Posted on 06/09/2020 3:40:44 PM PDT by Stravinsky
As sustained national protests to end police brutality enter their third week, East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) is pushing for legislation to unpack and address the deep-rooted history of systemic racism in the United States and sustain the Black Lives Matter movement into the future.
Last week, Lee called for the creation of a “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Commission.” The proposed commission would have a broad advisory goal, asking the United States to address a legacy of oppression beginning 400 years ago with slavery. It would then offer recommendations to catalyze progress in education, health care, employment, Social Security and veteran benefits, land ownership, financial assistance, food security, wages, voting rights, the justice system, and many other tenets of American life distorted by the lasting impacts of racism.
“The murder of George Floyd and the current COVID-19 crisis illustrate once again the painful and dangerous legacy that white supremacy has had in our country, and the desperate need to fully acknowledge and understand how our history of inequality continues today,” Lee said in an announcement last week.
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Let’s cut the chase, how much money do you want?
COVID 19? So now a virus is racist?
Will EVERY white person leave every inner city so that there will be NO RACISM?? HA!! Blacks are turning into the RACEST RACISTS!
A beat whitey fest with monetary considerations.
The democrats supported slavery. Then they supported segregation. Then they voted against the civil rights act. Today cities controlled by democrats kill more blacks than those controlled by republicans. Reparations should be paid by democrats.
Haven’t we done a lot of racial healing?
We have had major court cases banning discrimination, laws passed banning discrimination, laws and policies implemented for affirmative action, all of which were supposed to produce racial healing.
In spite of many of our opinions of Obama, would a truly racist nation have elected a non-white president? Would a truly racist nation have elected numerous black candidates to statewide office in many states around the country, in which blacks were not the majority of voters who elected these people?
Yep. The bottom line is money. This is a shakedown.
Democrat plan.
Ergo, a dumbass plan that does nothing, but will cost.
And, of course, she is the very definition of a dumbass.
Four hundred years in the US? We’re that old?
Drink!
All of it BOY
A wound won’t heal if you keep picking the scab off of it.
Most of them are the most racist
That 400 years timeline counts from the first Negro slaves brought to the American colonies in 1619. They don’t count from our nation’s birth in 1776 for purposes of talk of black oppression.
but it came from China!
South Africa formed a truth and reconciliation after the communists won. Land confiscation, murder and white genocide apparently were the main policy outcomes.
South Africa formed a truth and reconciliation after the communists won. Land confiscation, murder and white genocide apparently were the main policy outcomes.
I know who the real racists are.
Fortheloveofgawd PLEASE vote on Nov. 3!!
They will never stop. They must be stopped at the ballot box.
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