{"id":564450,"date":"2021-06-15T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564450"},"modified":"2021-06-15T12:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:36:47","slug":"black-democrats-want-vote-on-reparations-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-democrats-want-vote-on-reparations-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Democrats Want Vote On Reparations This Month"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fblack-democrats-want-vote-on-reparations-this-month%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=564450&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1321185436.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Black Democrats want party leaders to agree to hold a vote on reparations this month, following the 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/558412-black-democrats-press-leaders-for-reparations-vote-this-month?rl=1\">reported<\/a> that members of the Congressional Black Caucus visited Tulsa, Oklahoma last month on the anniversary of the massacre, and now they want \u201cto stage a reparations vote\u201d in order to get Congress \u201cto launch a study into the delicate question of whether the country owes Black Americans restitution for slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These lawmakers, including Reps. Hank Johnson (D-GA) and Barbara Lee (D-CA), returned from the trip and began pushing Democratic leaders to hold a reparations vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those of us who went to Tulsa, it became even more apparent to us how important it is to pass H.R. 40 and to do so certainly before we leave for the August recess,\u201d Johnson said, according to the Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reported that Johnson also said the victims of Greenwood and their descendants never received compensation for the massacre, even from their insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came away united with the strong feeling that now is the time to do [it],\u201d Johnson added. \u201cAnd so we will now address leadership with this newfound sense of energy and urgency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee echoed Johnson\u2019s statement after returning from Tulsa and meeting descendants of the victims and three living survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTulsa is ground zero, I believe, in terms of raising the level of awareness, and the whys, and the importance of reparations and getting H.R. 40 passed,\u201d Lee said, as reported by the Hill. \u201cWe\u2019re pushing hard. I don\u2019t know of a date yet, but \u2026 I\u2019m encouraging and urging and we\u2019re hoping that this is seen as a priority and will be brought to the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) sponsored H.R. 40, which would \u201ccreate a commission charged with studying the long history of slavery in the United States \u2014 as well as the racial discrimination that followed the Civil War, up to today \u2014 and recommend ways to compensate living descendants,\u201d the Hill reported.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the House Judiciary Committee approved the legislation, since Democrats currently control Congress.<\/p>\n<p>As the Hill noted, the issue of reparations is unlikely to be popular among more moderate Democrats as the party looks ahead to the midterm elections. From the Hill:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>Republicans don\u2019t appear ready to provide those Democratic moderates with any cover. Every GOP lawmaker on the Judiciary Committee had voted against the measure, largely out of concern that the outside commission would be stacked with Democrats and lead inevitably to astronomical cash payouts they say the Treasury can\u2019t afford.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The partisan nature of the debate, combined with the concerns of moderate Democrats, means the legislation is hardly guaranteed passage if and when it does come to the floor. The legislation has 189 co-sponsors \u2014 all of them Democrats, most of them liberals \u2014 setting up what could be a divisive showdown between centrists and progressives at a time when leadership is fighting to hold the party together for the sake of passing Biden\u2019s ambitious agenda.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration, of course, says it is in favor of studying reparations.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Democrats want party leaders to agree to hold a vote on reparations this month, following the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.The Hill reported that members of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896048,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/564450","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=564450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}