Posted on 05/17/2023 2:39:40 AM PDT by Libloather
In 2020 the California legislature passed AB 3121 which created a 9-person task force to study California’s "complicity in slavery." The task force would also be authorized to make recommendations to the state legislature about payments – also known as reparations.
Even if one could prove the dubious theory that the economic state of Blacks today is a result of America’s legacy of slavery, the state of California wouldn’t be the first place or even the second place to focus on this slavery. Since 1850 when California became a state its Constitution expressly forbid slavery, and it never supported the Confederacy during the Civil War.
It turns out that though California didn’t promote slavery, today it is one of the places willing to entertain bad ideas, however.
Rather than focus on how California’s poor public schools have failed poor Blacks and white alike? Or how its anti-business regulatory climate has eroded the ability of its poorer residents to climb out of poverty and into the middle class, elites in the state have moved to distract disadvantaged voters with the reparations con.
This high-stakes con game will prove no more beneficial to Blacks in California than the typical recipients of the Nigerian Prince email scam.
The Reparations Task Force has already pledged that nearly 80 percent of California’s 2.6 million Black residents will be granted reparations. The task force cannot achieve this goal – even if it was legal, which it is not.
First, the math simply doesn’t work. Consider: if all of the ‘eligible’ Blacks in California were merely given $1000 in reparations the cost to California would exceed $2 billion. But that compensation would in no way equal the staggering claims made by the racial alarmists that push for reparations. $1,000 would be a pittance of the injuries...
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The white liberal politicians in California believe their virtue signaling ultimately won’t cost them anything. But when empty promises made are not promises kept, the ferals will burn down their cities.
Never be paid?
I’m not so optimistic.
They will get rioting, but it might lead to people coming into your houses, to steal your possessions. Do you think that people might not want to just take it in the shorts? They might want to refrain from opening that Pandora’s box.
California never supported African slavery. The State came into the Union as a free (Republican) State. Why are Californians paying reparations. The Democratic Party was responsible for slavery, the Civil War, segregation and Jim Crow laws. Democrats wouldn’t even support an anti-lynching law. Make the Democratic Party pay reparations
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and the kids of the kids etc etc etc until the end of the world ?
This is a great thing, ALL Blacks should immediately move to California to get their share...
At some point in history, everyone’s ancestor was a slave no matter what their skin color.
Hmm, I doubt there is a single pre-Civil War slave still alive to get any compensation.
I hope they go through with that. It might encourage any black criminal or unemployable one to emigrate to California.
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