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Home Front: Politix
California moves to consider reparations for slavery
2020-08-31
[SF Gate] SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers are setting up a task force to study and make recommendations for reparations to African Americans, particularly the descendants of slaves, as the nation struggles again with civil rights and unrest following the latest shooting of a Black man by police.

The state Senate supported creating the nine-member commission on a bipartisan 33-3 vote Saturday. The measure returns to the Assembly for a final vote before lawmakers adjourn for the year on Monday, though Assembly members overwhelmingly already approved an earlier version of the bill.

"Let's be clear: Chattel slavery, both in California and across our nation, birthed a legacy of racial harm and inequity that continues to impact the conditions of Black life in California," said Democratic Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles.

She cited disproportionate homelessness, unemployment, involvement in the criminal justice system, lower academic performance and higher health risks during the coronavirus pandemic.

Although California before the Civil War was officially a free state, Mitchell listed legal and judicial steps state officials took at the time to support slavery in Southern states while repressing Blacks.
Posted by:Besoeker

#26  If the above is correct, then the entire nation is being held hostage to a grievance against less than 0.1% of the IS population brought by, at most, 2% of the US population.

Whee! That was fun, Ebbomoper Grumble4030. And a helpful exercise to work through to the end. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-08-31 23:06  

#25  What if I'm mulatto. Do I pay myself? Do I get a tax deduction? If I make $200k/year and have to give up $50k, who pays the taxes on the $50k and at what rate? Does CA have to write off the difference in taxes?

So many questions.
Posted by: gorb   2020-08-31 20:37  

#24  Prune the accounts of every CA sportsballer, send it to China?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-08-31 18:27  

#23  In descending order of size/share of US population today, a guess at the % of US population in 2020 that is ...

- descendants of post-1865/pre-1925 immigrants: ~30%

- recent (post-1965) arrivals to the US from abroad: ~13%
- children of above: ~10%

- mid-20c arrivals from abroad (1925-1965): ~10%
- descendants of above : ~10%

- descendants of pre-1865 US citizens who had no connection to the slave trade, slavery or the power structure of the Confederacy: ~10%

- mixed-race (50% or greater non-black) descendants of US slaves: ~9-10%
- predominantly (51%+) black descendants of slaves: circa 1-2%
- white descendants of slave traders or of pre-1865 slaveowners : <0.1%

If the above is correct, then the entire nation is being held hostage to a grievance against less than 0.1% of the IS population brought by, at most, 2% of the US population.

Fukk these idiots.
Fukk off, very much
Posted by: Ebbomoper Grumble4030   2020-08-31 17:44  

#22  I identify as black now. Can I get reparations?
Posted by: gorb   2020-08-31 17:29  

#21  With at least one ancestor having given his life while fighting for the North, I find it very difficult to feel guilty about slavery. But this is not about guilt or justice. It's about showing everybody how virtuous you are by condescending to the victim class.
Posted by: AuburnTom   2020-08-31 16:57  

#20  JFM, good to see a post from you.

I just want Lebron James (estimated net worth $480 million) to man up and tell me how much I owe him.
Posted by: Matt   2020-08-31 16:53  

#19  JFM, all good questions. And how about the blood that was shed by the northern Union soldiers?
My wife's father was born in Scotland in 1918; her maternal grandparents were born in England in the 1800s - should she have to pay reparations?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2020-08-31 16:39  

#18  Forgive me for myy ignorance.

-I thought Clifornia was a Free State. Abdnd California went to Lincoln in 1860 in the name of waht would have Californains to pay reparations?

2) Someone can tell me a gfood reasion people whose ancestors wern't even in Ameica should pay anythiong

3) In the name of what people who were never slaves should receive anything from people who never owned slaves most of them without salve-owning ancestors?

5) How about the people who enslaved thel athis other Blacks and sold them t Whites paying reparations?

5) How about Muslam slavery where Black men were castrated and womens' fate was not to clean the master's house but to be raped by him in the harmes? Will California send delegations to Muslma states?
Posted by: JFM   2020-08-31 16:30  

#17  reparation tourists - auto correct strikes again.
Posted by: Groger Noodleman4062   2020-08-31 16:06  

#16  If several states really do this, I can see hordes of black repatriation tourists collecting money from state to state.
Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426   2020-08-31 15:39  

#15  The Dems are the party of slavery. If they want to make reparations, have at it. Not my circus.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-08-31 15:33  

#14  So easy to do when playing with OPM.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2020-08-31 15:17  

#13  The American black mainstream appears to be culturally/politically comfortable with slavery.

Why should anyone be morally obliged to even listen to these complaints?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2020-08-31 13:37  

#12  Solving problems that don't exist as a distraction from actual problems they don't care to address.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-08-31 13:33  

#11  So they're gonna make the rest of us tax slaves.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-08-31 12:36  

#10  Making Mexicans pay for the reparations.
Posted by: York Harding   2020-08-31 12:16  

#9  They should go after politicians and race huxters that pushed policies that created such disparities.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-08-31 12:16  

#8  Noticed that they're calling it 'Chattel Slavery' now as to not include Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor or 'Indentured Slavery' (of course they now call THAT 'indentured servitude').
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-08-31 09:05  

#7  Ghetto culture, to be more precise in some cases.
Posted by: Raj   2020-08-31 08:26  

#6  Slouched behind darkly tinted windows whilst motoring.

culture
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-31 08:06  

#5  She cited disproportionate homelessness,

culture

unemployment,

culture

involvement in the criminal justice system,

culture

lower academic performance

culture

and higher health risks during the coronavirus pandemic.

culture and/or genetics
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2020-08-31 07:43  

#4  Didn't realize California was a slave state. Thought it was the internment state.
Posted by: Groger Noodleman4062   2020-08-31 06:51  

#3  Sorry, not all whiney and violent, and no complicated religious victim culture.
Posted by: gorb   2020-08-31 06:40  

#2  How about reparations for the Asians you actually segregated, discriminated against, and whose land you appropriated in '42?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-08-31 06:13  

#1  Something must be done to stem the tide of democratic voters leaving California. This may be the answer.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-08-31 03:47  

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