House Democrats thought they had an easy issue for rallying the black vote: bringing up reparations for slavery as an election issue and holding congressional hearings. What better way to rally coveted black voters than to hold out a big pile of reparations money along with lot of talk about victimization derived from evils committed in the past?
It didn’t work out the way they thought it would.
A large number of Black intellectuals and pundits weighed in, not just at the hearing, but on Twitter and beyond, making a hash of the Democrat “narrative.”
Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes, who’s a Black Democrat, argued in testimony that the whole thing was insulting to black people and a distraction from the issues Black people face today. That got him booed by Democrats for what’s figuratively called “wandering off the plantation.”
Seems he didn’t make either them or their obsession with slavery reparations look good.
His remarks echo those of prominent Black economist Glenn Loury, who has been noting these uncomfortable facts for decades, saying it’s a waste of time to put a price on slavery.
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