Slavery Reparations

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Burgess Owens Slams ‘Racist’ San Francisco Reparations Plan That Paints Black Americans as ‘Hopeless, Hapless’

Following the proposal of San Francisco’s reparations committee to pay longtime black residents billions of dollars in reparations, Utah’s Republican 4th District Rep. Burgess Owens slammed the conversation as “condescending,” arguing it “conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”

U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens speaks during a debate with Democrat Darlene McDonald, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in South Jordan, Utah, in their first and only meeting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The first-term Republican elected not to participate in a televised Utah Debate Commission event earlier this month. …