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Newsom Shies Away From His Reparations Task Force When Handed $800B Bill For Slavery
The Free Press-Tampa ^ | 05/12/2023 | Liam Edgar

Posted on 05/12/2023 9:40:29 AM PDT by Conservativetpa

Left-wing California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a “be careful what you wish for moment.” Three years ago, Newsom signed a bill creating a task force to study paying reparations for slavery to black residents — even though California was never a slave state.

Last weekend, the fruits of that labor became known. The task force delivered a proposal to...

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: newsom; reparations
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1 posted on 05/12/2023 9:40:29 AM PDT by Conservativetpa
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To: Conservativetpa

He’s a coward, all talk and no action!


2 posted on 05/12/2023 9:42:44 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Conservativetpa

Maybe Zelensky will loan it to them.

#%^*ing morons.


3 posted on 05/12/2023 9:42:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Conservativetpa

See what he does with this.

He felt guilty after George Floyd, and as a result of George Floyd , he decided to create this task force.

And now this task force has decided we need to pay reparations for slavery, and other types of discrimination, against black folks who can trace their ancestry to slavery.

Stay tuned. The dollar amounts involved are staggering.


4 posted on 05/12/2023 9:43:11 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Conservativetpa

It was a grift operation. The task force was a payoff to the connected blacks who helped Newsom survive the recall. Even Newsom isn’t stupid to give ferals free money.


5 posted on 05/12/2023 9:44:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Conservativetpa

It was a grift operation. The task force was a payoff to the connected blacks who helped Newsom survive the recall. Even Newsom isn’t stupid to give ferals free money.


6 posted on 05/12/2023 9:44:06 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Conservativetpa

Stupid is as STUPID does...


7 posted on 05/12/2023 9:44:36 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Exactly, I was really looking forward to the chaos that would ensue if reparations went forward, the flip side is chaos might happen anyway once those who thought there were going to get 1.5 million realize they won’t get anything and be happy about it.


8 posted on 05/12/2023 9:46:19 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Conservativetpa

Those with sanity knew he was never serious.

He, on the other hand, was stupid.

Stupid to the point of not realizing the Black community would jump on it like a stinkbug in June.


9 posted on 05/12/2023 9:46:25 AM PDT by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )
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To: Conservativetpa

I don’t see how “reparation” would be Constitutional in the first place.

The state (that has no money of their own) want to tax citizens who had nothing to do with slavery to pay citizens that were never slaves (in this country).

Slavery was prohibited in California as part of the requirement to become a state.

Americans died to end slavery in this nation that should be reparation enough.


10 posted on 05/12/2023 9:47:12 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Conservativetpa

If they can prove they are descended from slaves, map them to their common ancestors when slavery ended. buy 40 acres and a mule for each of those ancestors say in Alaska or Montana.

And then let the descendent’s decide how to divvy it up amongst themselves.


11 posted on 05/12/2023 9:47:17 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Conservativetpa

I suspect this is all kabuki theatre. The commission “demands” $1.2 million for each eligible black person. Newsom pretends to dig in his heels. Then after the dust settles, the state decides to give $50,000 to each person.

Everyone breathes a sign of relief. And behind the scenes the commission and Newsom congratulate each other. $50,000 was their target all along.

Maybe I’m wrong here. Maybe I’m being too suspicious. Time will tell.


12 posted on 05/12/2023 9:48:38 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Those are pretty expensive votes there eh Governor Hair Gel.


13 posted on 05/12/2023 9:48:44 AM PDT by technically right
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To: Conservativetpa

Just one more vast project started with half-vast ideas. This proposal was not well thought through before it was offered.

And even if the reparations are paid, who dares to say that next year, the petitioners won’t be back asking for even more? Once you surrender to blackmail, it never stops.


14 posted on 05/12/2023 9:51:37 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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He’s a coward, all talk and no action!

Yeah, but he has great hair and looks good in a suit.

15 posted on 05/12/2023 10:13:25 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Conservativetpa

In 1917 the Bolsheviks preached that the middle and upper class had “stolen” their wealth from the workers. Many workers in Petrograd quickly interpreted this as a license for mass robbery, rape, and murder.

Tell the feral portion of California’s black population they are owed billions, don’t give it to them, and is the result going to be any different? White upper and middle class Californians are going to be pillaged, and the government will be there to facilitate it. Get out immediately...just don’t come here.


16 posted on 05/12/2023 10:13:27 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: CIB-173RDABN
The state (that has no money of their own) want to tax citizens who had nothing to do with slavery

Much of the calulation for what you get has little to do with slavery. It is about being black and living a disenfranchised life as a result. That's how they get around proof of slave lineage.

I'm attaching the link to the actual reparations calculator.

https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/05/california-reparations-approved/#CALC

17 posted on 05/12/2023 10:18:02 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Conservativetpa

Come on Gruesome. You promised to make all Africans millionaires.


18 posted on 05/12/2023 10:26:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from melting pot to septic tank of the world.)
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He figured it out, huh? Every day, you look at this guy and wonder how much more STUPID he can he be. He’s dumber than Kamala Harris!


19 posted on 05/12/2023 10:58:57 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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He’s a coward, all talk and no action!

He just got what he asked for with the committee. Now he has to live with the consequences..LOL...LOL

20 posted on 05/12/2023 11:24:27 AM PDT by pfflier
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