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Al Green: “There can be no reconciliation without reparative justice.”

Featuring: Al Green, Democratic | U.S. House Texas, 9th Congressional District

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Pressley, Advocates Call Congress to Advance Transformative Reparative Justice Agenda

Published | Video Starts at 32:16

Remembrance Day is not enough. We have to have reparations. And I have a piece of legislation that calls for a Department of reconciliation. But There can be no reconciliation without reparative justice. and there can be no reparation without reparative justice. And to have reparative justice, you've got to have the thing that we call. What? Truth? No, the money. (32:16–32:21)

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