Posted on 02/17/2021 2:20:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
Legendary former pro-football running back Herschel Walker on Wednesday led conservative resistance to slavery reparations during a congressional hearing.
Walker, who played in the old USFL and NFL over 15 years, said reparations might require black Americans like himself to use genetics company 23andMe to calculate their pay by percentage of ancestry and he argued African Americans also were involved in the slave trade, which the US abolished in 1865.
Walker, who campaigned for former President Donald Trump last year, said that he opposes reparations for both practical and moral reasons.
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>>the slave trade, which the US abolished in 1865..<<
slave trade abolished law passed in 1807 for 1808. Slavery abolished in the 13th amendment in 1865.
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