Governor Newsom Virtue-Signals on the Taxpayer’s Dime

California governor Gavin Newsom has announced he plans to give $233,000 in reparations to each black Californian, at a cost of half a trillion dollars. This taxpayer-funded largess comes on the heels of California’s projected $25 billion budget deficit, with state revenue now 41% below expectations due in part to lost tax-revenues from rich residents––who pay half of state income taxes–– fleeing California’s 13.3%, the nation’s highest rate, on incomes over a million dollars.

The Hill reports that Democrat lawmakers have “reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent” to the tune of $14 trillion.

However, Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states, “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”  And Article I, Section 10 says, “No State shall … pass any Bill of Attainder, [or]  ex post facto Law.”  Apparently, the founders thought it important to ban such legislation at both the federal and state levels.

The governing body of London’s Square Mile is looking to commission research into its historical associations with the transatlantic slave trade.

The City of London Corporation has said the proposed work detailing its connections with the trade in enslaved African people “will enable us to understand and own our past”.

The plans have been drawn up ahead of the publication by Lancaster University of its own research into the slave trade, expected in 2026.

Commonwealth leaders concluded last week’s summit in Samoa by announcing that Britain should commit to reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

UK prime minister Keir Starmer had tried to refocus the summit around ‘future-facing’ challenges such as climate change. His chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was more blunt. She told the BBC last week that ‘We’re not going to be paying out the reparations that some countries are speaking about’. Yet in the end, it was to no avail. A day later, the 56 heads of government, including Starmer, signed a letter agreeing that ‘the time has come’ for a ‘meaningful, truthful and respectful conversation’ about Britain paying reparations.

The Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin, a free state, in 1854, as an abolitionist party.

That’s right, the party was incepted with the idea of abolishing slavery and emancipating slaves.

Freedom is in its DNA.

Britain has lost a key battle over reparations as Commonwealth leaders used the group’s summit in Samoa to demand talks on compensation.

The call for “discussions” was included in the gathering’s final communique despite a 48-hour rearguard from UK negotiators.

This comes as a major blow to Sir Keir Starmer, who immediately ruled out paying any kind of cash compensation for Britain’s role in the slave trade.

The communique, signed by all 56 Commonwealth nations, noted “calls for discussions on reparatory justice with regard to the trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans and chattel enslavement”.

That means Canada has endorsed reparations because of course Trudeau would.

New York City recently took a small step forward in correcting historical wrongs—at least, that’s what lawmakers would have you believe. The city council has passed a legislative package that would “fully examine the present-day impacts of injustices inflicted on Black New Yorkers and communities” and “advance necessary efforts to consider potential remedies that can lead to healing and reconciliation.” These bills, now bound for the desk of Mayor Eric Adams for his signature, include the establishment of “a Truth, Healing and Reconciliation process on slavery within New York City” and a “reparations study” to determine how much money is owed to black New Yorkers because of slavery, abolished statewide in 1827.

The upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa has sparked discussions about a sensitive topic: reparations for historical wrongs committed during the colonial era.

As King Charles III prepares to address Commonwealth countries, many are wondering if he will broach this important issue that has long been a source of tension between former colonial powers and their former colonies.

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The fate of the country’s first taxpayer-funded reparations program is hanging in the air after the city in question, Evanston, Illinois, defended its program and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that argues the race-based payments are unconstitutional.

At issue is whether Evanston’s first-of-its-kind reparations effort — for which the city allocated $20 million for a program to provide $25,000 payments to Black people who lived at Evanston between 1919 and 1969 and their descendants — violates the Equal Protection Clause. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit earlier this year, claiming that its six plaintiffs would be eligible for the reparations payments except for the fact that they weren’t Black.

Protests have erupted at the California state capitol after two stalled reparations proposals for black residents were seemingly killed.

The development came during the final day of the legislative session in Sacramento Saturday, following hours of fierce lobbying.

Some two dozen protesters were seen inside and outside the building that day, airing shouts for the bills to move forward and chants for reparations ‘now’.