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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“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”
Dem Response: “You know something. You’re right. Let’s change it to read that only ‘white male Republicans’ pay reparations.”
How many white people have fled CA so they wouldn’t be fleeced by insane taxes and regulations?
It is better to be early than late.
It’s unfair for White people to pay it too.
African Americans have to pay the reparations to the African Americans too. They are taxpayers like everybody else.
It is so completely insane.
I want reparations for DEI, WOKE and Biden.
Slave owners will be tracked down and imprisoned until they pay up. How many are in Cally? Two?
I understand that some slaves were also owned by other Black Americans and Native Indian tribes....doesn’t that cause a problem as to reparations too? Dunno...all I know is my European ancestry came after the Civil War and were dirt poor for the next 100 years....so, where do we get our reparations from? Or?
Here is the plan - push reparations through, oligarch leftist democrats steal the money to buy personal islands, and every black person gets a pack of menthol cigarettes and two cans of Colt 45.
That’s right.
I sold all my slaves years ago—I should be immune.
Lol.
So do I.
Forgot the abortion pill....
Here is the plan - push reparations through, oligarch leftist democrats steal the money to buy personal islands, and every black person gets a pack of menthol cigarettes, two cans of Colt 45, and a lifetime supply of RU-486 abortion pills.
I can show that some of my ancestors fought and died to set slaves free.
I want my reparations too.
I am just sick of all of it...
Very.
History is full of white slavery too. You don’t hear us whining about it.
Also unfair to have Republicans pay.
I can show my family was directly involved with the Underground Railroad. Where’s mine?
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