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.
“We use black power to create white guilt. My approach is biblical: how can I ask my Heavenly Father to forgive me if I can’t forgive my brother?” the former Dallas Cowboys star told a House Judiciary Committee subcommittee.
“America is the greatest country in the world for me, a melting pot of a lot of great races, a lot of great minds that have come together with different ideas to make Americans the greatest country on Earth. Many have died trying to get into America. No one is dying trying to get out,” he said.
i want reparations from the black community for all my relatives who died fighting for the north!
Very good article reference a decent man. We all (most) know by listening to the media that the man played football at one time. I hope in the future written pieces will emphasize that Mr. Walker is now a congressman. This piece referred to the man as a past member of The NFL (National Felony League) as much as it did congressman.
That’s RIGHT !!! Because NONE of them Alive today were even born or Here years ago when the
other people were alive , & has Nothing to do (what happened back then) with Today !!!!
They Already have gotten their Reparations over 50 years now called Affirmative Action Laws !!!!
They are always Favored over the White population for Everything & get to do ALOT that the Whites
are Not Allowed to do !!!!
Reverse Discrimination is What it is & it Never Should have passed or been allowed in America !!!!
And it keeps America Divided & it needs to be Banned & Removed to have REAL EQUALITY for ALL !!!!
No what keeps America divided is DEMOCRATS pushing this garbage for votes and control.
I, for one, will not accept guilt or responsibility for slavery. Nor should anyone else unless they actually participated or currently participate in slave ownership, keeping in mind that slavery is not exclusive to those of African heritage, neither as slaves or slave keepers.
Blacks also had slaves and blacks sold their own people. At that time the slaves would not have had a roof over their head or food to eat if not for their slave owners. No one living today has owned, used, bought or sold a slave, so get over it……………NO REPARATION!!!!!!!!!
BIden & his Demon-crats nxt 4 years , won’t fix Anything anyway !!!
Pay Whites Reparations for fighting & dieing in ALL the WARS from Civil War , WW1 ,WW2 ,Korea ,Vietnam !!!!!
To save all your crybaby asses who complain !!!!
Yes, & most of these crybabies were Never even in the military at all , let alone in combat in war !!!!
Crying over Race this, Race that, every frigg’in day of the week since Biden stole the election 2020 !!!!