Black reparations panel could decide who gets compensation
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations is at a crossroads, with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for compensation as atonement for a slave system that officially ended with the Civil War but reverberates to this day.
Some members want to limit financial and other compensation to descendants of enslaved people while others say that all Black people in the U.S., regardless of lineage, suffer from systemic racism in housing, education and employment. The task force could vote on eligibility on Tuesday after putting it off last month.
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No reparations for the Union Civil War dead and wounded?
Does the committee get to decide who to kill? Because they aren’t going to just issue “reparations”. They’re going to act like any good commie committee. In the end, “reparations” will not just be money.
Does anyone think money buys dignity and self worth?
If someone is mixed race, do they get a half share?
There were American Indian and Chinese slaves in California as well. How about reparations for them?
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations is at a crossroads, with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for compensation as atonement for a slave system that officially ended with the Civil War but reverberates to this day.
Some members want to limit financial and other compensation to descendants of enslaved people while others say that all Black people in the U.S., regardless of lineage, suffer from systemic racism in housing, education and employment. The task force could vote on eligibility on Tuesday after putting it off last month.
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Calif. group votes to limit reparations to slave descendants
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted Tuesday to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people.
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No reparations for the Union Civil War dead and wounded?
Does the committee get to decide who to kill? Because they aren’t going to just issue “reparations”. They’re going to act like any good commie committee. In the end, “reparations” will not just be money.
Does anyone think money buys dignity and self worth?
If someone is mixed race, do they get a half share?
There were American Indian and Chinese slaves in California as well. How about reparations for them?
