Posted on 09/27/2024 9:40:56 AM PDT by knighthawk
Governor Gavin Newsom has dealt a blow to reparations efforts in California that will see the state formally apologise for the lingering effects of slavery after he vetoed a key property bill.
The rejected Senate Bill 1050 would have helped Black families reclaim or be compensated for property that was unjustly seized by the government through racially motivated eminent domain.
The governor's reasons for not going ahead with the property proposal are because lawmakers blocked another bill to create a reparations agency that would have reviewed these claims, meaning the proposal wouldn't have been able to come into full effect.
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Pure virtue signalling. “I am SO much better than anyone else. I can embarrass other people by apologizing for imaginary things their remote ancestors probably didn’t do. Gosh, I’m awesome!”
California was not a slave state.
Newsom is a greasy worm.
I guess Newsom figured that a state that’s 79 billion dollars in debt and has a projected 2025 70 billion dollar budget deficit cannot find a few trillion dollars to hand out to the blacks.
He’s got 2028 aspirations in his sights.
The “sorry for your pain but no money for you” bill
He’s an idiot.
Is Newsome turning right?
California had slaves? Maybe when it was still a part of Spain or Mexico and they had Indian slaves.
California entered the union as a free state. Slavery was not legal. So other then trying to make political points what it the point?
The jerk should focus on cleaning up his state.
Yes and yes. He is the male version of Kamala. A skank.
Why not just give Newsome 1,000 lashes for slavery?
Gavin Newsom deals blow to reparations.
Harris family members get to keep money.
Historic Fact: California was not even in the Union until after the Civil War. It was NOT a Slave State. It was not a State until after the Civil War.
Pretty sure California became a state in 1850 - Compromise of 1850
California was not a slave state.That's not the point of the legislation: it's reparations for discrimination, not slavery. Very dangerous.
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