In a year of reckoning, slavery reparations bill moves forward in the House

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In a year of reckoning, slavery reparations bill moves forward in the House The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send a bill to the House floor for the first time to create a commission to study the legacy of American slavery.

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But the measure would need 10 Republican votes to pass the evenly divided Senate. No Republicans are co-sponsoring the House bill.“Slavery was and still is evil,” said Owens, who is Black. But reparations suggest “Black people are a hapless, hopeless race who never did anything but wait for white people to show up and help us,” he added.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal said the measure is not about punishment: “This is about restorative justice…. If you through your history benefited from that wrong that was done, then you must be willing to commit yourself to righting that wrong.” Polling has shown broad resistance in the general public to awarding reparations to people descended from slaves. A Reuters/Ipsosin June found that although Americans are increasingly becoming conscious of inequality in the U.S., only 1 in 5 respondents said the United States should use “taxpayer money to pay damages to the descendants of American slaves.”

Discrimination and violence ensured generational economic hardship was still felt by many descendants, said

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The stupidest thing I have ever heard.

It’s not a reparations bill. It’s a let’s create a new bureaucracy to study bill.

what good are reparations if we're dead? PoliceCorruption

horrible

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