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House panel to hold hearing on reparations for slavery next week

Kabuki for the rubes, since the Senate will never pass it.

[CNN] A House panel will hold a hearing next week on the topic of reparations for slavery.

The House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is set to hold a hearing June 19 on legislation that would establish a commission to study the consequences and impacts of slavery and make recommendations for reparations proposals. The hearing is titled "H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice."

The bill is sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

......the clownish U.S. Representative-for-life for Texas's 18th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of inner-city Houston. She is noted for her lack of tact and intellect. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and almost its epitome......
of Texas. The bill would create a commission of 13 members who would compile a report of findings and recommendations on the issue and send it to Congress. Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, who served until 2017, had previously introduced legislation on reparations repeatedly over the span of multiple sessions of Congress.

For decades, reparations for slavery has mostly been an idea debated outside the mainstream of American political thought.

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates put a spotlight on the subject with a widely-read piece, "The Case for Reparations," in 2014 in The Atlantic.

"The real issue is whether and how this nation can come to grips with the legacy of slavery that still infects current society," Jackson Lee said in a statement in January.

Posted by Fred 2019-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 The Democrat party pays for ALL OF IT.

Posted by newc 2019-06-15 00:34|| 2019-06-15 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I have a dream has become this.

Posted by Dale 2019-06-15 00:53|| 2019-06-15 00:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Both white Confederates Jackson and Lee must be laughing in their graves at Sheïla's full name.

Posted by Angairong Flavigum3253 2019-06-15 01:07|| 2019-06-15 01:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Both white Confederates Jackson and Lee must be laughing in their graves at Sheïla's full name.

Heh, indeed. Further evidence that irony, and not hydrogen, is the fundamental building block of the universe.

Posted by SteveS 2019-06-15 02:03|| 2019-06-15 02:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Since many northern soldiers gave their lives in the course of freeing the slaves call it a wash. In other words Rep. Jackson, time to shut your pie hole and forget about it. Besides, it was your side (Dems) who was perpetuating slavery at the time (and since too).

Posted by JohnQC 2019-06-15 12:22|| 2019-06-15 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Another Wakandan.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-06-15 13:42|| 2019-06-15 13:42|| Front Page Top

#7 I still think the clause against corruption by blood can still be stretched to cover this, just like interstate commerce was used in Roe vs Wade.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2019-06-15 13:51|| 2019-06-15 13:51|| Front Page Top

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