Posted on 01/14/2023 12:31:24 PM PST by Perseverando
118th CONGRESS
1st Session
To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 9, 2023
Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Mfume, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Kilmer, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Adams, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. Carson, Ms. Norton, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Carter of Louisiana, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Costa, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Chu, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Bowman, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Cuellar, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Keating, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Bush, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Case, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Titus, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Castro of Texas, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, and Mr. Horsford) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To address the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery,
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So anyone fighting for the union, those states merely territories, those that immigrated after 1865 are obsolete right?
All slaveholders at the time whether north or south obsolete?
All those still alive from back then should get 40 acres and a mule? The rest can suck wind; you were never in chains by anyone
Older than dirt.
Look in the cemeteries—there’s your apology.
You can bet Mitt Romney will be there front and center.
“I was born 100 years after the civil war. I have nothing to apologize for. Nor will I.”
I feel the same way but we’ve all been apologizing for decades through Affirmative Action racism against us and use our tax payments as reparations disguised by other names. Also, reparations through allowing criminals to attack and steal from us with the blessing of the government.
The Southern Baptist Convention apologized for slavery in 1995. In 2020 its 6 seminary schools denounced CRT as unbiblical. >600k white soldiers, North and South, perished between1861-1865. The bill for fslavery was paid in blood.
Unbelievable. This ….thing…. Is really busy coming up with self-flagellation guilt-ridden edicts, isn’t she?
This is disgusting.
Sit and spin on it
If I have 37% black genes, can I get 37% of the money, and an apology that is 37%...I heard we the Treasury was going to run out of money on Thursday, so Sheila should hurry to get this passed.
Talk to King Charles about the first 157 years…
Apparently the SBC has "repented" of their opposition to CRT: Black Conservative Woman Says She Wasn’t Allowed to Speak Against CRT at SBC Annual Meeting
She never shuts up-I don’t get how she ever earned a JD or served as a judge, considering that she is as dumb as a box of rocks. At least she isn’t a native Texan-she is from NY-Queens...
She got that White girl in the office next door to help her with the spelling and grammar.
Sheila, don’t forget to deduct the price of freedom from those reparations...
She on a roll. Stand clear.
She’s my age-certainly old enough to know what history is and how to read about it...
History of Slavery Around the World
https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/History-of-Slavery-Around-the-World
Contrary to popular belief, the first slaves in the American colonies were not Africans. Also, the majority of Africans taken from their homelands for the purpose of slavery were not destined for the shores of what would eventually evolve into the United States. Slavery was a documented “established institution” dating back to as early as 1760 B.C., where it is referred to in the Code of Hammurabi.
Slavery was an accepted part of society in ancient cultures such as Greece, Assyria, and Egypt, and at one time, the Roman Empire’s total population consisted of 25% slaves, with Italy’s slaves comprising 30% to 40% of its total population. By 500 B.C., slaves comprised upwards of a third of the population in some Greek city-states. In Sparta following several slave revolts about the year 600 B.C., the Spartans restructured their city-state into an authoritarian regime, for the leaders decided that only by turning their society into an armed camp could they hope to maintain control over the numerically dominant enslaved population.
From the pre-Christian era up to colonization of the New World, slavery was an accepted part of daily life in countries and cultures across the globe, and whether or not a particular culture was enslaved was generally determined by their weakness in warfare. To the victors go the spoils, which in this case were the indigent peoples of the conquered lands. Slaves consisted of Irish, Turkish, Chinese, Arab, Persian, Greek, and many other cultures, and was not restricted to one particular race, ethnicity, culture, or country.
North American slavery was a small part of the slavery practiced in the New World. Only 5% of the slaves brought to the New World were brought to North America. The colonists were not permitted to engage in the traffic, although they bought the slaves delivered here by the British, Dutch and Portuguese traffickers. Around 1720 New England merchants started to sneak into the trade but they were minor players in a world moving slaves to this hemisphere.
In general North American slave owners treated their slaves like the valuable property they were. In the caribbean and in South America slaves were consumables due to the harsh climate and conditions. Here slaves were more valuable than the land they worked which was abundant and almost free, and the climate didn’t kill them.
Where should the line of responsibility be drawn for any of the historical wrongs perpetrated on groups or individuals? How should ancient wrongs be corrected today? Why should my grandchildren fund reparations or even apologize to the great-great-grandchildren of slaves?
Maybe we should include an apology to the neanderthals too while we’re at it?
Babylon Bee?
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