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Over 400 lawmakers, activists, actors calling on Biden to support bils on racial equity
Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:12 pm
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400 lawmakers, activists, actors and more sign letter calling on Biden to support bills on racial equity
More than 400 lawmakers, activists, civil rights leaders, musicians and actors have written a joint letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to support a list of Congressional bills on racial equity and reparative justice through executive actions and orders.
The letter, shared exclusively with ABC News, is the third such letter activists and lawmakers have sent to the White House this year. Signatories include NAACP President Derrick Johnson, attorney Ben Crump, National Action Network President Al Sharpton, stylist Law Roach, music executive Willie "Prophet" Stiggers, actress Erika Alexander and talk show host Tavis Smiley as well as Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas; Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.
This latest effort Thursday comes after several months of unsuccessful attempts to secure a meeting with the White House. In the open letter, leaders desperately urged Biden that "the state of our Union depends upon" these bills.
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Bush and Lee's bills aim to be companions to Jackson Lee’s H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. That bill was named for a promise made shortly after the end of the Civil War wherein Union leaders promised formerly enslaved families "40 acres and a mule" -- a promise that was never fulfilled. H.R. 40 had been introduced in every legislative session since 1989. The bill languished in Congress for more than three decades until H.R. 40 passed out of the House Judiciary Committee in 2021. It has since failed to come to a vote in either the House or Senate.
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400 lawmakers, activists, actors and more sign letter calling on Biden to support bills on racial equity
More than 400 lawmakers, activists, civil rights leaders, musicians and actors have written a joint letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to support a list of Congressional bills on racial equity and reparative justice through executive actions and orders.
The letter, shared exclusively with ABC News, is the third such letter activists and lawmakers have sent to the White House this year. Signatories include NAACP President Derrick Johnson, attorney Ben Crump, National Action Network President Al Sharpton, stylist Law Roach, music executive Willie "Prophet" Stiggers, actress Erika Alexander and talk show host Tavis Smiley as well as Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas; Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.
This latest effort Thursday comes after several months of unsuccessful attempts to secure a meeting with the White House. In the open letter, leaders desperately urged Biden that "the state of our Union depends upon" these bills.
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Bush and Lee's bills aim to be companions to Jackson Lee’s H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. That bill was named for a promise made shortly after the end of the Civil War wherein Union leaders promised formerly enslaved families "40 acres and a mule" -- a promise that was never fulfilled. H.R. 40 had been introduced in every legislative session since 1989. The bill languished in Congress for more than three decades until H.R. 40 passed out of the House Judiciary Committee in 2021. It has since failed to come to a vote in either the House or Senate.
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Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:32 pm to djmed
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Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.
they gone in jan
Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:42 pm to djmed
I support taking that document and putting a match to it. Half a percent of our population doesn't get to dictate how the other 99.5% speak and talk. Wtf is wrong with this nation?????
There are waaayyyyyy more of us than them.
There are waaayyyyyy more of us than them.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 4:43 pm to djmed
Since mules are sterile they better get going on producing some mules. That's a lot of mules.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 5:14 pm to djmed
quote:Man, it’s really tough to piece together a group who has more systematically failed to institute positive political change over the last 4 decades.
lawmakers, activists, actors
Posted on 4/8/24 at 5:56 pm to djmed
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NAACP President Derrick Johnson, attorney Ben Crump, National Action Network President Al Sharpton, stylist Law Roach, music executive Willie "Prophet" Stiggers, actress Erika Alexander and talk show host Tavis Smiley
What other group has to be constantly babysat by clowns like this? This is why nothing changes.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:11 pm to DoJeaux
Is Willie “Prophet” Stiggers the leader?
If so, they could call themselves SWA.
Stiggers Wit Activism
If so, they could call themselves SWA.
Stiggers Wit Activism
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:15 pm to djmed
I find it interesting that they mention lots of bills and just say supporting racial equity and other broad terms.
My guess is because of they actually printed what was in the bills people would be infuriated.
So they cover the bills with this nice little statement and racial and transformative justice.
My guess is because of they actually printed what was in the bills people would be infuriated.
So they cover the bills with this nice little statement and racial and transformative justice.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:20 pm to djmed
I wish my ancestors picked their own cotton.
This post was edited on 4/8/24 at 6:24 pm
Posted on 4/8/24 at 6:32 pm to djmed
quote:
support bils on racial equity
please tell me 1 thing that is actually racist and unequal
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