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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It’s unfair to make white people pay reparations too since no white person today was ever a slave holder.
How about its unfair to whites who never owned slaves to pay slavery reparations to blacks who never were slaves?
How about its not fair to make whites who came to the country AFTER slavery was abolished, to pay reparations.
How about its unfair to make whites who never had slaves pay reparations?
Its been 160 years. It didnt just end yesterday.
This has all been a socialist manifested divide and conquer bs. We had better race relations back in the 70s and 80s before all this incited hatred started.
Yup. Lotta african and middle eastern raids on european coasts murdered white men and kidnapped white women and children. Barbary pirates.
I have the ORIGINAL pre-WWI documents proving all 4 of my grandparents legally immigrating through Ellis Island when they were children.
My bloodlines weren’t in America until 1914. I’m not paying into illegal kin punishment or collective punishment. Both illegal.
We left in 1996. It was bad then, but we knew it would only get worse.
My Irish paternal grandparents came over from England in 1912 and my Irish mother emigrated here from England in 1950 to marry my USAF father. I’m not paying a dime in reparations for something that happened in America before that.
I’ll admit that my grandmother’s grand-parents owned slaves in the 1820s and ‘30s before freeing them, however her father and two other of my great-grandparents fought for the Union to free the slaves. Aside from that, California was a non-slave, free state when admitted to the Union in 1850.
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