Democrats reinvigorate the debate over racial reparations for black Americans.

Joe Biden talks up his radical agenda while being unable to sing happy birthday,

and we examine how to fight wokeism in the classroom.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Well, folks, yesterday was MLK Day, and that was an excuse for people on the left to start talking

about racial reparations once again. San Francisco, apparently, is now considering a regime

of racial reparations. San Francisco's reparations committee has now proposed a $5 million

payment to each black longtime resident, as well as total debt forgiveness of like all debt based on what?

I'm unaware that anybody who's alive today was a slave in the United States.

If so, then we should probably find out about that.

I'm unaware that the members of the San Francisco taxpaying community were slaveholders

at any point in their lives or in the lives of their parents or in the lives of their

grandparents. However, that is not stopping San Francisco from talking up race reparations. According to

Fox News, San Francisco's Reparations Committee has proposed paying each black long-time resident,

$5 million, by the California was a free state when it was originally admitted to the Union,

and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of systemic repression

faced by the local black community. The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee,

which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for black residents,

released its draft report last month to address reparations, not for slavery, but to, quote,

address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate black people in San Francisco

by upholding

and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery. So presumably these would be policies of,

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