Posted on 03/07/2022 9:36:09 AM PST by blam
California’s state panel on “reparations” for slavery postponed a decision on who should qualify for compensation — whether only the descendants of slaves, or all people of color, based on the idea that the United States suffers from “systemic racism.”
As Breitbart News reported in 2020, the Golden State, which entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, decided to set up a committee to study reparations in the wake of national protests and riots over the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
When the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans launched in 2021, one member claimed that black Americans were treated as badly in California as they were in the South in the years after the Civil War.
However, the question of who should qualify for reparations remained unanswered as the committee began. “California Secretary of State Shirley Weber has told the reparations task force to prioritize residents descended from enslaved people so the ambitious effort remains manageable,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Sunday. “But the focus could potentially exclude many Black residents navigating systemic racism deeply embedded within American society [sic].”
Chronicle columnist Justin Phillips added:
After nearly two hours of fiery public debate on Feb. 24, California’s reparations task force could have made a seminal decision on who gets reparations — all Black people or just the ones who can trace their ancestry to slaves in the U.S.
Instead, the first-in-the-nation body awkwardly punted until later this month. Of the panel’s nine members, five voted for the delay. The decision didn’t sit well with the four who didn’t.
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Deciding who is deserving and less deserving of reparations will do little to heal our people’s generational trauma. And for the task force, its legacy will depend on
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It doesn’t matter. Biden and his globalist masters will either start a war or bankrupt the nation soon - so its all a moot point.
Anybody alive did not work as a slave,they ain’t never picked cotton,and no American alive now never owned slaves !
Maybe they should hire J. G. Wentworth.
Ancestors of slaves.
Huge number of whites have DNA proof.
A State that never had slaves is taking money away from people that never owned slaves and is giving it to people that never were slaves...makes sense.
I’ll take a few hundred thousands.
Hi.
What does CA say if the wife is black, a descendant of slaves, and her husband is white?
No soup for you!?
5.56mm
“all Black people or just the ones who can trace their ancestry to slaves in the U.S.”
What about indentured servants? How do they get compensated? Is it about people who have been abused or is it about pigmentation?
All living slaves should immediately get paid 1 million dollars, paid out as follows:
1/3 from the tribe that sold them to the slavers.
1/3 from the slavers
1/3 from the plantation owners
haha, if you gave them 40 acres and a mule, they’d set it on fire and throw mule dung at you...
What about the halves, the thirds, the so on and so forth? My niece is half, as far as I know. I guess her dad is ‘full’ black. Maybe she’ll get lucky.
So, if you have 0.001% genetic material from African ancestry, and you are so “white” that no one knows, how have you suffered from “systemic racism”?
Anyway, don’t they claim that ALL humans originated in Africa and spread around the world from there? So can we all claim to be of African ancestry?
Let my help that task force out. Give reparations to anyone who self-identifies as a person of color on the day they fill out the form. Nothing could be simpler!
And please do not question anyone who does that. Any such attempt would be racist and fascist. It might even cause global warming.
As a side note, I wonder how I can get one of those forms.
I be seff declares as a black man.
No ancestors,for they never worked the fields for no pay...
does Liz Warren qualify because she is so greatly Indian??
she should sue...
Virtue-signaling in America has reached a kind of peak psychopathy.
These progressive lunatics in government, academia and elsewhere, have had a free ride for many decades, based on massive government spending, massive debt, printed money, and the US as the world’s reserve currency. The power of their psychotic imaginings have gone unchecked for so long, they believe its reality.
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