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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not just SF, California also has a reparations committee.

I don’t understand because CA was first stolen from indigenous people, then it was part of Mexico and Latinos lost land and have been discriminated against since then. There used to be segregated schools for Latino students since they were not allowed to go to white schools in many areas. Chinese immigrants were treated horribly as well. Why are the decedents of indigenous, Latino, Chinese, and Japanese going to have to pay reparations? [/quote]
Asian Americans suffered segregation in CA, as well as property denied to them, not to mention their citizenship or right to work in a licensed field.  And actually, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed at California's urging, because the white workers and farmers felt threatened by Chinese labor.

https://www.saada.org/tides/article/living-in-a-gilded-cage

https://www.baltimoresun.com/la-me-ln-chinese-lawyer-20150316-story.html

I gather that the progressives in CA think that because *now* Asian Americans in CA are somewhat successful, they don't need to offer reparations to the community. Instead, progressives wanted to push them down further by supporting affirmative action in college admissions.  Thankfully, CA passed Prop 209 that bars affirmative action.

Every which way you look at it, CA has done Asian Americans wrong, then and now. Yet, Asian Americans there continue to thrive.   I guess that's why progressives don't think much about this part of CA history.
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