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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Indeed..... How are we going to extract what they owe for all the damages they have inflicted upon our cities??
They’ve burned through every dollar handed to them.
Tired and don’t care about the whining and oh-woe-is-me mentality.
We were taught that song in music class in elementary school in the 1970s if you can believe it.
Send ‘em back to shithole Africa.
If I were a Black person living in Africa, I would get over to New York as soon as possible. A Black could pick up a nice reparations check, get a flight back to Africa, and live for the rest of their life high on the hog.
What is the difference from robbing a bank and theft of good money from the taxpayer? If it is a taking that is not of the will of the people, it is theft. Perhaps reparations is a set-up by the politicians to scoop out big chunks of money for their back pockets.
NY abolished slavery in 1827.
Yes. So was I in the 50s as a child in catholic parochial grade school
Yup. All the sugar cane, tobacco and cotton we had to pick for ol’ massa in upstate New York. My back still aches from it ever since I started identifying as black 180 years ago last week. Pay up, cracker! Don’t you pull that “fuggadaboudit” jive.
Before it became New York it was called New Amsterdam!
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