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On the recordFebruary 16, 2021
I can't imagine a more divisive, polarizing, or unjust measure that one that would by government force require people who never owned slaves to pay reparations to those who never were slaves based not on anything they had done, but because of what race they were born.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

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Mike Johnson criticizes reparations as unjust and divisive.

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