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It establishes a commission to study slavery, its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves

— John Conyers

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Innocent people lost their lives to a gunman whose import Glock 17 was a death machine which fed bullet after murderous bullet in the firing chamber.

It acknowledges the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery

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It studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans; and

It’s become clear that this struggle isn’t over. Much of the violence is gone, which provoked and embarrassed so many people, but we’re still trying to make sure that we aren’t losing rights. Traditional civil rights groups [like] the NAACP [and] the ACLU are making sure we continue this and we don’t let the Act be treated as a bit of unsavory history in that past.

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