Unearthed interview exposes Dem senator's past support for reparations: 'There is a debt unpaid'

Shortly after announcing his intention to run for U.S. Senate, then-candidate Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said he would support reparations legislation — government-led efforts to make up for the social harms of slavery and other injustices against Black Americans. In a 2019 radio interview , Ossoff said it was only a question of how much the government was obligated to give. "There is a debt unpaid. I think it is a very, very difficult question: how to pay it," Ossoff told a local radio host. "But see,