Posted on 12/19/2023 11:47:20 AM PST by DFG
New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations to address the persistent, harmful effects of slavery in the state, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday.
The bill signing comes at a time when many states and towns throughout the United States attempt to figure out how to best reckon with the country's dark past.
“In New York, we like to think we're on the right side of this. Slavery was a product of the South, the Confederacy,” Hochul, a Democrat, said at the bill signing ceremony in New York City. "What is hard to embrace is the fact that our state also flourished from that slavery. It's not a beautiful story, but indeed it is the truth.”
Under the law, which was passed by state lawmakers in June, a study commission will examine the extent to which the federal and state government supported the institution of slavery. It will also look at how New York engaged in the transfer of enslaved Africans.
New York fully abolished slavery by 1827, and much of New York City profited heavily off of the slave industry.
The commission would be required to deliver a report a year after its first meeting. Its recommendations could potentially include monetary compensation but would be non-binding. Its findings are intended to spur policy changes and lead to programs and projects that attempt to remedy the negative effects of slavery on Black New Yorkers.
The new law is likely to draw some controversy, especially with the possibility of cash reparations. But the governor and other state lawmakers emphasized at the ceremony that the legislation would help open up conversations about what reparations could look like.
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I guess the blood of 600k+ men and women was not enough................
Yes. NY. That bastion of slaver. “ bend down turn around pick a bale of cotton…”. ( yes I know there was some slaves.)
That sounds logical. They have plenty of cash.
Why? New York was a free state.
Money for the illegals, money for the blacks. Ain’t New York somethin’?
Somethin’ headed for nuttin’, or more likely headed for a bailout from the rest of us.
“Why? New York was a free state.”
New York was one of the original 13 slave states. Made a lot of money off of it too.
Albany doesn’t mean it.
Talk is cheap.
It will give out as much money as California’s commission did.
“It’s not a beautiful story, but indeed it is the truth.”
NOTHING she ever says is true, rather, it’s her warped version of the truth. She’s pitiful, and now she has her writers using words like “indeed” in a desperate attempt to make her show her gravitas?
Just as it was an “immigrant sanctuary state”
Writing checks it has no money to cover
No money though.
We didn’t have slavery in NY so what is she talking about?
We’ll all be better off if today’s Dims quit feeling guilty about the Dims two centuries ago being the party of slavery and trail of tears.
After looking it up I guess I was wrong.
“We didn’t have slavery in NY so what is she talking about?”
Then what were they selling at the corner of Wall and Water streets?
https://untappedcities.com/2015/08/21/the-top-ten-secrets-of-nyc-former-slave-market-wall-street/
There is still slavery in Asia and Africa. There are no slaves or former slaves here.
“New York state will create a commission tasked with considering reparations . . .”
This may start a debate about the merits of voluntary reparations and voluntary repatriations.
Exactly!
“We didn’t have slavery in NY so what is she talking about?”
You did have slavery in New York.
It was not until March 31, 1817 that the New York legislature ended two centuries of slavery within its borders, setting July 4, 1827 as the date of final emancipation and making New York the first state to pass a law for the total abolition of legal slavery. When Emancipation Day finally arrived, the number of slaves freed was roughly 4,600 men, women and children or about 11% of the black population living in New York.
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