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 should have picked our own cotton.
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,
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How about we compare their present living standards to those of say, Zimbabwe.
If Zimbabwe is better, they get reparations. Maybe excluding Mugabe, or ... maybe not.
Danny Glover is an enigma is that he didn’t show up in Marxist fronts until later in life, just Harry Belafonte (who is, sadly, a hardcore Castroite red).
Funny, Sidney Poitier, another great black actor, stayed out of communist fronts and protests.
Historians will have to go back to the Harlem Renaissance period where many great black talents gathered in the homes of “black intellectuals” and formulated plans to improve the conditions of “colored people” in America, a legitimate issue due to the terrible practices of segregation.
However, many of the black intellectuals became Marxists or black isolationists etc. including W.E.B. DuBois, who was once anti-communist (1930s, in his publicly available FBI files online - His wife Shirley Graham DuBois was a hardcore Communist); the works of Franz Fanon; Marcus Garvey; C.L. R. James (a Caribbean Marxist whom I met - even sat next to him at a CPUSA front on Cuba); Paul Robeson - a Soviet asset and CPUSA member, along with his Party wife, and son; and others.
Some black communists eventually saw the deceptions and fallacies of Communism and defected - Max Yergan; Langston Hughes; Richard Wright; I believe George Schuyler did too; etc.
Belafonte began a marked leftward drift back in either the late 80’s or early 90’s, esp. regarding Cuba, and has supported numerous CPUSA and possibly Workers World Party fronts (The Committee to Free the Cuba Five), etc.
I think that Belafonte was the key influence on Glover in his turn to the Marxist left, IF Glover was not already a cover Marxist for a good while.
Today, writer Alice Walker is also one of the top black writers who is a hardcore Marxist/supporter of Castro/Communist Cuba. Look up her name at www.keywiki.org and read about her record and go to the BlueLinks for much more information on the pro-Castro fronts and their supporters in the US (i.e, Center for Cuban Studies, the old Tri-Continental Information Center, etc).
Today, it looks like not-so-bright blacks such as Colin Kaepernick are the “new face” of the black supporters for Communist Cuba, if that photo of him with a Che Guevara t-shirt is REAL, i.e. not photoshopped.
Soon that great new intellectual Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez will be a new leader of “blacks and Hispanics” for Cuba.
There is no cure for stupidity except education, if their minds can be changed. Otherwise, it’s the same old Marxist crap being drilled into the minds of “celebrities” what will be heard during the 2000’s.
My father’s side of the family came to the US from Germany just before WWI. My mom’s side of the family came from the Cherokee in Asheville NC, traced back to the generation before the Trail of Tears. Sooo... How much do I owe to those millions of Americans with dark skin whose families arrived in the US after 1865?
620,000 dead in the U.S. Civil War. Consider the bill paid in full.
One of my family lines in the deep South had 9 sons during the CW. Seven perished in the service of the CSA army. White guilt is wasted on me. Slavery had to end, and the Founding Fathers knew it 85 years before the CW. Sorrowfully, the tab was paid with the blood of 600K+ 153 years ago and then doubled-down with the undending debt created by the Great Society welfare programs started 53 years ago.
1619 - 1776 ? from who do you collect ?
An excellent summary...though discouraging.
I have always think that the black American community made a huge mistake by exalting someone like W.E.B. Dubois and ridiculing someone like Booker T. Washington.
How many black males were earning $20 million a year in 1865?
How many black females were earning $50 million a year back in 1865?
5.56mm
Just subtract all the food stamps, welfare, section 8 housing, the cost of arresting, prosecuting, and incarceration over the years and then well check the balance sheet.
I think we’re in the black
Exactly. At some point the “black community” needs to be responsible for their own destiny.
So people who were never slave owners “owe” money to people who were never slaves for slavery? Will descendants of black slave owners owe the money or get it?
And the Democrat Party still attacks Catholics.
Enough, enough, enough.................
Problem is that the slave traders bought the losers of tribal wars, not the winners. And, nothing has changed.
Like Rush says, if you play the victim card, then you avoid personal responsibility and thus blame for problems.
Houston really sucks wind. Between the crazy leftist and the illegals, Houston is gone. Austin will be lost soon. Then Texas.
LOL!
I’d LOVE to see the Yankees who bought up the post-war South for pennies or less on the dollar pay out!
Oh what a joke it would be.
“Will the Irish get some?”
You know what they would say, “No Irish need apply.” This money is only for the deep pockets of “community organizers.”
Money won’t solve Black America’s problems. Which have nothing to do with slavery.
Its a shakedown scam disguised as a social justice pitch.
Give us the money or else. If they’re not happy here, they should leave.
Cheaper to pay their one way fare back to Africa and less divisive.
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