• It acknowledges the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery. (Then Conyers should fight to send troops to Sudan, the only place on earth where slavery still exists. Black muslims are enslaving Black Christians).
• "It establishes a commission to study slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves".
(Are there any freed slaves in America?)
• "It studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans."
(The "forces" of slavery were removed 143 years ago, that's six generations. Any impact of slavery still remaining on today's black American community is a chosen one. This situation makes me think of the brutal Russian pogroms against the Jews in the early 1900's, followed by the genocidal slaughter of the Jews by the Nazis a few years later. As soon as the Nazis were defeated the Jews picked themselves up and quickly returned to prosperity, inspite of the unprecedented brutality they had been subjected to, and inspite of the prejudice against them that still remained afterwards.
Every race and nationality has a story of brutality against them to tell; history is replete with man's brutality to man. The slavery issue in America was a short lived one in historical context. In any case, it is absolutely absurd, and totally divisive, that anybody would demand monetary 'reparations' more than six generations after the fact. I would say in fact, that the call for 'reparations' only serves to keep the sense of black persecution alive. This is just another liberal plan to keep America divided and weak).
• "The commission would then make recommendations to Congress on appropriate remedies to redress the harm inflicted on living African Americans."
(Sounds like Mr. Conyers has already made the 'study' and has arrived at a pre-determined conclusion. Also sounds like this bottom-dwelling, sleazeball politician is trying to buy Black votes with taxpayer dollars at the expense of a united America. His plan is to keep the blacks roiling in the slavery issue, keep them angry and resentful at whites. I'm beginning to loath all politicians, they're sleazier and more self-serving than tort lawyers.
The Chinese believe as a matter of practice and cultural lore that you can purge a people of its history in three generations. Of course, they go about it in a slightly different fashion than we would...
Not 6 generations in my family. My dad was born in 1930. My grandfather was born in 1887. My great grandfather was born in 1842. My great great grandfather was born in 1809. His father was born in 1777. My great grandfather emigrated to the U.S. from Wales in 1863 and enlisted in the Union Army. He served until the end of the war in 1865.
Reparations? Right after the $5 trillion in Great Society welfare money is repaid to the government by the recipients. After that, we can pay any living persons who can prove they were slaves prior to 1865.