{"id":184639,"date":"2021-03-01T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=184639"},"modified":"2021-03-01T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T18:01:08","slug":"senior-biden-adviser-says-white-house-will-start-acting-on-reparations-without-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-biden-adviser-says-white-house-will-start-acting-on-reparations-without-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Biden Adviser Says White House Will Start Acting on Reparations Without Congress"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsenior-biden-adviser-says-white-house-will-start-acting-on-reparations-without-congress%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=184639&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>A senior adviser to President Joe Biden said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> will act without Congress to develop proposals for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-reparations\">reparations<\/a>, or direct payments to African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/biden-cedric-richmond-reparations-f4984eab-18fd-4f4b-ad14-4cd10c54a18a.html\">told Axios on Sunday:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t want to wait on a study. We\u2019re going to start acting now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have held people of color back and especially African Americans,\u201d Richmond added to the outlet. \u201cWe have to do stuff now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you start talking about free college tuition to [historically black colleges and universities] and you start talking about free community college in Title I and all of those things, I think that you are well on your way,\u201d he remarked, noting that a timeline for Congress\u2019s commission to study reparations was not known.<\/p>\n<p>Legislation for reparations was first introduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) in 1989. In recent years,\u00a0Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has repeatedly introduced the measure.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki last month told reporters that Biden is open to creating a commission to study the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3590193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cedric-Richmond-600x416-1.jpg\" alt=\"Representative Cedric Richmond\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then-Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 17, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger\/Pool\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe certainly would support a study of reparations,\u201d she said. \u201cHe understands we don\u2019t need a study to take action right now on systemic racism, so he wants to take actions within his own government in the meantime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea of reparations has been flagged as problematic for a variety of reasons, including how recipients of reparations would be selected, how much would be doled out, who would foot the bill, and how much it would actually cost.<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/scs-clyburn-pans-reparations-opportunity-zones-as-unable-to-address-racial-inequality\/article_3bb2e8ba-3eb3-11e9-b75a-a376c84be23f.html\">said<\/a> in 2019 to the Post and Courier that \u201cpure reparations would be impossible to implement, but we can deal with the issue [of racial inequality] if we just admit, first of all, that it exists and then come up with some straightforward ways to deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Clyburn said a debate about reparations would lead to a debate about who would be eligible due to extensive family trees that have come about following the abolition of slavery more than 150 years ago. Clyburn said that some white people could make claims to reparations, saying they have family ties to former slaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that a fair way to do it?\u201d Clyburn asked. \u201cI say not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior adviser to President Joe Biden said the White House will act without Congress to develop proposals for reparations, or direct payments to African Americans. 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