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Pass HR 40 on Reparations for the descendants of Africans enslaved in the U.S.
Four million Africans and their descendants were enslaved in the United States and colonies that became the United States from 1619 to 1865. A system of structural and institutional racism has persisted beyond the Emancipation Proclamation and the 1964 Civil Rights Act — and persists today. According to demographics data, the U.S. Racial Wealth gap is substantial and is driven by the long-term effects of American chattel slavery and public policy such as convict leasing, red-lining, redistricting and mass incarceration. COVID-19 and the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Daunte Wright and Andre Brown at the hands of police have again illuminated the ugly systemic racism that still exists and is the cause of the brutal disparities we see between Blacks and Whites today in the United States. These reasons, and many more, are why reparations are necessary and why I ask you to vote for and co-endorse U.S. HR 40 to establish a commission to study and develop reparations proposals for Americans whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States.
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