To be clear, HR40 is garbage. It needs to be fixed with edits proposed by Dr. Sandy Darity, or it needs to be scrapped and rewritten from scratch. If you're unaware of the edits proposed, even more reason to replace you in office with someone else who will pay attention. 13/15 #BlackSky

UNTIL The Democrats make the needs of Black Americans a priority, not with performative foolishness like the image here, but in passing legislation that address our needs, they will continue to see the erosion of their base. The 2024 Presidential election is just the beginning. 10/15 #BlackSky

The US government promised the American Freedmen, (the 4 million Blacks who were emancipated at the end of the Civil War), 40 Acres of land per family and a mule to till that land via General Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15. 6/15 #BlackSky

The US paid reparations to slaveholders whose slaves were freed, Pacific Islanders in American territories, Japanese Americans who were interred in US concentration camps, and multiple Native-American tribes. (See a more comprehensive list: guides.library.umass.edu/reparations#...) 5/15 #BlackSky

NONE of them chose to do so.

By every economic measurement, Black Americans come in #DEADLAST in terms of wealth, income, healthcare, homeownership; and first in terms of the incarceration rate and homelessness. We are projected to be wealthless by 2030. 3/15 #BlackSky