Posted on 05/12/2023 9:16:35 PM PDT by Libloather
California Democratic state Sen. Steven Bradford is warning African Americans not to get their "hopes up" for massive reparations payments from the state.
Bradford’s message comes after the California Reparations Task Force recommended over the weekend that the state pay up to $1.2 million in reparations to each eligible Black resident.
The state lawmaker, who served on the task force, claimed that it’s possible that Black residents could receive cash payments "if the money’s there," but argued that receiving million dollar checks in repayment for historical discrimination is "not happening."
The reparations panel held a public meeting in Oakland, California, on Saturday and voted on the final set of recommendations to be sent to the state's legislators.
In addition to the payments, the nine-member panel recommended the state apologize to Black residents.
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who attended the meeting, stated afterward, "Reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address long-standing racial disparities and inequalities."
But Bradford told potential recipients not to expect huge payouts when the California government hasn’t figured out where that money would come from.
The state lawmaker from Los Angeles did say that "anything’s possible if the money’s there," but added he will stay "realistic" about what actual payments may be, according to the Associated Press.
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Especially the conglomerates that produce malt liquor, fried chiggun and grape soda.
Good points.
Ben Franklin once said, “If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the highest return.”
It didn’t really work that well for me. Still broke much of my life.
And for most white liberal women that’s the only thing they like about blacks.
A small percentage find them to be useful sex toys.
Wealth is mostly a generational concept. Anything that you know how to do, you should be teaching your children. There is a lot of money in basic skills.
For example, if you learned how to kitchen prep to save time on making meals and you keep the kitchen organized and you have everything laid out so you can save time. Even if you can knock off 15 minutes in time as to what it takes to prepare a meal, that’s about $100,000 in terms of time over a lifetime that could be worth to you in additional income if you use that time to generate an income.
One of the advices I tell young people, if you don’t know what to do with your life, go into those low paying jobs to learn skills that you can take with you. Spend your first 2 years moving from job to job. You’re not in these jobs to earn an income, so learn the skills that are useful and move on. In those two years, if you are productive, you probably will have mastered hundreds of thousands of dollars in skills that you can pass on to your children.
Right. They are going to get mad when they find out they don’t get the fortune.
I remember two news stories on a middle aged black woman in CA and another one in NY as Obama started his campaign. Both said in almost the same words “This car here is gonna be paid for and the gas that goes into it is gonna be paid for once Obama gets elected.” They apparently didn’t riot over his not forking over the cash later. Odd that both women had the same idea and example.
You mean Peggy Joseph, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1nelLsTp4M
That amount may seem rather anticlimactic after all the lobbying, all the creative storytelling, the hysteria and guilt casting.
Oh well.
Who’s going to pay for this? California just reported a $32 billion budget deficit.
Got a mirror?
CA lawmaker warns Black residents to be ‘realistic’ on reparations: Seven figure checks ‘just not happening’
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SIX FIGURE checks ‘just nor happening’
FIVE FIGURE checks ‘just not happening’
FOUR FIGURE checks ‘just not happening’
THREE FIGURE, TWO FIGURE, ONE FIGURE checks ‘just not happening’
Reparations are, and always have been, nothing more than imaginary carrots dangled in front of blacks to keep them from wandering from the DemocRAT plantation. And they BELIEVE THE FANTASY. And most stay on the plantation.
Because the state does not have 800 billion to pay the expected amounts
To bad so sad.
No, promises were made. No backtracking now.
Exactly
Lets see, 40 acres and a mule in the 1800s was probably about $12.00. Sounds about right to me.
Now how about the Chinese slaves used to build the railroads? How about the current slave trade between the Mexican Cartels and American Companies?
Never say never. Ay the rate hes going it could be feasible by the end of Sniffy Joes term.
The black percentage rose every decade between 1930 (9.7% of the population) to 2010 (12.6%), before falling slightly to 12.4% in 2020. The country is finished, in any case, as whites have fallen from still 88% in 1970 to only 61% in 2020 and being replaced by people who don’t have any allegiance to the US or any education in the founding principles of the nation.
And about 99.9% of the white guys in the commercials, are made to look like idiots.
everybody gets a coupon!
yay!
I’ve always wondered about that. Counted 15 commercials in a row featuring black actors. Are whites the new persona non grata?
Democrat elites are moving millions of Hispanics in to be their ‘new blacks’...
If Megan Markle wasn’t content being a beloved princess, blacks won’t be content with a reparation payoff.
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