Posted on 06/13/2020 11:29:58 AM PDT by thecodont
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A proposal to establish a task force to study and prepare recommendations for how to give reparations to African Americans passed the California Assembly on Thursday.
The bill advanced with a 56-5 vote as protests nationwide over police brutality re-energized the movement for racial justice and activists pressed for sweeping reforms. It is a top priority for California's Legislative Black Caucus.
If the bill passes the Senate and is signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, eight people with backgrounds in racial justice reforms would lead a study into who would be eligible for compensation due to slavery and how it should be awarded.
Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, a Democrat from San Diego who wrote the bill, said the study would reiterate California's history of abetting slavery, even as it joined the union as a “free state” in 1850.
“The discriminatory practices of the past echo into the everyday lives of today's Californians,” said Weber, who leads the Legislative Black Caucus.
The panel would start meeting no later than June 2021.
The panel's top matter will be how it lays out the case for justifying reparations, 155 years after slavery was abolished, said Lisa Holder, an attorney who teaches about civil rights at UCLA School of Law.
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Sorry I didn’t see your previous posts; I did a title search on “reparations” not “reparation.”
Some Mexican Americans are going to want a piece of that action.
Here’s an interesting take on reparations that says blacks should pay whites from removing them from Africa. The economics is sound.
Every single time I think that the idiots in California simply cannot do something more stupid than they just did, another California state legislator says “Hold muh beer, and watch this!” and proves me wrong!
I may self identify myself as a person of color.
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Does it specify how its going to be paid for?
AND if we subtract off all the welfare paid over the centuries :
Blacks Will Be Owing Us Money
That’s what happens when you do a full accounting.
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Will we see a new California Gold Rush?
The citizens of CA did not do this. The bastard RATs elected via voter fraud did this along with corrupt Gavin Newsom, nephew to the amoral, corrupt witch Piglosi. They also bankrupted the state, declared it a sanctuary state, turned San Francisco and LA into sewers, and stole the gasoline tax intended to repair infrastructure. Mullah Newsom is running the state of CA as a corrupt, amoral, bottom-feeding dictator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TikoVnUqid4
California 4 Corrupt Politicians
How can anyone so stupid be elected to government office?
One state is going to finance recreations for how many millions of (maybe) damaged blacks times how may dollars times how many years’ interest?
There probably is not that much money in the entire US financial system.
no problemo
The only thing reparations will do, is lead to people lying about their ancestry to get free money.
It will also help “the lick an envelope” and find your ancestors industry.
Also the leaders of the grievance groups, will probably be the arbitrators of who is African enough to get the payday.(see American Indian tribes)
George Lincoln Rockwell(leader of the American Nazi Party)wanted to put blacks on reservations. It looks like the leftwing morons are trying to start a “segregationist movement”.
This is great! We will have a mass migration of the non productive to California and they can all sit there and stew in their very own cess pool.
Gotta hurry up getting out of here.
recreations=reparations
Suffering from speller bite
hey why not since a man can say he is a woman then why not say you are black
so are all blacks moving to CA now?
Remember how Prop. 8 (homosexual marriage) and Prop. 187 (benefits for illegal aliens) were dealt with -- the voters didn't count, the judges overruled them.
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