Summer Lee: “I hope that we will pass H.R. 40, the Commission to Study Reparations, so we can address the systemic issue and the…”

No one should be above the law — not princes, not elected officials, not wealthy billionaires — and it was the government itself that failed these women.

The American people want transparency. At the end of the day, we have to send a message that whether you are the littlest guy or you are the most powerful person in this nation, that if you commit a crime, if you do things that we aren't…

I think that they need to own it.

It has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the crime of enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States.