Texas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett appeared to endorse a call for black Americans to be exempt for a period of time from paying taxes when asked about reparations for slavery.
The 43-year-old went on to suggest that he may not be successful because many poorer blacks “aren’t actually paying taxes in the first place.”
Crockett, a freshman House liberal who has called Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration policy “crazy” and his new laws aimed at “killing people,” made the statement on ‘The Black Lawyers Podcast’ last week.
When the host asked her about reparations (often on the wish lists of many far-left politicians and activists), she made the bizarre suggestion after hearing about the plan from a celebrity and thinking, “I don’t know if that’s necessarily a bad idea.
“One of the things they’re proposing is that black people don’t have to pay taxes for a certain period of time because, again, that puts money back in their pockets,” Crockett explained.
Texas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett made an extreme call for black Americans to be exempt for a period of time from paying taxes when asked about reparations for slavery.
Crockett, a liberal House freshman who has called Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration policy “crazy” and his new laws aimed at “killing people,” made the statement on “The Black Lawyers Podcast” last week.
While Crockett couldn’t remember which celebrity he heard say that, most recently Tiffany Cross, the author and television host, and other hosts of her Native Land Pod, this week attempted to reboot America’s flagging repair efforts with a call for tax breaks for African Americans. .
Crockett said the plan “may not be so objectionable to some people,” but that the problem may be that “not only do so many black people owe for labor that was stolen and murdered and all the other things, but the fact is we ended up leaving far behind.”
That’s when he suggested the biggest problem may be that some black people don’t currently pay their taxes.
“If you do the not paying taxes thing, for people who, let’s say, are already struggling and don’t actually pay taxes in the first place…” he says, before the host interrupts and says that “maybe they want those checks ” of the government.
“Exactly,” Crockett responded.
Early in the conversation, Crockett said there needs to be consistency at both the federal and state levels on reparations because if not, “everyone will run to some state and say, ‘Yo, I need mine.'”
He said “we need to have a full understanding” of the issue and criticized those who are “not even willing to do the studies, willing to invest to make sure we can implement this the right way.”
Crockett recently easily swept a primary in his predominantly blue Dallas County district and faces only one Libertarian opponent in November as he seeks a second term.
Crockett said the plan “may not be that objectionable to some people,” but that the problem may be that “a lot of black people not only owe for work that was stolen and murdered and all the other things, but the fact is we ended up left far behind
Crockett recently easily swept through the primary in his predominantly blue Dallas County district and faces only one Libertarian opponent in November as he seeks a second term.
DailyMail.com has contacted Congresswoman Crockett for comment.
Activists have already erected billboards for Cross’s plan in Chicago, pushing for black-only exclusions from the $6,000-a-year property taxes that are typical in the Illinois city.
They also highlight Empire star Terrence Howard, who was recently exposed for refusing to pay years of revenue dues because he believed it was “immoral” to tax the descendants of slaves.
Cross, a former MSNBC host, praised Howard in her podcastwhich examines the “ancestral struggles” of African Americans.
“This brother was making a legitimate argument,” Cross said.
“I don’t know how we would make this happen, but I would completely agree with some kind of policy that says ‘Yes, you are exempt from paying taxes.'”
According to Cross, black labor on southern plantations made America the “superpower” it is today, but the descendants of those slaves “have never been rewarded…we built this place for free.”
The focus on tax breaks for Black people comes after the momentum behind the reparations movement has begun to weaken.
Author and former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross says black people shouldn’t pay the same taxes as white people
Billboards have gone up in Chicago in an attempt to exempt needy black households from property taxes.
Following the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 and the Black Lives Matter protests, cities and states across the country launched task forces to address modern inequality rooted in the era of slavery.
Reparations advocates say it is time for the United States to pay its black residents for the injustices of the historic transatlantic slave trade, Jim Crow segregation and inequalities that persist to this day.
The sums are staggering: Black lawmakers in Washington are seeking at least $14 trillion for a federal plan aimed at “eliminating the racial wealth gap” between black and white Americans.
Critics say payments to select black people will inevitably stoke divisions between winners and losers, and raise questions about why American Indians and others don’t get their own handouts.
Places like Boston, Massachusetts, St Paul, Minnesota, and St Louis, Missouri, as well as California cities San Francisco and Los Angeles, created task forces and panels to come up with their own repair plans.
But early calls for multimillion-dollar payments to descendants of slaves have faded, as politicians realized they were unpopular with whites, Asians and others who would foot the bill.
Tennessee has even gone so far as to introduce a bill in the state Senate that would ban the study of reparations for descendants of slaves.
The bill, which will be voted on in the House next Wednesday, has generated some negative reactions in the state.
Empire star Terrence Howard has been sentenced to pay income taxes for years after he allegedly said it was “immoral” to tax the descendants of slaves.
Reparations activists have fought to make cash payments to Black people a reality, facing stiff public opposition.
The reparations task force in Detroit, a center of African-American culture, has descended into a “mess” of resignations and infighting.
And in February, California’s black lawmakers backed off plans to pay $1.2 million to each resident.
While many black voters are eager to receive checks in the mail, only a fraction believe they will see that day in their lives.
Mike Gonzalez, an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said support for reparations peaked amid protests over the 2020 police killing of George Floyd.
It is now declining, he added.
“Like diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), critical race theory, anti-racism trainings and other features of mass hysteria, the call for reparations has begun to crumble under intense opposition from the American people,” he told DailyMail. .com.