Democratic lawmaker claims Black Americans will stop voting if they don't get reparations
Rep Summer Lee reintroduced slavery reparations resolution in May, warning Black voters will abandon a system that ignores them
By Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published June 11, 2026 3:30pm EDT
Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren't given reparations.
Lee slammed President Donald Trump's "anti-weaponization fund," and argued, "They are playing psychological warfare with us."
"And that's what they do," she continued. "Because, again, they're trying to disenfranchise you. Because if you believe that you're never going to get reparations from this system, then you tap out, and you don't just tap out of the conversation, you tap out of the system. You don't want to vote anymore. You don't participate anymore."
"And they know that that's how they don't control Congress," Lee added. "That's how you can get your school boards, your board of supervisors. They want us that far out of this system. So right now, we fight for reparations because it's owed us. It is owed us, so we're not going to back down on that one way or another."
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