You addressed the issue of people of color in low-income communities being overrepresented pedestrian fatalities and underrepresented investments in their infrastructure.

We have got to fight against the White extremists and make our country safe again.

This is why White nationalism racism is a cancer in our society.

The Safe System approach offers an alternative to sole dependence on enforcement and individual drivers for safety.

Back in 2007, I introduced H. Res. 194--that was my first year in Congress--an apology by the House of Representatives for its role in perpetuating both slavery and its noxious offspring, Jim Crow.

H.R. 40 would create a commission to study the history of slavery in America, the role of the Federal and State governments in supporting slavery and racial discrimination.

An honest reckoning with the Federal Government's role in protecting the institution of slavery has been the leading priority of my congressional career.

It is only fitting then that in the midst of a continued reckoning over police treatment of Black people and a pandemic that has disproportionately impacted Black Americans, that we should hold this hearing today on H.R. 40.

I mentioned seeing these movies that were Chadwick Boseman's movies.

We need to have a study of what we can do to give people a proper share at the table.

We have a problem in this country, and we need to deal with it, and we need to make amends.

African Americans have had to struggle to obtain what for others has been unquestionably understood as a God-given right.