Where’s the money?
The Senate passed a resolution Thursday calling on the U.S. to apologize officially for the enslavement and segregation of millions of African-Americans and to acknowledge “the fundamental injustice, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws.”
The resolution, sponsored with little fanfare by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, passed on a voice vote. It now moves to the House of Representatives, where it may meet an unlikely foe: members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Several CBC members expressed concerns Thursday about a disclaimer thatstates that “nothing in this resolution authorizes or supports anyclaim against the United States; or serves as a settlement of any claimagainst the United States.”