"First in the nation..."
Posted on 03/30/2022 7:33:04 PM PDT by shadowlands1960
California’s first-in-the-nation task force to identify reparations for African Americans voted Tuesday to limit eligibility to those who can trace their lineage.
After more than six hours of debate Tuesday, California’s reparations task force voted that only Black Californians who can prove a direct lineage to enslaved ancestors will be eligible for the statewide — and first-in-the nation — initiative to address the harms and enduring legacy of slavery.
The nine-member task force voted 5-4 in favor of defining eligibility for reparations based on lineage “determined by an individual being an African American descendant of a chattel enslaved person or the descendant of a free Black person living in the US prior to the end of the 19th century,” the motion read.
An earlier amendment to the motion pushed for a broader definition of eligibility that would have included all 2.6 million African Americans in California, with “special consideration” for those with direct lineage to enslaved persons. That amendment failed.
Two years ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation giving “special consideration” to Black Americans who are direct descendants to enslaved people. Authored by former Assemblymember Shirley Weber, now the California secretary of state, the bill also established a two-year reparations task force to study and develop a plan on what reparations may look like.
The task force is expected to release a reparations proposal in June 2023 with recommendations for the Legislature.
While the scope of reparations will be determined in the coming months, many task force members said they expect cash payments to be one part of the proposal as well as a formal apology. The task force said this eligibility determination will help economists tasked with quantifying the amount of reparations owed.
If it starts, it will never end.
Free money for nothing
if they do that, CA should no longer receive ANY federal funding.
if they do then they’ll be paying reparations using my money
screw them
That’s the intent.
Create a slave class that eventually revolts.
The left wants to keep disenfranchising whites until whites get absolutely pissed off. Then the left will pivot and promise to represent them in exchange for control.
This isn't reparations for slavery, it's reparations to be paid by the losers of the war that's going on right now.
And you know it will not improve the behavior of the supposed beneficiaries.
I always wondered how civilizations of the past could seemingly destruct over a short period of time, without any evidence of war.
Bad policies will do it.
What about direct descendants of Union KIAs?
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.”
Well slap me silly.
I foresee a increase in CA population right soon. HAHAHA
After the Civil War all profits from slavery were purchased by the victors for pennies on the dollar.
I doubt anyone will ever make the Yankee profiteers from slavery and civil war pay LOL!
Each one of these girls looks healthy, well dressed in clean clothes, probably ate brunch in their own house or apartment, not some Soup Kitchen. Deodorant, toothpaste, cologne, even some elective medications such as Medical MJ and Birth Control Pills. They own at very least one Smart Phone each.
IOW, These Gals are not living like anyone who is enslaved.
Whatta bout all of us generation-after-generation Tax Slaves?
Where’s my reparations?
No kidding. My Mexican history professor in college thought the Mayans crashed over an over reaction to an epidemic... When the priestly caste was shown to be impotent, the people abandoned the sacrificial centers... lost their common identity.
I’m guessing America will end up cutting throats over something as silly as ‘identity.’ The Rwanda model..
“Money for nothing
and Chicks for free...”
Tax slave? Harldy. I am getting $57.00 refund!!!
Yes. An attractive group of young women, were it not for the 1968 Olympics chic..
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