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.
shes just another hustler......what about us honkies who had family members die in the Civil War supposedly to free your ancestors black asymptotes?
agree totally
this is the stuff from the left that will cause the next CW
The dems are doing everything possible to bring out the “the YELLOW VEST brigade in the US!”
They really do want a civil war...
This is what we’re going to get out of the new congress.
So gib me reparation money ‘cauze I’m black & my democrats friends sez I dezerve it.
They also endured legal slavery in the US for 80 years (1783 - 1863) - not the “400 years” the NPC rent-a-mob mindlessly chants...
I believe a lot of the calls for reparations are designed to keep the de facto reparations in place - especially the legally-indefensible affirmative action. There are far too many “foreigners” that would have to fund this as the American population contracts/dwindles.
At its core, this discussion is a de facto admission that many blacks accept that they have no place in a modern economy; they’ve watch countless waves of immigrants arrive from all corners of the Earth, often without the benefit of speaking English, and most quickly outperform blacks socio-economically. They are looking for legal guardianship akin to that accorded to Native Americans, nothing less (and for the most part, they already get it).
We’ve had 50 years and trillions of dollars of reparations and all it did was destroy the black family.””’
AND create a FERAL ARMY that hates us.
I would highly doubt if even 1 of them will seek out a financial advisor to invest in a mutual funds account.
Black Africans were enslaved because they were inferior to the slavers
The rise of black Africans in America is in some part the result of genetic introduction
The genetic introduction is all the reparations needed
It was President that actually developed reparations and promoted resettlement of exslaves in Liberia. The Liberian capital is Monrovia
Since LBJ began the War on Poverty in 1964, we have spent well over $20 trillion. Adjusted for inflation, that’s more than 3 times the cost of all wars since the American Revolution.
And we still have lots and lots of poverty.
EPIC FAIL
The descendants of freed slaves need to reimburse the descendants of those that fought for the north.
And to pay the reparations the entire Democratic party will be banned and liquidated at every level and the proceeds will go to pay these reparations.
Since the Democratic party was pro-slavery, created the KKK, Jim Crow laws, the bigotry of low expectations and have created numerous government programs designed to keep black citizens poor and dependent on the Democrats.
It’s the least the Democrats could do to make up for the generations of pain they have caused.
They need to find some way to repair the damages Dems have caused from the days of the KKK to Johnson’s “Great Society” and the last 50 years or so.....maybe mass suicide by all the instigators would be a start.....waiting for it Sheila....
Maybe the “African American” community should apologize for giving us rap music and the babydaddy culture.
Monroe, 2banana. The country name is Liberia and the capital is Monrovia.
As Trump would say a Shi$hole of the first water.
For the time, significant amounts of effort were made to give it a good start. It quickly devolved into a 19th Century version of South Chicago.
The tax payers have already paid “reparations” a hundred fold.
Government housing
Public schools
Food stamps
Welfare
Social security
Medicare/Medicaid
Affirmative action
Earned Income Tax Credits
Not to mention the hundreds of other scams they use to fleece the taxpayers every year.
I demand reparation from Egypt...
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