House panel advances bill to study how to pay reparations to slave descendants
A U.S. House committee voted favorably on creating a commission to study how to pay out reparations for slavery.
“A House committee, in a historic vote, passed a legislation for forming a panel to study reparations for slavery for Black Americans on Wednesday,” the Independent reported recently.
“The bill, which was first produced over three decades ago, was passed with a majority of 25-17. It now faces the full House, and if it is passed, will move to the Senate,” the British publication reported.
“It intends to establish a 13-person commission to study the lasting impacts of slavery and ongoing racial discrimination throughout the country’s history, in order to send its recommendations on necessary remedies, including reparations to the descendants of enslaved people,” the news organization said.
Far-left activists and black organizers have been pushing for reparations for years. No one today is alive who owned slaves in the 19th century.
Some academics have advocated for trillions of dollars of spending on reparations.
A Duke professor has said that it would cost $12 trillion to implement his proposed slavery reparations program of $250,000 to individuals.
A black Congresswoman rushed to support the bill on Twitter.
“Not me getting lectured to by white Republican Members of Congress at our markup on H.R. 40 (to create a commission to study reparations) about what it’s like to be Black in America,” far-left Missouri Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush said.
“Not when Daunte Wright was just murdered. Not when my ancestors were enslaved.”
Murdered is a legal term and no one has been convicted yet in the death of the alleged criminal who died after being shot and fleeing an arrest and crashing his car.
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