Return of real estate to descendants of Black landowners/freeman : CA
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Anonymous
| Making wrongs right again is a good but complex and confusing plan. |
Anonymous
Hilton Head Island in SC also has a dark history involving white people stealing land from black land owners. |
Anonymous
This particular case in Los Angeles is not confusing because there is a very clear chain of custody: the local government forced the family to sell the land and the local government still owns the land. There were no intermediating private owners who would be owed compensation. To the extent similar transactions can take place, I hope local and state governments do give back property to those who were outright dispossessed or forced to sell under coercion (often for less than fair market value). |
Anonymous
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What's wild is that this did happen around here recently.
Dulles airport was basically supposed to be in the area around burke lake park. The land owners (white) fought the federal government until it gave up and seized land from an area with well off black families (western fairfax/eastern Loudon) which then created Dulles airport. The imminent domain was obviously less than market value simply because these people were black. And when this took place, black properties were 25 cents on the dollar at best. It's an interesting part of fairfax history fwiw. |
Anonymous
| I bet if someone forced them to sell to build a garbage dump they would have not sued to get it back |
Anonymous
| I wonder what their plan for the land is. That's a lot of people to own on piece of land. I had enough trouble owning and selling land with my three siblings. |
Anonymous
They agreed to rent it to city of Los Angeles to keep their facilities running - the oceanfront plat is the county life guard training school/headquarters + a very nice park with views of the ocean on the next block over. In short, it will be a perpetual income stream for the descendants. They get a check every year. |
Anonymous
Native here- have you heard of Cobell? It was a 3.4 billion dollar settlement. There will never be anything further. |
Anonymous
NP here: that was for federal land and other federal trust-held assets. I guarantee that there are state and local governments that are in possession of lands that Native Americans legally owned. Of course, enforcing such claims would require the state and local governments to play along. Los Angeles is giving the land back to this family because the culture of the political elites has changed. This family has been fighting for decades with Los Angeles and the previous political elites would not acknowledge their claims. WHO is in power is often times more important than what the law says. Elites change, culture evolves. |
Anonymous
Too old. What about Indians or other races that have been abused by British. What's done is done, no more reparations. This is the reasons democrats lose sometimes. I would like to see a clear path for future generations, stronger economy rather than dumping money for anything that would have no impact today. There are tons of programs that could be pushed to fill the gaps where any particular race is lagging but not just throwing money. |
Anonymous
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Interesting that they were able to get a monument set up about one of these cases. I am surprised the Chevy Chase company let it happen, since it invites a demand for restitution.
https://www.whatimreading.net/p/maryland-belmont-black-suburb-historical-marker |
Anonymous
This is about African Americans, not Indians. |
Anonymous
Many people who now live in Oklahoma are descendants of native Americans. Half of Oklahoma is native land, including Tulsa. |
Anonymous
It’s actually a significant issue for large portions of the entire southern coast. |