house caucus that are members of the congressional black caucus, including people like chairwoman maxine waters, we have historic investment in housing, more than $320 billion investing in affordable housing and more section 8 services, going in and retro fitting public housing, through the leadership of our chairwoman, eddie bernice johnson. we have historic investments in science and technology for hbcu colleges and universities to make sure that they are being equipped with the funding and research dollars that they need, through the leadership of chairman bobby scott of the education and labor committee. we are investing in historic amounts of funding for child care, for workforce development so that as we build back better, we do it in a way that does not leave any community behind. and with other leaders like chairman meeks, we re making
i m a personal friend of both lieutenant governor mr. fairfax as well as governor northam. and i think now we have to decide how we re going to shift this conversation to ensure that we make action and have tangible resources put behind the words. specifically when you look at blackface and just how disrespectful and how detrimental it is to the african-american community, what i m looking forward to seeing now is the governor saying, well, listen, i apologize, but also want to try to make this right, not just with my words but with my actions. so i challenged governor northam as well as our elected officials who are stating in which they understand where he s coming from, they re all sorry. so, are we going to put resources behind those apologies? for example, are we going to ask governor northam, are you going to provide a multi-million dollar grant in your budget for hbcu colleges and universities in the commonwealth of virginia? are we going to ask attorney general herring, are you
one of the reasons i m doing what i m doing now there were no people on television who looked like my family. it was, you know, j.j. and whatever. which is fine. those families were real and they existed. it looked like the people in my neighborhood, the kinds of homes they had, the kinds of events they went to. they went to hbcu colleges. all had degrees and they worked as professors and doctors and engineers. but that s not. i was happy to see that on television. i know that s not all of black america. even now people still grasp those images. i mean even rest in peace uncle phil, you re the only father i ever knew. this is very real whether or not it s uncle phil or bill cosby. i also want to highlight one other thing.