A number of House Democrats led by Rep. Cori Bush introduced a resolution Thursday to reignite a push for federal reparations that would amount to over half the U.S. GDP.
The resolution states that the U.S. has a ‘legal and moral’ obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of black people and calls for $14 trillion to be paid – ‘at least the amount of the black white wealth gap,’ Bush told DailyMail.com during a press conference.
A leading member of San Francisco’s reparations task force has suggested taxing billionaires to fund payments of $5million for every black resident.
The Rev. Amos Brown, who has led Third Baptist Church in the Fillmore district since 1976, said he was ‘very, very cautiously optimistic’ that officials will enact some form of reparations.
‘Of all these billionaires in San Francisco, you could establish a reparations fund,’ he told The New York Times.
California’s reparations task force has said that black people should be given priority in the renting and buying market – and demanded that a state agency should have the veto power over real estate decisions to ‘lessen racial segregation.’
The task force was created to study the economic effects of slavery and discrimination in the state back in September 2020, making California the first state to embark on studying the possibility of reparations for black Americans — even though slavery was banned in California even before it joined the union.
California state senator Steven Bradford, a member of the state’s Reparations Task Force, is warning black residents that massive reparations payments are “just not happening.”
The Democratic lawmaker’s warning comes after the task force approved a detailed plan that would see the state pay up to $1.2 million in reparations to each eligible black resident, if approved by state lawmakers.
George Soros succeeds in turning black people against each other.
In 2021, the Equal Justice Institute celebrated a settlement with the University of California in which the system agreed to stop using SAT and ACT test scores, objective merit-based metrics, in college admissions, until 2025. The racialist lawsuit claimed that test scores violate the California Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause as “indicators” of race.
The “SAT is a barrier to equal opportunity”, Lisa Holder, a counsel with the Equal Opportunity Institute, claimed.
” … While the victim hierarchy is a contentious matter, as players constantly jockey for position, victimhood itself is now such a high stakes game that inventive types are seeking to have their claims backdated. The irony of non-slaves seeking to profit from ancestral slavery via those who were never slave owners is difficult to ignore.
But then, victimhood is big business—literally. In fact, it is probably easier to compile a list of brands which aren’t queuing up to extract money from professed alignment with the cause du jour, whether it be Gillette’s close shave with ‘toxic masculinity,’ Ben & Jerry’s flirtation with gay marriage, or Bud Light’s shift to transgenderism.”
This week, something called the California Reparations Task Force formally adopted a proposal that would compel the Golden State to fork over reparations to its qualifying black residents, a recommendation the organization’s name suggests was inevitable.
“Reparations are not only morally justifiable,” said Democratic California congresswoman Barbara Lee in the wake of the task force’s announcement, “but they have the potential to address long-standing racial disparities and inequalities.” Given the taxpayer-funded sum the task force wants to see allocated to individual beneficiaries — potentially up to $1.2 million per eligible resident — it’s reasonable to expect that this policy would create as many inequities as it might resolve.
California’s reparations task force has approved recommendations which could give black residents $1.2million each as compensation for slavery and discrimination.
The nine-member committee voted Saturday to approve proposals on how the state can compensate and apologize for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.
A black resident in California who has lived in the state their whole life until the age of 71 could receive more than $1.2million in compensation, if the recommendations are forged into law.
Just 2 out 10 black and brown students in Oakland public schools can read at grade level
Just as teachers’ union head witch Randi Weingarten is doing her media image rehab tour, California teachers’ unions are determined to remind everyone that they’re monsters who thrive on destroying education inside and outside the classroom.
“Eight out of every 10 people here are due some sort of reparation.”
While the eyes of the nation are on San Francisco’s proposal to pay every black person $5 million in reparations for an estimated total cost of $175 billion, Motor City won’t be left behind.
Last year, 80% of Detroit voters in a 78% black city cast their ballots in support of a reparations commission. That was much higher than 63% poll numbers but local election results tend to outperform the polls due to the civic work of the Wayne County Cemetery Voters Association.
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Heartbreaking.
And the Left’s Great Lie.
A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America. They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves built America” and that America is systemically racist.
Since the only mortal enemy of the Left is truth, here are some truths about slavery.
A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America. They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves bult America” and that America is systemically racist.
Britain’s institutions are taking a perverse kind of pride in self-flagellating over the slave trade.
Earlier this month, King Charles III endorsed a new research project investigating the British royal family’s historical links to slavery. He has even refused to rule out paying reparations for the slave trade.
IF you happen to pass the Guardian’s offices near King’s Cross this week and hear wailing, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments, don’t worry – it’s just the Graun in the throes of an extraordinary guilt trip.
Britain’s self-righteous bible of progressive, liberal-leftish wokery has been engulfed by hand-wringing turmoil after discovering that its 19th century founders had lucrative links to the transatlantic slave trade.
Liberal Whites wallowing in revisionist histories have made Whites the racist pariahs of the world, and Americans are ranked the worst. Americans have themselves to blame. They can’t stop talking about slavery and racism, and now neither can African Americans. If woke educators have their way, all African Americans, present and future, will be obsessed with slavery and racism because it will be the center of American history. This will destroy America’s ability to hold together as a nation.
America is the only nation where people politick to make its long-dead slave past the center of its history. As a historical matter, it makes little sense when compared to the slave sins of other nations.
