Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno asked 'where are the reparations' for white people who 'died to free Black people.'
The Republican candidate, who immigrated to the U.S. from Colombia as a child, praised a number of white and largely slave-owning Founding Fathers for winning the Revolutionary War, before saying that the"same group" went on to"free Black people."George Washington
," said Moreno."This group of people took on the largest empire in history. They said no, we will not stand for this, and won. That same group of people later, white people, died to free Black people." "It's never happened in human history before, but it happened here in America," he continued."That's not talked about in schools very much, is it? They make it sound like America is a racist, broken country. Name another country that did that, that freed slaves, that died to do that."
A group of Civil War reenactors are pictured posing as Union soldiers during an event in Leesburg, Virginia, on August 4, 2001. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno suggested this week that white descendants of Union soldiers who"died to free Black people" should be paid reparations.Moreno urged his supporters to avoid being"politically correct" after suggesting that discussions on reparations should focus on white people.
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