Saturday, April 20, 2024

MOVING FORWARD OR MOVING BACKWARD ?

By bob Walsh

 

Even though the formerly great state of California is stone broke right now the Democrat-Socialists are working very, very hard to appeal to their base by throwing some bones (i.e. money) to the Black community as "reparations."

Among these bones is SB1403.  If passed into law this would create the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency.  This agency would be responsible for overseeing and monitoring state agencies and departments that would implement reparations when/if such things occur.

In addition SB1331 would, if passed into law, create the Fund for Reparations and Restorative Justice.  This fund would hoover up 6% of the total general fund to hand out to Black people.

There is also talk about creating a state geneological task force that would make some attempts to factually determine who might, or might not, be eligible for such payments.  That one is still up in the air.

It should be noted that slavery was never legal in the Republic of California or the State of California.  Yes, government actions had a negative impact on Blacks, and Irish, and Chinese, that would not be acceptable today.  That was then, this is now.  Also many of those government actions were taken by local jurisdictions and had nothing to do with state law or policy.

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