mo4ch:>‘Zero chance’ of slave reparations happening, despite current debate on the subject – analysts to RT | Mo4ch News

Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro has said he won’t rule out reparations to descendents of slaves, setting him apart from frontrunner Bernie Sanders — but is such a policy a real possibility or an empty promise?In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Castro, the Obama-era housing secretary and former mayor of San Antonio, addressed the idea which has gained traction among more left-leaning Democrats, saying that the US should address the “original sin of slavery.”Castro also acknowledged that there was a “tremendous amount of disagreement” about how that should be done and said he would “appoint a commission or task force” to determine the best course.If under the constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn’t you compensate people who actually were property?But the chances of reparations ever happening in the US are extremely slim, political analyst Charles Ortel told RT.Also on rt.com#BlackLivesMatter calls for slavery reparations, free educ…