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Byron Donalds: “How many people in the United States today are actually…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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Why not? Well, a couple things. One, that's why I wish you played the clip, because I actually went into very detail, but I will. A couple things is all right. How many people in the United States today are actually descendants of slave owners? Forget descendants of slaves. Let's hold that to the side. Descendants of slave owners. You've had massive immigration into the United States over the last 150 years. So now you're gonna say that people who immigrated to the United States who are not descendants of slave owners were not descendants of that trade. (39:00–39:13)

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Asserts that there has been massive immigration to the U.S. over the last 150 years, affecting the number of descendants of slave owners.

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