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Civil Rights Election
Race; Posted on: 2008-07-15
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The fast track under President Obama.
By Peter Kirsanow
Should Barack Obama win this fall, 2009 will a busy year for enacting
civil-rights legislation — perhaps the busiest since 1964.
Numerous civil-rights bills have either passed the House or are pending in
various committees, just waiting for a Democrat to be elected to the White
House. Traditional civil-rights groups anticipate that without the threat
of
veto, expanded Democratic majorities in Congress will pass a number of
these
bills in the first few months of 2009. Here are just a few of the bills
likely
to be signed by a President Obama within the next year.
Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African-Americans Act.
Rep. John Conyers has introduced this legislation every year since 1989,
but
with a Democrat in the White House and significant congressional
majorities,
this bill finally has an op****tunity to be enacted. The purpose of the
bill is
to create a commission to study the impact of slavery in the United States
and
recommend appropriate remedies, including an apology to and reparations
for
blacks. The House Judiciary Committee on the Constitution held hearings
related to the bill in December 2007. The bill is modeled after that which
granted reparations to Japanese-Americans interned during World War II.
The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act (“Akaka Bill”).
The Akaka Bill would create a separate race-based government for persons
of
Native Hawaiian descent. The race-based government would have the
authority to
exercise broad sovereign powers, including the ability to negotiate with
the
federal government concerning criminal and civil jurisdiction,
civil-rights
protections, and the transfer of lands and national resources. The bill
would
permit Native Hawaiians to sue the federal government for claims related
to
the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Its sup****ters concede that
ultimately, secession is a possibility.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that the bill would discriminate
on
the basis of race and national origin and further subdivide Americans into
discrete sub-groups accorded varying degrees of privilege. The White House
issued a Statement of Administration Policy strongly opposing the bill.
Sen.
Obama, a former resident of Hawaii, has pledged his unqualified sup****t
for
the bill and vowed to sign it if he becomes president.
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