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H.R. 40, The Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act (5 comments ↓)
H.R. 40 would acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865, and it would 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, and to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies.
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Alex
This Bill has been sitting in Congress since 1989. With everyone inundated with this corporate run war in Iraq, it's difficult to give anything else proper attention. This Bill needs to be passed so that the U.S., like many other countries that have suffered similar civil atrocities, can begin to heal and grow, unless that's not important to people anymore.
Raphael Welborne
I have recently had several conversations with non-African Americans about the "heavy weight" that each African American today carries on his back from the un-righted wrongs of our tragic past in this country. It is my firmest belief that a formal apology from our country to us addressing the gross injustice and inhumanity of the treatment of our ancestors would go a long way toward the healing of our collective souls. Reparations, in some meaningful form, would hasten that healing process. The time has come for the country to acknowledge its wrong and to affirm to a people so consistently and harshly mistreated that they have worth and a place in this land.
win
The U.S. has long had the programs specifically aimed at minorities, including blacks to assist them. How is it that now reparations are to be considered but not the costs of the programs we have instituted?
Or we could have a choice, reparations but stop all programs in the future for all minorites. Even then reparations should be based on some amount they lost because of this minus the amount already.
Taharqo
We must make a distinction between reparations, which serve to compensate Diasporic Africans and the current affirmative action programs which are designed to ensure that discrimination doesn't CONTINUE. Providing reparations to Diasporic Africans does not mean that discrimination in employment, housing, education, etc. will stop. Both are necessary to ensure the United States attempts to adhere to its principle of equal opportunity for all.
littlewife
I don't understand how reparations are going to be practical. I'm white but my great-grandfather was black, his father was a slave. Do I get reparations? What about bi- or multi-racial people? Do they get partial reparations? And as stated before there has so much money spent over the past 100 years to aid "minorities" - are those dollars backed out of the total? Once reparations are made will that mean no more race-based financial assistance for businesses, at colleges, for schools?? It's just not practical and it's too late.