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Victor Davis Hanson said Democrats’ push for “reparations” is rooted in their fear that President Donald Trump is “making inroads” with black voters.

Appearing Friday on the Fox News Channel, Michael Meyers, Executive Director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition and former ACLU Board Member, blasted 2020 Democrat presidential candidates for expressing support for reparations at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention this week. 

Sharpton asked whether Hickenlooper would sign such a bill as president, and when he began to equivocate, the crowd became agitated, with one audience member crying out: “Yes or no!”

Failed Texas Senate candidate and 2020 contender Robert “Beto” O’Rourke connected the Electoral College to slavery Monday and called for its abolition.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) again dodged a question on Monday evening about whether the descendants of slaves should receive financial payments as a form of reparations.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on Sunday said that reparations for the descendants of slaves do not have to be in the form of direct financial payments.

Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) participated in a segment featuring a discussion about reparations for the enslavement of those of African descent in American. Jackson Lee explained her legislation, which begins a “long overdue” discussion

Kamala Harris called for “reparations” to be paid to blacks to “help folks heal” from what she described as “undiagnosed and untreated trauma” caused by America’s “dark history.” She offered her remarks in an interview published Tuesday with The Root.

Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” former Obama HUD Secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Julián Castro said if he wins, he will establish a reparations task force. Castro said, “I have long believed that this country should resolve its original sin of

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said in an interview Monday she supports “some type of” reparations to black Americans for slavery.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said on Friday that the United States government should pay reparations to families separated at the border.

South Korea announced on Wednesday that it will dissolve the “Reconciliation and Healing Foundation,” established by a 2015 agreement with Japan to help the families of “comfort women” abused by Japanese soldiers during the World War II era.

A left-wing group deleted an online questionnaire showing that Democrat Harley Rouda supported radical policies such as “Medicare for All” after Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) drew attention to it, the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering his own summit meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un following Kim’s Singapore summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Democratic Party is looking to include reparations in their 2022 platform, along with Medicare for all United States residents, and free higher education that is fully paid for by American taxpayers.

A comedian who went viral for a stunt in which he asked Starbucks to give him free coffee as “reparations for racism” told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Wednesday night that he pulled the stunt because he is tired of liberals victimizing blacks.

A black Missouri state senator who said she hoped President Donald Trump would be assassinated is now calling for reparations for blacks because of slavery.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says her government intends to raise the issue of reparations for World War II damage, even though Germany considers the matter closed.

A radical black student group known as The African/Black Student Alliance (A/BSA), which recently ended its occupation of a building on the UC Santa Cruz campus after university officials granted them every one of their demands, is threatening more civil disruption if its new demands are not met.

A group of mostly white students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is demanding that the school offer a wholly free education to black students, even if they are convicted criminals.

Appearing on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, former U.N. Ambassador and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Bolton discussed the latest developments on the international scene, including the congressional override of President Obama’s veto against the bill allowing 9/11 families to file suit against Saudi Arabia.

A new website takes the principles of victimhood, entitlement, and white guilt and applies them to crowdfunding.

Hugh Hefner, the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy, has penned an essay in the magazine’s latest (nude-free) issue, declaring victory over conservative Republicans in the decades-long struggle since the sexual revolution began in the 1960s.

TEL AVIV – The German government will increase funding for Holocaust survivors all over the world by $600 million over the next three years, the largest single increase to date.

Rapper Azealia Banks is ready to vote for Donald Trump should he earn the Republican presidential nomination — because America is “inherently evil” and “full of sh-t,” so we “may as well put a piece of sh-t in the White House.”

Hillary Clinton is one bad South Carolina poll away from a full-scale embrace of radical racial insanity.

MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that “I do believe in reparations, if he could figure out what it would be” in a discussion on Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) position on the issues on Wednesday. Matthews initially joked,

The Atlantic National Correspondent and author Ta-Nehisi Coates stated that Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) decision to “dismiss reparations, simply because it is not politically doable” “felt completely off” and that Sanders should put forward things that he

German President Joachim Gauck has stirred his government by remarking in an interview that Germany should at least “consider” demands by leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that the nation pay billions of euros in reparations for the Nazi occupation of Greece.

Leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, during a visit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, raised the issue of Greece receiving war reparations for the damage the Nazis did to the country in World War II. Despite Merkel’s rapid dismissal of the possibility, the two appeared cordial and friendly during their public press event leading up to a reception dinner.

The eleventh-hour decision to extend Greece’s bailout a few weeks ago turns out to have been an even closer shave than it seemed at the time, with Reuters reporting that a massive revolt among German conservatives left the vote “hanging by a thread,” as one German legislator put it. Escalating tensions between sullen Greece and fed-up Germany could make the votes on further bailout extensions or new financing deals even tighter.

30 dead in Cairo Egypt as soccer fans clash with police; Greece’s Alexis Tsipras approaches Wednesday confrontation with Europe