https://althouse.blogspot.com/2023/05/is-this-bad-time-to-point-out-that.html May 16, 2023 "Is this a bad time to point out that 'moving to San Francisco in the 1940s' almost certainly means being part of the wave of black arrivals who took cheap houses from the Japanese people..." "... who had been deported to quickly convert Japantown into the Western Addition and Fillmore? Are those black families going to pass those reparations on to the Japanese families they dispossessed?" That's the top-rated comment on the NYT article "Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco? San Francisco has proposed the nation’s most ambitious reparations plan, including $5 million cash payments and housing aid that aims to bring people back." Posted by Ann Althouse at 6:05 PM
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/new...ion-to-create-slavery-reparations-commission/ New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs controversial legislation to create slavery reparations commission NEW YORK -- Gov. Kathy Hochul signed historic racial justice legislation on Tuesday, creating a committee to consider reparations for slavery. The new law authorizes the creation of a community commission that will study the history of slavery in New York state and what reparations could look like. "You can see the unreckoned-with impacts of slavery in things such as Black poverty, Black maternal mortality," said Nicole Carty, executive director of the group Get Free. Activists like Carty said the new law was a long time coming. She helped advocate for the bill, which was sponsored by Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, after the racially motivated Buffalo mass shooting. "We saw that monster come into the community and kill 12 Black New Yorkers," Solages said. READ MORE: New York lawmakers OK bill to consider reparations for slavery: "Historic" The signing took place at the New York Historical Society on the Upper West Side, just down the hall from the Frederick Douglass exhibit. Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827 and officially across the us in 1863, but it was followed by racial segregation practices like Jim Crow and redlining -- denying loans to people based on race and neighborhoods, impacting generations. "I'm from Long Island. There is the first suburb of Levittown, one of the greatest housing programs that we could have in this country and Black New Yorkers were excluded from that," Solages said. "Look at today, where we still see Blacks making 70 cents to every dollar whites make," the Rev. Al Sharpton said. Leaders like Sharpton say the commission comes at a challenging time in America. A 2021 Pew Research survey showed 77% of Black Americans support reparations, compared with only 18% of white Americans. Advocates say prior to the Revolutionary War there were more enslaved Africans in New York City than in other city, except for Charleston, South Carolina. The population of enslaved Africans accounted for 20% of New York's population. "Let's be clear about what reparations means. It doesn't mean fixing the past, undoing what happened. We can't do that. No one can. But it does mean more than giving people a simple apology 150 years later. This bill makes it possible to have a conversation, a reasoned debate about what we want the future to look like. And I can think of nothing more democratic than that," Hochul said. "We do have a governor who is honest enough to say out loud that this is hard, honest enough to say she knows there will be pushback," state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said. The committee will be made up of nine members who will be appointed over the next six months. They'll have a year to draft the report before presenting it to the public. "Our generation desires leaders who are willing to confront our true history," student advocate J.J. Brisco said. The next generation is hopeful this groundbreaking moment will shed some light on a dark past. New York is the second state in the country to study reparations after California.
UBI in NY = Universal Black Income? I think she should've followed Newsom and told people the state is broke. The poor need help especially with rampant inflation and housing costs. That expected money and energy should be devoted to that rather than a logistical nightmare that isn't realistically going to pass.
This woman is an absolute moron, a pandering moron, she was already one of the worst during Covid. Just awful.
You can claim to be black This is a woke society Nobody is going to make you take a DNA test On top of that , if I were an illegal migrant who’s black like from Haiti, I’m going directly to New York . They will be bankrupted if every black person and fake black person claimed their uncle’s great uncle was a slave.
But seriously, is she going to pay herself and "pure" black people reparations now? How does this work? Don't they realize how crazy this all is?
Maybe she gets half as much while the other half pays for all of it with a Sanders Warren wealth tax? That's how lines are getting drawn in this waste of a debate...
My ancestors were slaves in Ireland. Some folks that were either rich Englishman or Rich Germans brought them to America and dumped them in Lufkin. I want money!
The only reparations needed is free community college (or the equivalent money that can be applied to big schools) for black children for 1 or 2 generations.
Could your family buy homes wherever they wanted (similar to today), just based on the money they had? Wasn't that way for Blacks for a long time during the SFH building boom in America from the 40s to 60s, which down the line created generational wealth for the families who were allowed to buy in these prime areas. I believe in pulling yourself up on your own and am an example of that, but can't deny there were many things the US government did that also hurt the progress of Blacks
