The Breitbart News reports that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would create a commission to study reparations for slavery of black Americans. The committee’s vote was split along party lines, with 25 Democrats voting in favor and 17 Republicans voting against.
The bill was designated H.R. 40, referring to 40 acres of land and a mule, a promise made by the Civil War-era U.S. government to the newly freed slaves after emancipation and not kept.
The bill would establish a 15-member “Commission to Study and Develop an African-American Reparations Program” that would recommend “appropriate remedies. It is unclear who will pay whom.
The Washington Post reports that “Democrats are largely in favor of the proposal. “
Burgess Owens, one of two black Republicans in the House, said, “Slavery was and still is an evil. But reparations are divisive and it shows the false truth that we are a helpless, hopeless race that has never done anything but wait for white people to show up and help us.”
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