Obama: Reparations Are ‘Justified’ But ‘White Resistance’ Made It Counter-Productive to Support as President

‘There’s not much question that the wealth of this country, the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it — but a large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves’

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OBAMA: “So if you ask me theoretically, are reparations justified? The answer is yes. There’s not much question, right, that the wealth of this country, the power of this country, was built in significant part, not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it, but a large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves.”

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