Every member of Congress opposed reparations bills for nearly 30 years

Evidence

“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: Directly feeds the counterargument that reparations have long been politically unviable — the ‘impracticality’ objection Brown must answer in her remedy-design chapter.