Home Democrats on Wednesday re -introduced legislation This aims to find ways to deliver reparation to black Americans who are offspring of slaves.
Ambassador Ayanna Pressley, D-Masa.
Pressley, a progressive member of the team, said during a press conference that “compensation is a necessary step in reaching justice.”
“We are at the moment of anti-black on steroids and refuse to keep quiet,” Pressley said. “We will not retreat in search of racial justice.”
Ambassador Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass, re-introduced the HR40, a law aimed at creating a commission to study the influence of slavery and develop ways to deliver the compensation of the African American who are the descendants of slaves. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, File)
The proposal of the law aims to create a federal commission in charge of exploring the permanent impacts of slavery and its consequences, along with the development of concrete proposals for the compensation of African -American who are the descendants of slaves, Pressley said.
Reparatus can take on different forms, but they are widely related to payments or other forms of return to the descendants of black individuals affected by slavery or past racist policies.
Democratic politicians in blue states, Including California, in recent years, they have floated reparations as a way to exhaust themselves for what advocates have described as the heritage of racist policies that have created differences towards blacks in residential, education and health.
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Democrats on the hill Iu California advocated the adoption of the compensation laws, along Other cities and states Proposing ideas for compensation.
In August, however, a couple of laws on the offspring for descendants of enslaved black Americans failed to pass in California’s legislation after supporting said that the accounts would not move forward and that they threatened to be becoming veto on Government Gavin News.
Senator Cory Booker, Dn.j., said last month in a statement that “we, as a nation, have not yet truly acknowledged and faced the ways in which slavery, racism and white superiority still miss African -American.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Booker’s office posted a statement last month about the re -introduction of the law, which is 17 Democratic Senators Cosponson.
“We, as a nation, have not yet truly acknowledged and faced the ways in which slavery, racism and white superiority are still missing African American,” Booker said in a statement. “Letting go of the study in order to better understand where our state has gone through short will help the legislators get better resolved by racial differences and inequality that are today as a result of generational injustices.”
Fox News’ Joshua Q. Nelson and Jaime Joseph contributed to this report.
