House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

[marvin martian]

I hope the commission comes back with the recommendation to make all the Negors pay back us White people for all the crime they have committed to us, for the damage with rioting and looting and for the goddamn welfare they got.

That is the kind of socially responsible reparations we need.

Then whites will owe us even more money.

No one owes you shit, you're just lazy.

 

[Flash]

I hope the commission comes back with the recommendation to make all the Negors pay back us White people for all the crime they have committed to us, for the damage with rioting and looting and for the goddamn welfare they got.

That is the kind of socially responsible reparations we need.

Then whites will owe us even more money.

If the Negroes just pay us back what they shoplift out of 7-11s it would be even.

 

[Flash]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Fuck Negroes. They need to go to Africa if they think this country owes them anything.

 

[IM2]

I hope the commission comes back with the recommendation to make all the Negors pay back us White people for all the crime they have committed to us, for the damage with rioting and looting and for the goddamn welfare they got.

That is the kind of socially responsible reparations we need.

Then whites will owe us even more money.

If the Negroes just pay us back what they shoplift out of 7-11s it would be even.

 

[IM2]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Fuck Negroes. They need to go to Africa if they think this country owes them anything.

The government does owe us and if you don't like me saying that, move your white ass back to Europe.

 

[IM2]

I hope the commission comes back with the recommendation to make all the Negors pay back us White people for all the crime they have committed to us, for the damage with rioting and looting and for the goddamn welfare they got.

That is the kind of socially responsible reparations we need.

Then whites will owe us even more money.

No one owes you shit, you're just lazy.

Bitch, I started working at age 9. This government owes blacks. Whites like you have been the lazy ones.

 

[TransLivesMatter]

I can’t wait to see the day when a white man is seen shining a black mans shoes. It’s almost here

 

[irosie91]

I can’t wait to see the day when a white man is seen shining a black mans shoes. It’s almost here

I haven't seen anyone shining anyone's shoes for MANY DECADES-----on what planet do you live?

 

[BS Filter]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Fuck Negroes. They need to go to Africa if they think this country owes them anything.

The government does owe us and if you don't like me saying that, move your white ass back to Europe.

You've never been a slave. No one owes you a damn thing.

 

[marvin martian]

I can’t wait to see the day when a white man is seen shining a black mans shoes. It’s almost here

I haven't seen anyone shining anyone's shoes for MANY DECADES-----on what planet do you live?

"Shining shoes" is tranny code for shitting in someone's mouth. That's what "he" meant.

LOL

 

[Slade3200]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Thanks for laying out some specifics. I’m 100% behind all your ideas except for the last one as I see it as a nightmare to practically execute. Not saying there isn’t a way to do it but I think it would take much more thought and planning and I also think it is the largest point of pushback which means it will swallow up the entire discussion making getting anything done near impossible. I’d propose a heavy focus on the other items you laid out with the last one being a phase 2 element than can be discussed and figured out separately.

 

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[Slade3200]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Fuck Negroes. They need to go to Africa if they think this country owes them anything.

Why are you even on this board?! Pollution is all you are. Utterly useless

 

[IM2]

And then what happens after they get the pay-off?

The corporate propaganda about "institutional racism" will end. . .

Global warming will stop, all endangered species will be saved, the air and water will be clean, everyone will have as much food and money that they need, there will be no hunger, no war, no poverty, and no one will ever ever have any bad feeling or be offended again.

Equal rights and equal treatment will be guaranteed for all.

We will all have the same houses and get rid of the super rich, and we will usher in a gold age of equality. . . well, except those politicians and CEO's that give us all these things, because, of course, they deserve more. . .

Institutional racism is not propaganda. But white racists tell themselves that and in their delusion of their own supremacy believe they can repeat this lie over and over and somehow everybody else will start believing it.

And yet? When people ask you to give a modern example, something that is actually happening today as an example of the establishment perpetuating racism?

You have been shown all kinds of modern examples and you don't accept them. And as each day you come in here reading and reciting racist bullshit, you have the nerve tk ask for someone to show you an example.

 

[IM2]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Thanks for laying out some specifics. I’m 100% behind all your ideas except for the last one as I see it as a nightmare to practically execute. Not saying there isn’t a way to do it but I think it would take much more thought and planning and I also think it is the largest point of pushback which means it will swallow up the entire discussion making getting anything done near impossible. I’d propose a heavy focus on the other items you laid out with the last one being a phase 2 element than can be discussed and figured out separately.

Nobody said that when Japanese got 25,000 checks. Nobody said anything in 2012 when we paid German Jews reparations for things we did not do. There was no problem paying descendants of confederation traitors reparatios until 2017 for a war they were not alive to see. So I don't thnk excuses from whites who oppose the government paying back money it has owed us for money we paid in taxes since at minimum the year 2000, will be heard. We don't have to go back to slavery, Citi showed that blacks have been cheated out of 16 trillion dollars since the beginning of THIS century. So no, individual checks must be a part of this.

 

[MisterBeale]

And then what happens after they get the pay-off?

The corporate propaganda about "institutional racism" will end. . .

Global warming will stop, all endangered species will be saved, the air and water will be clean, everyone will have as much food and money that they need, there will be no hunger, no war, no poverty, and no one will ever ever have any bad feeling or be offended again.

Equal rights and equal treatment will be guaranteed for all.

We will all have the same houses and get rid of the super rich, and we will usher in a gold age of equality. . . well, except those politicians and CEO's that give us all these things, because, of course, they deserve more. . .

Institutional racism is not propaganda. But white racists tell themselves that and in their delusion of their own supremacy believe they can repeat this lie over and over and somehow everybody else will start believing it.

And yet? When people ask you to give a modern example, something that is actually happening today as an example of the establishment perpetuating racism?

You have been shown all kinds of modern examples and you don't accept them. And as each day you come in here reading and reciting racist bullshit, you have the nerve tk ask for someone to show you an example.

That's just it. .. in the law, I have never seen LAWS that treat, explicitly, the IN-GROUP & the OUT-GROUP differently. Not today, not anymore. They would be challenged all the way to the SCOTUS if they were. You know it, I know it.

Have you given examples of individuals within the system abusing their positions of authority? Sure. But that is not an example of institutional racism that exists in the present day, that is an example of figures of authority that have bias within the system.

My position, is that the system, treats ALL poor people the same. Now? Do I agree with you that minorities are disproportionately poor in this nation? Sure. And that the law is constructed to favor those with wealth, again, I will agree with that.

But. . . a poor Hispanic, and a poor white man, suffer the same under the law, as a poor black man does. This is just a fact. Thus, the laws and institutions are NOT institutionally racist, that are institutionally classist.

 

[MisterBeale]

. . . and for the record, IMO, I am less racist than you are friend.

 

[Indeependent]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Thanks for laying out some specifics. I’m 100% behind all your ideas except for the last one as I see it as a nightmare to practically execute. Not saying there isn’t a way to do it but I think it would take much more thought and planning and I also think it is the largest point of pushback which means it will swallow up the entire discussion making getting anything done near impossible. I’d propose a heavy focus on the other items you laid out with the last one being a phase 2 element than can be discussed and figured out separately.

Nobody said that when Japanese got 25,000 checks. Nobody said anything in 2012 when we paid German Jews reparations for things we did not do. There was no problem paying descendants of confederation traitors reparatios until 2017 for a war they were not alive to see. So I don't thnk excuses from whites who oppose the government paying back money it has owed us for money we paid in taxes since at minimum the year 2000, will be heard. We don't have to go back to slavery, Citi showed that blacks have been cheated out of 16 trillion dollars since the beginning of THIS century. So no, individual checks must be a part of this.

The US have Jews reparations?!
Jews had businesses and weren’t sold by their parents.
Are you THAT stupid?

On the other hand, I’m opening up a bar in a Black neighborHOOD.

 

[Slade3200]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Thanks for laying out some specifics. I’m 100% behind all your ideas except for the last one as I see it as a nightmare to practically execute. Not saying there isn’t a way to do it but I think it would take much more thought and planning and I also think it is the largest point of pushback which means it will swallow up the entire discussion making getting anything done near impossible. I’d propose a heavy focus on the other items you laid out with the last one being a phase 2 element than can be discussed and figured out separately.

Nobody said that when Japanese got 25,000 checks. Nobody said anything in 2012 when we paid German Jews reparations for things we did not do. There was no problem paying descendants of confederation traitors reparatios until 2017 for a war they were not alive to see. So I don't thnk excuses from whites who oppose the government paying back money it has owed us for money we paid in taxes since at minimum the year 2000, will be heard. We don't have to go back to slavery, Citi showed that blacks have been cheated out of 16 trillion dollars since the beginning of THIS century. So no, individual checks must be a part of this.

You do understand that the checks are going to be the major friction point right? And it is what the entire debate is going to become about.

I would be interested to see the study you referenced about the 16 trillion though. Can you post a link?

 

[IM2]

The reckoning is coming.

Legislation that would create a federal exploratory commission on reparations for Black Americans was approved Wednesday by a House committee for the first time, setting up a vote by the full Congress if Democratic leaders choose to bring it to the House floor.

It was a day of many firsts for the longstanding bill known as H.R. 40, as it had previously never received a markup or a committee vote.

Spearheaded by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), who took up H.R. 40's cause after the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) retired from Congress in 2017, the bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee along party lines.

The committee held a hearing on H.R. 40 back in February, which featured multiple reparative justice experts. The idea of reparations, while not new, has gained steam in recent years, and the legislation currently has 176 co-sponsors in the House, its most ever.

"Today, the U.S. Congress finally took the kind of action on reparations that movement advocates, experts and Black people have been demanding for decades," Dreisen Heath, a racial justice researcher for Human Rights Watch who testified at the hearing, said in a statement.

"This milestone moves the nation one step closer to comprehensively reckoning with the disastrous effects of slavery that have been compounding for Black people every day.

Reparations are talked about as a way to fix the disparities that Black people in the country face because of the lasting legacy of slavery and subsequent racial discrimination.

For example, a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, released a study in November stating that reparations for Black Americans would have reduced health disparities in Black communities, which in turn would have lessened the effect that COVID-19 has had on them.

House panel approves bill to set up commission on reparations

What kind of reparations would you like to see and how would you generally see it rolling out?

I appreciate the thoughtful question slade.

Funding black tradesmen and women to physically rebuild black community infrastructure to include building retail business, health care and recreational facilities.

Venture capital to aspiring black entrreprenures.

Increased funding for education in black communities.

2 and 4 year full scholarships for secondary educational or vocational education.

Funding for job training for older citizens

And then a cash payment of approximately 100,000 to every black citizen with incomes or net worth of less than 143,600 dollars, which is average the net wealth of white families.

Fuck Negroes. They need to go to Africa if they think this country owes them anything.

The government does owe us and if you don't like me saying that, move your white ass back to Europe.

You've never been a slave. No one owes you a damn thing.

Reparations are about more than slavery junior.

Cost Of Racism: U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion Because Of Discrimination, Bank Says

Nationwide protests have cast a spotlight on racism and inequality in the United States. Now a major bank has put a price tag on how much the economy has lost as a result of discrimination against African Americans: $16 trillion.

Since 2000, U.S. gross domestic product lost that much as a result of discriminatory practices in a range of areas, including in education and access to business loans, according to a new study by Citigroup.

Specifically, the study came up with $16 trillion in lost GDP by noting four key racial gaps between African Americans and whites:

• $13 trillion lost in potential business revenue because of discriminatory lending to African American entrepreneurs, with an estimated 6.1 million jobs not generated as a result
• $2.7 trillion in income lost because of disparities in wages suffered by African Americans
• $218 billion lost over the past two decades because of discrimination in providing housing credit
• And $90 billion to $113 billion in lifetime income lost from discrimination in accessing higher education

We can state our case for reparations on these numbers that started in the year 2000. If we only take lost income from racism starting in 2000, it equals 56,250 per black person in America. And this is money owed NOW, for things done in OUR LIFETIMES.

U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion Because Of Racism, Citigroup Says : Updates: The Fight Against Racial Injustice : NPR