Incorrect.
H.Res.414 - Recognizing that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.118th Congress (2023-2024)
Whereas Black people are, and have always been, human beings, yet the Federal Government has historically failed to recognize our dignity and humanity;
Whereas reparations are defined as a victim-centered process by which survivors of atrocities and serious human rights violations, and their descendants, have the right to seek restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantees of nonrepetition for past and ongoing harms;
Whereas to meet the international legal obligation of reparations,
the Federal Government must compensate descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent in the United States to account for the harms of chattel slavery, the cumulative damages of enslavement, and the epochs of legal and de facto segregation;
Whereas the Federal Government is responsible for—
(1) policies that led to the economic, political, and social erosion of Black communities;
(2) failing to keep Black people safe from or actively sanctioning White domestic terrorism and failing to prosecute it when it occurred;
(3) the impacts of government-imposed segregation leading to harmful health outcomes and environmental racism;
(4) the ongoing harms of racialized mass incarceration and family separation, oppressive and abusive criminalization, and the continued impact of embedded historical harms of the criminal legal system on Black people and Black communities; and
(5) banking, consumer, housing, health, education, and employment discrimination;
Things didn't stop after slavery.
