Former NFL running back Herschel Walker testified during a House hearing this week that black people should not receive reparations for slavery.
“My religion teaches togetherness. Reparations teach separation,” Walker, a black man, said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. “Slavery ended over 130 years ago. How can a father … ask his son to spend prison time for a crime he committed?”
Walker added that “black power” is used to “create white guilt” and specifically took issue with where the money would come from and how eligibility would be determined.
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“Reparations, where would the money come from?” Walker said. “Does it come from all the other races except the black taxpayers? Who is black? What percentage of black must you be to receive reparations? Do you go to 23andMe or a DNA test to determine the percentage of blackness? Some American ancestors just came to this country 80 years ago. Their ancestor wasn’t even here during slavery. Some black immigrants weren’t here during slavery, nor their ancestors. Some states didn’t even have slavery.”
“Now, I go back to the saying – ‘You give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’
Reparations are only feeding someone for a day.”
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— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) February 17, 2021
The hearing was a discussion of House Resolution 40, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, which would create a commission to study the issue of reparations.
Walker, a supporter and friend of former President Donald Trump, has discussed reparations several times, including during an interview on Fox News in October in which he accused Democrats of using the issue to pander to voters.
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“I’m upset about it because all they’re doing is pandering for a vote,” Walker said at the time. “Why are you paying African Americans off instead of empowering African Americans?”
