THE GREENSBORO TIMES 13
Senator Sanders Pushed for Reparations During a Forum on Black America – Financial Juneteenth
BY VICTOR OCHIENG Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders was in Minneapolis when
he got a little frustrated while attempting to utter the words “Afri- can American.” “Say ‘black!” a member of the audience shouted. A flustered Sanders, who was responding to a question on reparations for slavery, responded that he had said ‘black’ 50 times and that this would be the 51st time.
Neighborhoods Organizing for Change was hosting the Black America Forum. It was looked upon as an opportunity for mar- ginalized communities to have a conversation with the presidential candidate.
Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Representative introduced Sand-
ers who attempted to give an abridged version of his stump speech while joining residents of the North Minneapolis neighborhood and six local black activists at a table.
The audience had Native Americans including the famous co-
founder of the American Indian Movement, Clyde Bellcourt, who had a chance to discuss economic problems and native issues.
Sanders was then pushed hard on the issue of reparations, specifical- ly for the enslavement of black Americans. His opposition to reparations had caused furor earlier in the year after Ta-Nehisi Coates, an Atlantic writer, put it in print.
Sanders was now compelled to address the issue directly after a woman stood and accused him of fearing to utter the word ‘black.’ Flint, Michigan was the topic and both the questioner and Sanders shared the same feelings that marginalized communities faced higher pollution rates.
She pressed Sanders to talk specifically about the reparations of black people, without the usual inclusion of all the other people of color.
She went on to reveal that her son suffered from asthma and other various ailments because her home is near to a garbage burring site. Her
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point was that black Americans deserved reparations for slavery and all the effects that followed.
Sanders slumped back to his overall view that economic inequality
united the poor. And added that it was not just black, it covered everybody and the time was long overdue to begin investing in the poor communities.
He expressed the need to invest in the communities that are in most need, noting that an example of such communities included black Ameri- cans given 35% of black children lived in poverty while 51% of black American youths are unemployed. That statement earned him applause.
The executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, Anthony Newby noticed challenges in black American success and sug- gested there was a need to address a direct plan to invest in the black com- munity for success to be attainable
Guilford County Board of Elections March 15, 2016 Primary Election
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