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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The biggest beneficiaries of slavery in America are the descendants of slaves. They never would have been born if their ancestors had not been brought here originally.
I predict hilarity because no matter how much money they intend to hand out, they will be attacked, cursed and told it isn’t enough.
Ya, cuz New York was such a major slave state.....
Nothing is ever enough with these people.
NEW YORK IS IN CONSTANT DEFICIT
NEW YORK did NOT have slaves & plantations
THIS is more TWISTED than anyone can imagine.
NYC can hire all the laid-off reparations commission people in San Fran.
Look, offer each Black 10,000 dollars to return to Africa. Under Bidenomics that ought to get rid of a million of them.
Oh geez not this again...
New York will set up a commission to consider reparations for slavery.
Call 1-800-It’s-Africa
Yeah, let's see reparations to the families of the white soldiers who died fighting in the Civil War.
Let's see the reparations bill sent to the African countries who sold the slaves.
of all the bullkrap ideas! but this is just more of the communist/progressive program to demoralize, divide, and conquer USA
incidentally, NY was home for several of the leading abolitionists that helped get the slaves freed in the south
He didn't mention the Democrat party. I guess he just forgot.
Too funny. Almost as funny as another non-slave state of California set up a reparations commission... seems NY is behind the eight ball for creative stupidity behind California.
Weird
Places with the least amount of slaves are doing this...
They know where the money is because they aren’t suing the tribes that started this anyway...
And....Where TF does is it all end?
Everyone was engaged in this morally corrupt behavior.
Get a life...
No, Better Yet...
Get an effin job and have a dream to work toward...
“Look, offer each Black 10,000 dollars to return to Africa”
In some African countries, they would live as kings; however, a return flight to El Paso’s border crossing would net a healthy “paycheck”.
Given NYS taxes & regulations, a form of slavery still exists in NYS.
Figured Obamacare was/is the Reparations
Keeping the hope alive until the next election.
New York, named after the Duke of York (Who was BTW the chieftain of the Royal African Company - a company chartered for trafficking in chattel slaves) was an Empire slave colony for over 100 years until 1776.
Before that, New York/New Amsterdam was a slave colony of the Netherlands.
The United States nor the U.S. state should not pay for what another country is guilty of. Let them pay their own bar tab.
Piytar: This will never end until we start recognizing and talking about how European countries are primarily at guilt here and they are they ones who should pay the reparations.
It's time to start talking about American innocence on reparations.
Hoochie’s gotta chose,
paying for illegals or for bribery for the gibs me dats
Hoochie can’t afford both... well we can’t afford either but
let the illegals and the blacks fight it out
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