[ChicagoConservative27]

Lets start with everybody that lives in Beverly Hills to chip in and see if they like it.

[BenLurkin]

Pandering this way isn’t going to make his city any sounder, saner, or safer.

In fact, quite the opposite is likely.

[griswold3]

Garcetti? Hmmm Sounds like a white supremacist (Mexican and Irish) Let’s start with his assets.

[Leaning Right]

> Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE) <

I would suggest MAPS instead - Mayors Are Pandering Shamelessly.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Geez Louise. Reparations for slavery is being pushed by these imbeciles.

The conditions of so many big cities are so bad, in so many ways. But these mayors deem that it is important to spend their time and effort, and eventually money, on reparations for slavery, to the exclusion of dealing with the problems of their cities.

okay then........

[usual suspect]

Anybody who owned slaves should be made to pay reparations...where do we find one?

[kaehurowing]

Someone should explain there was never slavery in L.A. when it was part of the U.S. When California was part of Spain and then Mexico, there was slavery (up until 1829). So reparations in California should only be paid for by the descendants of Mexican Latinx. Maybe there can be a separate tax assessment on them.

[FatherofFive]

So California, which was never a slave state, wants to pay reparations to people who were never slaves, with money from people who never owned slaves.

I'm second generation American. How do I file my reparation exemption?

[econjack]

For almost 30 years I've served as an expert witness in wrongful death cases and reparations. In the courts, reparations are determined to be those sums that would place the injured party in parity, or a place of indifference. For blacks in this country, we need to consider what the slave counterparts had as an alternative. Given that the vast majority of slaves came from Guinea at the time, we need to compare the earned incomes those blacks would have today in Guinea versus what they have here in the US. I've done the math and blacks owe non-blacks in the US approximately $600 dollars per year for the 157 years they have been freed, and that does not include transfer payments like welfare.

So, unless this twit wakes up to the reality of things, I would like my Garcetti to start mailing me my checks as soon as possible.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think every one of those mayors needs to be locked up for being involved in the slave trade back in the seventeen and “Juneteen” hundreds.

[caww]

‘Mayors Organized’ ... are the groups Obama formed as activist mayors when he was Pres. and we wrote of here on FR.

[elpadre]

Isn’t it nice the mayors in near bankrupt cities have so much money to give away??

[Larry381]

Some citizens sell out their nations for money, others do it for votes.

[I want the USA back]

You can bet your favorite prayer rug that reparations are coming, nationwide. They can’t wait!

There is no possible recovery from such an action. You can bet your favorite BLM flag that there will be no end date for reparations.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

We already pay reparations in many ways.

Like EBT cards.

[Chode]

take it out of the welfare money what goes to mutha-africa... they sold them into bondage!!!

[chuckee]

Somehow, I cannot see Democrat hispanics who make up a majority of these cities cottoning to the idea of turning their money over to the black population so Dem politicians can pander for votes. Sorry, as much as the identity politics politicians want it to be so, there is no affinity between hispanics and blacks. Their interests and what they want from the gubmint are different and sometimes in conflict

[Lizavetta]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, whose city is suffering from homelessness

Correction. Suffering from government sponsored vagrancy, criminality, and addiction.

economic disruption

Correction. Government sponsored lockdowns, prohibitions against earning a living, and excessive overreach of pandemic response.

drought

Correction. Government refusal to build water storage facilities or desalination plants despite decades of population growth.

Even the most obtuse can see the root cause of California's destruction.

[minnesota_bound]

Geez... they already get free stuff when they are burning and looting and destroying the people’s lives who worked to start a business.