The White House is “going to start acting now” to address reparations to African Americans, a White House senior adviser said in a new interview, as Congress debates forming a commission to study how the policy could be implemented.
Speaking to “Axios on HBO” in an interview set to air Monday, White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond discussed efforts targeted to helping minority communities.
While the administration may back the study, Richmond added that they were not waiting on Congress.
“We don’t want to wait on a study. We’re going to start acting now,” he told the outlet.
“We have to start breaking down systemic racism and barriers that have held people of color back and especially African Americans,” Richmond told the outlet. “[W]e have to do stuff now.”
“If 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,” he continued, noting that a timeline for Congress’ commission was not known.
In legislation first introduced by the late Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) in 1989, and reintroduced repeatedly in years since by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tx.), Democratic lawmakers have called for Congress to form a commission to study the issue.
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4 comments:
Making people alive today that never owned slaves pay they're harder and money to people alive today that never were slaves is BS!
Merely the way of the tribe as they yearn for the "good old days" of their Messiahs - Lenin and Stalin...
Over 360,000 Union soldiers paid in blood to stop slavery. The bill is paid in full.
Whwn do I get paid for my ancestors who died in the War between the States?
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