Think about this... Federal action is long overdue, but it could be on the horizon. ✊🏾
The House Judiciary Committee voted for H.R. 40, a bill that would establish a commission to study the impact of slavery and propose ideas for reparations.
Everyone from the civil rights community to Catholic priests to Ben & Jerry’s, and even a major U.S. bank, are supporting reparations initiatives.
Despite growing excitement about the bill — and its overwhelming popularity in the Black community — its passage isn’t guaranteed.
That word "reparations" still scares a lot of people, including members of Congress. It scares them in part because they don’t understand what it is.
They think that reparations is about cutting a check, when it’s really about repair for a community that has suffered enormously for centuries.
The entire article... https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/04/15/reparations-not-cutting-check-its-repairing-community/7189526002/?fbclid=IwAR1to5WMIRCBlc5Xrtr1mD6gB1pKuTCcE7zEVScvV-_fogU3-GWRWHxH8rk
The House Judiciary Committee voted for H.R. 40, a bill that would establish a commission to study the impact of slavery and propose ideas for reparations.
Everyone from the civil rights community to Catholic priests to Ben & Jerry’s, and even a major U.S. bank, are supporting reparations initiatives.
Despite growing excitement about the bill — and its overwhelming popularity in the Black community — its passage isn’t guaranteed.
That word "reparations" still scares a lot of people, including members of Congress. It scares them in part because they don’t understand what it is.
They think that reparations is about cutting a check, when it’s really about repair for a community that has suffered enormously for centuries.
The entire article... https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/04/15/reparations-not-cutting-check-its-repairing-community/7189526002/?fbclid=IwAR1to5WMIRCBlc5Xrtr1mD6gB1pKuTCcE7zEVScvV-_fogU3-GWRWHxH8rk