New less racist highways, checks to keep Black people just above the poverty line and high-speed internet access. That will reverse decades of the systemic racism, Biden alleges, for sure.
If there has been a trail of broken promises, Democrats are the ones who broke them. Over my lifetime, Republicans haven’t had much to say to Black America, except for a few heroes such as Jack Kemp, who tried to bridge the divide between Republicans and African Americans.
It is time for Republicans to say something, and I think Donald Trump may be the messenger who could break through Republican norms to say something this daring and counterintuitive: Let’s give the descendants of slavery a radical Republican version of reparations.
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