Posted on 12/15/2022 7:22:49 AM PST by Red Badger
A black activist appearing before California’s first reparations task force meeting insisted that every black person in the state receive $350,000 and black-owned businesses should receive $250,000.
Max Fennell, the first black professional tri-athlete, spoke in Oakland, the birthplace of the Black Panthers.
“It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free,” he demanded while speaking at Oakland’s city hall. “We’re not asking, we’re telling you.”
“The tangibles of what I’m asking for is $350,000 per black American in California that’s tangible, small business grant $250,000, and land 15-20 acres,” he added.
The task force is considering five areas in which it claims black Americans have been harmed: the government taking property, the supposed devaluation of businesses owned by blacks, alleged mass incarceration, health, and housing issues. Its recommendations to the California Legislature must be delivered by July 1.
“It is important to get this right because we are setting the precedent for other states and localities, and also for the federal government as well,” Kamilah V. Moore, the chair of the committee, said Wednesday.
In September 2020, California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law to create a state-based task force to make recommendations on slavery reparations to the black community.
“As a nation, we can only truly thrive when every one of us has the opportunity to thrive,” Newsom stated. “Our painful history of slavery has evolved into structural racism and bias built into and permeating throughout our democratic and economic institutions. … While there is still so much work to do to unravel this legacy, these pieces of legislation are important steps in the right direction to building a more inclusive and equitable future for all.”
Newsom signed two bills by Democrat Assemblymember Shirley Weber, who declared, “We have not come to terms with our state’s ugly past that allowed slaveholding within our borders and returned escaped slaves to their masters.”
On Wednesday in Massachusetts, the Boston City Council voted to create a task force to examine the idea of reparations.
Last year, the Evanston City Council in Illinois voted to give reparations to its black residents, allocating $400,000 to be paid out in homeownership and improvement grants up to $25,000. “The Local Reparations Restorative Housing Program … acknowledges the harm caused to Black/African-American Evanston residents due to discriminatory housing policies and practices and inaction on the part of the City,” a resolution from the council stated.
Does this Racist POS know that the vast majority of slaves brought to the US were SOLD BY THEIR FAMILIES??? Go get the money from them
the gibs-me-dat/freesh1t army has finally lost it’s collective smooth brained minds...
I was just reading an article in a Portugal magazine written by a friend of mine who fled LA to Portugal. The beginning of the end for them was when she went into labor and the streets were blocked by BLM rioters. She left the US for good. Don’t know anything about Portugal politics, but she’s happy.
Where democraps rule everything turns to shit. Bye bye leftafornia.
It is extortion writ large, larger than stupid people can comprehend.
Wait till they find out what property taxes are on 20 acres in California.
The Land of Mateus...........The worst wine ever put in a bottle.................
“It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free,”
I’d be willing to bet he’s never worked a day in his life.
But we should advertize this on billboards in Atlanta and Philadelphia. "Move to California, get $350,000!"
If the weirdos out there can identify as another sex, then I identify as a black lesbian and Californian. Send me muh check.
I’ve been thinking about this reparations issue. Now if we billed a certain minority for all the crimes they committed and all the government welfare they consumed plus all the cities they burned down, then maybe we could consider reparations.
If California takes out money of how much they looted they will end up with parking meter money.
And I’m telling you, get F’ed.
What happens when millions of blacks migrate into Kalifornia?
Black tri athlete. Uncle Tom…
The crime rate in 49 states goes way down...................
There’s plenty of Mojave Desert left in California... Maybe Death Valley, too.
Newsom opened this can of $hit. Let him deal with it.
Yes, but oddly enough, the crime rate in Kalifornia won’t rise because they have legalized crime there.
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