RAHM EMANUEL SPEAKING ON SLAVERY REPARATIONS: "I WOULD SUPPORT IT"

All six candidates for Chicago mayor claim they support reparations for descendants of United State slaves, but they have different definitions of what that means.

The topic came up at a debate Wednesday evening sponsored by the Chicago Defender newspaper at the DuSable Museum of African American History.

...

Emanuel said he would support reparations, but added, "I think we have to be honest and frank with ourselves, we have a budget deficit that also needs to be addressed." Emanuel then said there are "clear choices" to be made on education, criminal justice and economic development policy, which will "mak[e] sure that we reverse the social and economic trends that have set major parts of the city and major population centers backward."