U.S. Representative Jamal Bowman (D.N.Y.) recently proposed a bill arguing that the country has a “moral and legal obligation” to pay $14 trillion in reparations. fox news digital report.
Supported by Democratic Party “Squad” member Bowman HR414The group seeks to provide trillions of dollars in reparations for “the enslavement of Africans and the lasting harm it inflicts on millions of Black lives in the United States.”
“Black people are and are human beings, and the federal government has historically failed to recognize their dignity and humanity,” the bill reads.
“The federal government must compensate descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent.”
The bill, proposed by Bowman and 13 other Democrats, would allow the U.S. government to implement “policies that lead to the economic, political, and social erosion of Black communities” and “failed Black communities.” he claimed.[ed] The goal is to protect black people from white domestic terrorism, or to actively sanction white domestic terrorism and not prosecute it when it occurs. ”
The report found that the federal government is focusing on “adverse health impacts and environmental racism,” “the continuing harms of racialized mass incarceration and family separation,” and “banking, consumer, housing, and health , directly responsible for the enforcement of racial discrimination that led to “impacts on education, education, and society''. It's employment discrimination. ”
“On the one hand, enslaved blacks and people of African descent who sanctioned human abduction and trafficking, the creation and maintenance of violent racial hierarchies, and the embedding of slavery and other methods of economic exploitation into the social fabric; “Reparations must be paid by the federal government to the descendants of those who emboldened white supremacy through legal, social, and economic control measures,” the bill continued.
He further said that the United States benefited from slave labor from 1619 to 1865, and that profits were “worth $97 billion in today's dollars.”
Supporters of the bill, introduced in 2023, said it would “close the racial wealth gap that currently exists between Black and white Americans.”
Bowman argued that Democrats' reparations plan doesn't have to be paid all at once, but can be paid over decades.
“Who said we had to pay $14 trillion all at once?” Bowman asked. “It might be possible to pay it off over five, 10, 20 years. That $333,000 he could split up into X number of monthly checks. Do the right thing, do what you have to do. There are creative ways to do it.”
He argued that the government could distribute compensation in the same way it provided financial aid during the coronavirus lockdown.
“When COVID-19 was destroying us, we invested in the American people in a way that kept our economy afloat,” Bowman said. “Governments can invest in reparations in the same way without raising taxes on anyone.”
“Where did the money come from?” Bowman asked. “We spent it making it exist.”
Bowman, who was recently criticized for claiming he accidentally set off a fire alarm at a House office building in October, said he also believes incarcerated people “should be able to vote.”
“And I definitely think that once they're published, the rights should be automatically granted.”
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