When Will We Move Beyond Merely "Exploring" the Idea of Reparations?

In 2019 Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (18th District-Texas) sponsored the H.R. 40 bill that introduced the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans. The commission was assembled to examine slavery and discrimination in the U.S. from 1619 to the present by identifying three key variables:

1.) The role of the federal an…