[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 82 (Thursday, May 16, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H3913]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





               TACKLE ISSUES AFFECTING BLACK MEN AND BOYS

  (Mr. PAYNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAYNE. Madam Speaker, from their health outcomes to their 
unemployment income, from their education rate to their incarceration 
rate, Black men and boys are disproportionately impacted by government 
policies.
  It is not that Black men and boys are falling behind. It is that they 
have never been ahead.
  For centuries, government policies have redlined Black men and boys 
into a lower social status than their White counterparts. This is an 
institutional problem.
  Yesterday, I joined with many of my colleagues at the House Triangle 
to stand in support of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson's bill to create 
the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys.
  We were joined by young men who want nothing more than to live the 
American Dream free of discrimination. This country owes them that.
  H.R. 1636 will bring together experts to tackle the wide range of 
issues that have kept Black men and boys behind for hundreds of years. 
It will mark the beginning of the end of racial disparities that have 
kept communities across the country down.
  Madam Speaker, I am proud to support it.

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