NEW YORK CITY — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke helped kick off the National Action Network Convention on Wednesday by telling Rev. Al Sharpton he would sign off on a commission to study reparations for descendants of black slaves in the U.S.
“I had a chance to speak with and just listen to and learn from Brian Stevenson in Montgomery, Alabama and learn from his work on working with the community to build a memorial to justice and to peace and he said ‘foundational to reparations is the word repair. Foundational to repair is the truth,'” O’Rourke said when asked by Sharpton about the proposal put forth by Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson.
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