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H.R. 40: 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
U.S. Congress ^ | January 9, 2023 | Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

Posted on 01/14/2023 12:31:24 PM PST by Perseverando

118th CONGRESS
1st Session

H. R. 40

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.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 9, 2023

Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Mfume, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Adams, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. Carson, Ms. Norton, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Costa, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Chu, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Bowman, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Cuellar, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Keating, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Bush, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Case, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Castro of Texas, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, and Mr. Horsford) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

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,

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blackthievesmatter; greedynegro; nope; racism; reparations; sheilajacksonlee; slavery; wokeism
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To: rovenstinez
If I have 37% black genes, can I get 37% of the money, and an apology that is 37%.

Funny that's what I have. Your point is valid. What do I get? And I'm light skinned.

81 posted on 01/14/2023 3:29:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Perseverando

Could have done this any time in the last 4 years. They wait until it will fail to put it out.


82 posted on 01/14/2023 3:40:30 PM PST by pas
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To: Jim W N

Tell me about it! I worked in a “black’ neighborhood in college and I heard the “N” word more in one day from young blacks that I ever heard from the lips of white people. They are obsessed with race. I don’t care what color you are. I do, however, disapprove of the urban black culture that had destroyed the urban black communities.


83 posted on 01/14/2023 3:51:49 PM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Perseverando
To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865...

...to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies.


Slavery ended in the United States nearly 160 years ago. Obviously, it's already been remedied, or does she want to bring back slavery again?


84 posted on 01/14/2023 3:54:01 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Perseverando

Hussein was president for 8 years and none of his ancestors were slaves, although it is possible that one or more was either a slave trader or a slave owner. He could have apologized but he didn’t.


85 posted on 01/14/2023 3:54:06 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats have placed stronger chains on Blacks than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: Ouderkirk

so when the claimed Obamas was off the charts i see it now


86 posted on 01/14/2023 4:01:47 PM PST by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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To: Tommy Revolts

The Irish are in for a windfall.
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Oh sure. Don’t hold your breath. Wrong race.


87 posted on 01/14/2023 4:03:47 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: Perseverando

Apologize for lockdowns and forced vaccinations instead.


88 posted on 01/14/2023 4:37:56 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Brandonmark

Re: Babylon Bee?

Worse. The U.S. House of Representatives.


89 posted on 01/14/2023 5:25:20 PM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINOs, Islamonazis, Marxists, Commucrats, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: Perseverando

I’m sorry she was never a slave. Her riding the backs of long-dead slaves while grifting the American taxpayer is a pathetic behavior for a James Brown fig wearing skunk.


90 posted on 01/14/2023 5:29:36 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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Everyone here is wasting their time posting reasoned arguments and facts against this lunacy. They don’t care. They don’t care about the 600,000 dead in the Civil War, and they don’t care about the trillions of dollars in social spending, they don’t care about the people hurt by affirmative action.


91 posted on 01/14/2023 6:32:29 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: lurk

Exactly!

My great, great grandpa and his brother died in the Civil War. They did not own a slave and most likely did not even know anyone that did.


92 posted on 01/14/2023 6:34:11 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Perseverando

bump


93 posted on 01/14/2023 6:50:47 PM PST by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. )
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To: lurk

Only 400,000 of them died to set slaves free. The other 300,000 died to keep them slaves. In the case of the 400,000 Union deaths. The government paid the widows and orphans pensions after the war ended. As of two years ago one man was still collecting a civil war pension from his father’s service in the Union army.


94 posted on 01/14/2023 7:44:11 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe
The other 300,000 died to keep them slaves.

Lie.

95 posted on 01/14/2023 7:47:44 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Bull Snipe
The government paid the widows and orphans pensions OF BOTH ARMIES after the war ended.

Fixed it.

96 posted on 01/14/2023 7:49:18 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: no-to-illegals

The Union families were paid for winning. The soldiers got pensions, and the widows and orphans got pensions based on their husband’ or father service in the Union army. Some of the ex-Confederate states paid pensions to the veterans, widows and orphans of those that served in the Confederate army.


97 posted on 01/14/2023 7:51:10 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: central_va

they were fighting to defend the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. A document that pretty well ensured the existence of slavery in the Confederate states for decades to come.


98 posted on 01/14/2023 7:54:16 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: central_va

No, the Government did not. The Federal Government paid pensions to veterans, widows and orphans of the Union Army. They only paid a few widows of Confederate veterans after the law as changed around 1956.


99 posted on 01/14/2023 7:56:58 PM PST by Bull Snipe
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Worse than that. I’mPhony and Ruppersberger co-sponsored it.


100 posted on 01/14/2023 8:00:27 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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