Booker introduces bill to form reparations study commission
“This bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to right the economic scales of past harms and make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed,” Booker said in a statement earlier this week.
Booker’s legislation mirrors a bill introduced in the House by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). It would, if passed, form a commission to study the “impact of slavery and continuing discrimination against African-Americans” and make recommendations on reparation proposals for descendants of slaves.
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