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.
We’ve had 50 years and trillions of dollars of reparations and all it did was destroy the black family.
Gib me dat!
$100,000 per person & a one-way fare to another country
First pay the 500,000 caualties of the union army descendants then you can have a one way ticket back to to your “homeland...”
Okay, if you can find an individual who suffered as a slave, you can pay them from the taxes you can take from the person who kept said slave.
My great grandfather was shot in the leg in the Civil War.
There’s your reparations, Danny. You’re welcome!
And create complete and utter fools like Sheila Jackson Lee.
Never return, for 20 generations of your family.
It will take a sea change in personal responsibility to .. repair some of the damage that .. the African-American community has inflicted on itself.
I had my DNA tested. It turns out I am 2% Congolese. Do I qualify?
Three ancestors. Three. Served in the Union Army.
My debt (if I had one which I don’t) has been paid threefold.
Yeah my n-word! We finna get our chedda!
Yeah. Just what we need is more input and opinion from worthless leftist scum who make their living by memorizing and reciting a script.
I used to like Danny Glover years ago, but he and people like Samuel L. Jackson have chosen to support things that go against every impulse that made ungrateful douchebags like them rich.
Um, no! I won’t pay a white tax. Period.
My ancestors never owned a single slave. Over my dead body.
LBJ’s Great Society was reparations. And look what they did with it. Feral-America has got nothing coming.
The Dems should pay.
Will the Irish get some ?
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas)—We are so lucky to have her great wisdom!(/S)
The civil war, great society, and affirmative action were reparations.
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