I'd love for these fools to try to pass this as a ballot measure though.
If they try to actually implement this BS racist garbage and finance it using taxes, that’s the last penny in tax they will ever collect from me.
The point was to get the ball rolling in the rest of the country.
I’d love for these fools to try to pass this as a ballot measure though.
Shake down artists have many scams years of street hustling is the training ground.
Obama winks
Final Reparations Plan? They must have failed history.
Kipling said it best....
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It won’t fly, but it might be amusing to watch the sudden influx of “lifetime” Kali residents who have been there all of 90 minutes and want free money. And the faces on the other minority residents who won’t make the cut and find themselves tapped for the bucks. It’d make the Jerry Springer show look like a Sunday School picnic.
From Wilkepedia “Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968”.
Over that 85 year period, an average of approximately 40 African Americans were tragically lynched annually.Contrast that with the interracial violence since 1968 where the black minority of 13% of the US has managed to kill 145,000 of the white population over the last 55 years or approximately 2800 whites annually on average. Think 3500 vs 145000 or 40 vs 2800 annually. That sounds more like o ton of flesh than a pound of flesh.
There were 43 lynchings in California from 1882 to 1968 comprised of 40 whites and 3 blacks. Yet, reparations of 1.2 million per person is for whom?
If the idea of reparations is accepted, as questionable as it is, then the only ones who should pay are the descendants of those elite peerage bloodlines.
It’s more than likely that written records exist in very private places - that document every slave and every owner. ‘The people in charge’ - for lack of a better term - are extraordinary record keepers. To them, bloodlines are paramount.
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I have many problems with reparations, generally around the recipients. But as problematic is who should pay? I wasn’t a wealthy slave owner who profited from their labor. Payments should come from slave owners -
David Cruz: “ since Black people were the only ones enslaved in the U.S. “
Obviously a typical ignorant college professor. Blacks were not the only ones enslaved and whites were not the only ones who held salves. 1.4% of whites every held slaves and 24% of blacks held slaves.
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 prison. In fact, giving away lots of money will exacerbate the prison problem by creating even more sense of entitlement to free money.
Are they going to pay reparations to the slaves currently being trafficked right now?
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.