Kamala Harris said reparations are a task for Congress

The claim: Kamala Harris said she’d use executive action, Congress on reparations if elected president A Sept. 17 Instagram video (direct link, archive link) shows Vice President Kamala Harris speaking about the longterm effects of slavery, housing discrimination and the Jim Crow era in the U.S. “We need to speak truth about it, and we need to speak truth about it in a way that is about driving solutions,” Harris says during the 90-second clip. “And frankly I think that we, you know, and part of that is studying it to figure out exactly what we need to do.” On-screen text in the post reads, “Kamala Harris says she would use executive action and ask Congress to ‘study reparations’ if elected President.” The post was liked more than 2,000 times in five days. More from the Fact-Check Team: How we pick and research claims | Email newsletter | Facebook page Our rating: Partly false The post inaccurately describes Harris’ comments in a September interview with the National Association of Black Journalists. The full video and transcript of the event show she did not say she would use executive action to study reparation proposals for Black Americans. She suggested the issue...