Black Lawmakers Meet With President Biden to Discuss Racial Inequities And COVID-19
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With President Joe Biden getting more comfortable in his new position as commander-in-chief, Black lawmakers are rallying together to urge Biden to deliver on their political agenda for the Black community.
On Tuesday, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) headed to the White House to meet privately with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris about their legislative vision,
USA Today reports. The meeting comes amid heightened racial tension in the country following the latest police shooting in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday as well as an uptick in anti-Asian hate crimes.
“There is a big difference between the two,” Harris told
theGrio. “Among the issues is the issue of training and having law enforcement who carry both be very clear about the difference between the two, because as we have seen the consequence can be the loss of life and an unjustifiable loss of life.”
Ironically, Potter was a 26-year veteran on the job who trained younger, less experienced officers.
The vice president echoed public statements she made Tuesday about Wright’s death, saying “he should still be alive today.” Harris also noted that Wright was the father to a young son, stating “that little baby boy of his is without a father … he has a family that loves him.”
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WASHINGTON - The debate over whether to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved people will take a step forward Wednesday when a House committee votes on legislation to create a commission to study the issue, which has been fiercely debated over the past year on the campaign trail and in several communities across the country. The bill was first proposed in 1989 by former congressman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., but has never received a committee vote as it drew little interest from congressional leaders. But advocates of reparations pushed it to the forefront last year as racial justice protests were held across the country following more police killings of Black Americans, including George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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