US: Open Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi / Mon Oct 19th Day of Action
By Dr. Ron Daniels From IBW21.org – Institute of the Black World 21st Century
“Why We Can’t Wait”
Open Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Support Reparations and Pass HR-40 Now!
Monday October 19th Day of Action
Dear Madame Speaker, with a Democratic Majority in the House of Representatives and one of the most consequential elections in the history of this nation slated to occur in a few weeks, it’s time to send a powerful sign to Black voters that Black Lives Matter by passing HR-40 now!
2020 marks thirty-one years since the late Congressman John Conyers first introduced HR-40 as a bill to establish a Commission to Study Slavery, Jim Crow Laws and other post-emancipation discriminatory policies in the U.S. to determine whether reparations for African Americans were warranted. Congressman Conyers was moved to act by the impatient insistence of reparations activists in his district led by one of his staunch supporters Ray Jenkins aka Reparations Ray. Reparations Ray was reflecting the sentiments of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) and its allies that reparations were long overdue for the holocaust of enslavement.
Congressman Conyers religiously introduced HR-40 every year as a “study” bill designed to ask a doubting nation whether an original sin should at least be examined to assess whether the African American wealth gap and other…
| Monday October 19, 2020 Today we urge reparations advocates across this nation to recall the unfulfilled promise of “40 acres and a mule” which was made to formerly enslaved Africans in the U.S. more than 150 years ago. This coming Monday October 19th, we ask you to join us for a collective Day of Action to Demand That Congress Pass HR-40 Now! Here’s how you can help Monday October 19th contact Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a simple message – Pass HR-40 Now! • Call Pelosi’s DC Office: (202) 225-4965 • Send Pelosi an Email: www.speaker.gov/contact • Tag Pelosi on Twitter: @SpeakerPelosi • Tag Pelosi on Facebook: @NancyPelosi • Use the HR-40 Day of Action Social Toolkit: Use the link below to select social media content to share on your social media outlets. • Encourage your friends, family and colleagues to do join the HR-40 DAY OF ACTION ALSO! HR-40 Social Toolkit We Can’t Wait another 150 years for reparations. Act to Pass HR-40 Now!#PassHR40Now • #WeCantWait • #ReparationsNow |
| ABOUT DR. RON DANIELS Dr. Ron Daniels is President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and Distinguished Lecturer Emeritus, York College City University of New York. His articles and essays appear on the IBW website www.ibw21.org and numerous Black and progressive newspapers nationwide. His w eekly radio show, Vantage Point, can be heard Mondays 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM on WBAI, 99.5 FM, Pacifica in New York, streaming live via WBAI.org. To send a message, arrange media interviews or speaking engagements, Dr. Daniels can be reached via email at[email protected] |
