The 'New' Carpet-Baggers and the Endless Quest For Reparations
The Dollar Store Obama and his buds never quit because they believe you really CAN get Blood from a turnip
The effort to get American taxpayers to pay African Americans reparations to atone for slavery in America has been around for many years. The premise for these efforts is a belief that descendants of slaves deserve reparations to compensate them for the harms of slavery their ancestors endured, and the residual discrimination they experience to this day. Is this really a good thing, or simply woke posturing that stokes race division and seeks to bankrupt America? How do you establish eligibility? What will it cost? There are more questions than answers.
One of the earliest references to reparations found in the Congressional record is a bill (H.R. 3745) introduced by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D MI-1) in the 101st Congress (1989 – 1990):
H.R.3745 - To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
This did not pass, but Rep. Conyers did not give up. During his lengthy tenure, he introduced this Bill many times, up until the 115th Congress, the last he served in.
In the current 119th Congress, the mantle has been taken up by Senator Cory Booker (D NJ), who proposed…
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