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A ‘path to restorative justice’: Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee leads push to study slavery
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:15 pm
Dallas Morning News
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U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, is renewing a 30-year congressional push to establish a commission that would study the impact of slavery and possible reparations for African Americans.
Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, started the effort with House Resolution 40 in 1989 but garnered little support. This year, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act has 162 co-sponsors. At the end of the last Congress, the bill had 173 co-sponsors.
The bill would form a commission to study slavery and the racial and economic discrimination that continued after slavery and to recommend solutions to Congress. It was named H.R. 40 after a promise Congress made to formerly enslaved people at the end of the Civil War — that they would receive “40 acres and a mule.”
In a hearing before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Lee said African Americans “have been known as overcomers.”
“We believe in overcoming the many bad balls that we have been thrown. We’ve caught them, and we’ve kept on going,” she said.
But that isn’t the point of the bill, Lee said.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:17 pm to Wolfhound45
May be the dumbest person in congress
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:18 pm to Wolfhound45
I’m becoming more and more convinced they want to goad conservatives into acting out
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:19 pm to Wolfhound45
They are obsessed with race more the KKK is/was.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:21 pm to Wolfhound45
Politicians love them some fricking committees and commissions.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:23 pm to Wolfhound45
Considering how unintelligent she is, can you just imagine how dumb her constituents are?
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:23 pm to Purple Spoon
I guess 2 wrongs will finally make a right
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:25 pm to CamdenTiger
Giving every black American $100 sill cure racism
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:25 pm to Champs
quote:
May be the dumbest person in congress
Heavily supported by white liberal democrats, though.
There are plenty of posters over on the OT Lounge who are white Biden voters who love her.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:27 pm to MeatCleaverWeaver
quote:
I’m becoming more and more convinced they want to goad conservatives into acting out
It's the only explanation.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:27 pm to Wolfhound45
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Those nostrils are impressive.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:29 pm to Wolfhound45
I'll make a not so bold prediction:
If we give SJL everything she demands, black people will probably be worse off than if she got nothing she demanded.
If we give SJL everything she demands, black people will probably be worse off than if she got nothing she demanded.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:30 pm to Champs
quote:
May be the dumbest person in congress
Certainly one of the nastiest
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:30 pm to MeatCleaverWeaver
That’s exactly what they want, and when none do, they’ll create one that will.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:39 pm to Champs
quote:
May be the dumbest person in congress
And that’s saying something!
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:40 pm to Wolfhound45
Bitch say Cash, checks or bust.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:41 pm to Wolfhound45
Republicans are dumb enough to oppose this.
Do it. Monthly payments and an acre of land to every AA. Imagine being able to take away your opponents' political upper hand and push Asians and Hispanics into taking red pills all in one fell swoop.
Do it. Monthly payments and an acre of land to every AA. Imagine being able to take away your opponents' political upper hand and push Asians and Hispanics into taking red pills all in one fell swoop.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:42 pm to Original Corn Pop
She is not the dumbest in the CBC, may not be the dumbest CBC member from the Houston area (al green, not the cool one)
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:45 pm to Wolfhound45
Every civil war era slave is dead. Everyone that owned slaves is dead. /study
America is getting dumber by the second
America is getting dumber by the second
Posted on 2/17/21 at 7:49 pm to JackieTreehorn
quote:HEY! I used to live in her district... may be I'm confirming your point?
Considering how unintelligent she is, can you just imagine how dumb her constituents are?
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