reparation payments amongst democrats. 46 support, 40% say bad idea. among voters again, 27-62. you see the sort of moderate candidates. this is what they re trying to express on that stage. but when the energy on the democratic side is somewhere else, that s the power behind those comebacks you heard from warren and sanders. steve kornacki, thank you. to our viewers, steve has some fascinating numbers later tonight on the similarities and differences between the warren camp and the sanders camp which we kind of saw play out on stage tonight, but to joy reid s point, not a whole heck of a lot of effort to differentiate. senator, a very direct question having to do with youngstown, ohio, having to do with a place i lived, joplin, missouri. what happens when you walk into those communities and say, great news. you re all going to get green jobs. we ll need the keys to your f-150s because we re going all
being with me. i know where you two stand, but i want everyone else to hear it. so tara, starting with you first, how do you see it? i feel like the issue of reparations, however you re defining them, that makes a difference because direct reparation payments i think is impractical. i don t think that s necessarily the way to go about it. that doesn t say that we re not acknowledging the inequalities. all of those things are true. but as a country we ve tried in many different ways to try to rectify those things economically, whether it s affirmative action programs or income tax credits, opportunity zones, racial preferences for government contracting. i mean, there have been legislative fixes that have been put in place to try to level the playing field. nobody s saying that that s perfect. but i don t know what the idea of reparations and direct payments or other ways is even practical. even president obama was leery of that and tried to look at examples around the world where
from namibia they traveled to where the five hundredth anniversary of the reformation is being celebrated at the evangelical church convention. here prominent lutherans are discussing whether the reformation benefited distant countries like those in africa and whether the church today as a responsibility. for the mistakes of the past. year. the evangelical church has explicitly acknowledged its guilt with regard to the genocide in the. now it must bear fruit it must have political consequences. has to do work on this issue but i don t have a bad conscience about the fact that lutherans and other protestants brought the gospel to southern africa. the question of reparation payments specifically for the . hundred years ago well known. for