California's final reparations plan is out. It may have legal issues.

SF Gate ^ | 5/9/2023 | Alec Regimbal

[NohSpinZone]

After about two years of work, the California Reparations Task Force approved a set of recommendations for how the state can make amends to its Black residents for slavery and the decades of racial discrimination that followed. But the asks are big, and ultimately may never come to fruition.

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These specific recommendations, which also address issues like health disparities and mass incarceration, are not guaranteed to ever go into effect. They’re meant to be used as guidelines for the state Legislature, which would ultimately have the final say in what action California takes on reparations. There’s also the gigantic question of whether any reparations package the state adopts will survive a legal challenge in front of the conservative supermajority on the United States Supreme Court.

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The legal experts who spoke to SFGATE agreed that this is probably the safest route to take — any program that awarded payments to Black residents generally would almost assuredly be struck down under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, they said. However, the current strategy is far from foolproof.

David B. Cruz — a law professor at the University of Southern California — told SFGATE that the court may view the ancestry requirement as a “proxy” for race, since Black people were the only ones enslaved in the U.S. In other words, the court may determine that the state is trying to give preferential treatment to one race over another, which would violate the Equal Protection Clause.

[ViLaLuz]

Are they going to pay reparations to the slaves currently being trafficked right now?

[caww]

Quote.......“The number of whites who were enslaved by the Barbary pirates in North Africa 'exceeded ' the number of Africans enslaved in the United States and in the American colonies before that—'put together'..... But nobody is going to North Africa to ask for reparations, because nobody is going to be fool enough to give it to them.”

[Albion Wilde]

Someplace in the Will and Ariel Durant multi-volume history of the world is the story of a “benevolent” Chinese emperor who confiscated money from the rich and redistributed it to the poor. Within a short span of years, those who had once been the rich were rich again, and those who had been the poor were poor again.

Wealth cannot be conferred on a population by fiat. It has to be taught and encultured, and must include a number of other factors, such as natural resources, location, political favor, and “wild cards.”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I pray they’ve boxed themselves in like Anheuser Busch did.

“...recommendations, which also address issues like health disparities and mass incarceration”

Those are BEHAVIORAL ISSUES, not race or slavery related. No amount of money will improve your health or keep you out of prisons as. In fact, giving away lots of money will exacerbate the prison problem by creating an even bigger sense of entitlement. The more you give, the more they want and expect.

[NohSpinZone]

100% correct. But now try explaining that to the gimmedat mindset.