AFN previously reported that California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) had signed legislation creating a “task force” to come up with a study and a plan for how the state’s taxpayers should shell out money to blacks believed to be descendants of slaves, thus deserving of reparations.
Now the task force is releasing a 500-page report that documents in detail the harm perpetrated by the state. It also recommends steps to address those wrongs, including helping blacks who descended from free or enslaved black people in the country at the end of the 19th century document their eligibility for financial restitution.
With “voting time” approaching, Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Los Angeles-based BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), is not surprised.
“We’re having the midterm elections, and the Democrats are running scared right now because everything is such a mess in the country,” he says. “They’ve been catering to the blacks on the Democratic plantation for a long time now, so it’s just more of the same, in spite of the mess that we’re in. It’s not that they care about the blacks. It’s about the vote and nothing else.”
Peterson says the whole idea of reparations is wrong.
“This country has already given the blacks everything they’ve asked for the last 80 years,” he submits. “When will enough be enough? And who is to tell who the slaves are and who are not the slaves?”
Reparation, he adds, is neither deserved nor earned.
“They should not be getting one dime,” Peterson concludes.
Likewise, Donna Jackson, who spent most of her life in San Diego and now serves as the director of membership development for the Project 21 Black Leadership Network, calls the reparation proposal “political grandstanding.” Like Peterson, she finds the timing of this report suspicious.
“It’s always around the time near an election, or whenever they feel like they’re losing the support of black and minority communities, that they come up with this,” she observes.
Jackson goes on to warn that any attempt to force reparations will be challenged in the courts.
“There are international humanitarian laws that explicitly ban collective punishment,” she points out. “You cannot punish the relatives or descendants of an individual who has committed a crime. That in itself creates an injustice. How do I make you accountable for a crime that someone else committed?”
Jackson says the subject of reparations is meant to create anger and division.
This push for “emergency treatment” for the descendants of slaves is occurring in a Democrat-controlled state that entered the Union as a free state 172 years ago. Delegates to that 1849 constitutional convention fiercely opposed slavery, and they penned a constitution to outlaw it. Now, with a population of 39.5 million, California is the most populous state. Blacks, however, form a single-digit minority there. The current population includes an estimated 2.6 million blacks, or approximately 6%, while the number of Hispanics are the majority population at almost 40%. Whites make up about 35% of Californians, and Asians are about 15%.
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“We’re having the midterm elections, and the Democrats are running scared right now because everything is such a mess in the country,” (under the Democrat Party reign) he says. “They’ve been catering to the blacks on the Democratic plantation for a long time now, so it’s just more of the same, in spite of the mess that we’re in. It’s not that they care about the blacks. It’s about the vote and nothing else.”
These Dishonorable socialist Democrat Party’s phony anti-racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the civil rights or sensitivities of people of color and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of racial discrimination. The Democrat Party’s is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political racial Con.
At least some blacks, are smart enough to realize that is ALL THIS TALK about reparations is.. VOTE BUYING.
“California” and “injustice”—now they go together.
Son Of Thunder, as a born and raised Californian, those two terms have been joined at the hip since Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown took his first sixteen year stint in Sacramental back in the mid-1970’s. And with few exceptions, continued through the years and through Moonbeam’s second, and under California Law, illegal sixteen years as Governor (don’t give me that loophole garbage, it was morally and by definition illegal, and was the single worst breach of the public trust done by a State politician ever!), proving he could make the whole State as dysfunctional and full of excrement as he did for his two terms as Mayor of San Francisco, when the rain of used needles, urine and human fecal matter became daily obstacles for the City by the Bay’s Citizenry.
And under the leadership (?) of Gavin Sunstroke Newsom, he’s been the perfect follow up for Moonbeam, first as Mayor of San Francisco, then as Governor. Things were not only the same, they became even worse, as if the decline of the Golden State to the Golden Shower State was the intended goal all along.
And if it was, Good Job, boys. You did it.
Now go F yourselves.
mxquist:
This proves that people in California who continue to to support the treasonous, hateful, immoral, socialist Democrat party are not too bright.
The Democrat Party wins most of their followers because they are ill-informed or have low intellect.
Their propaganda or narrative works on an emotional level, not on the intellectual level.
SINCE the leftists out in CA are literally showing time and time again, THEY WANT this insanity, i really wish there was a way to cut CA off from the rest of the nation.. AND SAIL it right over to join north korea!
Aurgh! I meant eight year stints. He did two full terms of eight to hold office a total of sixteen.
I guess it just seemed like sixteen years each time. Just like it feels like Biden’s been “in charge” for more than a year and a half.
Sorry for the error.
You can’t punish relatives or Descendants of a person who committed a crime. Owning slaves back then was not a crime . How about the.people who sold you into slavery. What about the Muslim slave traders ???
International law states that all stolen thing must be returned to the country of origin.
I think I could live with all stolen slaves and their descendants to be returned to their country of origin.
I’d be down with that.. AND LEAVE THEM THERE>
Let me say this: I am fully behind the idea of paying further Restitution to anyone who was a slave before the Emancipation Proclamation.
Dudes, you had it rough. It wasn’t right, it wasn’t fair. No doubt.
And when you were freed and given a mule, a few acres of land to farm and some pocket money, while it was a token, it did seem generous at the time (although they could have given you a few bags of seeds, but, you know. At the time…).
So, if any of you are still around today, well, God bless you, and yes, you deserve further restitution for your tenacity and longevity in your battle to overcome the injustices of pre-Civil War enslavement.
As for the rest of you, that was resolved over 150 years ago. Since then your gripes have to do with Civil Liberties that were opposed by Democrat and fought for you by Republicans through the 1950’s and 60’s. And were won for you by Republicans, despite the heated efforts of racially bigoted left. Also by the mid to late 60’s.
So if you still think you are owed any kind of Restitution for yourselves or your ancestors, go hit up the Democrats, and get your payback directly from them and them only, not from the common taxpayer. We owe you nothing. The Democrats, and only the Democrats owe you big time.
mxquist:
What gives this treasonous, socialist Democrat party the right to force the struggling taxpayers who descendants NEVER owned any slaves to pay reparation to dependents of someone who might have been a slave 200 years ago?
This is the type of mentality and character of Democrat Party supporters who elect disgraceful things like the hateful Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi to rule over them. 😯
It doesn’t, Scruffy.
No one has the right to make people who had nothing to do with what happened over 150 years ago even feel guilty, let alone expect them to pay people who had nothing to do with what happened over 150 years ago any restitution for conditions they did not experience for themselves
And how are we to determine who would actually be eligible if we were to even consider what they desire and are proposing? Is being Black the only criteria? How many modern black families actually have ancestry that goes back 2-300 years? And how do you actually prove it? A lot of Black families migrated here after the Civil War.
And should White people who ancestors migrated here after the 1860’s be on the hook for what happened before their arrival?
It’s just a can of dead worms.
As I said, if you were a slave before the Emancipation Proclamation, let’s talk.
The rest of you, shut up and sit down.
Also, what of families who’s parents worked TO ABOLISH Slavery? Should they descendents pay for others folly? What of black families, who’s ancestors OWNED OR SOLD slaves? Should they pay?
maybe all the free loading ones will move to califorincation.
They have been. And a lot of them are living on the streets of San Francisco, San Jose and LA, and spreading to all major cities, and creeping even into smaller towns and cities.
Between them and the lackadaisical soft on crime stance Our elected officials have take in Our once great State has turned us from being a major economical power to a pitiful punchline.
And due to the convoluted “tier system”for voting, thank-you Governor Moonbeam, Republicans have been absent from many ballots for years not because they don’t make the cut.
It’s BS and open, in-your-face cheating, and unless a miracle, or an open rebellion occurs, we’re stuck with it, and with 3rd World Government mentalities throughout the State, County and Locale Governments,
Bull dung! that is all this is. If reparations are to be made it should fall on the privileged white politicians and large landowners whose descendants are responsible for permitting, promoting, and also the ones most benefitted from the practice of slavery. Don’t tax the low and medium-income people who had no part in all of this, you can’t justify such an injustice to rectify another injustice. Besides, giving free money and benefits all you get are freeloaders, and we already have way too many of those in this country.