Bizarre moment Texas Democrat calls for black people to be exempt from paying taxes during reparations talk… before saying poor ones don’t anyway

Texas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett called for black Americans to be exempt from taxes when asked about slavery reparations.

The 43-year-old then suggested it might not work because many poorer black people “don’t really pay taxes in the first place.”

Crockett, a liberal freshman in the House of Representatives who has called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration policies “insane” and that his new laws aim to “kill people,” made the statement on ‘The Black Lawyers Podcast’ last week.

When the host asked her about reparations — which are 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 is 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 then you get money back in your pocket,” Crockett explained.

Crockett, a liberal freshman in the House of Representatives who has called Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration policies “insane” and that his new laws aim to “kill people,” made the statement last week on “The Black Lawyers Podcast’.

Although Crockett couldn’t remember which celebrity she heard say that, Tiffany Cross, the author and television host, and other hosts of her Native Land Pod tried to restart America’s recovery efforts this week with a call for tax breaks for African Americans. .

Crockett said the plan “may not be that objectionable to some people,” but that the problem may be that “so many black people are not only in debt for the labor that was stolen and murdered and all these other things, but the fact is that at the end of the day, we are so far behind.”

She then suggested that the biggest problem might be that some black people are currently not paying their taxes.

“If you do the ‘no taxes’ thing, for people who are already struggling and don’t pay taxes in the first place…” she says, before the host interrupts her and says they “may want to get those checks” instead the government.

“Exactly,” Crockett replied.

Earlier in the conversation, Crockett said there needs to be consistency at both the federal and state level on reparations because if it isn’t, “everybody’s going to run to whatever state they’re in and say, ‘Yo, I need mine.’ .

She said “we need to have a full understanding” of the issue and slammed those who are “not even willing to do the studies, willing to invest to ensure that we can roll this out properly.”

Crockett recently went through a primary in her heavily blue Dallas County district and faces a Libertarian opponent alone in November as she seeks a second term.

Crockett said the plan “may not be that objectionable to some people,” but that the problem may be that “so many black people are not only in debt for the labor that was stolen and murdered and all these other things, but the fact is that We are so far behind

Crockett recently went through a primary in her heavily blue Dallas County district and faces a Libertarian opponent alone in November as she seeks a second term

DailyMail.com has reached out to Congressman Crockett for comment.

Activists have already posted billboards for Cross’ plan in Chicago, pushing for an exemption from the $6,000-a-year property tax typical for the Illinois city.

They also spotlight Empire star Terrence Howard, who was recently outed for refusing to pay years of income because he believed it was “immoral” to tax the descendants of slaves.

Cross, a former MSNBC host, praised Howard in her podcastwhich looks at the “ancestral struggles” of African Americans.

“This brother made a legitimate point,” Cross said.

“I don’t know how we’re going to get this done, but I would absolutely support a policy that says, ‘Yes, you’re 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 “were never repaid… we built this joint for free.”

The focus on tax breaks for Black people comes as the momentum behind the reparations movement has begun to wane.

Author and former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross says black people shouldn’t pay the same taxes as white people

Billboards calling for property tax waivers for poor black households have gone up over Chicago

Following the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 and the Black Lives Matter protests, cities and states across the country have created task forces to address modern-day inequality rooted in the slavery era.

Reparations advocates say it’s time for America to pay back its Black residents for the injustices of the historic transatlantic slave trade, Jim Crow segregation and the inequities that persist to this day.

The amounts are eye-watering: Black lawmakers in Washington are asking for at least $14 trillion for a federal plan to “close the racial wealth gap” between black and white Americans.

Critics say payouts to select black people will inevitably divide winners and losers and raise questions about why American Indians and others aren’t getting their own benefits.

Places like Boston, Massachusetts, St. Paul, Minnesota, and St. Louis, Missouri, as well as California cities San Francisco and Los Angeles, have all set up task forces and panels to develop their own recovery plans.

But initial calls for multimillion-dollar payouts to the descendants of slaves have been thwarted — as politicians realized they were unpopular among the whites, Asians and others who would foot the bill.

Tennessee has gone so far as to introduce a bill in the Senate that would ban the study of reparations for the descendants of slaves.

The bill, which will be voted on in the House of Representatives next Wednesday, has caused some backlash in the state.

Empire star Terrence Howard has been ordered to pay years of income taxes after reportedly saying it was ‘immoral’ to tax the descendants of slaves

Reparations campaigners have struggled to make cash payouts to blacks a reality, facing fierce public opposition

The reparations task force in Detroit – a center for African-American culture – has become a “mess” of stagnation and infighting.

And in February, black lawmakers in California reversed their plans to pay every resident $1.2 million.

While many Black voters would like to receive checks in the mail, only a fraction think they will ever see such a day in their lives.

Mike Gonzalez, an analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said support for reparations peaked during the protests over the 2020 police killing of George Floyd.

Now it is declining, he added.

“Like diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory, anti-racism training and other hallmarks of the collective hysteria, the call for reparations is beginning to unravel in the face of fierce opposition from the American people,” he told DailyMail. .com.