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Steve King: “We've got to stand up at some point and say, we're not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States congress.…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2010
We've got to stand up at some point and say, we're not going to pay slavery reparations in the United States congress. That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. No one's filing that claim.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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Steve King argues against payments to African-American farmers, equating them to slavery reparations.

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