FLASHBACK: Kamala promised to sign reparations bill for black Americans if elected president

Speaking at the 2019 National Action Network convention, then-2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris pledged to sign a bill into law that would provide reparations for black Americans. Vice President Kamala Harris is now the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

Founder and president of the civil rights organization Reverend Al Sharpton asked Harris, "In the area of reparations of for descendants of Africans enslaved: If you're elected president would you sign that bill if it came across your desk?" The bill in question was one proposed by deceased Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) to form a commission to study the implementation of reparations in the country.

"When I am elected president I will sign that bill," Harris replied in the April 2019 post-speech Q&A with Sharpton.

FLASHBACK: Kamala said she would sign reparations bill once elected

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