‘Chill, Chill, Chill, Chill!’: Congressional Hearing Explodes As Witness Trashes Slavery Reparations Bill

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A congressional hearing erupted when Quillette writer Coleman Hughes trashed a bill to study slavery reparations as a “moral and political mistake,” forcing the chair of the hearing to tell the audience to “chill” several times.

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties held a hearing Wednesday entitled “H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative Justice,” at which witnesses testified about reparations for slavery. HR 40 is a bill which proposes a commission to study reparations.

Hughes testified for the minority and delivered a lengthy opening statement against the bill in question. After noting that “nothing I’m about to say is meant to minimize the horror and brutality of slavery and Jim Crow” and that he considers “our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the civil war to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the US government,” he went in on the bill for four solid minutes.

The audience at the hearing booed Hughes after he said, “Black people don’t need another apology. We need safer neighborhoods and better schools. We need a less punitive criminal justice system. We need affordable health care. And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery.”

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https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4803533/ta-nehisi-coates-danny-glover-make-case-slavery-reparations

JUNE 19, 2019 | CLIP OF HOUSE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING ON SLAVERY REPARATIONS

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https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4803834/coleman-hughes-testifies-reparations

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https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4803564/nfl-player-burgess-owens-argues-slavery-reparations

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https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4803601/loyola-professor-eric-j-miller-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-make-case-reparations

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