(US) Rep. Cori Bush pushes for federal reparations…14 trillion for Black Americans to “close the racial wealth gap,” according to Rep. Bush.

Below excerpt reported by Peterson. B. (2023, May 20). Rep. Cori Bush says $14 trillion reparations bill will 'eliminate the racial wealth gap'. ABC News
(US) Rep. Cori Bush says $14 trillion reparations bill will 'eliminate the racial wealth gap'

The bill notes the White House and Congress were built by enslaved Black people.

'The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of Black people in the United States," H.R. 414 declares.'

'The Missouri congresswoman told ABC News that she is one of an estimated 40 million people in the U.S. who are descendants of enslaved Africans -- and argued in her resolution that the federal government "must compensate descendants of enslaved Black people and people of African descent in the United States to account for the harms of chattel slavery, the cumulative damages of enslavement, and the epochs of legal and de facto segregation."'

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