Independent presidential candidate Cornel West spoke at a reparations demonstration in front of the Wells Fargo branch on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
EXCLUSIVE: Unaffiliated presidential candidate Cornel West joined a group of protesters picketing in front of Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Washington, D.C., on Tuesday afternoon – bolstering their demands for reparations. West, who was initially running under the People's Party banner before electing to run as an Independent, spoke to Fox News Digital after stopping by to offer support for the protesters.
Wachovia, which integrated into Wells Fargo in 2008, found via a 2005 research project that two of its predecessor institutions owned slaves. Then-chairman Ken Thompson said Wachovia was 'deeply saddened' by findings reported by NBC News at the time which indicted South Carolina's defunct Bank of Charleston and the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company.
At the protest, other demonstrators who took the bullhorn said the remnants of big banks' alleged cooperation with or involvement in the slave trade remain 'parallel to our very lives today.' Several held signs reading, 'We're coming to get our check.' Eyewitnesses who declined to be identified claimed to have spotted someone waving a Black nationalist flag throughout the crowd of demonstrators. In 2012, the Obama Justice Department reached a $184.
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