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Criminal justice system filled with racial bias. those laws were having that negative racial out come. solving these things, putting forward common sense solutions. whether it's baby bonds. or reform to the criminal justice system. would help balance the playing field. i'm open. as we should be. to the best ideas to get the country to the point where we are nation of liberty and justice for all. that doesn't help black folks, it makes us all wealthier as nation. and again, i started my testimony by talking about the seven people shot. about a few hundred yards from where i live last night. i i...

It's establishing a commission to study reparation proposals. what does a committee do? it brings together the appointees appointed by the president, the speaker, the leader of the senate and six other scholars and activists who have been engaged in this journey for a very long time and you begin to assess what would be the best practices, the best approach. and i think in the hearing today we talked about the impact on contract home purchases that was done in chicago. we talked about redlining. we talked about ensuring that historically black colleges wouldn't have to close their doors. talki...

Reparations for slavery. and all other injustice since. that is makes up for that. explain that? >> i don't disagree with the idea of reparations. if somebody said should there be reparations /sin terms of jim crow, even in terms of red lining, i would say, yeah. and i honestly believe. this is not some debate team think. it happened. if anybody wants to say i'm just a linguist and i don't know my history, well, frankly, i do know my history. if anyone wants to look at one example, what happened during the great society and you look at all the programs and how much money was put in. those were...

Issue of slavery and reparations. it does not call for reparations and does not have a specific dollar figure. some opponents say while slavery was wrong, the people that supported it and the people impacted by it are no longer alive. supporters say the effects of slavery, the systematic racism kept going long after emancipation. listen to those arguments. >> the people that are owed for slavery are not longer here. we're not entitled to collect on their debts. reparations by definition are given to victims. the moment you give me reparations, you've made me into a victim without my consent. >...

People were promised 40 acres and a mule. andrew johnson overturned the agreement. instead compensating former slaveholders. reconstruction that period right after the war was ended prematurely in 1877. and throughout the 20th century, black people were denied voting rights through jim crow laws. black veterans were denied full g.i. bill benefits. black homeowners were denied equal housing through something called redlining. and black americans were terrorized. more than 4,400 people were lynched. in 2016 the median black american family net worth was $17,600. that means half of all families h...