This concurrent resolution urges Congress to establish a United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to address historical racial injustices and their ongoing effects. The resolution documents centuries of government-sanctioned discrimination against African Americans, Native Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Hawaiian natives, and other people of color—including slavery, segregation policies, denial of citizenship, forced deportations, and land seizures—and argues these actions created persistent wealth gaps and social inequities that continue today. The proposed commission would acknowledge these injustices, memorialize their victims and descendants, and work toward eliminating the belief in racial hierarchies and the resulting disparities in education, health care, employment, housing, and the justice system. The resolution notes that over 40 countries have established truth and reconciliation commissions for similar purposes and emphasizes that this effort complements rather than replaces a separate reparations commission. As a concurrent resolution, this is an expression of congressional intent rather than binding legislation, carrying no funding requirements or implementation timeline.
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