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Powerful call to action under the theme, ‘Why We Can’t Wait,’ by over 100 orgs., incl. @ReparationsComm @hrw @NCOBRA40 @ACLU, urges #US Congress to pass #HR40. The journey to repair the lasting harms of slavery starts w/ #HR40. #WeCantWait #ReparationsNow https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/03/us-congress-should-pass-reparations-bill
For 30 years #HR40 has languished in the legislative chambers, never being voted out of committee, but w/ renewed energy & new momentum around the bill, Congress should take up the bill this session. @JacksonLeeTX18 @RepJerryNadler @SpeakerPelosi https://www.wsj.com/articles/reparations-to-black-americans-for-slavery-gain-new-attention-11595685600
Urge your representatives to support #HR40 here: http://www.hrw.org/reparationsnow . All members should be on board with this call for reparatory justice. The #US must reckon with its past and ongoing harms. @SupportHR40 @lucymcbath @gregstantonaz @RepDMP
#HR40 can’t wait, when #COVID__19 is harming Black people in the #US at three times the rate of white people, with disparities across all age groups and areas of the country. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html
#HR40 can’t wait, when Black infants are more than twice as likely to die as white infants—making the disparity worse than it was in 1850, when Black people were enslaved. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/health/age-women-birth-rising-wellness/index.html
#HR40 can’t wait, when Black families are disproportionately denied mortgages and fair lending rates regardless of their incomes. https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks-are-shutting-the-door-to-homeownership/
#HR40 can’t wait, when the gap between Black and white wealth is as large as it was in 1968. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/04/economic-divide-black-households/
#HR40 can’t wait, when school districts that serve higher populations of Black and brown students receive $23 billion less in funding compared to mostly white school districts, even though they serve the same number of children. https://edbuild.org/content/23-billion/full-report.pdf
#HR40 can’t wait, when Black students are disproportionately punished and criminalized in their schools, beginning in preschool, facing greater rates of suspension, expulsion, and arrest compared to their white peers, often for the same behaviors. https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/030419-acluschooldisciplinereport.pdf
#HR40 can’t wait, when systemic racism is leaving Black people w/ symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, harm to their immune systems, premature aging, all while Black people are less likely than white people to have access to mental health services. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/take-care-black-women/202006/racial-trauma-is-public-health-emergency
#HR40 can’t wait, when the suicide rate for Black children is rising faster than for any other racial and ethnic group, and the second-leading cause of death for Black youth aged 10 to 19. https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/uploadedfiles/full_taskforce_report.pdf
Don’t ask us to wait, when governments’ infrastructure plans have racially segregated cities, creating separate conditions of life for Black & white people through “urban removal,” highway construction, restrictive zoning laws, & use of eminent domain. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality
Don’t ask us to wait, when as a result of government-imposed segregation, health outcomes in Black neighborhoods are disproportionately impacted by heat levels & environmental hazards. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/the-trump-administration-finds-that-environmental-racism-is-real/554315/
Don’t ask us to wait, when formerly enslaved Black people & their descendants managed to own 14 million acres of land at the start of the 20th century, while today at least 90 percent of that land is not in their possession. http://modernfarmer.com/2019/08/how-did-african-american-farmers-lose-90-percent-of-their-land/
Don’t ask to us wait when the property tax system has discriminated against Black families throughout history, saddling them with an unfair tax burden – and when to this day, Black people pay 13 percent more in property taxes than white families. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/black-property-tax/
Don’t ask us to wait, when even dying costs Black people more — end-of-life care under Medicare is $7,100 more expensive for Black individuals compared to their white counterparts. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jgs.14263
Don’t ask us to wait, when Black people are more than six times as likely as white people to languish behind bars for possessing drugs for personal use, even though Black & white people use drugs at the same rates. https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/10/12/every-25-seconds/human-toll-criminalizing-drug-use-united-states @SupportHR40
Don’t ask us to wait, when 1 in 1,000 Black men & boys in the #US can expect to die at the hands of police in a country where it’s rare for police officers to face legal consequences — and even rarer to face a conviction — for killing Black people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/protests-spread-over-police-shootings-police-promised-reforms-every-year-they-still-shoot-nearly-1000-people/2020/06/08/5c204f0c-a67c-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html
Don’t ask us to wait, when Black women in the United States are three times more likely to die of preventable pregnancy related causes than white women, and are nearly twice as likely to die from cervical cancer. https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/11/29/us-cervical-cancer-deaths-black-women
“We can’t recover the lives lost to systemic anti-blackness & racial terror. We can’t undo the trauma that has wrecked havoc on Black communities & bodies. But what we can do is pass #HR40.” The #BlackLivesMatter 
movement requires it. #WeCantWait #ReparationsNow @SupportHR40
movement requires it. #WeCantWait #ReparationsNow @SupportHR40
