Kamala Harris Torches GOP When Asked About Slavery At Black Journalists Event

Vice President Kamala Harris ripped Republicans when an NABJ moderator asked about her support for a commission to study slavery reparations. Harris participated in a panel Q&A hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia on Tuesday. The moderators were Eugene Daniels, Gerren Keith Gaynor, and Tonya Mosley. When Gaynor asked the VP if she would consider executive action on the commission that’s been languishing in committee for years, Harris was sure to rip Republicans like the ones who supported teaching that slaves “benefitted” from the training they received while enslaved: GERREN KEITH GAYNOR: I want to switch gears to racial justice, Madam Vice President. Last month, you eulogized Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Yeah. Jackson Lee’s signature bill, one of a few was H.R. 40, which would create a commission to study the history of U.S. slavery and study the issue of reparations. She introduced H.R. 40 every session of Congress, taking up the mantle from Congressman John Conyers. This is a bill that you have co-sponsored as a U.S. senator. Yet this has, despite the fact that this has been similar commissions have been created on the state level and on the local level is yet...