Posted on 03/30/2022 10:08:29 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Chief Duane Yellow Feather Shepard, whose family are descendants of Charles and Willa Bruce, the couple whose land was seized in Manhattan Beach, said on Wednesday that he supported limiting reparations to descendants of slaves as the most appropriate way forward.
The taskforce has not yet decided how residents would prove eligibility and what kind of reparations they could receive; the state would need to pass a new law to dole out compensation.
Two million Black Californians are estimated to be descendants of slaves, out of 2.6m total Black residents in the state, the taskforce said in a meeting on Wednesday, citing estimates that a reparations bill to support those descendants could cost $672bn. The taskforce also discussed possible frameworks that would consider specific harms and atrocities to prioritize, such as unjust property takings by eminent domain, segregated education, police violence and housing discrimination.
The taskforce has collected testimony on the continuing inequalities in the state, noting that while Black residents make up 5% of California, they are significantly over-represented in jails, prisons and unhoused populations, and that Black homeowners continue to face significant discrimination in home appraisals.
Shirley Weber, the California secretary of state who authored the legislation creating the taskforce, argued for prioritizing descendants for generations of forced labor, broken family ties and police terrorism. The daughter of sharecroppers forced to flee Arkansas in the dead of night, she recalled how the legacy of slavery had broken her family and stunted their ability to dream of anything beyond survival.
“We must be aggressive in our efforts to be honest and direct and to figure out what we need to do in California and be an example to the rest of the nation in how we begin to reckon with ourselves,” she said last year.
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Gonna need a lot more crack and fentanyl!
For one thing, Will Smith should pay Chris Rock.
any of them injuns ever have slaves?
This’ll be the biggest can of worms you’ll ever see opened!!
chief twinkle toes satin boots
Get ready for Elizabeth Warren to turn Black and head for California. She has milked the Indian gig for all it is worth.
When will it end? If a child gets reparations today and then in ten years has their own children do those children get a payout?
It never ends.
Going to stock up on popcorn for this one.
California dod not exist when these so called atrocoties were comitted. Why is its current populatin to blame and liable?
Were their slaves in California? And, if so, any documented descendants? I don’t think so.
The same Democrats that are behind this, encourage open borders which creates modern day slavery by traffickers.
They don’t care about handing out govt money. It’s not coming out of their pocket. They have an election to save.
There were some slaves brought to calif by their owners before the Civil War. Were freeded after.
“California reparations decision sparks debate over who should qualify”
Only descendants of American slave owners whose slaves were emancipated. The British compensated slave owners for their emancipated slaves. America never did.
exactly, this is all about buying votes, vote for us Dems and you get $236,000
Reparations have already been given in that their ancestors were not forcibly shipped to Africa. U.S citizenship is reparations paid in full for descendants of slaves. California has opened the floodgates for neverending reparations with their foolish decision.
I am a slave approximately 40% of my working life. Do I get a check?
I always love how California thinks they “lead” and “inspire” others, when it’s only the same tiny handful of the nation’s deepest-blue states that ever even think to follow along with whatever antics they’re currently up to. No purple state, no red state, the federal government, is going to care what California does with this garbage.
If you skin don’t shine, you should be fine . . .
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