The California legislature is now moving toward implementing a series of reparation proposals after years of debate. The bills notably do not include the most talked about item: financial reparations. After years of batting around figures as high as $5 million per recipient, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) recently balked at the cost. It is not clear if voters will see this as a bait-and-switch given the building expectation of huge cash awards. However, buried in one of the items in the slew of benefits for African-Americans is the restoration of affirmative action in education.
The 14 bills to “dismantle racism” vary from “natural and protective” hairstyles in all competitive sports to “prohibit[ing] involuntary servitude for incarcerated persons.”
One provision would restore property taken by “race-based” cases of eminent domain. It is not clear how that would work. Taking property by eminent domain requires compensation. If such compensation was not given, it would be a constitutional deprivation regardless of race and all citizens should benefit regardless of race. If it was given, the question becomes whether the compensation is repaid with interest and then the state would have to pay the current owners for the property before giving it back to the earlier owners.
However, the provision that stood out was the bill from Democratic Assembly member Corey Jackson (D., San Diego) to change California’s Constitution to allow the state to fund programs aimed at “increasing the life expectancy of, improving educational outcomes for, or lifting out of poverty specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, or marginalized genders, sexes, or sexual orientations.”
Technically, affirmative action was barred decades ago by the Supreme Court. For decades, universities have avoided the type of outright quota the court held unconstitutional in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978). Justice Lewis Powell wrote. “Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.”
However, universities quickly ramped up the use of race under diversity rationales until the recent rulings of the Supreme Court barring the use of race as an admissions criteria.
Californians have repeatedly rejected affirmative action in education despite being a deeply blue state and well-funded campaigns to change the law. This is the latest attempt to restore affirmative action as a matter of reparations. It is not clear how that would work in light of the recent opinions.
While there are a few monetary provisions, the lack of a payment to residents will likely not sit well with some.
For years, Newsom and other Democratic politicians have campaigned on reparations and that bill has now come due. A card and an apology is not going to cut it.
In past hearings, speakers demanded cash in large amounts. Rep. Barbara Lee (D., Cal.) declared that “Reparations are not a luxury, but a human right long overdue for millions of Americans. We are demanding that the government pay their tax.”
She was not talking about a heartfelt apology.
Nor were others at the hearing.
In prior hearings, speakers have been asking “where’s the money.” Some warned the Democratic task force that they would not vote for the party unless they received money before the 2024 elections.
San Francisco’s board of supervisors is also facing the same expectations after a recommendation of its African American Reparations Advisory Committee to give $5 million to each eligible Black resident as reparations.
Some balked at even that figure. Reverend Tony Pierce asked “Where’s the money? Where’s the cash? Where’s the check?” “$5 million, San Francisco’s already made a move. $5 million is nothing.”
Some congressional Democrats have pushed for similar federal reparations and passed a bill out of the House Judiciary Committee in 2021 that failed to receive a floor vote. BET founder Robert Johnson has called for $14 trillion in federal reparations.
Even Disney has gotten into the act with a controversial children’s episode in which cartoon children demand reparations.
Most recently, Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) introduced her bill for a $14 trillion payment to black Americans. Bush could not answer where the money would come from and just said that the source is a matter of ongoing discussions.
Among the Democrats supporting the bill was Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.) who explained “The federal government backed slavery, right? So the federal government needs to hold itself accountable for that. And then policies that have continued throughout American history have continued to inflict harm on Black Americans.”
The years of calls for reparations have created a greater expectation, even an urgency. One well-known California activist declared: “It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free. We’re not asking; we’re telling you.”
My name is Constantina King. I am a white woman, and I have lived
in California all my life.
Born in 1964. I feel that
all blacks deserves reparations. Including cash benefits. When this
Task Force was created, to finally give California blacks reparations. I thought our state is finally
doing the right thing. But,
now California is trying, to
delete the cash benefit;
and that is just wrong, because the blacks deserve more then just apology. Years ago the enslaved blacks, were
taken from their native Africa; to be slaves. They
don’t even know, what part of Africa; they were
taken from. I know someone, who’s Great Great Grandmother migrated, from another state, to California and was a slave. Other states
are paying reparations, to
the relatives of enslaved
blacks. So, why can’t California? California needs to do the right thing, and include cash reparations as well! If
there is a will, there is a
way.🙏🙂
I can’t even tell whether this is parody.
“. . . fund programs ‘based on race, color, ethnicity’ . . .”
Only the Left could call a racist proposal an effort to “dismantle racism.”
If you liked the inflation exacerbated by the “Inflation Reduction Act,” if you enjoyed its boondoggle and grifting — then you’ll love what this bill does for racism.
Democrats were the party of slavery. I say we take the money, by force if necessay, from pelosi and her ilk for the reparations.
So we pay off this generation for peace, then the next generation wants it’s “No share, No peace”, too. This whole thing is an industrial sized guilt trip of lunacy designed by California democrats to juice the black vote.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
CALIFORNIA SHALL NOT DENY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, PRIVILEGES, AND IMMUNITIES
The entire communistic American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of only security and infrastructure.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general (all, the whole) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces. Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure only.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 59 years after the adoption of the Constitution because none of the principles of the Communist Manifesto were in the Constitution. Had the principles of the Communist Manifesto been in the Constitution, Karl Marx would have had no reason to write the Communist Manifesto. The principles of the Communist Manifesto were not in the Constitution then and the principles of the Communist Manifesto are not in the Constitution now.
$25 trillion in undeserved reparations has been mistakenly and unacceptably paid by fighting the War on Poverty and building the Great Society with other people’s money since 1965.
Compassionate repatriation is the sole reparation that should have been paid in full on January 1, 1863.
The sole overwhelming desire of typical freed abductees is to be returned to their homes, families, and countrymen – not to mention the American version could not be allowed into the country to become citizens, per extant immigration law.
The first thing is that at first glance I said this is “BS” 5 million per person is inappropriate since in addition to the entire State of California it is technically bankrupt. Then this is what I investigated
a-) urged for more specifications on who should receive payments, which ones would qualify and from when the ancestry would start counting
b-) One issue facing the proposed payments and often pointed out is how many and how they will be in kind and how much and how the cash would be calculated.
1- What is still being discussed ARE PROPOSALS to LEGISLE through discussions and brainstorming. The payments are also a long shot and potentially years away.
2- There would be several reparations “the city’s own reparations, which would be separate from the state. Among the questions that are expected to be addressed are when prospective recipients’ ‘harm’ started, and how the ‘form of payment’ can properly align with the ‘estimates of damage.’
3- Reverend Tony Pierce did not talk about 5 million (see below) (This discussion occurred a week after S.F. proposed Millions)
Reverend Tony Pierce: “An activist at a slavery reparations meeting in California blasted the $223,000 payments proposed for black residents in the state – yelling almost a quarter of a million dollars for each person is ‘not enough.’
The eye-popping outburst came from Reverend Tony Pierce who voiced his dissatisfaction, Rev. Pierce had just been told his time on the podium was up – after turning around to directly address the crowd on his views – when he yelled out his last words: ‘And $200,000 is not enough! $223,000 is not enough.'”
Pierce to his comments regarding the amount that residents could receive said
As of the 2022 census, 6.5 percent of California’s residents, roughly 2.5 million citizens, identify as black or African-American. If the $223,000 payment were to be paid out to all 2.5 million black residents, the estimated total financial impact would be around $569 billion.
‘How will repairs be paid?’ Pierce asked as Weber told him that his time at the podium was up. ‘Immediately!’
3- The proposed payments would be sent to black residents as a reward for housing discrimination and ‘racial terror.’
Among the questions that are expected to be addressed are when prospective recipients’ ‘harm’ started, and how the ‘form of payment’ can properly align with the ‘estimates of damage.’
The housing discrimination under examination by the nine-member task force would have occurred between 1933 and 1977 in the state.
4-) In December, an attendee at another task force meeting called for $350,000 per person.
Marcus Champion with the Civil Justice Association of California at the time called for the ‘direct cash payments, tax-exempt status, free college education, grants for homeownership, business grants, access to low to no business funding and capital.’
5-) Josiah Williams, a member of the American Redress Coalition of the California Bay Area, spoke at Friday’s meeting and called for targeting of the reparations.
Some of the major issues being discussed include the mass incarceration of black residents, unjust property seizures, devaluation of black businesses and health care.
*Proposed list repairs in California’s draft proposal
(check the articles)
*Who qualifies for $5 million repairs in San Francisco
(check the articles)
I think that the article clarifies many doubts about who, when and from where it would be classified (in the proposal above it would only be necessary to remove all the IDE specifications) and finally this is for black African American people with slave descent and/or black people who suffered damage in the years of racial segregation.
In the doubt about the properties, whether they are homes, farms or land, there is even mention of evidence that they were expropriated or rewards for those who the government evicted and did not relocate when building roads, for example.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11687177/Activist-California-reparations-meeting-slams-223K-proposed-payments-not-enough.html
Let’s say each qualified person gets 5 million dollars in reparations. Let the comedies begin!
You can have comedy and tragedy sitcoms based on reparations for the next 50 years.
Some will be about those that want to save and keep their windfall. They’ll become conservative and vote Republican.
Some will invest in Cadillacs, wine. women and song and broke in two years. No reason to vote for Democrats anymore.
Some will invest with the Bernie Madoff’s of the world and shortly become broke and say life isn’t fair. No sense in voting Democrat anymore.
Some will put it up their nose and be dead in a year. They will still vote Democrat.
Prop 209 in CA (1996) passed by voters 59-41, amended the CA Constitution:
“(a) The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”
It’s unsurprising that young proggies don’t know this, but I’m perplexed JT didn’t once refer to it. It would take more than “performative” legislation to bring back affirmative action in CA state education.
As recently as 2020, CA voters upheld this section of the State Constitution when repeal was proposed in Prop 16.
In years to come, “racism’ may be a word sent to the graveyard. Instead, with all the emphasis on promoting interracial couplings, and LGBQT et seq., et al., our henceforth race-less, gender-less, merit-less, homogeneous dominant class will be known around the globe as…what?
@lin
In future years, it is likely everyone will be the same degree of tan. That is inevitable, and it’s fine, whatever. Future people will find something else to fight about, because people, especially modern people, after all this ‘enlightenment’, are too immature to live in harmony with dissonance. This is a skill modern young people do not possess to any degree whatsoever, zero, and that is unlikely to change for their lifetimes. We really need to fathom that. If you are not 100, you are going to have to live with it. And that’s all there is to it. We are not there yet, and we had better have systems in place to help us while we are getting there. Those of us that are actually awake had better put aside pettiness (‘I’m just not gonna vote!’. There is no safety net. Those days are over. Get into the 21st century) and think of our collective future, the actual one, based on human beings. We are absolutely at the moment of choice. If we do not choose wisely, we are pretty much done, and again, not enough of you (or me) will be dead in 20 years to be so callous. The left are not the only ones that need to wake up.
James: Not only do I agree, but also, it is my humble opinion (regarding our “tan” genetics) that, toward survival as a dominant species way down the road, we may not only have extended lifespans, but also may become totally adrogynous (already manifest in other/lesser species) as well as race-less. I find that thought compelling/provocative.
Re: your reference to dissonance: A mentor neurologist once told me (I was a medical student at the time) that our best momentum/advancement as a species is akin to holding one’s thumb over a running hose (i.e., creating resistance/herein, dissonance), which, of course, enhances vector momentum.
-Simplified of course to “things that don’t kill you outright can make you stronger in the end!” (at the time we were talking about cellular mutations requisite to species survival). So I guess it behooves me to think of some comments on this blog as having made others of us stronger in some of our convictions, and more able to defend them.
THanks for your contributions to this blog.
Borg… Lives Matter (BLM)
Post-racial meritocracy is the end-state we’re pursuing, and have made great progress toward. The USA leads the world in this movement.
Extinct.
Extinct
California is the state that still, in the 21st century, doesn’t seem to know the South lost the civil war, or that differently skinned people are not inherently less-than. That they pretend to still be the Beatniks of yore even though they are basically rich, heavy emphasis on ‘pretend’, censor speech, create laws that would never stand up federally in a system that already treats all as equal; they are very tone deaf and entitled tools doing anything they can to preserve their OWN status quo is all you need to know. They like unfettered immigration because they are lazy and need someone to manicure their gardens and detail their cars once or twice a week, and ‘those’ people are willing to do it. And in CA, because it is a *huge* state (taking up most of the west coast) and many people there seem to think it’s a country unto itself, are terrified to ever leave, very, very clear Munchausen by proxy. And that’s really it.
White supremacy? Look no farther than California’s government. Ridiculous. If you live there and do not fit the above description, get out. Get the eff out. But do not take your boosheet with you because you were lulled into living in prison for so long. The grand old days of LA or ‘Frisco are not coming back. Why is it so hard for older liberals to see what is going on? It’s like blasting through concrete, and agian, that includes to a degree, our host. In spite of fragile and idiotic millennial logic, that does not automatically make one ‘far right’.
If you are a modern ‘liberal’ (in modern terms it’s actually the opposite: you are brain dead and mushroom headed people following the herd of all herds. You are sheep. You are very willing sheep. makes me think what the hippies actually needed was guidance) and you think you are in heaven there in CA, please stay and spare the rest of us your insufferable mentality in the places we love and still respect and take care of, where we do not have your manufactured societal ills. Leaving for financial advantages just reinforces what I’ve said here. Elitists are gonna elite, and no, there is no cure but to marginalize their sorry a**es. And it’s probably too much to ask to get you to look at your priorities and how you interact day to day or vote. Brainwashed, the lot of you. Progressivism isn’t a disease, it is a doctrine, and you all bought into it without even thinking. Your kids are worse. Your brains are applesauce, I could give two s***s how much money you have or how many B-grade celebrities you have at your Oscar parties in the Valley. Wake up.
So we no longer need fully unconstitutional affirmative action, welfare, financial assistance, quotas, student loans, the denial of private property, rent control, minimum wage, unfair “fair housing” laws, discriminatory “non-discrimination” laws, WIC, SNAP, HAMP, HARP, HUD, HHS, etc.?
You can’t mix water and oil.
You can’t mix water and oil without emulsifiers.
The unconstitutional communist American welfare state is a “swamp” and s-hole of unconstitutional emulsifiers that unconstitutionally force the mixture of water and oil.
So America no longer needs unconstitutional affirmative action, welfare, financial assistance, quotas, student loans, the denial of private property, rent control, minimum wage, unfair “fair housing” laws, discriminatory “non-discrimination” laws, WIC, SNAP, HAMP, HARP, HUD, HHS, etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam? Not!
Per the Constitution, free Americans may or may not “mix” voluntarily, willingly, and in full and complete freedom.
Too bad Karl Marx and his fellow traveler, Lincoln, didn’t see it that way.
LBJ was correct.
It just gets nuttier and nuttier!!!!
What a hoot! I am old enough to have seen racism evolve from stuff like burning crosses in black folk’s yards, and keeping them from eating sandwiches with the white people to not bending the rules for them to make up for their own bad choices. I guess that is maybe progress.
Progressivism is Regressivism. Some blacks today are pushing SEGREGATION again. If that is progressive, than Barack set us back 100 years with his race baiting.
Progress: [unqualified] monotonic change or one step forward, two steps backward.
Jonathan: It was predictable. The thought of giving reparations to the descendants of slavery is anathema to some on your blog. To paraphrase some comments “My ancestors didn’t own slaves so why should I have to pay reparations?” Another theme is that reparations aren’t deserved because African Americans are treated equally today. Everyone should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps–work rather than take a handout.
What is lost in the conversation is that we don’t live in a “color-blind” society. Dorothy A. Brown, a Georgetown law professor, has a book titled “The Whiteness of Wealth”. She is a convert to reparations and is not daunted by the fact that most White Americans are opposed to reparations: “Part of it is an education, it’s a walk through history. It’s a recognition that, okay, you may not have had anything to do with slavery, but…your white grandfather got an FHA insured loan. My grandfather couldn’t because he was Black”. Brown also points out that reparations are not a new thing. Japanese-Americans were given reparations because of their unlawful interment during WWII.
So why the big uproar over reparations for the descendants of slavery? Racism is the root cause and it’s not something that is going to go away soon. But California and other states are the models of how reparations could work. Fortunately. the new generation of voters support reparations. They are setting the tone for the future. As Bob Dylan said in his song “The Times they are a-changin'”:
“As the present now, will later be past
the order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be past
For the times they are a-changin'”
No, racism is NOT the root cause. That is what is called a CONCLUSION, not an argument. Or, in other words, just an opinion. I would argue that Baby Daddy Culture is a whole lot more responsible for the current sad state of affairs in the black community. People like the late Sen. Moynihan realized that way back when, and wrote a paper on it IIRC. Blaming racism is just an excuse so that fragile white liberals can have something to get on their soapboxes over.
Floyd, thanks for bringing up Patrick Moynihan and his (once) famous discussion about the black family. Sadly Moynihan, JFK, Sam Nunn and other NORMAL Democrats would have no place in today’s party.
@Dennis
You are also a ridiculous person. 🙄 Nobody is listening. I would decidedly not take you to war (and that is a euphemism, not a literal statement. We have to parse for trolls that subsist on Kool-Aid, because they are ridiculous and have the emotional and intellectual maturity of junior high kids). Pbbbllllt. 😂🤑🤮
Nah, unmarried mothers with multiple children, absent fathers, anti-education culture has have done tremendous harm since 1970.
The Japanese-Americans who received payments were THE ACTUAL PEOPLE who had been interned in the camps, and who had personally lost homes and businesses due to the forced relocation. Not their distant, 150 year later descendants! The two situations are not remotely comparable.
“[W]e don’t live in a “color-blind” society.”
True.
And you can thank the Left’s tribalistic policies (e.g., DEI) for that.
You cannot credibly claim to be for a “color-blind” society, while smearing color everywhere.
It seems anti-racism is the grift that keeps on grifting, from West Coast to East Coast. It seems fitting, in honor of Black History Month, that the following is offered, from that bastion of anti-racism, DEI, Woke Inc and all things that were once veritas and are now University of Clowns: Harvard Medical School. It appears this time around, the alleged infractions involve a scientist of “color”, lifting images from a vendor to publish in his own research papers. A vendor.
Had the vendor been Martha’s Stewart Catalogue, it would have been understandable.
Top Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist Accused of Research Misconduct
Top Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Khalid Shah allegedly falsified data and plagiarized images across 21 papers, data manipulation expert Elisabeth M. Bik said. Bik said the 2022 paper contained lifted images from seven papers authored by other scientists and the websites of two scientific vendors…..not only were the images repeated, but that “the vendor is saying this is a different antibody than the one that the authors are saying it is.”
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/1/harvard-neuroscientist-research-misconduct/
I regret that there is even more.
Just yesterday, Harvard’s own DEI Officer Sherri Charleston suffered a complaint for multiple (40) plagiarism allegations.
Where can you read about it?- -In Harvard’s own renowned paper, The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/31/sherri-charleston-plagiarism-allegations/
I cannot fathom the disappointment and discouragement felt by Harvard students witnessing their admired role models falling from grace like this.
I will refrain from addressing the merits vs. the costs of DEI, affirmative action, and reparations, because I would also, in fairness, need to address the same as it relates to legacy admissions/appointments and nepotism.
I would wish our country to be admired as a flagship Meritocracy over “democracy” or “aristocracy”
Jonathan: It’s the beginning of Black History Month when we celebrate the contributions of Black people to the history of our country. But you rather complain about the reparations movement in California that you call “bait and switch”.
It’s interesting you would complain about the price tag in Rep. Cory Bush’s $14 trillion proposal. Yet, you never complained when President Trump pushed through tax cuts for himself and his wealthy brethren that added about $8.4 trillion plus interest to the national debt. Nikki Haley has pointed this out in her campaign. Had those tax cuts not been passed by the GOP we might now have a down payment on Bush’s proposal.
Now I do know something about reparations and imminent domain in California–particularly in Manhattan Beach. I grew up there–riding my bike along the strand in front of a life guard training facility that sits on a piece of prime real estate. In 1912, Willa and Charles Bruce, a Black couple, bought that property and converted it into a resort so Black people could enjoy the beach. In 1924 the MB racist city council condemned the property through eminent domain and forced the Bruce family to abandon the property. They received only about $14,500 in compensation.
Last year the Cal. state senate passed SB796 to return the property to the descendants of the Bruce family. In signing the bill Gov. Newsom said: “This new law is one important step toward righting historic wrongs”. The property is now estimated to be worth about $50 million. But think about the generational wealth the Bruce family lost because of racist policies.
The problem with “eminent domain” is it historically and is still used for “public projects” that primarily target Black and other minority neighborhoods. In a 2009 study it found two-thirds of eminent domain projects displaced Black families. What happened to the Bruce family is only the tip of the iceberg!
So, as we begin Black History Month, maybe we should focus on how racism still deprives Black families of generational wealth–instead of harping about Disney’s new cartoon that teaches kids about the importance of reparations!
LOL. racism deprives blacks of whose generational wealth? Is there racism in Chad?
That study was of projects from 1949-1973, before the Uniform Act was enacted. That may have been the last good piece of legislation, btw. Urban renewal projects did target areas where renewal was needed… Today we don’t do that so much which is how we get east and west baltimore, detroit, s. philly,…
No, I want to focus on how having a one-parent family deprives blacks of generational wealth. Gee, whacking off one-half of the immediately prior generation (the father) from the child, must have some effect, don’t you think???
How much should Barack Obama pay, since his fathers family were slave traders, and his mother is white?? How much should his kids pay??
We celebrate the achievements of black Americans but where is the Jewish history month? The Irish? The Italian? Etc, etc.
Blacks have many achievements, many contributions to our country, society and culture, but so what. We are supposed to be a melting pot, not the damn Balkans.
First, “only” $14,500″ back in 1924 was a lot of money. The equivalent of about $260,000 today. That was big money then, and about 10 times more than they had paid for the land. HOWEVER, it does appear that the land was taken because the city didn’t want a lot of blacks congregating in the area. The city did not ever build the park there, which was the ostensible reason for the taking. So yes, that was “racist”, in the real sense. I have no problem with the state correcting that action. But here, you have an identifiable act, and identifiable people who lost the benefit. The benefit paid now appears to be the current value of the land, $20 million. That does not mean that every act of eminent domain where black people lost property is or was a racist act. White folks lose their property, too.
Both sides of my grandparents did not migrate to America, legally, till after the Civil War.
I have never been oppressed nor have I ever oppressed others.
So, why would I have to pay for their reparations?
BTW, I am not white.
Just a little note.
Blacks and their heirs that have come to the US is the last 80 years exceed whites success as measured by net worth.
This is not an issue of discrimination. This is the black culture that has been hollowed out by gifts from the govt. Current Black immigrants do not experience racism, that impedes their success
Upstate, I am still waiting for the many reparations I am due, starting with the Egyptians. Is there anything more ridiculous?
S. Meyer….good one! And I as a woman can go back even further! That snake in the Garden was a set-up!! A pure case of entrapment!
I want my $$$$!! (:
Cindy, I am sure the snake in the Garden was a Democrat.
S. Meyer….LOL Oh don’t you know it….He crawled on his belly, manipulated women, probably had “hiss-y” fits…………
Yep! A Democrat.
Musk is African-American.
Slavery, diversity (e.g. racism), and 1-2 Americans. Will affirmative discrimination affect the diversity (i.e. number, not color) of Americans equitably and inclusively?
n.n: Sorry, but Elon Musk is NOT African-American! He comes from a wealthy South African White family–English, Anglo-Canadian, Penn. Dutch and Swiss descent. Where do you get your non-sense? I think I know.
He is as more African American than MANY blacks in America claim they are. Just because you discriminate against whites, doesn’t mean he wasn’t African first.
Of course he’s African-American. He was born in Africa, and is now an American. How can you be more African-American than that?
What? South Africans are not Africans?!
California entered the Union as a free state. It did, however, practice de jure discrimination against Chinese immigrants. Are the descendants of the Chinese immigrants California discriminated against going to receive reparations?
Japanese-Americans were compensated after they were forced into camps.
Yes, because the victims were still alive for the most part, and the harm was a recent thing. Plus, the Japanese were taken from a better state of existence, and forced into a much-less good existence. For example, their homes and their business were taken from them. Arguably, the original slaves in America were taken from a bad situation in Africa, where they were slaves of non-Christian black tribes who treated them horribly, into a better situation in North America, where they were given food, clothing, medical care and a place to live. Here, they learned various skills, and were eventually freed. The freed slaves and descendants were doing better for years, until the Democrats decided to pay them to have illegitimate children in 1965. And, nothing is keeping any of the current “victims of racism” from hopping a plane back to Africa. I hear Kenya is a good place to live, and if the blacks here “built” America, then I am sure Africa would welcome them!
The very idea that some “decendents” of slaves are due reparations merely because they can prove their lineage, is a ‘6 degree of separation’ can of worms they might not want to open.
The practice of slavery did not just cause harm to the slaves or their decendents.