As reparations commissions across the country struggle with how to deal with the issue, one federal lawmaker says that Black Americans should simply be exempted from paying taxes for a certain period of time as part of that effort. The lawmaker in question, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, is serving her first term in the House, representing Dallas.

“Just this past week I saw, I don’t remember which celebrity, but it was actually a celebrity, and I was like, ‘that’s not necessarily a bad idea,’ but I’d have to think through it a lot,” Ms. Crockett said in a video posted on X by an account called End Wokeness. “One of the things that they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time.”