Marianne Williamson stands tall as the star of the latest round of Democratic primary debates following a game-changing performance on Tuesday night.
How? By detailing her plans to eradicate the disease that is systemic racism and urging her fellow Democrats to address racism, bigotry and injustice freely and openly to address the needs of an electorate who many believe has been taken for granted.
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Well, first of all, it’s not $500 billion in financial assistance, it’s $200 to $500 billion payment of a debt that is owed. That is what reparations is. We need deep truth-telling when it comes, we don’t need another commission to look at evidence. I appreciate what Congressman O’Rourke has said. It is time for us to simply realize that this country will not heal. All that a country is, is a collection of people. People heal when there’s some deep truth-telling. We need to recognize, when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with. That great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another hundred years of domestic terrorism.