It’s difficult to judge the motivations of people, especially elected officials who so often have motives for introducing legislation and making statements that are hidden. In each Congress for the past twenty years, Rep. John Conyers has introduced a bill to set up a commission to examine the possibility of reparations being paid to African-Americans for the slavery under which their ancestors suffered.
Here’s what we know about this:
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Democrats this week re-introduced legislation that would set up a commission to consider whether reparations should be paid to black Americans for slavery.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has proposed the bill in each Congress for at least the last two decades.
A description of the bill said the legislation would set up a commission to both examine the possibility of reparations, but also an apology for the “racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans.”
While the entire text of this bill is not yet available, if similar to previous bills, its purpose would be to, “examine the entire history of slavery, and then make recommendations on whether the U.S. government should apologize for slavery, and whether reparation payments are warranted.”
This is terrible legislation for so many reasons. For one thing, it doesn’t solve anything at all, but simply creates a mechanism for rehearsing that terrible practice and making recommendations. Even if it were thought some sort of reparations were justified, how would the amount be determined? And what about African-Americans who are not descendants of former slaves? What about reparations to the relatives of Japanese-Americans who were interred in the US during WWII?
These sorts of questions would go on virtually forever. And that might be the purpose of the legislation since it attempts to accomplish the impossible.
The issue then becomes, what is the purpose of this legislation? It’s it really to compensate those who would be considered victims, or is it to foster an acrimonious debate for political gain? My we suggest that it’s the latter.
Source: Washington Examiner
Good luck$#%&!@*holes. Ain’t gettin mine. I never owned one, nor my family. I owe them nothing.
It sounds to me like some people are looking for more handouts, it is time to grow up and stop their whining.
how about a penny apiece???
Not going to happen, your own race sold you into slavery in Africa, that is who owes you!!!
GOOD! LET THEM PAY FOR IT. WE Need to be paid for allowing Obama to be elected in the first place.
This is more BS from the left.This will never happen .There are so many groups of people that have been wronged it would be impossible to repay all of them for past events.Get a job,