Posted on 05/06/2023 5:53:07 PM PDT by Libloather
Activists on Saturday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination, dismissing the mammoth proposals from California's reparations task force as too little.
The demands were made at a highly explosive official meeting of the task force, which was created by state legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020. The committee was hearing comments from the public as it considers final recommendations to submit to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to Newsom's desk to be signed into law.
An activist identified as Reverend Tony Pierce was one of the most outspoken people at the gathering, making reference to the famous "40 acres and a mule" promise to former slaves when he took the podium.
"You know that the numbers should be equivocal to what an acre was back then. We were given 40, OK? We were given 40 acres. You know what that number is. You keep trying to talk about now, yet you research back to slavery and you say nothing about slavery, nothing," said Pierce. "So, the equivocal number from the 1860s for 40 acres to today is $200 million for each and every African-American."
Pierce, who shouted most of his remarks, then directed his ire to the task force for in his view not pushing an ambitious enough reparations plan.
"You're not supposed to be afraid," he said. "You're just supposed to tell the truth. You're not supposed to be the gatekeepers. You're supposed to say what the people want and hear from the people."
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Nothing will ever be good enough.
Shine my f’ing shoes.
“Activists on Saturday demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations..”
I wouldn’t give them the steam off a January San Francisco street turd.
I’d be willing to pay their air fare back to Africa...That’s it.
I wants eleventy zillion!
Why not just give them free everything for life?
I’d like to see each person get a $1 Trillion dollar coin, now making the issues discussed to “get out from debt”. How many want reparations? A million? Just strike a million $1 Trillion coins.
Apparently 50% of all banks have under-water UST notes, and are lining up to fail en banc, pardon the pun.
The folks getting reparations this way will be happy for a short time, but might get a bit disillusioned when a cup of coffee costs a billion or two.
One dollar I was right again, a one-way ticket to Africa, if they want. Otherwise, they participate and live in American society as equals.
They want America to be like South Africa...and they are close to it.
“I’d be willing to pay their air fare back to Africa...That’s it.”
Most Africans would consider that an act of war.
American blacks aren’t well thought of outside the USA.
Spaulding!
Parts of Africa aren’t so bad, but I wouldn’t wish these lazy grifters on any African country. They have enough problems of their own.
$1000 and a one way ticket to any city in Africa. Send them a bill for ruining our once great cities.
That cotton won’t pick itself.
Ripoffrations could be the spark to CWII.
Do I get reparations for my ancestors’ property which was freed without compensation? I also have an ancestor who lost his job as an overseer when the yankees came and got thrown out of his house.
Be careful what you wish for.
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