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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True.
California was never a slave state
exactly home of fruits and nuts not cotton pickers..these people are fm crazy can this be legal?
Yep
Millions to people who were never slaves from people who never owned slaves in a state that never had slavery. Yeah that’s reasonable /s
I want a gazillion.
Well maybe $60.000 in California pesos they don't have the US dollars to any ware near cover the expense or pay squat.
They have promised what they can't deliver and the cities will burn. If you haven't gotten out yet better punch out now, this plane is going to burn in.
This country is collapsing and Democrats will be blamed for the destruction of the country.
Lottery winners with addiction problems typically die of an overdose within a year. Fedzilla is certain to claw back anything unspent. Within 10 years, 20% of the population will be back to owning about 80% of the wealth, which is always the case throughout history.
Paging Mr. Baby Farts McGee and his space bucks to the California Courtesy Phone….. Baby Farts McGee
Grind up old dollar bills and feed it to all who demand “reparations” just like you’re preparing them for foie gras, with a tube down their gaping greedy maws. That ought to fill their need for greed.
UP the ANTE so that EVERY Black person gets $200 MILLION......IF they ALL MOVE to CALIFORNIA!!
California is going to see a HUGE influx of reparations eligible 'b'lack folk. 🤡
California should print its own money, separate from the rest of the country.
I picture a Big Mac and fried and a Coke for a half a million dollars.
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