LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Nevada Democratic assemblymember is proposing a invoice to create a fee to review discrimination in opposition to Black People and attainable reparations.
Assem. Ruben D’Silva’s proposal would create a physique inside the Nevada System of Larger Training to research and examine “the economic, political, social, educational, and historical impacts of slavery, Jim Crow… racial discrimination, and other lingering effects of slavery,” in accordance with a information launch.
The fee would then current its findings to the Legislature the subsequent legislative session, together with attainable “forms of rehabilitation or restitution to descendants of formerly enslaved Africans,” a invoice draft request stated.
“I am honored to bring forth this bill to the 83rd legislative session,” D’Silva stated in a information launch. “This commission will study and address key issues that have stemmed from slavery, Jim Crow, as well as de jure and de facto racial discrimination through a distinctly Nevada lens. This bill is about education and justice.”
The invoice was not launched within the Nevada Meeting as of Tuesday.
“We should always strive against discrimination, but we don’t remedy any of the mistakes of the past by imposing penalties on the current generation, who is guilty of nothing,” Nevada Assem. Gregory Hafen, the highest Republican within the Meeting, stated. “It should also be noted Nevada became a state to help end the Civil War. We helped fund the Union War effort with silver from the Comstock Lode. Nevadans joined Union soldiers to end slavery. We are known as the ‘Battle Born State’ because of our role in helping to get Abraham Lincoln reelected to end slavery. We are not a state with a history of slavery. We are a state whose very birth was rooted in ending it.”
Democrats in California created an identical process pressure in 2020, which later made suggestions, together with financial reparations for qualifying people. Final yr, California lawmakers declined to contemplate any funds.
Lawmakers in Illinois and New York handed related legal guidelines as D’Silva’s proposal to review reparations, the Related Press reported. Within the Nineteen Nineties, Florida created a scholarship fund for descendants of Black Floridians killed in a 1923 bloodbath.
