Democrat Lawmaker: If You Don't Give Us Reparations, We'll Stop Voting for Democrats

Am I being punked?

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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"And that's what they do," she continued. "Because, again, they're trying to disenfranchise you. Because if you believe that you're never going to get reparations from this system, then you tap out, and you don't just tap out of the conversation, you tap out of the system. You don't want to vote anymore. You don't participate anymore."

"And they know that that's how they don't control Congress," Lee added. "That's how you can get your school boards, your board of supervisors. They want us that far out of this system. So right now, we fight for reparations because it's owed us. It is owed us, so we're not going to back down on that one way or another."

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.

"I'm not shocked that my colleagues are not on it, that Democratic colleagues aren't on it," she said. "Again, there is a level of comfort in this building that sustains people. And I know that the people who don't want reparations back a lot of my colleagues, Democrat and otherwise. So no, I'm not shocked, but it is why we have to keep people on the outside encouraged."

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."

"The reality is, is that the cowardice that liberals are able to show when it comes to all types of things that sound scary, but we know you have, you know, just data, evidence, empirical evidence behind it," Lee said. "And that comes with -- that comes with police accountability, that comes with criminal legal reform, that comes with reparations, right?"

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"We know there will be pushback," she said after she reintroduced the proposal. "Reparations are a proposal to level the playing field, but the only way we could ever have a level playing field is by remedying the harms that have been done by the system."

But Lee signaled on Wednesday that the long odds would not deter her.

Well, good! You secure that bag, bae.

Larry O'Connor also urges black Democrats to make the midterms a referendum on reparations. If we don't demand it, then who? If not now, when?

Another Stunning and Brave black female Democrat, Rep. Uncle Fester, is also pushing Reparations Now, Reparations Tomorrow, Reparations Forever, and I couldn't be happier to help this Strong Empowered Black Woman get her Lived Experience Extortionate List of Demands out there.

Chicago's idiot BlacKKK mayor also demands reparations. In April, he made the very cogent (and very bold, as we'll see later) statement that "even restaurants have ties with slavery" (what?) so that means we need reparations.

Boy you just have infinite grievances and you spam out infinite "reasons" why everyone else owes your trifling ass a free living, huh?

Mike Netter @nettermike

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing criticism after linking the restaurant industry to slavery and publicly advocating for reparations during an April 2026 press conference.

Johnson argued that efforts to change tipped wage policies would negatively impact workers in an industry he said has historical ties to slavery.

"You just watched the entire city council, in transparency, try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery," Johnson said.

The mayor also reiterated his support for reparations, stating, "I am boldly declaring that we need reparations in this city, and that's why I'm funding it."

He added, "I'm a Black man in America calling for the reparations of Black people... There is no hiding or escaping that. I'm taking a bold statement here."

Everyone loves when an idiot praises himself mid-sentence.

For the rest of the day, I think everyone should try to end at least one comment with, "I'm taking a bold statement here." The stupider the preceding post, the better. TJM can work it into a Prometheus post. That would be great.

A Sasquatch who was bitten by a werewolf also joined in the coordinated messaging of More Gimme-Gimme Demands.

And this guy wants to lead a black exodus back to Africa.

Well, as they say, good. There is a certain sector of the black population, the Afro-Marxist BlacKKK, that is filled with violent racism and antisocial pathology and nigh-constant racial incitement and hoaxes and implacable hatred and seething resentment that can never be appeased, and I will gladly support them making their way to the Utopia (that is totally real) where they'll all be successful now that they're free of the White Oppression which seriously you guys is the only thing holding them back.

I look forward to future news of the technologically-advanced Super-Nation of Wakanda being finally made a reality.

Good luck in mining Infinite Grievance and turning it into a super-metal.

I'm taking a bold statement here.

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