A House Democrat from Pennsylvania named Summer Lee is introducing a resolution, calling on the United States to spend ‘trillions’ of dollars on reparations for black Americans over slavery.
A similar resolution was introduced by former Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri in 2023, before she was voted out of office.
The Hill reports:
Democrats reintroduce federal resolution for reparations A coalition of Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent…“We’re here to say that there’s no more waiting, no more watering down, no more putting justice on layaway,” said Lee, the descendant of enslaved Africans. “Black folks are owed more than thoughts and prayers. We’re owed repair, we’re owed restitution and we’re owed justice.”The resolution calls for the federal government to allocate trillions of dollars in reparations to Black Americans to atone for chattel slavery, Jim Crow and the ongoing effects of other federally sanctioned discriminatory policies.“For over 400 years, this country has profited off the stolen labor, the stolen land and stolen lives of Black people,” said Bush, who attended Thursday’s press conference.She continued: “From the first shackled bodies brought to these shores — and those that didn’t make it to the shores — to the grueling, back-breaking, murderous work done on plantations that built America’s wealth, to the federal officials who enslaved human beings while they wrote our laws even here in this building, America has been cashing checks written in Black blood.”
If you watch the clip below, you may notice that Ms. Lee is a bit of a fast talker. I think the footage has been speeded up.
You may be shocked to hear that Lee and her allies are trying to make this all about Trump.
From The Grio, via Yahoo News:
The coalition of elected officials and advocates acknowledged the jarring juxtaposition of seeking reparations at a time of Trump’s dominance in Washington, D.C. The president’s anti-DEI agenda, which has included the dismantling of equity and civil rights federal programs, has threatened to collapse the foundation of the movement for reparations, which has been years in the making.However, leaders at Tuesday’s convening argued that Trump’s return to the White House and his cudgel to all things racial equity marks no better time to advocate for varying forms of reparations.“It took nothing but a stroke of a pen, and that’s why we recognize that the fight to restore Black folks has to be so much more substantive,” said U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., who will introduce the Reparations Now Resolution on Thursday. The resolution endorses a “moral and legal obligation” for reparations and calls for trillions of dollars for Black descendants to undo the harms of U.S. slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other racially discriminatory laws and policies.
Now seems like a good time to revisit this classic clip of the great Thomas Sowell.
Featured image via Twitter video.
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