Posted on 12/31/2018 6:39:35 PM PST by Altura Ct.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) told PJM that the federal government should conduct a study of reparations for descendants of slaves to be able to determine the best way to “repair some of the damage" that slavery has caused to the African-American community.
Jackson Lee became the lead sponsor of H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, after Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) resigned from Congress.
The legislation seeks to “address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.”
It’s a commission to study the issue of what was the economic impact of the work of slaves and how does it translate in the 21st century. And what we want to do is to build a narrative, a story of the facts and out of that be able to access how we repair some of the damage,” Jackson Lee said during a recent interview after her speech at the annual Legislative and Policy Conference organized by Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
“When you look at urban blight, when you look at schools in inner cities and rural communities that are not at the level of excellence that they should be, when you look at support for [historically black colleges and universities], all of that will be part of understanding that whole journey and that whole economic journey,” she added. “And it is interesting that these magnificent buildings were built by slaves, obviously with no compensation. That is not what we are asking for; this bill is to have a commission to hear from people all over the nation.”
Jackson Lee called the reparations legislation “a beginning process and an educational process for the nation in a non-controversial manner, and not in a manner of pitting one group of people against another.”
Actor Danny Glover called for reparations for African descendants during his speech before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 2016. Jackson Lee was asked if she agreed with Glover.
“Danny Glover has been a strong supporter of H.R. 40 and we would love to have him as a witness providing his point of view – that’s why this is such a great initiative and legislation,” she replied.
During an interview with PJM, Sharpton said that criminal justice reform and voting rights topped his agenda during meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. On Dec. 21 President Trump signed the First Step Act, which White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner worked on with a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
24/7/365 it’s gibsmedat.
Except during Leap Years.
Then it’s 24/7/366.
Can you give me a reference for that? Seriously interested. I know Lincoln was interested in resettlement of American blacks in Liberia, Panama and Isle a Vache in Haiti never heard of any land purchase.
The blighted inner cities were majority white during the times of slavery.
As far as building, what percent of the labor force do they think slaves made up?
“Three ancestors. Three. Served in the Union Army.”
Seven men from one of my families were conscripted into the Confederate Army - three were shot for trying to join the Union, three died at Gettysburg, and one died a POW.
Of all my Southern ancestors that served the Confederacy, none had slaves. And because they lived in border states, several of my female ancestors saw their husband and sons on opposite sides. I cannot imagine that pain.
You have to pay reparations to yourself.
I have no problem with reparations. Every living person who was a slave prior to 1865 in the U.S. should be paid.
All surviving slaves from before the Emancipation Proclamation should receive 40 acres and a mule. The great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren of slaves? Nope. Nothing.
The best revenge is living well.
She’s already got 40 acres of ass and the face of the south end of a northbound mule...
They HAVE BEEN getting their reparations since LBJ was in office in the 1960s. The free gifts started and still keep on giving for all those millions of free votes and they get to stay at home and keep pumping out those babies for more dimocrat voters of the future.
Bounce a round ball on a wood floor and toss it through an iron ring hanging on a square piece of glass 10 feet off the floor. Play 48 minutes every third or fourth night of the week and make $220 million max contracts. They whine how they are slaves for $220 million max contracts. Pure BS. You get out of this life what you put into it. If you want to sell drugs on the street corner, push young girls into prostitution at age 14, drop out of school in the 9th grade, hang on the play ground till 2 in the morning, rob the local 7-11 shop on the corner, and give your vote to the Dims for your pay check, well you are doing just fine in the Dims view. Those who work their butts off, get an education, stay married to the same person without making 10 kids by 10 different men, then you might just turn out to be a decent person. Otherwise, keep looking for that check the first of the month.
Hey Sheila (you ugly brain dead cow) - i’m all for reparations! Where do i send my $0.02?
I’m in favor of 40 acres and a mule - as long as the 40 acres is in Africa.
Slaves and slaveholders are dead. No reparations possible. Get a real job and shut up.
federal gub mint tries to take my hard earned money to give to blacks for SHIT i had zero to do with and it would really casue severe problems.
Shouldn’t Jackass Lee sue the Africans that sold them into slavery ? Try a Nigerian prince, they have lots of money or so I’m told,
I am ALL FOR REPARATIONS for absolutely anyone WHO EVEN IDENTIFIES AS A SLAVE ANCESTOR.
The Reparations shall be paid in the deeding of Federal Land to the aggrieved party.
Any time Federal Land is made private, it is a huge shot in the arm to the economy.
This is political judo, pitting the Environmentalists against the Reparations crowd.
Family? Job? Pride? Work ethic?
No, the racist democrats want to throw money at them to perpetuate more problems.
Guilt is not passed down through the genes. Guilt doesn’t jump from a descendant of slaveholders to people with a similar skin shade.
Guilt resides in the individual for his actions, and no other.
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