The House Passes Non-binding Resolution for Slavery and Jim Crow

On Tuesday the House of Representatives passed a resolution, apologizing to African Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow. 

When voting for this resolution it was done as a voice vote and the agreement will be non-binding, meaning that the House can go back on their agreement if necessary.

House votes are traditionally carried out in documentation formation, where votes from all parties are recorded in a log as written proof of the ending resolution and/or result.

But why couldn't the resolution for a slavery apology pass the traditional way? 

When former Republican President Ronald Reagan, signed the Civil Liberties Act for all 120 thousand Japanese Americans who were forced from their homes -- it was voted on and documented the traditional way. Sixty thousand detainees who were still alive received reparations of 20 thousand dollars each from the United States Government. The vote was also binding, meaning it couldn't be changed in any way.

However, the federal government prefers to make their first apology ever in history for slavery and Jim Crow, a non-binding agreement? Why would they want to go back on an agreement for something as serious and as painstakingly important as this? 

If they're going to take this BIG of a step, they might as well do it the right way or else why even do it at all? Don't put it out there temporarily to make African Americans feel good for the moment, while the race for the White House is still in play. 

In the apology The House acknowledged the injustice, cruelty, and brutality of slavery and Jim Crow, while describing the current affects and conditions from that era as, "African Americans continue to suffer long after both systems of slavery and Jim Crow were formally abolished, through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible." 

Definition of Jim Crow: State and local laws which were carried out mostly in Southern and border states of the United States, when African Americans were denied the right to vote, were legally segregated (separated) from whites, and had many other civil liberties taken away from the early 1600's to 1965. The name "Jim Crow" came from a character played by T.D. "Daddy" Rice, who was a white man that played a slave while in black face. (T.D. "Daddy" Rice seen-r)

President Reagan signing the Civil Liberties Act which legislated monetary reparations and an official apology to thousands of Japanese Americans, whose rights had been violated almost 50 years prior -- saw this moment as a  vindication of justice; just as reparations for African Americans would also mean justice.

So until the federal government "traditionally" documents the resolution apology for slavery and Jim Crow, give well over due reparations while making it a binding agreement, I personally do not not accept their apology.

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