Posted on 01/02/2019 5:51:25 PM PST by tcrlaf
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.
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Just calculate the difference in living standards of descendants of African slaves in the US and Africans still in Africa and base the reparations on that.
They keep pushing. They’re going to find an edge.
Our domestic enemies are going to clog up the House with anti-American legislation.
At least the horseclinton won’t pass the Senate.
I was triggered all the time during the Obamanation, where’s my check?
We have been doing reparations since 1930s and has made and enslaved blacks to this day and ruined family structure.
Lee is a useful tool and divider.
Booker T Washington said it best, if whites would keep their hands off us, we’d be fine.
Reparations, or welfare, has ruined black family structure, and ruined many a black wall street.
Calling Candace Owens...call this grifter out!!!
She’s pushing it back 150 years before the American Revolution.
- Please note that this Sermon is delivered only a few years after the end of the Civil War by this outstanding scholar/legislator/Bishop of the A.M.E. Church.
"Let us see what it is that makes us so great; wherein lies our strength. What has made us one of the greatest powers of the earth, politically and intellectually? Have we come to the conclusion that it is Righteousness that exalteth a nation? We have met to-day at the request of the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and also the Governor of our beloved State, Rutherford B. Hayes. For what? Why call us from our homes? Why come to the house of God? Why not go to the hall of mirth and to the places of amusement to-day? No that is not what they want us to do. We are commanded to go to our 'several places of worship, and there offer up thanks to Kind Providence which has brought our nation through the scenes of another year, and blessed the land with peace, plenty and prosperity.' Then as Americans we have reason to rejoice and congratulate ourselves on the greatness of our beloved country; at this the close of the first hundred years of experimental government of the people, by the people, and for the people. To be a citizen of this vast country is something, and to share in its privileges and duties is more than something." - Dr. Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" - Library of Congress - African-American SectionIf current generations of youth in America go to the Library Of Congress web site (web address provided above) and read this lengthy Address by a remarkable Black scholar of history, Ohio State Legislator, and A.M.E. Bishop, who had lived through the years surrounding the Civil War, then their perspective might be enhanced, enlarged and encouraged by their pride in such an intellectual giant from America's history.
As a white guy married to a black woman I say......Send me a check Ms. Lee!!!!
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Me, too, but I want it from her account, not taxpayers.
The stupid Houston Blacks who keep re-electing this New York carpetbagger should be forced to pay reparations to the state of Texas for embarrassing us all these years.
It’s not necessary. They already vote Democrat 109% of the time.
and then there is the solid FACT that other black tribes captured and sold the slaves who were fortunate enough to be sent to the USA to be the most KINDLY treated slaves in the history of the world.
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No, no they weren’t. Everything else you said is fine, but treated as you say is dead wrong...starting from the boat ride here. Get real.
My gg-father died in the Civil War fighting slavery. How much am I going to get as reparations for that??
Sure; we’ll get to that topic right after congress makes good on every treaty made with the tribes. Of course, that would be constitutional, rather than reparations which aren’t.
Hey “She”!
What are we going to do to repair the damage caused by you belonging to “The Party of Slavery”?
(And why are you named after two slavers? Isn’t that racist)
The Dems think they own the Credit Card now ,LOL
Nothing we do will ever be enough for these people.
She’s got 40 acres of ass and a mule face... NEXT!
Don’t forget renouncing citizenship and no re-entry.
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