Posted on 09/30/2020 2:44:25 PM PDT by NoLibZone
SACRAMENTO
With Gov. Gavin Newsoms signature, California became the first state government in the country on Wednesday to adopt a law to study and develop proposals for potential reparations to descendants of enslaved people and those impacted by slavery.
Newsom said the new law and bipartisan support for its passage is proving a paradigm that we hope will be resonant all across the United States.
In a year of national protests against racial injustice, state lawmakers approved Assembly Bill 3121 to force the state to begin to confront its racist history and systemic disparities that persist today. Although California entered the Union as a free state in 1850, slavery continued there after the state Constitution outlawed it the previous year. Slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865.
The new law creates a task force to recommend appropriate remedies to the state Legislature and determine who should be eligible to receive compensation, which advocates hope will become a model in a country where movements to make amends for centuries of slavery have failed to gain traction at the federal level.
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Hmm... I can suddenly see an upside to this...
Do they know how many white people have sub-Saharan DNA markers?
A lot, largely in the southeast.
Get your DNA test now, folks.
If a black is only 1/32 slave, does that mean he only gets 1/32 of a share these idiots think is due?
Of a white is only 1/32 slave master, does he only pay 1/32 of that share?
Not as much as it used to be the case.
Huh. So nothing for the bounties paid by the governor’s office for scalps of “digger” Indians into the 20th century...
Shocked.
and those impacted by slavery
So if my great great grandpappy had a farm and was dirt poor even after working his kids to death because he had no slaves my lily white ass be gettin some funds?
so a ten generation free ride isn’t enough?
give to the and cut off ALL welfare for them and any of their future spawn!!!
(The Union fought to free the slaves, among other issues.)
What utter nonsense!...There’s not a single person today that’s a slave as those were decades ago. No matter what California determines is enough it will never be enough for any of those clamoring about it today.
I wouldn’t agree to this even a tiny bit...and if it comes to my state I will fight against it tooth and nail!
......The black population of CA will triple!”......
In a heart beat!
So people who never owned slaves will have to pay reparations to people who never were slaves.
Consider all the merchandise looted and all the buildings and vehicles burnt, reparations. Paid in full.
How is CA going to pay for it?
With Coke Bottles.
CA is broke.
And getting broker by the month.
Give me a four hour head start to head toward Arizona and the only thing that may save this country is a 9.5 on the Richter that washes California into the Pacific.
California was NEVER a Slave State
Hispanics will just love this!!! Not.
The black population of CA will triple.
And no, this will be seen as another monumental fustercluck that is so commonly found only in Cali. No one tries to copy that state any longer.
Lots of dot Indians will claim to be black to get reparations. For reference, see CamelToe Harris, the dot Indian turned black.
Not going to happen. Latinos are not paying a cent. People will move to states that will actively bare arms with a solid NO.
It is already happening. My physical therapist escaped NYC to find a place in NC away from the insanity.
The money would be better spent turning on their lights.
My great grandfather died in a confedrate pow camp. Does that qualify me?
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