Will the US Congress ever do the right thing without significant pressure from the United Nations and its member States?

Here’s a quote from a 1997 news article.

“Every year since 1989, members of Congress have pushed for a study into how the US might atone for slavery, its aftermath and legacy. And every year, the white majority says the subject is off limits. The proposal could either begin an unprecedented examination of institutional racism in the United States or once again mark how far the government is from confronting historical scars.

The plight of H.R. 40, which would establish a Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans, encapsulates the controversy over how, or whether, the US government should deal with the legacy of slavery.

Re-introducing the bill in the House of Representatives, John Conyers (D Michigan) remarked that despite the resistance the legislation has encountered (it has never advanced to a floor vote, though it has resurfaced each year since 1989), its mission is relatively modest. H.R. 40 would not authorize compensation for descendants of slaves. Rather, it would merely require Congress to consider the issue in an effort ‘to further a national dialogue on the plight of African Americans in the context of slavery, Jim Crow, and other legally sanctioned discrimination.’ “

Will the US Congress ever do the right thing for us without significant pressure from the United Nations and its member States? I think not.

www.AllForReparations.org.