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(Washington, DC) – A coalition of racial justice and human rights groups came together on June 16, 2022 to press United States President Joe Biden to issue an executive order creating a federal commission to study and develop proposals for reparations for enslavement and its legacy. The coalition built a 150 x 50-foot Pan African flag made of flowers and plants on the Ellipse outside of the White House to draw attention to the issue.
For mainstream lawmakers, the January 6 attack was a wake-up call to a simmering threat. No longer able to pretend white nationalist violence is a fringe remnant of a bygone era, some elected officials have drawn attention to law enforcement’s negligence to prevent the violence at the capitol and are calling for new approaches.
However, some of their calls to action point toward old approaches that have only entrenched the forces of white supremacy: domestic terrorism laws. In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack, President Joe Biden expressed support for a domestic terrorism law. Brian O’Hare, the president of the FBI Agents Association, called on Congress to make domestic terrorism a federal crime. In a February