In today’s article, I discuss Kamala Harris and her support for racial reparations.

In 2019, Kamala Harris appeared at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention. Kamala delivered a well-received speech at the end of which Sharpton came up and asked her a question. “I know you’ve already taken the appropriate position, but in the area of reparations for the descendants of Africans who have been enslaved, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has proposed a bill to form a commission to study how to do reparations. If you are elected president, would you sign that bill if it came across your desk?”

“When I am elected president, I will sign that bill,” Kamala replied to thunderous applause and black power fist salutes.

The bill, H.R.40, blamed high crime rates and unemployment on slavery and discrimination, and set out to “establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery” and determine how “any form of compensation to the descendants of enslaved African is calculated.”

The commission would examine, among other things, the “lingering negative effects of slavery on living African Americans and society.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee had famously referred to herself as a “freed slave.”

You can see the video of that exchange here.

“When I am elected president, I will sign that bill.”

Watch Kamala Harris promise Al Sharpton to sign racial reparations commission bill pic.twitter.com/Zj22gHnvFM

— Daniel Greenfield – “Hang Together or Separately” (@Sultanknish) August 28, 2024

Now her campaign is playing coy about her current position of writing checks to people based on their race.

The Harris campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment on her current position on reparations.

As usual, Kamala either backs away from her past extreme views or simply refuses to discuss them. But we know what she believed and wanted to do, and it’s a safe bet that nothing has changed.