At a town hall Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said she would support a “full-blown” congressional discussion about reparations for the descendants of former slaves. “America was founded on principles of liberty and freedom and on the backs of slave labor,” the 2020 presidential candidate said at the event. “This is a stain on America, and we’re not going to fix that, we’re not going to change that until we address it head on, directly.”She added: “I believe it’s time to start the national, full-blown conversation about reparations in this country.”Warren made the remarks at a CNN presidential town hall at Jackson State University in Mississippi. She said she directly supported a House bill that would create a congressional commission to develop proposals for reparations to African-Americans descended from slaves, although Warren failed to directly say if she would support any financial payments at this time.

Source: Huffington Post March 19, 2019 05:03 UTC