California Bill To Form Reparations Task Force Advances After 33-3 State Senate Vote
Many would agree that we can never have equality when one race of people is treated better than another race of people, but that is what just happened.
State senators in California overwhelmingly supported setting up a task force to study potential reparations for slavery.
The California Senate voted33-3 to create a task force that will study and make recommendations for reparations to African-Americans.
It would create a nine-member commission and will go to the Assembly for a final vote.
The panel would study the effects slavery had on California and recommend to the legislature no later than 2023 what type of compensation would be appropriate, how it might be dispersed, and who could be eligible to receive it.
The task force could also recommend other forms of redress besides money.
The proposal, AB-3121, titled “Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” would create the nine-member commission. Following Saturday’s Senate vote, the measure returns to the Assembly for a final vote before lawmakers adjourn for the year Monday.
Assembly members overwhelmingly approved an earlier version of the bill.
States like Texas, New York, and Vermont have done similar studies in the last two years, finding that along with cash, reparations could mean housing assistance, lower tuition, forgiving student loans, job training, community investments, etc.
“If the 40-acres-and-a-mule that was promised to free slaves were delivered to the descendants of those slaves today, we would all be billionaires,” state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, said. “I hear far too many people say, ‘Well, I didn’t own slaves, that was so long ago.’ Well, you inherit wealth — you can inherit the debt that you owe to African-Americans.”
“Let’s be clear: Chattel slavery, both in California and across our nation, birthed a legacy of racial harm and inequity that continues to impact the conditions of Black life in California,” said state Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles.
https://conservativebrief.com/senate-approves-reparations-whites-must-pay-now-25117/
