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.
So it is only the color of the skin that matters, and not whether the recipients are actually descendants of people who were slaves?? Asking for a friend...
Don’t think that is gonna fly...
War between the blacks and the illegal alien hispanics.
What if someone is biracial? Do they only get half?................
What about half blacks like Obama, who is descended from slave owners on his white side, but not descended from any slaves on his black side? Does he get paid reparations? What if his black ancestors sold slaves in Africa?
An “activist” has never worked. In any sense of the word.
Piss off. The only people who owned slaves were Democrats. Get your tribute from them.
Clayton Morris, a former host of Fox & Friends Weekend, and his wife Natali moved to Portugal and now have a pretty good podcast on youtube called “redacted.” I enjoy it and find Clayton much more free-thinking than when he was on Fox.
And no, I am not Clayton.
MFO
I’d laugh if this guy traced his lineage back to a plantation run by April Ellison.
Why does a 300WINNMAG round hitting a sugar beat come to mind...??
Reparations were paid in full 1861-1865 with the deaths of over 620,000 men, loss of arms, legs, eyes, families destroyed.
No one in the US has been a bought and paid for slave since the 13 Amendment was ratified.
I didn’t realize all blacks in California had a link to slavery. You learn something everyday.....
“Falconhurst,”, 1832!
The stink of “free” money is always overpowering.
The Gib Me Dats will soon descend upon Cali in record numbers, all demanding a piece of the pie (that isn’t owed them and that they aren’t entitled to). And they damned well won’t be interested in sharing any with the hordes coming in from the southern border.
Things could get quite interesting...
No.
Put your demand where the sun don’t shine.
Give ‘em $3.50 each
>>in a few years they’ll be back for more.<<
A FEW YEARS? You think any of them could hold on to that kind of money for a FEW YEARS???
I recommend the black folks around here move to California now to get in on the money grab.
SHOW me evidence of slaves in Calif—where/when/what were they doing???
Doesn’t exist.
15-20 acres???
Wait until they get the first tax bill on THAT!!!
OK, then we will offset all of the Civil War/Constitutional Amendment costs for freeing you in 1865 and for all of the prison costs we incurred after that because of “your people’s” uncivilized behaviors. Net, I figure we’re owed around $650,000 by each one of you.
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