Congressional reparations legislation languished for decades unpassed

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 28 “In 1989, Representative John Conyers Jr., who retired in 2017, introduced legislation to create a commission to develop proposals for reparations. He introduced it every year for nearly 30 years. It went nowhere. Even President Barack Obama opposed reparations, calling the idea impractical.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1128

Categorization

• XREF: Obama’s ‘impractical’ framing is exactly the pragmatism objection Brown’s accounting-as-duty argument is designed to beat.