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2 Years in Making, California Reparations Report Offers Ideas For Asheville-Buncombe Commission
Asheville Watchdog ^ | June 6, 2022 | Scott Carroll

Posted on 09/17/2022 2:29:08 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

Two years ago, as violent protests shook Asheville and other cities after George Floyd was murdered while in Minneapolis police custody, the Asheville City Council and the Buncombe County Commission passed resolutions in support of reparations for Black residents, to make amends for historic discrimination. Acting at the same time, California established a task force to study and develop a plan for reparations in that state.

Last week, the task force overseeing California’s reparations effort released the first part of its work: a landmark 500-page report documenting nearly two centuries of systemic discrimination imposed by the state, the harm it caused, and what needs to be done to attempt to address that harm.

(Excerpt) Read more at avlwatchdog.org ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: asheville; california; reparations
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It’s California. The bass-ackwards state. What possibly could go right?


21 posted on 09/17/2022 4:56:20 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Progressive jerks have taken over Asheville. Democrats ruin every nice place they settle int.


22 posted on 09/17/2022 5:34:12 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Captain Rhino

Although bad enough..aint nothing compared to what Spain did all through south and central America and southwest USA.


23 posted on 09/17/2022 5:36:42 PM PDT by crz
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Hell, a good number of people that live in Asheville are California liberals.

I wish DeSantis and Abbott would send about 5 bus loads each to Asheville. Drop them off at the Grove Park Inn. They’ll be on buses to Charlotte faster than they were deported from the Vineyard.


24 posted on 09/17/2022 5:40:06 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Some brown people are allowed to remain on the island. Obviously the Soetero’s.

But the rest live in the Oaks Bluff area of the island. Basically, where all the help lives.


25 posted on 09/17/2022 5:41:35 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Silly things like facts aren’t allowed in the research.

It’s the thought that counts.

All one has to do is watch Barbershop and the scene where Eddie talks about reparations.


26 posted on 09/17/2022 5:46:50 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: papercliprippa

Wish they’d go through. Then document how fast all the liberals start raising bell about their money being stolen to pay.


27 posted on 09/17/2022 5:48:06 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: The_Media_never_lie; All

Nolte: Democrat-run Asheville Rises to Top 10% Most Violent Cities

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/14/nolte-democrat-run-asheville-rises-to-top-10-most-violent-cities/

These things happen when you define your cops and 40% leave

This is also the same place that told restaurants with outside dining that they couldn’t turn on patio lights because of “light trespassing”

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2018/03/28/city-asheville-tells-restaurants-unplug-patio-lights-leaving-diners-dark/452551002/


28 posted on 09/17/2022 5:51:13 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: The_Media_never_lie
...after George Floyd was murdered ...

Stopped right there!

29 posted on 09/17/2022 5:51:50 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I was murdered and no one rioted.


30 posted on 09/17/2022 5:53:41 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: crz

Add to that the Portuguese in Brazil, the French, English, and Dutch in the Caribbean. In all those places, it was three crops a year and the average male slave lived about seven years. The plantation owners deliberately worked the slaves to death. This only changed because the flow of fresh male slaves dried up due to the Royal Navy’s anti-slavery patrols.

And let’s not mention Africa or Asia.

But bringing that up is “RACIST! RACIST!! RACIST!!!” to the Wokesters. Why? Because it diminishes the priority that American black activists (BLM, CRT types, etc.) feel must be placed on addressing their complaints. And that means addressing them FIRST!

After they’ve got their payoff…er, … reparations, then maybe those other folks can have some too.


31 posted on 09/17/2022 7:17:30 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Elsie

George Floyd was certainly not murdered.


32 posted on 09/17/2022 7:39:16 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: alternatives?

Asheville has no middle class. There are no jobs in Asheville for young people. There is a trustafarian class of trust fund kids endowed by there parents. There a class of people who are retirees from the Northeast and Florida.

No middle class in Asheville. Service industry city. And, it did not used to be that way.

Now, there are young people who are not trust fund kids who chose to live in Asheville, but their economic prospects are bleak.


33 posted on 09/17/2022 7:47:06 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
So affirmative-action bureaucrats are going to take money away from people who never owned slaves and give it to people who were never slaves

It's better than that. There were thousands of blacks who were slave owners. Most whites owned no slaves. So some descendants of slave owners want some descendants of those who never owned slaves to pay them money? These people are crazy liberals.

34 posted on 09/17/2022 7:55:36 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Captain Rhino

“... in the Caribbean”

I believe that is where Kamala’s father or grandfather was a slave owner.

Her Jamaican side of the ‘black’ box she checked.


35 posted on 09/17/2022 8:42:16 PM PDT by Syncro (God is Good - Facts is Facts.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Some interesting California history, Jim

Mentions Fresno, and some other Central Valley areas, plus the Eel River, upon which I owned some river front property some years ago.

Mentioned Mendocino area, south of the Lost Coast where you and I spent some time (at separate times) in the past; Usal etc.

Beautiful areas of California.


36 posted on 09/17/2022 8:51:46 PM PDT by Syncro (God is Good - Facts is Facts.)
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To: Elsie; All

RIP Patriot Martyr Ashli Babbit.


37 posted on 09/17/2022 8:54:17 PM PDT by Syncro (God is Good - Facts is Facts.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Kooksville ala fish market


38 posted on 09/17/2022 8:56:28 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic)
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To: qaz123

Wow, that light trespassing ordinance for the Asheville Astronomers Club is just insane.


39 posted on 09/17/2022 9:11:59 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Blacks need to be looking towards illegals and those immigrants super-bypassed into this country by our government. THEY are where all the reparations money went...


40 posted on 09/17/2022 9:16:43 PM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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