The net worth of the median white family in San Francisco is considerably more than $50,000. Also, the number of black families is much lower than the number of white families. It is a good idea to have Democrat run cities pay these reparations. Especially since many of these cities drive up prices and cause blacks to move out in the first place. |
Oh, the irony. Suddenly the right wing hates the idea of wealth and prosperity. |
| I seriously hope SF does this. It will be fun to watch the fallout. You get what you vote for. |
Understatement of the century. Elections have consequences. |
| As long as we are talking about reparations, we should also go ask the Italian government for reparations since the Romans enslaved millions of people from many different races and ethnicities. |
Yes, exactly. And also because Christopher Columbus initiated the abuse and extermination of indigenous people. |
Did anyone vote away the U.S. Constitution? |
The left hates EARNING it. |
But this is what rich liberals want, right? |
Anyone who is for the reparations is stupid. Period. Prior to 1850, California was not under U.S. rule, and Mexican law, which prohibited slavery, was used in the case. September 9, 1850, California became a Union State and subject to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Also, only during the 1849 gold rush did California even have to deal with the issue of slavery, and prior to that the American Indians were closer to slaves in California than Blacks were? "a large number of slave-owning Southerners had travelled to California to seek their fortunes in the 1849 Gold Rush, and many brought their slaves." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_California But, if you really feel that reparations should be paid by future generations, then can children of murder victims be reimbursed by the children of murderers? |
Reparations are much easier to justify when it’s paid directly to the living survivors of the harm. Roughly 40,000 Japanese Americans internees died before the Civil Liberties Act was passed and didn’t get anything. |
| Will they take the money from descendents of blacks who enslaved other blacks? |
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Chinatown was burned down in SF and the single largest lynching event in US history was against Chinese in Los Angeles. CA never had slaves, but they sure as crap oppressed Asians. In fact, read the inaugural speech of Stanford when he became governor in which he calls Asians a ‘degraded’ people:
https://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html Where are Asian reparations? |
Ethnic Japanese people were also literally kept in labor camps. In some families, US soldiers of Japanese descent went to fight in the US military and their wives and children were sent to labor camps. Shameful. Many of the victims are still alive today. No one is rallying to pay them. |
????They did get reparations--though it was peanuts. In 1988. |