Bill O'Reilly here Friday, June 19, 2020, you are listening to the O'Reilly update.

Here's what's happening today in America.

This week, something very important happened.

The reparations for slavery movement gained traction.

Now I believe as I have stated, it is very unfair to the American taxpayer, all of us,

all right, because we're going to have to pay for reparations.

I think that's brutally unfair.

But others disagree.

Earlier this week, I talked to a guy in Atlanta, Dr. Rashad Richie, about reparations.

Once you start down that road of historical justification for wrongs, it never ends, but more importantly,

and I know you've considered this point.

You may not agree with it, but I know you've considered it.

If you do this, you divide Americans, and you can say lineage, you can say it, but you divide

them by skin color.

You have a specialized group that is now getting money from the taxpayers, all of the taxpayers,

for historical injustices.

The current taxpayer may have lost ancestors fighting for the freedom of slaves.

They may have lost ancestors doing all kinds of positive things.

Not going to go for it, Doc, you're going to divide the nation, and you're going to create

more racial animus.

So the key element here is that the races will be divided, African Americans, and everyone

else, not just whites.

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