San Francisco's Reparations Committee Proposes $5M Award to all Blacks in City

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ipatent, Jan 16, 2023.

  1. Wait a minute. THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!!!!

    Sign me up. And throw in a couple free Obama phones too.

    My great..g..g..g.. father was wounded with the 21stMaine Infantry at Port Hudson, Louisiana and then spent two years in a confederate prison camp at the age of 17. He would be some surprised to learn about white privilege and how he was oppressing blacks all that time. Very surprised. He said that he survived the prison camp by eating the undigested oats and grain out of the horseshit. Yeh. White privilege on full display. What was he thinking?
     
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    #81     Apr 26, 2023
  2. ph1l

    ph1l

    upload_2023-5-7_16-33-49.png * $200 million = $450,200,000,000,000.00
    And you thought the current inflation was bad.:)
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ac...-reparations-committee-200-million-per-person
     
    #82     May 7, 2023
  3. #83     May 7, 2023
  4. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    Although this is funny to me...

    I must admit that the treatment of Japanese Americans in the United States following the issue of EO 9066, over 100,000 Japanese-Americans found themselves placed into concentration camps within the United States. These concentration camps were called “relocation camps.”

    In my opinion, Japanese Americans deserve reparations too. Yet, why stop there.

    How about reparations for Indigenous Americans that were forced off their land and then relocated to other states or what about the Indigenous Americans that were forced by the government & Catholic ministries to change their indigenous names to catholic names or English-sounding names for America's civilization ?

    One aspect of the assimilation process was the renaming of the entire Indigenous American population, partly to extinguish traditional ties and partly because Europeans that immigrated to America found many of the names confusing, difficult to pronounce and went against assimilation objectives.

    Not all states were involved in legally changing the names of Indigenous children at Native American schools. Yet, many did pass laws for such to occur.

    Therefore, just give every American $500,000 dollars and then call it all even regardless of ethnicity...mixed or not. Time to move on. :D

    P.S. I want my Indigenous family (ancestral) name back although I'm aware I can easily have it legally changed.

    P.S.S. June 2nd 1924, Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S.

    Hilarious, citizenship on our own land we've have been living on for hundreds of years before the arrival of the colonialists.

    wrbtrader
     
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    #84     May 7, 2023
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  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    The California Reparations panel approval amount is now at $1.2 Million...


    California reparations panel approves payments of up to $1.2 million to every Black resident
    California's legislature could vote on the panel's recommendations
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ca...ves-payments-1-2-million-every-black-resident
     
    #85     May 8, 2023
  6. Their recommendations will go to state lawmakers for consideration. My guess is that this goes no where. Maybe they will issue an apology.
     
    #86     May 8, 2023
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  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Gov. Newsom is not backing this nonsense. Finally some common sense.

    California Gov. Newsom declines to back reparations checks, says slavery's legacy is 'more than cash payments'
    Gov. Gavin Newsom pledges to advance 'systemic changes' after reparations task force backs payments up to $1.2 million
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ca...hecks-says-slaverys-legacy-more-cash-payments
     
    #87     May 10, 2023
  8. ipatent

    ipatent

    He appointed the commission. Trying to have it both ways.
     
    #88     May 10, 2023
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  9. Innervoice

    Innervoice

    Reparations for what ? For commiting violent crime? If blacks get reparations then so should whites.
     
    #89     May 10, 2023
  10. Mercor

    Mercor

    Did the State need to pay for this committee. We all knew this was the outcome
    This was just a nice gig for some connected minority activists

    Committee are all members who will benefit from this......no one represents the people who will pay


    Members are: senator Steven Bradford, Amos C. Brown, Cheryl Grills, Lisa Holder, assembly member Reginald Jones-Sawyer, Jovan Scott Lewis, Kamilah Moore (Chair), councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe, and councilmember Donald K. Tamaki.[8] Eight members are African American and the ninth Japanese American.[2]

    Budget for committee
    $1,519,000

    TheDepartment of Justice (DOJ) requests $1,519,000 General Fund one-time in in 2022-23 to pay
    for external contracts and travel and per-diem costs for task force members pursuant to Chapter
    319, Statutes of 2020 (AB 3121).

    CRES estimates9meetings will occur in FY 2022-23 at approximately $17,348per occurrence for a total of $156,128in travel costs. Costs include travel incurred byDOJ and non-DOJ members of
    the task force.Additional unfunded costs of$1,338,000 include contract costs for legal advice,
    report development, experts and consultant costs
     
    #90     May 10, 2023