Posted on 12/15/2022 7:22:49 AM PST by Red Badger
A black activist appearing before California’s first reparations task force meeting insisted that every black person in the state receive $350,000 and black-owned businesses should receive $250,000.
Max Fennell, the first black professional tri-athlete, spoke in Oakland, the birthplace of the Black Panthers.
“It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free,” he demanded while speaking at Oakland’s city hall. “We’re not asking, we’re telling you.”
“The tangibles of what I’m asking for is $350,000 per black American in California that’s tangible, small business grant $250,000, and land 15-20 acres,” he added.
The task force is considering five areas in which it claims black Americans have been harmed: the government taking property, the supposed devaluation of businesses owned by blacks, alleged mass incarceration, health, and housing issues. Its recommendations to the California Legislature must be delivered by July 1.
“It is important to get this right because we are setting the precedent for other states and localities, and also for the federal government as well,” Kamilah V. Moore, the chair of the committee, said Wednesday.
In September 2020, California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law to create a state-based task force to make recommendations on slavery reparations to the black community.
“As a nation, we can only truly thrive when every one of us has the opportunity to thrive,” Newsom stated. “Our painful history of slavery has evolved into structural racism and bias built into and permeating throughout our democratic and economic institutions. … While there is still so much work to do to unravel this legacy, these pieces of legislation are important steps in the right direction to building a more inclusive and equitable future for all.”
Newsom signed two bills by Democrat Assemblymember Shirley Weber, who declared, “We have not come to terms with our state’s ugly past that allowed slaveholding within our borders and returned escaped slaves to their masters.”
On Wednesday in Massachusetts, the Boston City Council voted to create a task force to examine the idea of reparations.
Last year, the Evanston City Council in Illinois voted to give reparations to its black residents, allocating $400,000 to be paid out in homeownership and improvement grants up to $25,000. “The Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program … acknowledges the harm caused to Black/African-American Evanston residents due to discriminatory housing policies and practices and inaction on the part of the City,” a resolution from the council stated.
“Gibs me dat!” writ large.
Take your race grievances and Marxist comprehension of race and tell it to the uncaring sky. You are not owed one thin dime.
They wouldn’t know what to do with 15=-20 acres of land.
I have no problem with giving every black $350,000, as long as it doesn’t come from the taxpayers, and comes only from those that feel it’s owed to blacks and are willing to put up their own money to get it done.
Snort
Give it to them, and in a few years they’ll be back for more.
Maybe next time they will demand a million each.
I did the math....your "unearned income" already exceeds the amount of your demand......
“It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free,”
Remind me, which plantation did Max Fennell work on?
I wondered about that comment as well.
What does he want to do with 15 to 20 acres of land? Is he hinting that black folks are going to start small farms with that land? Is he hinting the black folks are going to work the land?
“WE worked for free “. Who is this “We”that you speak of?
Just $350k each, why not $2million each.
😂 WATCH for the coming protests! And after that, the Hispanics are going to come at them full force, for their reparations. Their cry will be the United States stole California from Mexico, and we deserve money too to compensate for all the racism and discomfort we have endured. Or something like that …they’ll make something up. The RAZA and the aclu will see to that.
Civil Wars have been caused by less.
Sounds fair, but only if they can prove they were once enslaved in California
California joined the union in 1850 as a non-slave state. He can take his reparations demand and shove it.
F off you racist prick!
And don’t forget the demands for reparations from several nations in Africa for the taking of their citizens from their countries. If they had not been taken those countries would be modern thriving constitutional republics!
When California gives in, it will die. And I'm OK with that, except they are apt to drag the rest of us down with them.
I’ll wait for Black reparations for Black crimes.
Call it the Mugger Tax.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.