Like a lot of issues, we don’t really know where Kamala Harris stands on reparations. But supporters of the idea note that she has said some vaguely positive things about it in the past and they are hopeful that she’ll take up the issue again if she’s elected.
Reparations advocates say Harris’s past comments and her new position as the first Black and Asian American woman to head a presidential ticket give them renewed hope that the movement to provide recompense for Black Americans for decades of discrimination could gain new, national traction.
“We have a Black woman with a lived experience and a heart for the Black community,” said Robin Rue Simmons, a former alderman in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Ill., who pushed a program that provides qualifying Black residents with $25,000 to address the city’s history of housing discrimination. “I believe that Vice President…
