Presidential candidates that skew more to the left are trying to differentiate themselves from Democrat incumbent, President Joe Biden. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who’s running as an independent, made an appeal to the far-left by showing support for reparations for the black community.
“During Jim Crow, Black banks, businesses, hospitals, schools, and farms were targeted for destruction,” Kennedy Jr. says on his campaign website, according to the New York Post. “Racists knew that without these, the Black community had no chance of building wealth. We must set federal dollars aside to rebuild Black infrastructure.”
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The Post reported the following:
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.
Reparations has been a hot-button topic in political races for years, with the left typically being the people and the Democrats being the party that leans more toward instituting such a practice.
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