The Missouri Democrat's bill cites a 'moral and legal obligation' for the U.S. to address the 'enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm.'
"Our mayor just put together a commission to be able to work on what reparations would look like for St. Louis," said Bush, who has the backing of nearly 300 grassroots organizations."Because we're seeing it on the local level, that's where a big part of that push will come from, I believe."
Bush called it a"starting point" and cited scholars who estimate the U.S. benefited from over 222 million hours of forced labor between 1619 and the end of slavery in 1865, a value of approximately $97 trillion today. The legislation builds upon a decadeslong push in Congress for reparations. Earlier this year, Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, both Democrats, reintroduced and S.40, which would establish a commission to study and develop reparations proposals for African Americans. Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California also re-upped a bill last month to create the first U.S. Commission on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation to examine the impact of slavery.
"I am going to be calling folks out on this," Bush forewarned."There has to be restitution and compensation. There has to be rehabilitation and so that is what I'm going to throw back at them." found 48% of Democrats surveyed believe descendants of enslaved people should be repaid in some way, while 91% of Republicans think they should not.
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