US group welcomes vote to set up commission on slavery reparations jamaicaobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jamaicaobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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On 14 April, members of Congress took a landmark step closer towards a long-awaited national reckoning over the compounded, generations-long impacts of slavery – and whether the US will formally recognise the need to redress its legacy, and apologise for it.
HR 40 – as in “40 acres and a mule”, the false promise offered to formerly enslaved people in the Civil War’s wake by Union general William Tecumsah Sherman – would create a 13-member commission to study and hold hearings on the impacts of slavery and discrimination before issuing “appropriate remedies” to Congress, as well as the form of a national apology.