Posted on 09/30/2020 2:44:25 PM PDT by NoLibZone
California became a state in 1850, after the gold rush of 1849, and was a “free state” no slavery ever allowed in California.
Ask yourself, would a massive currency crisis and government insolvency (yes, I know they can’t officially go bankrupt) be a bad thing???
It doesn’t matter. Impoverishing whites to make them dependent upon the state is the goal.
I am really sick of virtue signaling white saviors that lack basic history but, if he’s going to pay reparations for the sins of California, it better come out of petty cash.
There were 14 slaves held by Robert Mays Smith for 6 years. Smith was a Mormon. He may have married a slave with whom he had many children.* One of the Smith slaves became a nurse and real estate investor; her estate was estimated in today’s dollars at about $8.5MM. There were a few more ‘indentured’ held by Mormons who settled in San Bernardino around 1850, who abandoned their towns and returned to Utah 7 years later, and, like Smith, were forced to leave their indentured behind.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-19/san-bernardino-mormon-slavery
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/robert-mays-smith-slave-master-24-11mm96
So, will California pay those 14 slaves reparations? What about the others who also started businesses? Will California bill Utah? The ancestors of Smith, or Mexico for pre-1848 spanish missionary settlements?
Just for context, California became a territory in 1847 and outlawed slavery in their constitution in 1848. Prior to that it was largely a lawless region claimed by Spain. The first settlements began as a result of the 1850 gold rush. Many free blacks joined the rush and some were lucky enough to earn enough to buy their relatives’ freedom back home. No black slavery existed in California outside of that of indian tribes. California became the 31st state in 1850 and remained slave-free.
” There were never black slaves owned by Europeans, and many free men of African ancestry joined the California Gold Rush (1848–1855).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California#Slavery
It’s 1st world sh*thole Cancerfornia, what do or did you expect?
Fund it by selling everything that California leftists have.
Do they know how many white people have sub-Saharan DNA markers?
A lot, largely in the southeast.
Get your DNA test now, folks//
Just so happens I got one.
I’m a true melting pot American,
White
Red
Black
But I’m sure BLM would throw a violent hissy fit if I got some of them reperations bucks as I’m fair,blonde and blue.
Wouldn’t want to pick my fellow citizens pocket anyways though.
I bet they’re going to figure out how to pay reparations to the illegals. That’s all they usually ever care about.
Easy fix; you get your reperations when I get my 100 bails of cotton you pick by hand out in the field.
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A lot, largely in the southeast.
Get your DNA test now, folks//
Just so happens I got one.
I’m a true melting pot American,
White
Red
Black
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Yep. My mom with roots in eastern Tennessee going way back. Exact same.
“With Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 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.”
Onward Calitard soldiers!
Number of black slaves I’ve bought, sold or owned in the USA = 0
Now let all USA blacks stand forward if they’ve been bought, sold, or owned as a slave......
My parents both immigrated to the U.S. as young adults. My family’s entrance to the U.S.A was in the late 1950’s.
How am I financially responsible for something that happened more than 100 years before my family even got here?
My great grandfather survived 2 years in a Confederate POW camp. My grandfather and his twin brother were born in 1887, the youngest of 19 children.
100%
All should move to California.
LOL, feds will bail them out soon, and this will be national too if harris/biden gets in. Bash CA all you want, I hate CA. But this is the national democrat agenda and we’re a hairpin away from this toilet nationally.
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