Austin Offscript

So it may not, we may not have been in the fields, but we were still suffering the economic disparity of impact from policies that were hundreds of years old.

Yeah, it was from Jubilee's Roundtable.

And that video, that particular clip has 1.5 million views now on my Instagram.

Wow.

It's still getting comments as we're doing this debate right now that we speak.

So, yeah, that clip was viral.

But, I mean, Bo, I'll give you the floor to open up.

Open up.

Because the economic impact of slavery and Jim Crow still has a net negative impact that is demonstrably provable for black Americans in this country today.

When you look at the, for example, and I have some notes that I've already written down here, federal policy discrimination going as far back as just as close to the 20th century, redlining via

homeownership lines of credit, federal housing agency maps systematically denied black families access to mortgages, homeownership, wealth building through property, GI Bill benefits were disproportionately inaccessible to black veterans, and median white household wealth today is six to 10 times that of black households, and that varies by data set per year, but the homeownership gap remains large by 30 percentage points, and these are not random disparities.

They track historically enforced exclusion.

And the fact of the matter is that the black people in this country did essentially free labor for 246 years via slavery.

That was then compounded by another 100 plus years of racial discrimination codified purely on genetics.

And black people contributed over $233 billion again as slaves to the United States economy that we were never recompensed for.

And I couldn't call myself a conservative, a Republican, anything of the sort without- You're not, right?

Well, you can say that, but tell me what a Republican is.

Well, let me define... Let me first set a baseline.

When I define reparations, I am not talking about...

getting what Dr. William Darity said that black Americans would be entitled to, which is $250,000.