Rep. Cori Bush’s new resolution urges the federal government to compensate descendants of enslaved Africans for the centuries of slavery and systemic racism.
Link copiedA group of lawmakers is stepping in to bolster reparation efforts that would benefit descendants of enslaved Africans.
On Wednesday, Reps. Cori Bush, D-Mo., Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., stood in front of the Capitol as,” a resolution that urges the federal government to take action to compensate the descendants of slaves.. The measure is meant to bring attention back to H.R. 40, the slow-moving federal bill that has been introduced to Congress each term since 1989 and would create a commission to examine the issue.
Bush said at the press conference the nation has a “moral and legal obligation” to provide reparations to Black people for slavery and its resulting racist systems. “Black people in our country cannot wait any longer for our government to begin addressing each and every one of the extraordinary bits of harm, all of the harm it has caused since the founding, that it continues to perpetuate each and every day all across our communities, all across this country,” Bush said.
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