Oprah’s Spiritual Adviser Announces Run for Presidency And Calls For the U.S. to Pay $100B In Reparations for Slavery

Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual adviser wants the U.S. to pay up $100 billion in reparations for their use of slavery to help build the country.

Author and political activist Marianne Williamson is calling on the U.S. to pay reparations for the enslavement of Africans during the birth of the nation. While officially launching her campaign to run for president in 2020 on Monday, the New York Times best-selling author spoke to CNN’s “New Day” about her plans for America. She shared her bold plan to call for $100 billion in reparations to be paid to the black community for the centuries that their ancestors were enslaved in America.

“This is not symbolic at all,” the Democrat said on the program Thursday. “At the end of the Civil War General Tecumseh Sherman promised every formerly enslaved person 40 acres and a mule. And those 40 acres and a mule would have given a formerly enslaved population an opportunity to integrate into free society.”

Williamson acknowledged the progress that has been made with the civil rights movement but argues that the black community is still so far behind economically and educationally that the reparations are still needed.

“I believe $100 billion given to a council to apply this money to economic projects and educational projects of renewal for that population is a debt to be paid,” Williamson concluded. “Until we pay it, we won’t deal with these issues.”

Williamson’ campaign website further explains her plans for presidency.

“The legacy of that injustice lives on, with racist policies infused into our systems even to this day,” the page reads. “From employment and housing discrimination to equal access to quality education in underserved communities to police brutality/prejudice, to lack of fair lending practices, to lack of access to quality healthcare, to insecure voting “rights, America has not yet completed the task of healing our racial divide. “For that reason, I propose a $100 billion of reparations for slavery,” the message continued. “$10 billion a year to be disbursed over a period of ten years. An esteemed council of African-American leaders would determine the educational and economic projects to which the money would be given.”

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