Rep. Owens to Newsmax: Slavery Reparations Advocates Are Real Racists

Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, told Newsmax on Friday that those promoting financial reparations to Black descendants of slaves are the real racists and that Americans are quickly getting tired of such talk.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., on Wednesday cited “emboldened white supremacy” as a catalyst for the reintroduction of federal legislation to consider reparations for slavery, which the U.S. abolished following the Civil War.

“Karl Marx said the first battleground is the rewriting of history because [Democrats] don’t want us to know and appreciate our past, what people have done to give us freedom,” Owens, who is Black, told “Carl Higbie FRONTLINE.” “And I can sum this up in one word: racist. These people are racist.

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