Democratic Lawmaker Claims Black Americans Will Stop Voting if They Don’t Get Reparations

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren’t given reparations.

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Lee reintroduced a resolution in May that, if passed, could give federal dollars to the descendants of enslaved people brought from Africa to the United States. Former Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. — who lost her 2024 primary to a more moderate Democrat — introduced the reparations bill in the last Congress. Bush’s bill, unveiled in May 2023, called for $14 trillion to be put toward reparations payments for descendants of slavery in the United States, but it did not go anywhere.

Lee told “The Native Land Pod” that she wasn’t surprised Democrats weren’t backing reparation efforts.

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The Democratic congresswoman was asked about how reparations would work in practice, and about what host Andrew Gillum said was how the right has made the term reparations so “raggedy, ugly, so unattractive that White liberals are avoiding signing onto it.”

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Lee said in May that she knew there would be pushback on reparations legislation.

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