Posted on 12/17/2023 11:11:58 PM PST by KingofZion
The task force charged with creating a reparations program for Black students in the Berkeley school district will meet for an additional six months before presenting its recommendations to the school board in June.
Intending to give cash payments to students whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States, Berkeley Unified established the task force in March. If implemented, it may be the first program of its kind in the country.
Since April, the 18-member task force has met monthly to set the course for the new reparations program. Its first job is to determine how BUSD should fund reparations; later, it will determine how the program should be structured and implemented, and who would be eligible for payments. At a presentation to the school board last week, the task force members asked for more time to answer these questions.
Describing BUSD’s pursuit of reparations as part of a larger movement reckoning with the harm done to Black Americans, school board director Ka’Dijah Brown told the crowd at the school board meeting that they were “bearing witness to what will be a pivotal moment ever etched in Berkeley Unified school district’s history books.”
“Our inboxes since we began this work have been flooded with support from community members, from elected officials and from those even outside of the BUSD or Berkeley community,” Brown said. “It is not just us who believes in and wants to support reparations; you have an entire community behind you.”
School board director Laura Babitt said BUSD reparations could become a form of “financial atonement,” putting money behind the acknowledgement that America has “devastated generations of Black people in America.”
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Upon reflection, selling off the entire public school system and giving all the money to race hustlers is not the worst idea in the world.
The upside is enormous.
Will they use DNA testing to determine eligibility and percentage of earned reparation as ancestors directly descended from actual slaves?
Regards,
That Berkeley school district must have an awful lot of cash to give away.
Can’t wait until June. Watching this mess fall apart is going to be a hoot.
School board director Laura Babitt said BUSD reparations could become a form of “financial atonement,” putting money behind the acknowledgement that America has “devastated generations of Black people in America.”
Meanwhile the students are as dumb as rocks and getting high paid positions through DEI, a win win situation for them
How long until Zimbabwe-style land seizures?
Forty acres and a mule should do it.
Another upside will be seeing the faces of disappointment when so many find out they did NOT descend from slaves.
EC
DNA doesn’t answer the question.
What is earned through hard work is great and glorious regardless of its intrinsic value. What is given appeasement is worthless.
“Ka’Dijah Brown told the crowd ... that they were “bearing witness to what will be a pivotal moment ever etched in Berkeley Unified school district’s history books.”
The Devastation mentioned started with LBJ & Welfare
Every group of people has been enslaved at some point during the history of the world. These little snot nosed kids are nothing special.
They were sold into slavery by blacks and the first slaves in the continent were owned by blacks. Between 5-10% of the slave owners in the US were blacks at the outbreak of the Civil War. The US imported only 5% of the slaves from Africa and the rest went to South America and the sugar plantations of the Caribbean. Our educational system has been perverted and become myopic for the ideology of the race of professional victims.
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