[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 126 (Monday, July 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ENDING SYSTEMIC RACISM

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, most of the colleagues of this House 
know that I have introduced H.R. 40, the Commission to Study Slavery 
and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, which can 
be defined as repairing.
  I read to my colleagues an assessment of the U.N. Human Rights chief 
in a landmark report, launched after the killing of George Floyd in the 
United States, urging countries worldwide to do more to help end 
discrimination, violence, and systemic racism against people of African 
descent and to make amends to them, including repair, reparations.
  That word strikes fear in most people's hearts and minds because they 
don't take a moment to understand what ending systemic racism and 
institutional racism is or what repairing is. Repairing is a global 
concept. It means that if you have been harmed or there is something 
broken, you fix it.
  When you think about racism in the United States, it is something 
broken. There are many ways to address it: dealing with education and 
healthcare, dealing with the economy of people who have an enormous 
wealth gap, but breaching the gap and bringing people together.
  I ask my colleagues for us to move forward on H.R. 40 because it is 
healing legislation, and it will bring Americans together.

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