A Republican Senate candidate from Ohio wants reparations for the descendants of white Civil War soldiers.
Bernie Moreno is challenging the incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in the state’s U.S. Senate election in 2024.
Moreno recommends that reparations be paid to the descendants of Northern Civil War soldiers because they “freed slaves” while fighting against the South. The luxury auto dealer from Cleveland made the reparation remarks during his campaign launch in Milford on April 21.
“We stand on the shoulders of people like John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington,” he said. “This group of people took on the largest empire in history. They said no, we will not stand for this, and won. That same group of people later, white people, died to free Black people.”
Moreno went on to say that America isn’t racist because it freed the slaves.
“It’s never happened in human history before, but it happened here in America. That’s not talked about in schools very much, is it? They make it sound like America is a racist, broken country. Name another country that did that, that freed slaves, that died to do that.”
The Senate candidate also said that he understood he wasn’t being “politically correct” in saying that white people died to save the lives of Black people and asked where their reparations are.
“You know, when they talk about reparations, where are the reparations for the people in the North who died to save the lives of Black people?” said Moreno. “I know it’s not politically correct to say that. But you know what? We gotta stop being politically correct, we gotta call it how it is.”
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