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“If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property?”
– Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, endorsing reparations while at SXSW (and provoking the ire of Bernie Sanders in the process)
This article appears in March 15 • 2019.
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