has also said he supports establishing development projects like the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, which his father helped found in 1967 along with then-Mayor John Lindsay, and then-Sen. Jacob Javits.
Those actions are “less likely to contribute to polarization between blacks and whites because it benefits everybody. Everybody, even people who are Trumpers … everybody wants business to work and to flourish,” Kennedy Jr. told YouTuber Math Hoffa in a July interview.
The 69-year-old son of the late attorney general and senator from New York has courted traditional Republican and Democratic voters, raising concerns the environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist may take votes away from both major party nominees next November.
Reparations for black “infrastructure?”
I remember after the “Rodney King riots, (1992) all the destruction of homes and businesses.
Magic Johnson used his own money and good name to get others to invest.
He rebuilt dozens of malls and theaters in black areas by 1996.
Areas that the lefties were lamenting as becoming “food deserts” because no one wanted to invest – again – after losing everything in the riots.
The web is full of photos and videos of how these malls and theaters look now.
They were ruined by the next riots and not even Magic would rebuild them.
Now, bleeding heart RFK Jr., wants to try it – but with OUR tax money.
Same thing would happen.
Black business areas are one riot away from ruin.
RFK Jr., seemed smarter than that, but I guess not.
He loves history.
Might want to study some about Magic Johnson’s reparations attempts in the past.
Standard Democrat, trots from the closet, different than his uncle, what can your country do for you. Step right up get your gimmes!
A dangling carrot that will never reach the mouths of anyone. Pandering for black votes that have seismically shifted to Trump. Most blacks have become aware of the deception the democrat party has employed over the past several decades.
Prior to FDR and LBJ(great society) a large percentage of blacks were Republican and voted Republican.
Seems as though that is beginning to become a new norm.
Prior to that LBJ had more fathers in the homes, single mothers were a shameful thing.
Doesn’t sound much different from Trump’s Opportunity Zones, which worked well, much more practical.
This is EXACTLY why I wrote my book, Reparations And America’s 2nd Civil War. The fictional story even revolves around Presidential candidates.
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RFK Jr. quietly changes stance on reparations after major blowback
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