Whitey Ford
09-01-2020, 08:50 AM
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California lurched a giant step closer to paying reparations for slavery after the state's Senate on Saturday gave near-final legislative approval to a proposal that sets up a task that will decide how to dole out the dough.
The vote on the bill was 33-3, according to Fox News.
The Senate fine-tuned pieces of the bill, which means that the Assembly, which passed it 56-5 in June, must vote on those changes to give the bill its final legislative approval.
The bill's supporters blamed slavery for the plight of modern black Americans.
“Let's be clear: Chattel slavery, both in California and across our nation, birthed a legacy of racial harm and inequity that continues to impact the conditions of black life in California,” Democratic state Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles, said.
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Democratic Assemblywoman Shirley Weber has said the reparations legislation was necessary despite the fact that California entered the U.S. in 1850 as a free state -- where slavery was illegal.
"The discriminatory practices of the past echo into the everyday lives of today's Californians,” said Weber, leader of the Legislative Black Caucus, according to KOVR-TV.
“This country has taught itself to hate African Americans and to deny the history that has brought us here," she said in June while pushing the bill through the Assembly, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The bill said that the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, which must be convened by Gov. Gavin Newsom no later than July 1, 2021. It will be made up of nine members, five appointed by the governor and two each appointed by the state Assembly speaker and the Senate president pro tempore. At least two of the members must have a history of supporting reparations.
According to the legislation, "As a result of the historic and continued discrimination, African Americans continue to suffer debilitating economic, educational, and health hardships" which include the presence of black Americans in jail, high black unemployment and high black poverty.
https://www.wnd.com/2020/08/ca-opens-door-reparations-slavery-senate-votes-create-task-force/
California lurched a giant step closer to paying reparations for slavery after the state's Senate on Saturday gave near-final legislative approval to a proposal that sets up a task that will decide how to dole out the dough.
The vote on the bill was 33-3, according to Fox News.
The Senate fine-tuned pieces of the bill, which means that the Assembly, which passed it 56-5 in June, must vote on those changes to give the bill its final legislative approval.
The bill's supporters blamed slavery for the plight of modern black Americans.
“Let's be clear: Chattel slavery, both in California and across our nation, birthed a legacy of racial harm and inequity that continues to impact the conditions of black life in California,” Democratic state Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles, said.
https://i.imgur.com/rx9tL7u.jpg
Democratic Assemblywoman Shirley Weber has said the reparations legislation was necessary despite the fact that California entered the U.S. in 1850 as a free state -- where slavery was illegal.
"The discriminatory practices of the past echo into the everyday lives of today's Californians,” said Weber, leader of the Legislative Black Caucus, according to KOVR-TV.
“This country has taught itself to hate African Americans and to deny the history that has brought us here," she said in June while pushing the bill through the Assembly, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The bill said that the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, which must be convened by Gov. Gavin Newsom no later than July 1, 2021. It will be made up of nine members, five appointed by the governor and two each appointed by the state Assembly speaker and the Senate president pro tempore. At least two of the members must have a history of supporting reparations.
According to the legislation, "As a result of the historic and continued discrimination, African Americans continue to suffer debilitating economic, educational, and health hardships" which include the presence of black Americans in jail, high black unemployment and high black poverty.
https://www.wnd.com/2020/08/ca-opens-door-reparations-slavery-senate-votes-create-task-force/