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Activists demand higher payments from California reparations task force: '$200 million' per person
Fox News ^ | 5/06/23 | Aaron Kliegman

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 1billionperperson; 1trillionperperson; activists; bidenvoters; california; million; reparations
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Won't the gubmint take about half - just like winning the lottery? May need to bump it up to $400 mil.
1 posted on 05/06/2023 5:53:07 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Nothing will ever be good enough.


2 posted on 05/06/2023 5:55:13 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Libloather

Shine my f’ing shoes.


3 posted on 05/06/2023 5:56:59 PM PDT by CletusVanDamme (The breaking point will be reached soon. )
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To: Libloather

“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.


4 posted on 05/06/2023 5:57:06 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Libloather

I’d be willing to pay their air fare back to Africa...That’s it.


5 posted on 05/06/2023 5:57:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Libloather

6 posted on 05/06/2023 5:57:21 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Libloather
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-GRfO9lo9Ys
7 posted on 05/06/2023 5:58:08 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Libloather

I wants eleventy zillion!


8 posted on 05/06/2023 5:58:19 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Libloather

Why not just give them free everything for life?


9 posted on 05/06/2023 5:58:43 PM PDT by teacherwoes (I am Philip Nolan )
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To: Libloather

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.


10 posted on 05/06/2023 5:58:52 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Libloather

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.


11 posted on 05/06/2023 5:59:15 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Go Woke, Go Broke. Every Time Trump Says Something, I'm Closer to Anyone But Trump.)
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To: bk1000

They want America to be like South Africa...and they are close to it.


12 posted on 05/06/2023 5:59:23 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dragnet2

“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.


13 posted on 05/06/2023 6:02:13 PM PDT by rellic
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To: doorgunner69

Spaulding!


14 posted on 05/06/2023 6:02:44 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: dragnet2

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.


15 posted on 05/06/2023 6:03:38 PM PDT by ssapro (SSAPRO/ EXBP)
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To: crusty old prospector

$1000 and a one way ticket to any city in Africa. Send them a bill for ruining our once great cities.


16 posted on 05/06/2023 6:06:33 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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To: CletusVanDamme

That cotton won’t pick itself.


17 posted on 05/06/2023 6:07:19 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: Libloather

Ripoffrations could be the spark to CWII.


18 posted on 05/06/2023 6:07:55 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Libloather

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.


19 posted on 05/06/2023 6:08:50 PM PDT by xxqqzz
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You're supposed to say what the people want

Be careful what you wish for.

20 posted on 05/06/2023 6:08:56 PM PDT by Jim Noble (It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government)
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