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So everybody, Mark Levin here, our number 877-3813811-877-3813811.

Slavery is the most awful, awful event that occurred in this country.

I'll be damned if I'm paying one penny in reparations for many reasons.

I had nothing to do with it. My ancestors weren't even here.

In fact, the vast majority of people who live in this country were neither slaves or, excuse me, were neither the progeny of slaves or slaveholders.

This is a scam. This is a scam. It is the latest push by the left to defy this country to make it impossible for us to ever come together.

Being pushed by the left and the Democrat Party once again, apparently somebody testified today and used my line and I think that's good in their house, which had hearings on reparations.

If reparations are going to be paid, they're going to be paid, I think, by the Democrat Party.

But this whole thing about reparations is a scam. It's just another way for billions and billions of dollars to be directed by the left to people who haven't earned it.

I really don't know of any ethnic group or racial group. If you go way, way back, that hasn't faced incredible hardships.

Look at the Jews and the slavery that took place and the genocide that took place and you can pick virtually any group. But slavery is particularly pernicious and it was in this country.

In fact, it was so pernicious that half the country rose up to smite it. Many, many families said their fathers, their husbands, their grandfathers to war during the Civil War and they never came back.

Over 700,000 casualties. The worst war in American history, terms of casualties, one battle after another.

This country has paid a deep price for slavery.

The slaves and their families paid a horrible price in an order to end it. What took place? Many, many, many people paid a horrible price.

But the Democrat Party keeps pushing this. What else do they have? Racism, socialism, open borders. Do they have anything positive? That they have anything that truly points to the future?

I don't intend to pay one damn penny in reparations to anybody. Period. Period. I see Cory Booker's out there pushing reparations and attacking Joe Biden and we'll get to Joe soon.

I really want Joe Biden to be their nominee because he's such an idiot, but that's a whole nother story. Cory Booker didn't say a damn thing yesterday about AOC and her anti-Semitic comments did she?

Not a damn thing when she accused America today, Americans, of putting illegal alien children in concentration camps. He didn't say a thing, none of that offended Cory Booker.

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