Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker on Wednesday tore into his fellow White House hopefuls for the way they are talking about making amends to black Americans for more than two centuries of slavery.

“Can I tell you why I’m frustrated and disappointed by this reparations conversation? It’s because it’s being reduced to just a box to check on a presidential list when this is so much more of a serious conversation,” the New Jersey Democrat, 49, said during a CNN town hall in South Carolina, an early-voting state with a prominent minority community.