WASHINGTON (AP) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel.
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is scheduled to hold the hearing next Wednesday, its stated purpose “to examine, through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.” The date of the hearing, June 19, coincides with Juneteenth, a cultural holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved blacks in America.
Former Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the longtime sponsor of House Resolution 40, first proposed the measure calling for a study of reparations in 1989. Conyers reintroduced the bill every session until his resignation in 2017.
Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the resolution’s new sponsor, introduced it earlier this year and pushed for next week’s hearing. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in February that she supports a reparations study, a topic that hasn’t been the subject of a House hearing since 2007.
Reparations had been a fringe issue and occasional punchline until Coates’ 2014 essay in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations,” thrust the topic back into the national discourse. Glover, an activist as well as the star of the “Lethal Weapon” movies and the classics “The Color Purple” and “A Rage in Harlem,” has spoken in favor of the issue for years.
In an interview with Coates as he prepared to leave office, President Barack Obama questioned the implementation of reparations, but not the concept. And in a conversation Coates had earlier this year with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the popular progressive endorsed reparations.
The reparations debate became part of the 2020 presidential race early, as several Democratic presidential primary candidates signaled their support for compensating the descendants of slaves, though not in the traditional sense of direct payouts to black Americans. Most have been vague on more specific ideas, but they have instead offered policies addressing economic inequality that could disproportionately benefit blacks.
“Brazenly corrupt…”
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PUN INTENDED
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Broward County. Again. What is wrong with those people?
Gun crazy!
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Mofo!
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Sarah Sanders can get on that fast track train to hell.
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Trump said…
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Can I just say that my mind has gone back to Omar filing a joint return with her husband……
The problem being…
Not only before they were married..
But when she was MARRIED TO SOMEONE ELSE 👀👀👀
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Willard?
A decision that requires a spine?😂😂😂😂
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Old Lady Dem (@oldladydem) Tweeted:
Social Security excluded 65% of black workers.
In order to pass Medicaid, they gave the states control over its administration so individual states could discriminate as to which populations received benefits, just like they did with food assistance. https://twitter.com/oldladydem/status/1138929054348955651?s=17
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A slight problem
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NEW: “@KamalaHarris has nabbed the endorsement of South Carolina’s most well-known grassroots organizers. The “Reckoning Crew,” a group of 100 predominately black female activists, announced its endorsement of the California Democrat on Thursday.” https://t.co/7V9o7xvmrz— Jerusalem Demsas (@JeruDemsas) June 13, 2019
Oh really???
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This “Native American” issue is going to haunt Warren like Freddie Kruger & Halloween
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This 👏is👏huge 👏
Yes, because 45 can sit before a camera with ABc clown Georgie Steph and say he’s ok with foreign influence and information sourcing on other candidates
So,
Nobody is reporting on Bernie’s big speech?
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
F*ck Bernie with a long rusty nail.
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Word of the Day : June 13, 2019
Scrutinize: verb SKROO-tuh-nyze
Definition
1 : to examine closely and minutely
2 : to make a scrutiny
Memphis…
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WTF
Justin Amash got juice………
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LOL This gif tho. I LOVE IT!
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House to investigate Secretary Elaine Chao corruption allegations
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chair of the House Marine Transportation Subcommittee, tells Rachel Maddow that he has been given the green light to investigate corruption allegations against Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao for using her position to benefit her family’s company and her husband, Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
HOUSE
CLEANING
Flynn signals pardon Hail Mary with new Mueller-bashing lawyer
Rachel Maddow looks at disgraced Donald Trump NSA Michael Flynn’s new lawyer, a Robert Mueller-bashing Fox News pundit, and posits that Flynn is counting on Fox News posturing to earn himself a pardon from Trump.
Openness to illegality exposes Trump to risk of being compromised
David Laufman former chief of the DOJ’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, talks with Rachel Maddow about how a foreign power might take advantage of a candidate who accepted illegal campaign assistance.
CONSIDERING?
We are well past the time for ‘considering’.
Schiff considering subpoena for FBI on Trump counterintelligence
Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, explains to Rachel Maddow why he is considering using a subpoena on the FBI to find out what became of the counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump.
Trump unchastened by Russia scandal, still open to foreign help
Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee talks with Rachel Maddow about a new video in which Donald Trump says he would accept information about his opponent from a foreign power and calls FBI Director Wray wrong for saying the FBI should be called in such a circumstance.
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Awe 😍
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Beautiful. I wish Camille and Kristen much happiness.
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Happiness in a jar 😍😍🤗🤗
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Uh huh 😒
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No shock 😒😒
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TRUTH!!!
America will NEVER wipe us out.
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See 🤨🤨🤨
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LOL Tim Allen, lord…AWKWARD!!!
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LOL OH OH! Aunties, broke out the
TATER SALAD!!!!!
YOU .S.DONE
I enjoy his videos 🤗
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Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
Good Morning, Rikyrah & Everyone.
IS.IT.FRIDAY.
YET?