Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations

[corbe]

Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations

Paul Steinhauser
 
2 hrs ago
 
Sen. Cory Booker on Monday introduced a bill that would study the possibility of reparations for descendants of slaves, embracing a push that recently has caught the interest of fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.

The senator from New Jersey said Monday that “this bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to right the economic scales of past harms and make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed.”

The measure is a Senate companion to a bill introduced in the House of Representatives in January by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, which if passed into law would set up a commission to study the impact of slavery and continued discrimination against black Americans and make recommendations on reparation proposals for the descendants of slaves. The legislation was first introduced 30 years ago by then-Rep. John Conyers of Michigan.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cory-booker-introduces-senate-bill-on-slavery-reparations/ar-BBVJLeN?ocid=ientp

[libertybele]

Just what is needed; another pork belly bogus study.  While it sounds wonderful to the 'minority' crowd, it's merely a study.  It may work to get him some votes, but my hunch is the study will result in no benefits.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

The result of the study will be that much more study is necessary.  Duh.

[truth_seeker]

Tell thde Senator, that "Reconstruction," punitive towards the South, was later judged to be very unsount policy.

When tried a few decades later against WWI Germany, again was unsound.

These "new" democtrats seem to have no grasp for history.

Same for socialism/communism's many many failures.


USSR, E. Germany and many satellites, Cuba, N. Korea, Venezuela.

[Snarknado]

Booker is desperate to get some traction in the polls, but if this is the best he has to offer he won't last long. Warren is in the same boat, so look for her to offer reparations to native Americans...