Can someone explain this to me? California passes historic slavery reparations bill yet there were never any slaves in CA

your Chinese overlords are laughing at you.

Its a pity, i love California. And the USA.

But you guys seem determined to destroy it.

Please dont.

stan the corgi wrote:

I lived in CA for over 7 years. They LOOOVVVEEE spending money that they don't have. Maybe they'll raise the gas tax (again).

I've lived in California my entire life and at this point, I'm completely disgusted with the direction our state is headed. We're broke despite having ridiculous taxes. We have terrible fires each year that get worse yet we take no action to maintain our forests. Cities are overrun with the homeless. We've had extended shutdowns during COVID. Our leaders seem to think they have unlimited dictatorial power, see Newsome every other week or Garcietti deciding he can shut off your home utilities. The whole infrastructure from roads to utilities is a mess. Now we are going down this social wokeness path where these mad insane people can make rules in the name of perceived inequality. I'm on the verge of getting out before we go full Marxist.

California is not that great wrote:

Liberals, please don't leave California. That's all we ask of you.

Two late.

With all these fires burning they are selling their homes to some rednecks and move into their states in no time. The blue wave is coming.

It’s an empty political gesture. It’s impossible to implement.

Even if it was possible, what’s the most each family could get? $10K? $25K? It will be spent in the first few months for the vast majority. That’s not meant to be demeaning. I would spend it too. It will not fix anything.

Armstronglivs wrote:

I love threads like this. They explain how a US President is able to run on a platform that nakedly appeals to racial prejudice - unlike any other leader in the Western world. "White grievance" runs strong within you.

What?

Every western leader is required to slam Islamic terror and radicalized Islam.....while groveling before Z%onism

Who owned the ships?

It's not just CA, it is the entire West Coast.

not using my normal handle on this one wrote:

I seriously don't understand the logic of this other than virtue signaling. Why in the hell would California need to pay reparations when there never were any slaves in California? If they are going to do reparations, shouldn't it be reparations for women who weren't allowed to vote?

Good point. Anyone who is a descendent of a slave should have to move back to the state where their ancestors were held as chattel if they want to collect reparations.

And another good point on paying reparations to women who weren't allowed to vote. I would certainly put them to the front of the line ahead of black people whose ancestors were slaves and lived under de jure and de facto discrimination for years after emancipation. And definitely ahead of the Native Americans who had their land stolen and were raped and murdered by the settlers. Bunch of whiners.

The Unkle wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

I love threads like this. They explain how a US President is able to run on a platform that nakedly appeals to racial prejudice - unlike any other leader in the Western world. "White grievance" runs strong within you.

What?

Every western leader is required to slam Islamic terror and radicalized Islam.....while groveling before Z%onism

Yet you love Trump Heights and Jared. Man you’re stupid,

This sounds exactly like Illinois (Chicago), except Instead of fires we have lootings and violent shootings every weekend for years on end. They are like the most bankrupt state and looking to pass another tax bill in the election.

I moved out last year.

Can you imagine the amount of graft and corruption that is going to be built up out of this system?

It’s gonna be like Chicago in the 1920s. 100 years later and Happy Days are here again folks.

Would you understand it if told your premise is wrong? I also expect the typical "this is hard to do so let's not even talk about it" recommendations

Liberally and fiscally bankrupt California studies reparations. No wonder so many want to move out.

The Unkle wrote:

Head scratcher wrote:

And you do realize that the 'Atlantic Slave Trade' would not have been possible without the help of indigenous people, right?

You do realize that 'Africans' today are stealing and selling other Africans, right?

Who owned the ships?

Not America. The Dutch, Portuguese and English owned the ships. Amercan wasnt even the destination. The slave ships sent less that 4% of slaves to America. The slave markets were in the East Indies, specifically Jamaica and Brazil.

I'm so glad that instead of focusing on problems of today we're going to go back in time and focus on the offenses that our ancestors may or may not have been involved in more than a 100 years before most of us were born. Better to teach people that they are a victim than to let them have a path to opportunity.

you're a loser wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

I love threads like this. They explain how a US President is able to run on a platform that nakedly appeals to racial prejudice - unlike any other leader in the Western world. "White grievance" runs strong within you.

Wow, did Trump sleep with your wife, sister and/or Mom? Is he the cause of all the bad things in your little world?

Fortunately I don't live in your increasingly tragic country. But he's doing the best to screw yours.

Part of me says it’s worth it to just pay reparations if it means we can (1) stop hearing the constant collective complaining of how disadvantaged African Americans are along with (2) getting rid of any kind of affirmative action program based on race.

However, I know we could give every African American in this country a million dollars and there would still be constant “America is racist” talk from the very vocal the members of the far Left.

Paying reparations won't change anything. Give every person you deem a candidate for reparations a million dollars and get back to me in ten years about where we are at. Reform welfare, fund charter schools, break up long standing poverty stricken projects and move those people trapped in generational inequality to areas with opportunity. The problem is people get used to a way of life, even if it is terrible. You'd be taking people "away from their community" but what would be the outcome. The african american middle class continues to grow. Feeding that fire is a good thing. We don't need to tolerate 30% of african americans in poverty but we have to break the structure that keeps them there.

sureokthatsright wrote:

Paying reparations won't change anything. Give every person you deem a candidate for reparations a million dollars and get back to me in ten years about where we are at. Reform welfare, fund charter schools, break up long standing poverty stricken projects and move those people trapped in generational inequality to areas with opportunity. The problem is people get used to a way of life, even if it is terrible. You'd be taking people "away from their community" but what would be the outcome. The african american middle class continues to grow. Feeding that fire is a good thing. We don't need to tolerate 30% of african americans in poverty but we have to break the structure that keeps them there.

A million dollars to every African American adult (two million for an African American family) should go along way to solving the poverty problem. A million dollars can pay for a house outright, send your kid to college, send your kid to a private high school, pay off all debts, etc. It will take the average American almost 25 years (over half of their working years) to earn 1 million dollars when taking into account taxes.

If we as a society can't agree that giving every African American a million dollars doesn’t make up for some injustices that happened multiple generations ago then we might as well face the fact that that there is a very significant proportion of this country that will think of African Americans as victims no matter what we do or what version of reparations are given out.