Posted on 11/22/2019 4:53:29 PM PST by david1292
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Thursday delivered a speech at Clark Atlanta University, and declared that it is time to adopt Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) legislation on reparations.
Warren delivered a speech at the historically black university Thursday evening and stressed the need to pass Lee’s reparations legislation, which “establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans.”
“Let’s be clear: It’s time for our government to have a full-blown national conversation about reparations,” Warren wrote in a tweet containing a video of her remarks:
“America was founded on principles of liberty and built on the backs of enslaved people. [It’s] time to adopt H.R. 40, Sheila Jackson Lee’s reparations plan. [It’s] time to do what’s right, so that our nation can begin to heal,” Warren stated.
The commission, according to the summary, would examine slavery and discrimination from 1619 to the modern era and “recommend appropriate remedies.”
While Warren said that would be a “big step,” she suggested that more must be done.
“This is a big step but slavery is not the only history we must confront. Jim Crow was the lived reality in American up through the 1960s,” Warren said.
She continued:
Government redlining meant that too often, toxic waste dumps and polluting factories were located far away from white communities and right next to black communities. The 1994 crime bill exacerbated the mass incarceration that locked up millions of black men and women. So don’t talk about race-neutral laws. The federal government helped create the racial divide in this country through decades of active state-sponsored discrimination, and that means the federal government has a responsibility to fix it.
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Gray Beaver....... reparations have been payed in genes
Pandering for the “black” vote.
If blacks ever get reparations I think every taxpayer will be paying for them. It's not as though say, blacks and Chinese-Americans would be exempt from being taxed same as today. Reparations would just be another large Federal expenditure.
Will black immigrants get reparations? How about Jamaican immigrants who were slaves of the British? Will the sons and daughters of a mixed marriage between a Nigerian and an American black get reparations?
Another one determined to ruin the country.
Hope you are well, Manc.
The money should come from taxing the Democrat party; they are the only institution left from that period. Every time they collect a donation, tax it. Every time they spend money, tax it. As people cry for more, you raise the tax lol.
Doing well here, but really busy and do not get the time I want to post as much. Thanks for asking, and how are you doing?
Whenever they say have a conversation about something they mean we will lecture you.
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