California lawmakers advance reparations bill

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California lawmakers advance reparations bill
By Tal Axelrod - 06/13/20 10:01 AM EDT


The California Assembly voted this week to establish a task force to study and propose recommendations for giving reparations to African Americans.

The bill, which passed by a 56-5 margin, comes as the nation is rocked by protests over systemic racism and police use of force after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis.

The bill calls for the Regents of the University of California “to assemble a colloquium of scholars to draft a research proposal to analyze the economic benefits of slavery that accrued to owners and the businesses, including insurance companies and their subsidiaries, that received those benefits, and to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding those findings.”


The legislation would also require California’s Insurance Commissioner to obtain information from licensed insurers “regarding any records of slaveholder insurance policies issued by any predecessor corporation during the slavery era.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502582-california-lawmakers-advance-reparations-bill

[catfish1957]

56 out of 61 legislators voted for this sh__?

CA is a lost cause.

[skeeter]

California was a free state, morons.

Stupidity abounds.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I have no objections to this as long as only people who actually were slaves are the ones that benefit.

Paying anyone else is just simple pandering and extortion.

[Smokin Joe]

I have no objections to this as long as only people who actually were slaves are the ones that benefit.

Paying anyone else is just simple pandering and extortion.

I notice they aren't taking the forced and uncompensated divestiture of assets as a result of the Military invasion of the South into account. What benefit was there when crops are burned, land is seized, and other assets stolen or rendered of no value?

That said, compensate any living slave for their labors.