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The Benjamin Dixon Show

Episode 675 | The Establishment is Trying to Out-Flank Sanders on Reparations and He isn't Helping

The Benjamin Dixon Show

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6861 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Bernie Sanders still doesn't support reparations. This is 2016 all over again except the political establishment has head-faked to the Left of Sanders as though they actually support reparations. They don't. But Sanders has been so bold on other issues that it is frustrating to see him be *pragmatic* only when it comes to reparations.

Let's discuss.

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0:12.0

The question is what do we mean by reparations?

0:16.0

I mean, it seems to me a lot of people mean a lot of different things.

0:20.0

To my mind, it means that we have to deal with the fact that there is enormous disparity

0:27.0

between the black community and the white community and that issue has got to be addressed

0:32.2

and I've indicated to you some of the ways that I think it should be addressed.

0:35.0

Well, I think they mean some type of economic empowerment to the African descendants of slaves.

0:39.0

What does I mean economic empowerment?

0:41.0

I just talked about the fact that I would do my best to

0:44.1

change the banking system to make sure that we end racism that we pay attention

0:48.1

to distress communities that people get the loans they need to make the investments they need.

0:54.0

You're about free cash payouts?

0:56.0

No.

0:57.0

How much you want to do you agree with it?

1:00.0

Well, I first of all, you mean just a check to every African-American?

1:03.5

Well, and there's a check every Native American who were nearly wiped out when the settlers first came there.

1:08.6

I think the way we go forward is to build America together.

1:12.4

There are distress communities, white communities,

1:15.2

there are distressed Latino communities. Right now what you have is a government owned

1:20.0

and controlled by big money interest, but worries about Wall Street and the drug companies we're going to translate. and

1:23.0

the drug companies, we're going to change that.

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