Vice President Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), the presumptive Democratic nominee for president in the 2024 election, has voiced her support for legislation that would create a commission to determine how to hand out reparations to black Americans.
As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposal for African-Americans Act was introduced in April 2019 and co-sponsored by Harris, who at the time was still a senator from California. The bill would establish a 13-member commission to “study and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, its subsequent de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans.”
The legislation and its goals are similar to a law that was already passed in Harris’ home state of California. Assembly Bill 3121 was passed by the overwhelmingly Democrat-controlled legislature and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), establishing the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans.
The task force concluded its studies last year and submitted its official recommendations to Governor Newsom,…
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