Kamala Harris has been running from her past this campaign.
It’s finally starting to catch up with her.
Now Kamala Harris is scared to answer one question that had Democrats on edge.
Kamala Harris won’t talk about one controversial policy
Vice President Kamala Harris has spent this campaign trying to backtrack from positions she used to support until the moment she started running for President.
Her campaign claims that she no longer supports banning fracking, mass confiscation, making private health insurance illegal, the Green New Deal, and a host of other far-left policy positions.
Disavowing a previous position follows the same script for Kamala.
An anonymous statement is put out by her campaign that claims she no longer supports something.
Kamala has avoided the media so no one can ever press her on all of these reversals.
But something unusual happened when her campaign was questioned about her support for reparations for slavery.
Politico reached out to Kamala’s campaign but was told she wasn’t commenting on the issue.
Her campaign has been quick to issue statements renouncing support for controversial positions like banning plastic straws.
So it raised eyebrows that her campaign wouldn’t quickly distance herself from reparations.
Kamala Harris embraced reparations for slavery
Kamala supported having some sort of reparations for slavery during her failed 2020 Presidential campaign.
She told The Root – a black website – in a 2019 interview that there needed to be some form of it.
“I think there has to be some form of reparations, and we can discuss what that is,” Harris stated. “We’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow. We’re looking at legalized segregation and, in fact, segregation on so many levels that exist today based on race. And there has not been any kind of intervention done understanding the harm and the damage that occurred to correct [the] course.”
Kamala told a radio host in 2019 that she was in favor of reparations, and she gave a statement to The New York Times backing it.
“We have to be honest that people in this country do not start from the same place or have access to the same opportunities,” Kamala said in a statement to the Times. “I’m serious about taking an approach that would change policies and structures and make real investments in black communities.”
Reparations are deeply unpopular with the public.
A 2023 Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that 70% of Americans oppose using taxpayer money to pay reparations for slavery.
California couldn’t pass two bills through its Democrat-controlled State Legislature this year that would have given the go-ahead on reparations for slavery.
Some black Democrats think that Kamala is the one who can move it forward in the White House.
“We have a black woman with a lived experience and a heart for the black community,” former Evanston, Illinois, alderman Robin Rue Simmons said. “I believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is the leader to advance this conversation at the federal level.”
Kamala Harris’ silence on reparations for slavery speaks volumes during this campaign.
