AOC Commemorates Juneteenth By Calling For Reparations
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, R-NY, is celebrating Juneteenth by calling for a Commission on Reparations. The holiday commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States.
Happy #Juneteenth!
To celebrate, let’s pass legislation that makes Juneteenth a national holiday and enact H.R. 40, Rep @JacksonLeeTX18’s Commission on Reparations.
How are you honoring today?
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 19, 2020
Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter Friday morning, “Happy #Juneteenth! To celebrate, let’s pass legislation that makes Juneteenth a national holiday and enact H.R. 40, Rep @JacksonLeeTX18’s Commission on Reparations. How are you honoring today?”
COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities.
Why? Because the chronic toll of redlining, environmental racism, wealth gap, etc. ARE underlying health conditions.
Inequality is a comorbidity. COVID relief should be drafted with a lens of reparations.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 3, 2020
This isn’t the first time Ocasio-Cortez has made the call for reparations. In April, she asked for reparations for minority communities amid the spread of the novel coronavirus saying that the virus is “disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities,” adding that “Inequality is a comorbidity. COVID relief should be drafted with a lens of reparations.”
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