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Ted Cruz: “We owe so much more than thanks. Time for reparations.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Let me read you Al Said tweet on Thanksgiving, quote, just a reminder, this Thanksgiving, this country was built on the systematic annihilation of indigenous peoples whose ancestors suffered some of the highest rates of homelessness, job and mortality. Today, We owe so much more than thanks. Time for reparations. So in other words, he wants your kids and my kids to pay for the people that. That Marxists say were oppressed. Now, mind you, my family, you know, my dad came from Cuba. (25:21–25:27)

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Asserts that reparations are owed to indigenous peoples in the United States.

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