Posted on 06/22/2024 2:36:03 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Democratic Assemblyman Ash Kalra became emotional as he expounded on the need for reparations to descendants of slaves
A California Democrat held back tears earlier this month when a Republican lawmaker said it would be unfair to make Asians and Latinos pay slavery reparations to African-Americans
The exchange happened on June 11 during a meeting of the California Assembly Committee on Judiciary. The lawmakers were discussing SB 1331, a bill that would establish the "Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice" in the state treasury — the culmination of a monthslong initiative by California Democrats to develop a reparation proposal for descendants of American slaves.
"I’m concerned about the proposal to help facilitate distribution of reparations," Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez, a Republican from Santa Margarita, said during the hearing.
Sanchez cited economists who analyzed the proposal from California's reparations task force and found it could cost $800 billion.
That's two and a half times the size of our entire state budget," she said. "To pay for that, you'd need a major tax hike unlike anything this state has ever seen before. I recognize and acknowledge the painful part of our history. The pains of the past should not be paid by the people of today."
The Republican lawmaker, who is Hispanic, noted that the majority of California's population, 55%, is Latino or Asian, including many first- or second-generation immigrants "who had nothing to do with slavery, discrimination, Jim Crow laws."
"It is fundamentally unfair to force these people to pay for this," she said.
San Jose Democratic Assemblyman Ash Kalra responded, denying that reparations would be paid in an $800 billion "balloon payment from the state budget."
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California wasn’t a slave state idiot!
Democrats are a lower form of life than moss.
What about all the descendants of the white devils who fought to free the slaves? Or anyone who never owned slaves? The whole subject is about keeping hate and division alive.
Moss = mildew
spell check!
Yo Ash at what point in history do want reparations?
And from whom?
Ash, the slave trade in Negros was perpetrated by Negros and Arabs.
Or the Japanese against the Chinese or Koreans?
What about the Persian empire, Roman empire and wait for it Ash, Native American tribes.
And where does indentured service fit into your little bubble?
5.56mm
Exactly.
Yes, demonrats are hopelessly and deliriously stupid.
And after trillions more are given away to “descendants of slave,” in the non slave state of California, does this mean they will no longer complain?
If anyone should be paying up, it’s demonrats.
I don’t think so. They’ll still whine no matter what.
A lot would gladly pay if they would leave. They won’t leave. Ever.
The stupid ass democrats. You’ll have to show me a currently living slaveholder and a currently living slave before I’ll say there should be any kind of reparations.
No one should ever be held liable for what someone long dead may have done.
They’re the dead weight of our society.
I will never pay any f-ing ‘reparations’ . Over my dead body. Literally
A lot of American Indians were sold into slavery as well, and shipped off to the East Indies.
And quite a few of those were sold into slavery to the whites by Indians if a different tribe. Chickasaws sold Choctaws into slavery, for example. Choctaws often owned blacks.
And Shawnees sold whites to both the French and English at different times.
At this time, due to immigration of Somalis, Kenyans, etc., I think there are now more American blacks who arrived here AFTER slavery was ended.
Oh my, it could be a bit difficult to sort out.
What about the 2,128,948 Union Soldiers who fought in the civil war and the 360,222 who died from wounds or disease?
What about the 2,128,948 Union Soldiers who fought in the civil war and the 360,222 who died from wounds or disease?
My grandfather came to America in the late 1800s, after slavery no longer existed in America. And before that, we picked our own potatoes.
The reparations grifters can kiss my American (of Irish ancestry) ass.
I am not paying squat. my great great grand dad paid already with his life in the civil war.
There are plenty of white bread European Americans whose ancestors came over in the late 1800s, who similarly never had anything to do with slavery. They shouldn’t have to pay reparations any more than the Asians and Latinos. The who concept is so fatally flawed it is insane.
-PJ
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