A reparations committee of black people wants reparations that would top $800 billion. The preliminary estimate is to compensate black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration, and housing discrimination.
According to NBC News, the preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California’s $300 billion annual budget and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have shortened their average life span. Nor does the figure count compensating people for property unjustly taken by the government or devaluing Black businesses, two other harms the task force says the state perpetuated.
They likely won’t receive cash payments soon. Perhaps economists will come up with new figures.
“We’ve got to go in with an open mind and come up with some creative ways to deal with this,” said Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, one of two lawmakers on the task force responsible for mustering support from state legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom before any reparations could become a reality.
Financial redress is just one part of the package being considered. Other proposals include paying incarcerated inmates market value for their labor, establishing free wellness centers and planting more trees in Black communities, banning cash bail and adopting a K-12 Black studies curriculum, reports NBC News.
How do you even begin to assess unfair incarceration? Who is committing the crimes and did they deserve imprisonment? Individuals can always sue and they do. And health disparities. There are too many variables.
It’s ridiculous to discuss any payments over dead people who were harmed by people who are also dead. However, if anyone should give, it’s the KKK Democrats.
California wasn’t even a slave state.
One way we could help people who need help is to stop pouring needy and criminal foreigners from around the world into the country.
State Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez:
“Economist consultants from the task force reported the total amount could be as much as 800 billion – 800 billion. That’s 2 1/2 times the size of our entire state budget to pay for that,” Sanchez said.
“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 our past should not be paid by the people of today.
“The majority of our state is Latino and Asian, making up 55% of our population. <ost of them, like me, are first, second, or third-generation immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery, discrimination, or Jim Crow laws, nothing.
“It is fundamentally unfair to force these people to pay for this, and because of that, I will be opposing today.”
BREAKING: A committee in the California State Legislature has approved a bill to distribute up to $800 BILLION for slavery reparations. “That’s two and a half times the size of our state budget.”
A state that never had slaves will be paying people that were never slaves
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— George (@BehizyTweets) June 11, 2024
If we’re going to count nickels, then it’s time to charge blacks for all the welfare they used. Charge them for housing vouchers and food stamps and, above all, for the high cost of crime, criminal incarcerations, damages to property and persons and drug dealing. Do the math and you’ll find blacks owe us – all U.S. taxpayers – far more than a measly $800 billion dollars.
California the land of fruits and nuts. Soon to be a vast Island of Lost Souls.
As my old man used to say, “People in Hell want ice water.”
hold off on one payment to the Ukraine, lets get it started, fix any issues on the first run then full speed ahead! then we can put all of this behind us and concentrate on really bulking up the illegals net worths… 1,2,3 BREAK!
Yep. That will definitely stimulate the economy…….
How many trillions do blacks expect for not working?
The epitome of a black hole..
The California state legislature is filled with childish morons out to please — who? It’s simply amazing that the voters can’t see the clownishness and childish behavior of those seemingly adults inhabiting the legislature. How low does the state have to fall before the voters wake up? I figure, a total economic and lawlessness collapse.
Gimme gimme gimme.
This is the classic extortion scheme ever conceived.
Once they receive a dime, the hustle begins and their mantra— Not nuff, not nuff.
Giveme, giveme, giveme. Didn’t pick no cotton, never was a slave, never knew me a slave, giveme, giverme, giveme.
Perpetual crybabies. Demanding something they don’t deserve.
Decades of Affirmative Action should fill the bill for the problem parasitic race….call it even…the time has come to re-segregate. 800bn will buy a lot of malt liquor and hoes…tru dat
Stupid is what stupid says. Cultifornia
That sounds reasonable for an unreasonable shakedown.
As a California Native American I say grab a number and stand in line. We were here first and if anyone “deserves” reparations it’s us not you
The only reparations they deserve from me are two middle fingers.
These parasites will blow through that in less than two years and be back on welfare and food stamps.
Governor Newsom should step up and write the first check for his share of the reparations he owes.
Clearly only registered Democrats should have to pay for the sins of past Democrats.
aren’t those blacks in the south? not california.
…here’s a novel idea…build a very high electric fence around the whole state of California…give the blacks the whole state along with all the illegals that President Biden has allowed to come in and not allow passage out or into the ‘New Nation of California’…and call it an even swap and see how well they ‘prosper’ in their own POC domain…easy-peasy and more than just fair…settles all past alleged disparities and allegations…
What a great idea.
…here’s a novel idea…build a very high electric fence around the whole state of California…give the blacks the whole state along with all the illegals that President Biden has allowed to come in and not allow passage in-or-out into the ‘New Nation of California’…and call it an even swap and see how well they ‘prosper’ in their own POC Domain…easy-peasy and more than just fair…settles all past alleged disparities and allegations…
It’s the coup de grace to America. America must be taken down for any invalid reasons they can find. This is greed, theft and hatred.
$800,000,000,000. I don’t know, but that sounds a bit light to me. Why not make it an even $1,000,000,000,000? In fact, why stop there?
The thing about it is that black people will be under the delusion that race relations will be improved by this action when the diametric opposite will certainly be the result. But then again, maybe they don’t care because it’s all and only about the money.
Voting never did matter in the first place. You really need to start using the bioweapons to eliminate the excess of society and use them effectively…know what I mean?
Reparations = Extortion!
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