Posted on 06/13/2019 7:34:23 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
A House Judiciary subcommittee will hold hearings on reparations next Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a decade that the House will discuss potentially compensating the descendants of slaves.
“The Case for Reparations” author Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover are reportedly set to testify before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the hearing’s stated purpose will be “to examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice,” according to a Thursday Associated Press report.
The June 19 hearing also “coincides with Juneteenth, a cultural holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved blacks in America.”
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who sits on the subcommittee, again introduced H.R. 40 earlier this year to create a reparations commission. Jackson Lee said her bill would create a commission “to study the impact of slavery and continuing discrimination against African-Americans, resulting directly and indirectly from slavery to segregation to the desegregation process and the present day.” She added in January that the “commission would also make recommendations concerning any form of apology and compensation to begin the long delayed process of atonement for slavery.”
“The impact of slavery and its vestiges continues to effect African Americans and indeed all Americans in communities throughout our nation,” Jackson Lee said. “This legislation is intended to examine the institution of slavery in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present, and further recommend appropriate remedies. Since the initial introduction of this legislation, its proponents have made substantial progress in elevating the discussion of reparations and reparatory justice at the national level and joining the mainstream international debate on the issues.
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The amount of money spent on The War on Poverty is more than the sum required to buy every share of every company on the NYSE.
Then enough money would be left over to buy every acre of farmland in the USA.
I hear that stat about 11 years ago.
If we give them money will they shut up?
What about reparations for conservatives? Feelin’ repressed...
House Dems: fiddling while Rome (America) burns...
White people would get all the money back in no time.
IOW, whitey must pay.
If we give them money will they shut up?
No - they will demand more. You know how this works.
I’ve traced my lineage back to the 1600s. Not a single one of my ancestors owned slaves. Not even the line that ran through the southern states.
I don’t owe anybody one damn dime.
Yup....every living slave needs compensation for slavery in the USA...
If I were the Republicans I would this whole hearing about the Democrat Slave Plantations and their creation of the KKK... Every Republican should fall in line with their own part in this play and paint a TRUE Picture of the Democrat Slave Masters.
They’ll shut up until the money is gone, which won’t take long.. Then they, and their descendants will want more, since it’s Whitey’s fault they didn’t know how to handle the money. Cultural disadvantage, you know.
The archives in Salt Lake will be running in over-drive.
Slavery reparations... Not really something for government, more sounds like a game to play in the courts.
Now, if you’re talking reparations for treaties which were violated, actual government signed documents backed by the full faith of the government (until they were broken by the same...), there I think you’ve got something to hold hearings on.
Not going to hold my breath.
First let’s get an accurate assessment of how many BLACK Americans are on Welfare.
You always hear “there’s more white people on welfare than black” which is true- but there are 8 times as many white people in the country.
if there was 8 times as many white people on welfare it would be a fair comparison, but it is closer to 1:1.
The correct question is what percentage of the black population collects welfare.
I have NEVER seen that statistic. EVER.
I know they are over-represented in government jobs, where AT LEAST 20% are filled by minorities. Some places as high as 50%.
So, nearly half are on welfare, the other half have government jobs?
Danny Glover....noted academic.
Nope — just like a blackmailer — they will keep coming back for more. No amount of money will ever be enough.
How about we just name a street in the ghetto after each and every one of them?
No.
Never ever. It is a gravy train and grievance industry that knows no end. Maybe if whites were all dead...
They were too busy being oppressed by the French, Germans, Russians and damned near anybody else who stumbled through central Europe in those days.
Phooey on the congress of the USA. Go home, if you have one. Get a job if you can hold one. You are a blight on our civilization.
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