DL Hughley is calling out what he sees as a glaring contradiction in the federal government’s treatment of January 6 rioters — and says it unintentionally strengthens the case for Black reparations.
On his “Notes from the GED” radio program and podcast, Hughley said President Donald Trump “accidentally made the strongest case for Black reparations” by supporting government payments to people charged in the Capitol attack. If the government can cut checks to those individuals, he argued, dismissing compensation for Black Americans becomes harder.
“If we’re having reparations given out to people that were unjustly treated by the government, Black people should be the first in line,” he said. “If you can give people that [expletive] all over the Capitol money, you can give people that were [expletive] on by the Capitol money.”
Hughley also pushed back on the idea that reparations are only about slavery, citing Tulsa’s Greenwood district, Palm Springs and Seneca Village. “It isn’t what you did to us in slavery,” he said. “It’s what you took from us after we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps and then you use the power of the government to take it away.”