Democrats reintroduce federal resolution for reparations

[Dreamer Tatum]

Source: The Hill

A coalition of Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent.

Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) led the reintroduction of the Reparations Now resolution, which was first introduced in 2023 by former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.).

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/5302622-democrats-reintroduce-reparations-resolution/

[Doodley]

1. Electoral suicide.

[hay rick]

14. Wait! I'm not done with "Defund the police" yet.

[The Mouth]

22. Yeah, that worked so well, didn't it!

[Autumn]

2. Yeah we really need that at this fucking time.

Give the media, republicans and Independents a reason to bitch and a cudgel to hold to do something that has an ice cubes chance in hell of passing.

[DENVERPOPS]

3. No Shit

As if we need to aggravate the Trumphumpers even more.......

What can they be thinking...........or do they even think at all..........

[Autumn]

6. I guess Rep Summer Lee wants out of Congress.

[Justice Brandeis]

4. Cori Bush was voted out of Congress, and she represented a navy blue district

Why do you think that is?

[Jose Garcia]

23. She had a sizable Jewish population who were tired of her antisemitism

[Justice Brandeis]

24. You got it.

And she was so far left that she often voted the same way as Marjorie Taylor Greene: Horseshoe Theory at work.

[doc03]

5. Why don't we try and overturn the 2ND Amendment while we are at it.

[Karadeniz]

7. Arent reparations only for insurrectionists????

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

9. How are we gonna keep all those "moderates" that elected Kamala if we do this?

Oh, wait. Still, this won't help to get back those Reagan Democrats that answered Ronnie's dogwhistles. For shame!

[nowforever]

10. This is exactly

the kind of stupidity that does nothing but push voters to the GOP.

[Ponietz]

11. Own goal! Go team!

Every single day. Medicaid cuts are in the news I hear.

[karin_sj]

12. Good grief

There is not a snowball's chance in hell that this would ever pass right now, and it just gives ammunition to the right wing idiots. Very bad timing. There are way too many other deadly serious things to deal with right now.

[yellow dahlia]

13. Oh sure - the grifter is now trying t take over the Library of Congress...but let's put our energies

into long term arguments that are at this time futile.

The Grifter fired the Librarian of Congress...illegaly. And now Todd Blanche is appointed to be in charge. What are they going to delete, destroy, or steal from the Library of Congress? The Library of Congress - that's what all Dems should be jumping up and down about.

And there are so many other illegal acts. Let's start with the dismantling of SO MANY agencies that are under the "control" of Congress, such as NLRB, USIP, CFPB, and all the other alphabet soup agencies mandated by Congress. Congress stood by while USAID was destroyed, and now millions are going to die. as a result. Oh and all of the IG's were fired w/out deference to Congress.

But sure...waste your time on a losing cause...while our Democracy is being destroyed...and the Constitution is being trampled on...and Congress is being rendered impotent. First you need to restore Article 1 and Separation of Powers...and then representatives can put their energy into other things.

[Polybius]

15. Does Summer Lee want to lose her primary as well?

Cori Bush is out of Congress.

[JohnSJ]

16. How to lose elections. Way to go team (sarcasm). Another "defund the police" fiasco.

What about Native Americans, Japanese Americans during WWII, Chinese restrictions, and probably most minorities since the countries' inception.

[Gimpyknee]

17. Is it any wonder why favorabilty poll numbers for Dems in Congress are falling to near record lows?

[Blasphemer]

18. Can we deal with fascism first?

Totally support reparations but we have much work to do before that can even be a serious conversation.

[mdbl]

19. Not a very smart play

Has she been watching anything else going on or does she just live in a bubble?

[idahoblue]

20. Do these democrats want to lose?

Can’t someone take these people aside and explain how politics works? Why introduce something with no chance of going forward but will give endless meme and bumper sticker slogans for the opposition?
The only things democrats should be talking about are healthcare, inflation, basic civil rights, basic environmental issues and the Constitution.

[bromeando]

21. Reparations

I vote NO.

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