(DailyAnswer.org) – Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett has suggested that African Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations, but also admitted that the plan may not work in practice due to many within poor black communities not paying taxes in the first place. Crockett made the comments in an interview with host J. Carter on the Black Lawyers Podcast. She recalled a celebrity’s proposal of tax exemption for Black Americans, suggesting it was “not necessarily” a bad idea.
Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. quietly deleted his initial stance on reparations from his campaign website after backlash from both Democrats, who did not feel his policy went far enough, and Republicans, who saw it as a display of radically left-wing views. Kennedy had been proposing tax credits or direct redress payments to compensate victims of Jim Crow laws and other victims of persecution.
In 2023, Black Lives Matter activist and Democratic Missouri Representative Cori Bush claimed a $14 trillion reparations bill would eliminate the wealth gap between white and black Americans. In 2023, the party’s Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno suggested reparations of a different kind: for white people descended from Civil War soldiers. Republican former House Speaker Mitch McConnell vocally opposed reparations in 2019, stating that nobody alive today is to blame for slavery.
Cities in California, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, have discussed paying black communities reparations. In February, the state’s lawmakers proposed a reparations package to the state assembly. The package would include 14 bills that Democrats claim would assist black communities throughout the state after historical oppression. The 14 bills call for a formal apology for slavery from the governor and the state’s legislature. In December 2023, Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill that set up a commission to look into the best ways to pay reparations to the state’s descendants of slaves. Crockett is standing for re-election in November and criticized those unwilling to conduct studies into or invest in the most effective methods of reparations.
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