Slavery Reparations Supported in Texas?

The Raw Story reported on a Dallas, Texas, County Commissioner who was so inspired by journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates' case for reparations, that he decided to draw up a senate bill with regards to Juneteenth -- the month in which slavery was abolished.

And while he was at it he interjected in the bill, that all descendants of slaves in Texas should receive monetary reparations as a result of over 400 years of enslavement.

The bill passed with flying colors and only when the story was nationally recognized, did the opposing Texas commissioners object that they didn't read the bill in its entirety. 

The piece of legislation wasn't a binding agreement unfortunately, meaning that it could be overturned at anytime, but you have to give huge kudos to Democratic Commissioner John Wiley Price, for having the cojones to write such a bill.

Will this bill spark even more calls for monetary reparations across the nation? Only time will tell.

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