A new bill introduced by Rep. Cori Bush is urging the federal government to issue $14 trillion in Reparations.
The resolution also calls for further momentum on the state and local levels.
The U.S. benefited from over 222 million hours of forced slave labor, or the equivalent of roughly $97 trillion worth of work, between 1619 and 1865 during the end of slavery, the resolution estimates. But unlike the white enslavers, Bush notes, "those who were stripped of their dignity and made to work without compensation, they weren't repaid."
Her effort follows a similar bill from Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., reintroduced on Thursday, which called for the creation of the "United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation." That bill, Lee said, would create a "Commissionwill examine the effects of slavery, institutional racism, and discrimination against people of color, and how our history impacts laws and policies today.
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