Reparations, health care and the pandemic
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By Monica Moorehead posted on February 8, 2021
The late John Conyers U.S. Representative from Michigan and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus introduced bill HR 40 back in 1989, titled “Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act.”
New York City protest, Feb. 3. WW PHOTO: Sara Flounders
Conyers said, “African slaves were not compensated for their labor. More unclear, however, is what the effects and remnants of this relationship have had on African Americans and our nation from the time of emancipation through today. I chose the number of the bill, 40, as a symbol of the 40 acres and a mule that the United States initially promised freed slaves.” (Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle,” 2007, p. 20)
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