Compromise of 1850. Doesn’t that take us off the hook?
Apologizing for stuff that nobody alive today was involved or responsible for, is meaningless now and easy to do.
Reparations for wrongdoing that occurred over a century ago, and that nobody today was responsible for, is money spend wastefully and irresponsibly, and not authorized by the people whose money would be used. Those that would get the money would just waste it and be right back in the poor house immediately, like it never even happened. It’s wasteful, irresponsible and idiotic. And, if the purpose is to ‘buy people’s votes’, it’s something that needs to be investigated and those responsible should be punished. Democrats have been buying the black vote for over a century now.
But California was a Free State.
California was a free State.
California was never formally a slave state… so not really sure what this is about at all.
Sorry for something that was never legally recognized here…..
HOW does one apologize for things they did not do & take responsibility???
HAS ALL LOGIC escaped Calif???
The United States did not exist prior to 1783. Slavery that did exist at the time was NOT created by the United States but was a hold over from the time it was a British Colony.
From the beginning efforts were made to end the practice which in time required a Civil War. In 1865 the 13th Amendment was ratified ending slavery in the US, just 82 years after the country came into existent.
It has been 159 years since the end of slavery in this nation.
Any apology required and any reparations owed was paid in blood by Americans that fought and died to free slaves.
So the California Assembly isn’t going to bend over and take the “Black Caucus”, after all!
I finished an audio book by HW Brands called “Age of Gold” about the founding of California and the Gold Rush. When California applied to be a state, there was a meeting of like minded individuals in Monterey. The issue of slavery as dealt with in that the members of that assembly wanted nothing to do with slavery.
When the application came to congress all hell broke as southerners wanted California admitted as a slave state, even so far as dividing the state into two with the lower (southern) half being slave and the northern half free.
California was never a slave state, nor wanted to be a slave state. Now we can talk about the whites (miners) that came out and their treatment of Chileans, Mexicans, Indians and later Chinese—but that is another issue altogether. If goes to show that when money is to be made, certain peoples believe it all belongs to them.
California: ‘We are sorry that we are apologizing for something that as a state we were against. That said, due to our tax and spend by today’s Socialists, we can’t pay you something your ancestors received. If you want money, get an education and act White. Thank you.’. 🤓
“We weren’t a slave state. But, sorry anyway.”