{"id":1750857,"date":"2022-11-25T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750857"},"modified":"2022-11-25T06:17:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:17:57","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-pelosis-likely-replacement-supports-commission-to-study-slavery-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hakeem-jeffries-pelosis-likely-replacement-supports-commission-to-study-slavery-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries, Pelosi\u2019s Likely Replacement, Supports Commission to Study Slavery Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhakeem-jeffries-pelosis-likely-replacement-supports-commission-to-study-slavery-reparations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750857&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\">Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the top candidate to replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/nancy-pelosi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-of-representatives\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Democratic leader<\/a>, supports legislation to study the feasibility of providing reparations to the descendants of enslaved individuals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Jeffries, D-N.Y., is one of nearly 200 co-sponsors of a bill to create a national commission to study and develop proposals on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/reparations-legislation-advocates-lack-specifics-support-government-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slavery reparations<\/a>. The 13-member commission would be tasked with presenting appropriate remedies to the lingering negative effects of slavery and discrimination within the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The call for reparations represents a commitment to entering a constructive dialogue on the role of slavery and racism in shaping present-day conditions in our community and American society,&#8221; said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat who authored the legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the bill has failed to make progress in the Democratic-controlled House since 2019, its support has grown in recent years. Jeffries was one of the bill&#8217;s early supporters when it was first introduced in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/election-denier-hakeem-jeffries-replace-pelosi-house-dem-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ELECTION DENIER HAKEEM JEFFRIES COULD REPLACE PELOSI AS HOUSE DEM LEADER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/640\/320\/hakeem-jeffries-reuters.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"\" The least we can do is study these historic wrongs \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      &#8220;The least we can do is study these historic wrongs,&#8221; said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. &#8220;That\u2019s the least that this Congress can do.&#8221;<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During a hearing on the bill in the House Judiciary Committee last year, Jeffries said a study on reparations was the least that Congress could do after generations of injustice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/who-is-hakeem-jeffries-rumored-next-leader-for-house-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>WHO IS HAKEEM JEFFRIES, HOUSE DEMOCRATS&#8217; LIKELY NEXT LEADER?<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re not going to move on because after slavery, [there was] Jim Crow and the rise of the KKK,&#8221; Jeffries said at the time. &#8220;And the lynching epidemic. And Plessy v. Ferguson. And Black Wall Street in 1921 destroyed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/PelosiSpeech.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is seen as the top candidate to replace Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic leader next Congress.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is seen as the top candidate to replace Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic leader next Congress.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great country, we&#8217;ve come a long way, we still have a long way to go, we&#8217;re not perfect, but we&#8217;re marching to a more perfect union,&#8221; said Jeffries. &#8220;The least we can do is study these historic wrongs. That\u2019s the least that this Congress can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffries announced his bid to succeed Pelosi last week. The 52-year-old New Yorker has received nearly universal support for his ascension. His path was further cleared when Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat who chairs the nearly-100 member Congressional Progressive Caucus, opted to not mount a run of her own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Haris Alic is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the top candidate to replace Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic leader, supports legislation to study the feasibility of providing reparations to the descendants of enslaved individuals.\u00a0Jeffries, D-N.Y.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}