Sheila Jackson Lee says “Slavery is the original sin” and wants an “apology and compensation to begin the long-delayed process of atonement for slavery.”
From The Daily Mail
June 25, 2019
Democrats want the federal government to study the issue and possibly provide financial reparations African Americans as a means of apologizing for and attempting to offset the generational effects of slavery.
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is spearheading a push in the House to study the issue of reparations. She says her bill would 'make recommendations concerning any form of apology and compensation to begin the long delayed process of atonement for slavery.'
She said a Capitol Hill hearing last week that African-Americans 'are the only group that can singularly claim to have been slaves under the auspices of the United States government,' and they have never received an apology.
She said the hearing that coincided with Juneteenth, the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, 'is not a symbolic action,' but about legislation that should be signed into law.
'I just simply ask: Why not and why not now?' she said to the packed hearing room, which had people lined up outside waiting to get in.
'Slavery is the original sin. Slavery has never received an apology,' she argued.
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Sheila Jackson Lee. If you ever want to see a picture of despair just drive through her district. Yet, she boots citizens out of first class seats to travel.
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