This Is Why We REALLY Need Reparations
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
5.0 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. |
| 0:11.0 | I am Karen Hunter and I am pro reparations. |
| 0:15.0 | I am. |
| 0:15.9 | I have been for a long time on the radio. |
| 0:18.7 | I have talked about the case for reparations, |
| 0:21.6 | Tanahasi Coates, which I think is one of the best breakdowns. Randall Robinson, |
| 0:26.9 | Randall Robinson wrote about reparations. And recently on the radio in 2026, I was going down |
| 0:33.9 | the list of domestic policies in the United States of America as it relates to black people |
| 0:38.8 | and an epiphany happened and I'm yes reparations for enslavement reparations for crack cocaine |
| 0:46.6 | for heroin for the willful decimation of black communities in this country to fund wars |
| 0:52.8 | and to build this inequity that we're still |
| 0:55.5 | fighting through. So recently I discussed this on the air and this is the conversation I had with |
| 1:00.9 | you. Take a listen. Yesterday I said something that was profound to me. And when I said it, |
| 1:06.8 | I didn't know like I got this feeling. I was like, this feels right. And it was towards the end of the show. And I was talking about it. I didn't know. Like I got this feeling. I was like, this feels right. And it was towards the end of the show. |
| 1:12.6 | And I was talking about Iran Contra and war on drugs. And I was like, reparations. |
| 1:21.0 | There's a conversation to be had around reparations that we aren't having. And it's, yes, slavery. |
| 1:27.3 | Yes. But I suspect if there is reparations, that we aren't having. And it's, yes, slavery, yes. |
| 1:28.3 | But I suspect if there is reparations for slavery, much like the reparations to the |
| 1:33.6 | indigenous people, they're going to be a whole lot of white folk in line for the check. |
| 1:37.7 | Okay, everybody's going to have a drop of black blood. |
| 1:40.5 | I promise you, everybody's going to be tied. |
| 1:42.2 | You're going to be surprised how many people can trace their lineage to enslavement who don't look like us, who are palm colored and |
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