A bill was passed last week by the California State Assembly that would create a task force to study how reparations could be implemented for African Americans to address the wrongs of slavery in the US.
The Bill, AB 3121, was introduced by Assemblywoman Dr. Shirley Weber, moved forward in a 60-14 vote and will now head to the California State Senate.
According to the Bill:
This bill would establish the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, consisting of 8 members, appointed as provided. The bill would require the Task Force to, among other things, identify, compile, and synthesize the relevant corpus of evidentiary documentation of the institution of slavery that existed within the United States and the colonies.
The bill would require the Task Force to recommend, among other things, the form of compensation that should be awarded, the instrumentalities through which it should be awarded, and who should be eligible for this compensation. The bill would require the Task Force to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature. The bill would authorize reimbursement of the members’ expenses only to the extent an appropriation is made in the Budget Act.
How they Voted on June 11, 2020:
- Ayes Count: 61
- Noes Count: 12
- NVR Count: 6
Motion
AB 3121 Weber Assembly Third Reading
Ayes
Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Bauer-Kahan, Berman, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Burke, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Daly, Diep, Eggman, Frazier, Friedman, Gabriel, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Gloria, Gonzalez, Gray, Grayson, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kamlager, Levine, Limón, Low, Maienschein, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O’Donnell, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Salas, Santiago, Smith, Mark Stone, Ting, Weber, Wicks, Wood, Rendon
Noes
Bigelow, Brough, Choi, Cunningham, Megan Dahle, Gallagher, Kiley, Lackey, Mathis, Obernolte, Patterson, Voepel
NVR
Chen, Flora, Fong, Mayes, Quirk, Waldron
40 comments
This is absurd and one of the most ridiculous pieces of legislation I’ve seen posted on this site. These state democrats are crazy since California entered the union as a FREE and non slavery state. Slavery ended in 1865 so I am a curious how in 155 years people think they are effected today?
Why should I .. who never owned slaves …… be forced to pay reparations to those who never were slaves?
Idc what nobody say the truth is we still deal with racism and we out of good jobs and everything because of that racism is the backbone to all the problem y’all mf’s love to see blacks struggle if I was you I would just deal with it cause we dealt with yours for years it’s time for us to get back to get back right.
@Shawn
Stop blaming others. Problem is EDUCATION (as your post painfully points out).
I would be more open to giving people free education vs. a bunch of free money that will be frivolously spent. Please look the differences between Asian Americans and how they value education and you’ll understand that education is the way out, not being a rapper, sports star or blaming others…
Oh, knock off the BS already, Shawn! Why do so many blacks make it? Become doctors, lawyers, accountants, great actors, fabulous singers? Maybe those people didn’t sit around and sucking their thumbs but stayed in school, studied hard, made something of themselves! They put their energies into their goals no matter what obstacles they had to overcome Everybody has to do that no matter what their race.
So? How long have you been a slave?
Shawn? Poor Shawn! The world done him wrong! Was the third grade your SENIOR YEAR? “If I was you?” No wonder you didn’t make it! Did someone run you out of school? Or did you choose to leave on your own and now the only job you can get is cleaning toilets? It’s not too late to go back and stick it out. Take a look at how many black people are doing fabulously well! They didn’t play “the blame game.” Nobody owes you anything! They forged on so don’t clump everyone into the same bucket. They took action. Don’t waste time bitching!
Sorry, but this is not appropriate at the state level. Any discussion of “reparations” must be at the national level. More posturing by California’s hopeless liberals.
If someone can show me where any person today was alive when slavery was responsible for slavery show me. California was never a slave state. Stop pandering.
Hey, I am 5 percent African American, Do I get a 5 percent check of this give away? This is a total hoax. We have too many politicians. They are bored and need to make things up to show they exist. My idea is cut politicians positions and staff by 40 percent and put those savings to correcting the homeless issue.
This is wasting money to develop plans how to waste more money. Money = tax dollars. Not to mention the damage this would do to our society. And what about the one million plus people who died to free the slaves? Many families got diminished so much that their last names became very rare. How is this taken into account?
Fraser at his finest ….. what an absurd niece of work …..
Has Frazier lost his freakin’ mind? I’m calling his office and raising bloody hell!
We’re already bee paying reparations to blacks for decades and decades. It’s called WELFARE!
The Japanese who were paid reparations were the ones who actually were relocated to camps for the duration of WW2.
Welfare was for EVERYONE! And…statistically whites are on welfare more than any other nation in America. There’s more whites than any other culture in America. Do your research. How is welfare a reparation for blacks if whites get more of it than blacks do? So if welfare was a reparation then whites stole that from blacks also!
I guess you were not in class the day your teacher taught percentages, were you, Carbon!
Welfare was for everyone and it has been statistically proven that whites are on welfare more than every other nation in America. So whites stole welfare too.
Wait, so since the Irish were slaves, too…does that mean they get money as well?
https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/poverty-reduction-programs-help-adults-lacking-college-degrees-the. Apparently you may need to re-educate yourself with your bs. White people receive more welfare in the country than any other group. Go climb into your racist hole.
Could you BE ANYMORE RACIST???
Wow you don’t even try to hide it
Is that the way you were raised???
You should be ASHAMED of yourself really!!!
Try to do better!!!!
Seems like you, just like your pal Carbon, skipped school the day percentages was taught, eh, Sayitaintso! I guess both of you attended government schools.
I called Frazier’s office today and raised bloody hell. Has he totally lost his mind? Looks like that Weber woman used blackmail to get all those people to vote “yes.”
I’ve noticed that most of those who voted “Ayes” are men. Scary how many of these Liberal men have totally lost their manhood. They cave in to all women, to young rioters like Antifa, they wash black people’s feet, take the knee showing capitulation to the mob! What is going on? Practice PC which is a nice way of describing cowardice. Have they no shame? Any backbone left? These men are not “Woke”. They are dead zombies.
Dont you think weve given enough compensation through welfare over the years?
Welfare was for EVERYONE! And…statistically whites are the highest percentage of people on welfare in America. Do your research. How can welfare be a reparation for blacks if whites are benefiting from it the most? So technically if welfare was a reparation for blacks then whites stole that from the blacks also.
This is complete nonsense & crap. NO ONE here has been a slave. NO ONE alive today in America has earned any pay back for slavery. AFRICANS had slaves and sold tribe members into slavery, plus still today, many Muslim countries continue slave trade. Egyptians had slaves, Europeans had slaves, Africans had slaves & SOLD criminals from their tribes and SOLD captured tribe members into slavery. There were many slaves from Europe including white and other races. Total ignorance to history; self serving clueless pandering freeloaders are crazy.
I nor no one in my family has EVER owned a slave but we have worked hard all our adult lives to make ends meet. Corrupt politicians hoping to buy more votes off taxpayers backs.
My husband is Native American and I am Irish. Let’s get a bill going for all the abuse our ancestors suffered. I think everyone has a history that night require reparation.
Why do I owe anything since my family was from the North and fought to free the slaves!!!!
How do we know which people had ancestors who were slaves?
I SAY WE ALL PROTEST AT THE CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE. If protesting doesn’t work get violent!!!!! That might work.
These comments are almost funny. All these white people with their panties in a bunch because they don’t think something’s fair…because of race. Well ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black! You still don’t get it. But hey…for most of you your racism is all you have….that and ranting about it in comment sections. You wouldn’t dare speak any of this out loud.
Hey ME, it has been taught the original owners of slave were of African decent. They did sell their own to the world and highest bidder ridding themselves of people they want casted out. From there it evolved into something inhumane and disgusting. From there it began to correct the Wrongful selling of humans. From there 600,000 white people died to make the wrong right. From there it really had advanced quite a bit until entitlement and greed showed its ugly head and set progress in reverse. If you paid attention to history classes you may understand the real history. I’m just sayin. In no world should people trash and burn their own community. It doesn’t make sense.
I never hold back anything, ME. Be it online or in person! People get to know how I feel very quickly and there is nothing they can do about it. Let them just try and they won’t end up in a good place.
There are many highly educated blacks holding great jobs! How did they get there? Just like the rest of us – through education, ambition and perseverence. It’s 20% talent and 80% HARD WORK! Try it sometime and see how that works!
We owe them?? Perhaps they owe us.. !0,000’s of thousands of white men gave their lives to free the slaves. I have never heard a black man tell us whites “Thank you” for freeing out ancestors. They make is sound as if all whites owned slaves. That is not true. This was only applicable in the south. And over 75% of the southern people did not own slaves. Something else that blacks never mention is that black/negro men owned slaves. The 1830 U.S. Federal Census showed that there were 3,777 black/negro men owning slaves. It is time that all of the facts about slavery and the slave owners be presented. Not just the facts that justify your complaints.
So if that’s the case!!! Me being of Mexican decent.. Should get reparations for having land taken and treaty of Guadeloupe not being honored. Right? Why should my tax paying dollars go to a bunch a different stuff that I have not been affiliated with?
Freakin pandering politics!
All of you on here complaining will still vote for the same democrats so be quiet. You want to do something? Go vote. Go protest.
I’ve never voted for a Democrat and I started voting 9 years ago! I would never, ever vote for a Democrat.
Vote out the democrats if you don’t like or be quiet.
Please read this R-E-A-L S-L-O-W and understand it I have never seen this said as simply and as well:
Class war at its best.
The folks who are getting the free stuff don’t like
the folks who are paying for the free stuff , because
The folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer
afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.
And the folks who are paying for the free stuff
want the free stuff to stop.
And the folks who are getting the free stuff want even moref ree stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!
Now. The people who are forcing the people who pay
for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING
the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the
free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.
So.. The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.
We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff .
Now understand this.
All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250years after being founded.
The reason?
The voters figured out they could vote themselves money
from the treasury by electing people who promised to give
them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.
The United States officially became a Republic in 1776 ,
243 years ago.
The number of people now getting free stuff
outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff .
Failure to change that spells the end of the United States
as we know it.
ELECTION 2020 IS COMING
A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
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You know if you understand anything about free stuff and who is paying for it and who receives it you will know that what Dawn said about free stuff and politicians is true.
With that said, no more free stuff because of what Dawn said.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
Trump has more and more blacks joining his team. They know Trump is the real deal and Democrats are all fake.
Trump will get 40% of the black vote and send tremors through the Democrat Party because the Democrat model is broken. Blacks have finally figured it out. Democrats have been using them all along and give them a few bread crumbs to keep them happy. Blacks no longer are willing to accept more bread crumbs, they now want a life and Democrats who are anti-capitalist have no way of delivering.
Blacks are starting to get it. The government TIT is nothing more than plantation living and it is slightly above poverty when in fact through capitalism they could live like anyone else.
Democrat Section 8 housing, welfare, and the government TIT is subsistence living. It’s not a life. Life is when you earn disposable income. Democrat Socialism is not the route to disposable income. Blacks are now starting to learn that
The assembly has no business legislating slavery since California never became involved in black slavery. Native Indians, and later, the Chinese were the slaves of California. This Assembly does not even know their own history as proof these races are not included in the bill. It makes better reason if the state of Georgia wrote this legislation.
The Chinese were brought here to work on the railroad as CONTRACTORS. They were not immigrants and had to return to their home country and most did.
That brings up Chinese and Irish. Do they get a reparation bill? Oh, and how about a woman’s reparations bill? They weren’t allowed to vote. I can’t wait until this voting cycle ends. There is so much BS out there right now it’s pathetic.
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