Larry Elder takes aim at San Francisco’s $5 million reparations plan: ‘When do we stop?’

Elder defined reparations as the “extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves.” He also highlighted the connection between Democrats and both slavery and oppressive systems like Jim Crow. “They were also the party of Jim Crow. All of the Southern governors and senators were the ones supporting Jim Crow…A greater percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in the House and the Senate than the Democrats. Democrats founded the KKK, I don’t say the Democratic Party, but Democrats founded the KKK. So Democrats are the ones who ought to be apologizing for slavery, for Jim Crow not anybody else.”