Rep. Summer Lee has unveiled a bill aimed at giving reparations payments to descendants of slavery. (Getty Images)
Pressley reintroduced a reparations bill during Black History Month this year with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., rejecting the "unprecedented onslaught against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the Trump Administration."
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"Trump’s policies are nothing but anti-Blackness on steroids," Pressley said Thursday before adding, "This America wants to make America Jim Crow again, and then some."
"Reparations are a necessary step towards true equity in our country, and a more just future. There is an opportunity for Congress to confront our nation’s racist history of slavery and White supremacy. We must provide the descendants of enslaved Black families with the reparations they were promised," Tlaib added.
It's an effort mounted by progressive Democrats every year, but one that has little chance of passing.
That's especially true for the 119th Congress, which is controlled by Republicans while President Donald Trump is also in the White House.
Former Rep. Cori Bush introduced a reparations bill in the previous Congress. ((Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images))
The Pennsylvania progressive argued that the U.S. government crafted policies that intentionally disadvantaged Black Americans.
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"They were not theoretical, but they were harms from government policies and practices and laws. There were real laws that were on the book that caused systemic disadvantages. They created systemic advantages for other people. So you can never have equal footing until you remedy that," Lee said.
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