Posted on 01/14/2023 12:31:24 PM PST by Perseverando
118th CONGRESS
1st Session
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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Yep about race. Yep, to be used as a political tool against all the unfeeling, mean, bad orange-man clones voting in the latest Congress in future elections.
They didn't die for that reason. They died to secure the power of corrupt Washington DC to control the economic power of all the states, even against their will.
They died for tyranny, not for freedom.
Why didn’t she do this when the Dems were in control?
True
About a year ago, I watched on documentary on pirates of the time. What you described was reflected in the doc.
Not that the crazy lady had much credibility to begin with, but invoking the fictional "1619 Report" makes this a total piece of trash.
Hopefully, McCarthy will place this in the "Round File" post haste.
I’d say the Civil War suffices.
Tell your other 63% to fork over the damn money to your 37%.
The USA did not exist in 1619..
WTF
Behind all the hoopla is a craving for $$$.
Obama....
True.
We gave at the office. The Oval Office.
True white supremacist racists would never have voted him there for two terms. Not guilty.
That’s exactly right.
The United States should not pay reparations on behalf of the King of England. These reparations should be paid by Britain herself.
Ok. Reparations will be charged from all living slave dealers and slave holders from the era.
Kamala Harris will be exempt because it was her great grandparents who dealt slaves from Africa through Jamaica. Not her.
“In 2018, Donald Harris, a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics, detailed his family’s history in Jamaica in an essay in Jamaica Global Online.”
“There is no mention in his essay of having Indian ancestry, and he makes clear his family has been in Jamaica for generations. The elder Harris does write that his paternal grandmother descended from a slave owner.”
By Jude Joffe-Block and Beatrice Dupuy, AP News,
September 22, 2020
No slaves or slave holders from America are living.
According to many online sources, I-phones are slave-produced goods.
Perhaps a national apology to the Uyghurs might be in order.
Oh, trust me, Sheila, at this point pretty much everybody down here in the South wishes we’d picked our own damn cotton.
GFY.
}:-)4
So we can we go back and unfight the Civil War and get our 600,000 honored dead back if this passes?
And how about the trillions in social welfare spending?
Can we get that back as well?
Ungrateful ba$tards
How about slapping some sanctions on China for enslaving, raping, slaughtering and organ-harvesting Uighers. Too busy playing footsy with Xi Jinpig for that?
What happens when you have no guilt?
Wonder how many black slave owners will be listed.
Hard to believe you haven't been challenged yet. I think I am more inclined to believe your viewpoint even tho my Great Grandfather who survived the Civil war as a Union Officer would probably be disappointed in me.
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