Boos erupt after GOP lawmaker calls reparations ‘unconstitutional,’ meeting called back to order
June 19, 2019 | Tom Tillison
Understanding well the power of pop culture and the impact celebrities can have on pushing destructive agenda items like “restorative justice,†the Democrat-led House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties presented their star witnesses at Wednesday’s hearing.
Hard-left actor Danny Glover and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates were rolled out to present testimony as Democrat members on the panel set out to “examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.â€
This being progressive code for slavery reparations — the issue is on the radar of some of the more radical 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Glover, 72, an admirer of deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the socialist Venezuelan dictator who died in 2013, testified that he is the great-grandson of a slave who was freed by the emancipation proclamation — the actor said he met his great-grandmother as a child.
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