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SHARPTON: "You came out this week on the last several weeks supporting the idea of looking into reparations for African-Americans. How do you feel we need do deal with those segments in this country that have a disproportionate -- we keep talking about how the economy's doing well, but it is still uneven when it comes to blacks and Latinos."
CASTRO: "Well, of course that's true. What I said a couple weeks ago is that I have long believed that one of the ways we should consider addressing the original sin of slavery is reparations. I asked folks, I said under our Constitution we compensate people if we take their property. Shouldn't people be compensated if they were property? That was sanctioned by the in this case, shouldn't be compensate their. To fully move forward as one nation with one destiny that we're going to have to address that. And the way that I would dress it if I'm elected president is by appointing a commission of people, of different walks of life who understand this issue, a task force to come up with action that we can take on reparations. Some people have asked, well, what are you talking about? Why are you talking about a commission instead of just saying you're going to do this? And the reason for that is because, as you know, this is a subject people view differently and there are different ways we can address it. At the end of it, what we would like is for it to be healing for the country. In order to do that, we have to pay as much attention not only to the end result, but also to the process to get there so that it can bring Americans together as much as possible."