Has anyone heard of the California reparations Act?

[Anonymous]

I heard yesterday that if you live in California, and you have proof that your ancestors were Slaves, you will get $800,000.00

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The girl who hired me to do Homework is Black and her sister lives in California so she asked if I wanted to move with her to California and continue to be her House Maid. She wants to get some money from California because her ancestors were slaves and she thinks that she will get some money too.

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California is talking about reparation’s again

[CrazyGirl2]

I heard it was $50,000, but super legit question here did California even HAVE slavery? And what about someone who can prove that their great grandmother was a slave in Mississippi? First, WHO GETS the money? I mean she may have a LOT of living progeny, what with children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren… do they EACH get the money? Second, why are California tax payers on the hook for a crime that occurred in Mississippi? Oh and one more, what if a man truly deserves the money, but his white wife divorces him the second the check clears? Is she entitled to HALF under California’s confiscatory community property divorce laws? If so, why are white people benefitting from the wages of slavery, AGAIN? I think there may be a LOT of “what if’s”that California has not thought about yet!

[Asker]

I don’t know very much, that’s why I am asking. It’s only California for now. I only heard bits and pieces yesterday on the radio.

[Daniela1982]

I think they have to have lived in California for a certain time period. Or else they would have everyone moving here from the South. I have no idea what all the crack heads in LA are going to do with that much money.

[Asker]

@Daniela1982 can Black peoples move to California to get the money?

[CrazyGirl2]

As Daniella wrote, you must have lived in California for a certain period of time before an African American is eligible to apply for it, if it passes. You know I think it would be available online for you to read it yourself, let me check… Okay so according to California’s Attorney General’s Office, there is NO monetary award going to African Americans living in California, this was a false internet rumor. And a quick google of “California’s reparations act” took me to https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121 Where the full text of the bill is available. Right now there exists ONLY a commission to INVESTIGATE the systematic harms that have come to African Americans as a direct consequence of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws. The final recommendation is due in 2023, but a link to their 500 page interim review is already available for viewing at the web address above.

[Asker]

@CrazyGirl2 I am so incredibly impressed by the way you investigated this issue and came up with a great answer.

[CrazyGirl2]

Oh thank you so much sweetie, but I literally just Googled “California’s reparations act”, it was the very first search result. But I’ll take any complement I can get. Thank you, you are too kind. 🥰

[Asker]

Oh come on, you are so smart

[Daniela1982]

No, you have to had been a resident for a certain amount of time.

[CrazyGirl2]

Ahhh thank you so much Jenn, I may be “so smart” but you are incredibly sweet and kind, and extremely generous for complementing me in such a beautiful way. 🥰

[Daniela1982]

They don't call her crazy for no reason. She goes above and beyond. 👍

[Asker]

@Daniela1982 Yes, great reply from @CrazyGirl2

[CrazyGirl2]

@Jennz6 & @Daniella1982 Thank you both, you are BOTH incredibly beautiful and kind women whom I am proud to call my friends. 😘🥰

[Paige90]

I heard it was $300,00 but either way, it is SO incredibly stupid it's unimaginable! Just another way for dems to buy votes!

[Asker]

Exactly

[Paige90]

Why do two people disagree with what I said? Tell me how they are going to qualify people that get the money. Slavery hasn't been around in 150 years! What about the Japanese or the Irish that were locked up? Do people from interracial marriages qualify?

[Asker]

Thanks Paige for your reply 🥰

[Asker]

@Paige90 you are correct

[RavVid]

I don't know a lot of US history but I didn't think California was a slave state. I see it was more ambiguous now and there was a sort of serf system at a time.

How easy is it to prove an ancestor was a slave? Potentially an ancestor who was a slave could have thousands of descendants. Do they each get 800 thou or do the thousand descendants get $800 each? Does the ancestor have to have been a slave in California?

[Asker]

I’m not sure either

[RavVid]

It is interesting how politicians/bureaucrats think. Mostly I suspect it is lets get a good headline but lets have rules that make it so it doesn't cost too much.

Probably universal across the western world.

[Asker]

Everything starts in California

[Anonymous]

California, like some other states, has a task force studying the issue of reparations. These would be recommendations that will be made to the legislature for consideration. Nothing is concrete at this point. Although California was technically a free state, slavery apparently still happened up to the civil war. The task force is studying the state’s role and is still deciding who would be eligible. Descendants would likely have to prove their lineage to qualify. Cash payments are but one form of compensation being considered. Tuition and housing grants are others ideas. I know this is a sore subject with some people but reparations were owed to former slaves. There’s no question about that. Compensating their descendants is more of a symbolic gesture at this point but it’s a debt long overdue that should be paid….. along with an official apology. The fact that federal and state governments have swept this under the rug for 150+ years doesn’t absolve them. Right is right.

[Anonymous]

Then hell I want reparations as a Native American!!! Hell let’s all get reparations a lot of us had ancestors who were slaves. You know who should pay part of the reparations? The people who originally enslaved their own people lol people just want free things. Even if we got that money most of us would blow it on stupid things cause we don’t know how to make it work for us. I’m buying me a $500,000 gold chain lol

[Asker]

True, Native Americans got a bad deal

[supercutebutt]

Good! Anything that makes the heads of Nazi Trumptards explode into space, I am for. :)

LOL! :)

[Paige90]

Sounds like something a racist democrat would day

[Asker]

@Paige90 I know right?

[Paige90]

It's ok for them to say immature crap like that but not Republicans.

[supercutebutt]

@Paige90 @Jennz6 Aww. I made the Nazis sad.
I sowwy. :(

[Asker]

@Paige90 DM me

[hIopinionated_]

Proof? I think proof enough is being a black American citizen. Not a immigrant who became a citizen but literally born here from black family members who were born here as well


I heard of the bill but don’t know much about it, I’m from Texas

[LiamJHayden]

It will get struck down in the federal courts. A racial entitlement is only permissible to remedy the government’s own discrimination, not societal discrimination. It cannot provide race-based “remedies that are ageless in their reach into the past, and timeless in their ability to affect the future.” (See Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., 488 U. S. 469, 497 (1995)). Reparations for slavery would be just such an improper “remedy.”

[Animallover3742]

Okay first

1. WHAT?

and SEcond

2. The FUCK?

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Unless you've personally been the victim of slavery that money is better spent elsewhere.

[menina]

I didn't hear about it since I don't live in the United States. It's hard to believe that this is true. Also, I don't think it's a good idea because it doesn't change what happened.

[Anonymous]

Really? $800,000. I was in LA and sand Francisco and there were so many people living on the streets or in trailers.

[Asker]

I saw it on the Internet

[BeMuse]

It's just a way to bait Blacks into a trap... Move over here, it will be nice...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3GE90wgQR_w

[Curiosity2006]

LOL WHAAAT?

GIMME GIMME GIMME!

[Anonymous]

It's about the dumbest idea I've ever heard of, but I seriously doubt it's going to happen. I think Gavin is just trying to buy cheap votes like Biden did with his loan forgiveness.

[DizzyDesii]

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[Jerre]

Where does Gov Newsome think where the money is coming from?

[Asker]

Taxpayers lol?

[Jerre]

Thank you for the Like

[HighValue]

Taxes are already 13% in CA. Newsom wants it to be 16.4%

[CAPTAIN-OBVIOUS]

Yeah, other states started on slavery reparations a long time ago.

[Asker]

I didn’t know that

[CubaPirate]

Ridiculous imao. What about compensation from the tribe leaders that sols them too

[Asker]

Thank you for your reply, good point

[Cubus]

I wonder where they would get money for this from.

[saffoler]

Yes, did they actually go through with that?

[Asker]

Don’t know yet

[Johnny1818]

No they did not as it's unconstitutional. Meaning, the president doesn't have the authority to make that decision. The Congress is in control of the purse aka The National Treasury. Nancy Pelosi, the outgoing speaker of the house even said it during Biden's presidential campaign when the subject was brought up. She clearly spelled it out that the president does not have the authority to do that.
Knowing a majority of the people would not know this nor would they research it at all as well taking into consideration historically people vote with their wallets; it was a tactic used to win over voters. Specifically those with student debt.

As far as reparations go, it's a ridiculous notion. If there was any real concern about slavery, people would be attempting to put an end to it. The slave trade is STILL up and running in Africa just as it has since the 1500s. Though some seem to believe it's more important to get a check than stop the suffering.
That being said, if such an absurd thing as reparations we're to happen, it would be more logical to start at the front of the line.
First demand payments from Africa whom sold the slaves.
Second demand payment from the Portuguese who purchased the slaves from Africa and transported them to the Americas.

Personally my family as well of millions of others weren't even in this country yet at that time. If that's not enough to show this as completely unjust, as a tax paying citizen of this country that wasn't born anywhere close to the time of slaves, I should not be held responsible or should I be held responsible for that debt.

[saffoler]

Does Gov. Newsom care about the California constitution?

[Dargil]

People are leaving California in droves already.

[melanieeeB]

Nope didn't know that yet

[slatyb]

If you can't find it online, it's not real.

[Labokachulaa]

Did it really pass?

[Asker]

Don’t know yet.

[XXblack88]

Nope can't say I have.

[Hafia_xo]

Never heard of it tbh