Beto O’Rourke says white Americans need to get behind reparations before he can ‘quantify’ them

Published June 15, 2019 10:50pm ET



CHARLESTON, S.C. — Beto O’Rourke faced pressure to explain his plan for reparations if he is elected is president, a day after voicing support for making amends to black Americans for centuries of slavery.

Yet as the Democrat attempts to court black voters in South Carolina, he was dodgy on details, choosing instead to kick the question to a future date when he said white Americans better understand the history of enslavement in the U.S.

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