I want to thank you for your leadership and your continued stalwart support for the importance of all Americans.
I am here today to let you know of our strong support for H.R. 40, originally authored by the great John Conyers.
This commission is really, it is no figment of your imagination.
That is what repair is all about, reparative justice.
it is important to keep sight, both of remedying individual harms, undoing structures of injustice.
We believe that the best way to solve that problem is to take it on head first.
This legislation is an important step in acknowledging the inherent cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery.
I would only say that there is something to the heinous, vile, and vicious Act of slavery that the descendants of enslav...
the gap between Black and White wealth is as large today as it was in 1968.
This legislation is long overdue and should be put into place this year.
I urge Congress to account for and repair systemic racism rather than to ignore it and embody it.
We need to bring our Nation together.
To me, it is crazy.
reparations is about addressing injustices against individuals.
As we have gone through this pandemic, we recognize disproportionately that African Americans, the descendants of the sl...
Now more than ever the facts and circumstances facing our Nation demonstrate the importance of H.R. 40 and the necessity...
When this Committee last met to discuss this legislation, we required three overflow rooms to contain the scholarship an...
I ask my colleagues to recognize that what we speak of today is based on the continuing impact of the brutality of slave...
