I am proud to co-sponsor the H.R. Sens. In February, Booker co-sponsored the Marijuana Justice Act, which would end the federal prohibition on marijuana. I am pleased that Senator Booker has introduced a Senate Companion to H.R. "The War on Drugs has not been a war on drugs, it's been a war on people, and disproportionately people of color and low-income individuals," Booker said in a statement. The senator from New Jersey said Monday that “this bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit … 40. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by Rep. John Conyers.
"Since slavery in this country, we have had overt policies fueled by white supremacy and racism that have oppressed African Americans economically for generations," Booker said in a statement. 40 Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act to finally bring the truth about slavery into the open,” said “The enslavement of Africans in America has had significant and long-lasting economic and social impacts on their descendants, who continue to face racial discrimination. We can’t have one without the other," tweeted Booker. The landmark bill, introduced by Booker in April, is the only reparations bill ever to be introduced in the post-Reconstruction U.S. Senate. His campaign figures trail those of his major Democratic competitors, with O’Rourke raising $6.1 million during his first 24 hours of campaigning and Sanders raising $5.9 million over the same amount of time.Much of Booker's campaign has hinged on social justice issues, including legalizing marijuana and expunging criminal records for marijuana-related crimes. "Many of our bedrock domestic policies that have ushered millions of Americans into the middle class have systematically excluded blacks through practices like GI Bill discrimination and redlining. We have still not come to terms with the horrors of legalized slavery and its continuing impacts on our society. It’s important that we right the wrongs of our nation’s most discriminatory policies, which halted the upward mobility of African-American communities,” said “Slavery and a long history of systemically racist policies have physically and economically enslaved generations of African Americans. If the House were to vote on and pass the bill, it would likely stall in the Senate, where Republican leaders have shown no interest in pursuing reparations legislation. — A reparations bill (S.1083) led by U.S.
On Tuesday, Booker formally filed a bill in the Senate that would form a commission to explore reparations proposals for African American descendants of slavery, according to a statement. Al Sharpton, O'Rourke said he would sign Jackson Lee's bill.Other candidates like Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Julián Castro voiced their support for reparations but offered few other details.Reparations as an issue and Jackson Lee's bill itself have become contentious subjects for candidates who are courting black voters in the primary race.Booker took a sharper, more firm stance on the issue, tweeting that acknowledging the country's past was not enough. "I’ve been unapologetic in my belief that this can’t just be about acknowledging the past. It is time for a commission to study and suggest reparations proposals as part of a larger effort to ameliorate the systemic racism in American society. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has reached 12 cosponsors in the Senate.