Slavery remains a stain on our country’s history. The brutality of that era cannot be erased.
But if Sheila Jackson Lee is serious about helping African-American communities, here’s an idea:
How about working with, not “resisting,” President Trump’s success in revving up the economy, after eight years of an anemic, sluggish economy under Obama.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) told PJM that the federal government should conduct a study of reparations for descendants of slaves to be able to determine the best way to “repair some of the damage” that slavery has caused to the African-American community.
Jackson Lee became the lead sponsor of H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, after Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) resigned from Congress.
The legislation seeks 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.”….
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What's really amazing is not only did the rate plunge to 5.9% from 6.6% in a single month 76,000 joined the labor force (the only racial group that increased last month) – really great news. #Winning— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) June 1, 2018
Former Rep. Conyers first introduced this bill in 1989. What did Pelosi do with it when she first was speaker? It’s number is H.R.40, representing the 40 acres and a mule proposed reparation.