California introduces first U.S. slavery reparations bill | NBC 7 San Diego 

Better get it now before it's given to the migrants

I'll believe it when I see it 😮

The last 2 years of Taskforce research are going to be a waste of time if there are no cash payments!

It's not billions,it's Trillions with a T !!!

For real reparations: they identify an actual victim of the offense in question. They specify the abuses and damages. They assign a dollar amount for their compensation. They pay the victim. If the victim is deceased; they identify the closest living legal heir and pay them. What is the name of the slave that you are trying to collect the unpaid reparations for?

I want reparations from Fauci for financing the covid source.

The next generation is going to feel short changed and treated unfairly when they don’t see a dime.

That's OK. When The King comes, He will bring justice.

Don't forget Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, All down South. Some are s

How 'bout we get that violent crime rate down, then we talk reparations

No Reparations no vote, and when we get our Reparations we must separate ourselves.

My Father is 1/2 Jewish? I’m a 1/4 Jew! Where’s my FREE $ from Germany? We were cooked Alive!!!

The only problem is that slavery never existed in California :-). During the time of slavery in America, California was owned by the Mexican Government-who had banned slavery period.

Absolutely not ! Native Americans reparations only!!!! Respect our ancestors!

What really hurt the black community was being excluded from the homestead act and later the FHA act. I think the best course of action is to divide a good portion of the federal government’s land and divide it between the “American negro” not those of Africa or Latin American ancestry. This would be the best course of action without creating more debt for all of us Americans who didn’t take part in that.

I want reparations for years of 'mostly peaceful' protests, violent riots, burning neighborhoods and looted stores. I'll be sending you the bill.

Which states never had slavery? It did not have slavery. California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii all never allowed slavery. There may be others. The civil war was started in part because the southern States tried to force California to legalize slavery and Abraham Lincoln blocked it.

What are food stamps, discounted housing, scholarships just for being black, COVID payments, small business loans for blacks only?

Still being tortured still being treated bad less than humans

That is LONG OVERDUE! What is the debate about? HOW TO PAY? REALLY?! You dont have those same ussues when it comes to Ukraine, Afghanistan, Israel, and others!! #tiiedthruanddelayed

Thank you for sharing this - long overdue

They can never right the wrong however money does help lol

It should be illegal and a crime for Black people to demand the government give my tax money to them when I had absolutely nothing to do with slavery.

Let the Black Spending with others Begin... The Best Reparations is Money & "Multiple Black States" to Start your Own Country... Does a One time Payment measure up to the Damage done...?

THIS is what "Black History" means? God help us all.

Native Americans were also slaves, do they get to too.

I hope the leaders in California don't dilute to proposal by using language like black and brown people, it should be exclusive to slave descendants linages only ,... ( 1700 to 1800s ) not those ambiguos brown people who came here in the 1900s up to now!

I read up on it and it's WEAK! It's on things that people should have done just by being decent! But this is nothing to get excited about! It's full on very small, very tiny baby steps!

If African Americans are getting reparations, Native Americans should get them as well, and first and in larger amounts.

LMAO

I just became a full blown republican.

If you aren't out anything; You aren't owed anything.

They complain about slavery, but wear air Jordans when Nike is well know to use over seas slave labor.

10 acres and a benz

I hope it is a blue print for other states! I used to live in California, now Ohio. I would love to be a part of the task force here in Ohio. People, this is so overdue. God bless.

From a state that never had slaves, to people who were never enslaved. This is going to be a painful virtue signaling. Money doesn't redress social conditioning

REPARATIONS, CASH PAYMENT NOW!

I been saying to STOP calling it reparations for slavery....it should be focused on repairing Blacks for what we endured while IN this country. Taxation without representation and racial discrimination by the federal government is an ongoing crime against Black Americans.

Most people are mixed: they gonna be indebted to themselves? Expect to get taxed; you wind up owning more than you get. What about the treatment to native people? Some may a good case but that will be a rarety; most will have to pay for something they had no power over. This could turn in to trickery.

And what have we got so far.

How about Irish slaves or native americans

There was no slavery in California smdh

Wit all my reparation loot, I'm finna buy GTA 6 and some 65 inch rims.

I want reparations as a black man I live in Seattle Washington

What about all races?

I want to see Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi having this conversation. While slave owners were repaired, slaves were ignored!

Calif is already $1 trillion in debt just with pensions.

Why did they show a stock photo of a couple who own their plot of land as slaves?

how far back?

Yeah yeah yeah here we go again.

No extra free money? That's going to disappoint a lot of looters.

The countries that sold the slaves should be paying the "reperations" too right? In fact, a Nigerian Prince emailed me stating he will send reperations. He just needs someones bank info!

THE MOST HIGH WORDS SAYS THEY WILL PAY..

I got a bill from the government... I'm sitting here thinking like why would I pay them when they actually owe me? 🤔

But just where will all of that $500 be spent ? weed, rims, weaves and newports

Jesus Christ

You will be stand before God,If a slave owner beat,or killed a black person,You had better repent, and if you have killed a black person,then God will be your judge on that.

Recalling an Era When the Color of Your Skin Meant You Paid to Vote: In January 1955 in Hardin County, Texas, Leo Carr had to pay $1.50 to vote. That receipt for Carr's "poll tax" now resides in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In today’s dollars, Carr paid roughly $13. “It’s a day’s wages,” explains William Pretzer, the museum’s senior history curator. “You’re asking someone to pay a day’s wages in order to be able to vote.” Pretzer says the museum accepted the donation of the receipt from Carr’s family in 2012 as a vivid and a significant example of the way that voting rights were denied to African Americans. Poll taxes, quite simply a tax to pay to vote, were enacted in the post-reconstruction era from the late 19th to the very early 20th century. But they remained in effect until the 1960s. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections decision to strike down poll taxes. And as voters head to the polls for the upcoming 2016 presidential elections, some, including former U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, have suggested that voting rights are once again under siege. “After the 1870s, particularly in the southern states, there was an effort to restrict any kind of political power for African Americans,” Pretzer says. In the immediate post-Civil-War era, when voting rights were accorded to African Americans in the south, thousands registered, voted and ran for office. “There was great concern on the part of the white power structure that this was a revolution in their lives.” Southern legislators began to find ways of limiting African-American rights, and one of the major ways was to enact barriers to prevent them from voting. A series of laws were passed state by state in the south, ranging from literacy tests to poll taxes. This was an effort to keep blacks as far out of politics as possible without violating the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited governments in the nation from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” By 1902, all 11 of the former Confederate states had enacted a poll tax, along with other measures including comprehension tests, voter intimidation and worse. “When people went to register to vote, their names would become known in the local community,” Pretzer says. “What you see is everything from simple harassment-people being insulted, pushed, shoved or harassed on the street-to being murdered.” Poll taxes survived a 1937 U.S. Supreme Court challenge in the case Breedlove v. Suttles, which upheld a Georgia poll tax on the grounds that voting rights are conferred by the states, and that the states may determine voter eligibility as they see fit, save for conflicts with the 15th Amendment concerning race, and the 19th Amendment concerning sex. But during the tumultuous battles of the civil rights movements, particularly following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, activists saw poll taxes and similar policies as barriers to the voting rights of African Americans and the poor. In 1962, the 24th Amendment was proposed, prohibiting the right to vote in federal elections from being contingent on the payment of a poll tax. It was ratified in 1964. But five states still retained the use of poll taxes for local elections. Two years later, on March 24, 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, that poll taxes for any level of election were unconstitutional. Lena Carr says she donated the 1955 Texas poll tax receipt from her uncle, Leo, partly because of her surprise that her family had been involved in the battle for voting rights in the Civil Rights era. The family found the receipt in a suitcase, after Leo’s mother passed away. When they went through it, there it was, nestled among old family pictures. “I really was surprised, because my uncle never really talked a lot about voting,” says Carr, 54, who now lives in Kansas City, Missouri. “It shocked me that he actually went out and participated and paid. . . . In that era, I didn’t really know my family actually did any of that until I opened up that suitcase.” Carr says the other reason she chose to donate this piece of her family’s history is because she thought it would be useful and inspiring. “A lot of the young people don’t realize the things people had to go through to vote,” Carr says thoughtfully. “I thought they would recognize and realize what people did before them, how far they came, and what they got from that generation.” Carr says that she is concerned about the voting restrictions that are being enacted in states ranging from Texas to Virginia to Wisconsin. “I feel like history repeats itself, and if people don’t start to become aware of what’s happening in the world and take stock, we’ll be back at that point,” Carr says. In 2012, then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder blasted Texas over its voter ID law, saying “we call those poll taxes,” adding that many of those without IDs “would have to travel great distances to get them, and some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them.”

The best course of action is equal division of wealth. This way nobody complains. Rich people should give up their luxuries and learn to live with the same amount of money as everyone else. This will bring them out of their bubble and give us politicians who are not out of touch with reality.

What about my funds too! My shoulder was cut by Dr and my benefits denied; plus, I was arrested for failing to pay child support. This happening now! Racism/Prejudice/Discrimination in California Today!

Ehh.. WTH... give it to them... they are going to loose half of it because of the inheritance tax

They keep saying we like they are their ancestors

So does that mean Sunny Hostin will have to pay reparations ?

I want reparation’s from Italy for the Romans. I might have Jewish blood so the Egyptians might owe me some money too.

Is this real

The us of America is the only place will not Amit the wrong it’s not the money for them they hate to Amit there wrong

Forcing the innocent to pay nonvictims for something that happened to neither of them is not reparations.

Kamala Harris : “FAMILY OWNED SLAVES” While it is true that Kamala Harris’ father claimed to be a descendant of a slave owner, Harris and her family’s relationship to Hamilton Brown remains unclear. In an article published by the Jamaica Globe (here), professor Donald Harris wrote: “My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town),” a town in Jamaica.

And the gaslighting of old people and southerners.....

Thank for the great reporting.

How ridiculous, California was never a slave state. But if there’s going to be reparations ya might as well to start paying back the Irish who were the first slaves in the new world.

Ridiculous

They already got reperations its called Liberia 🇱🇷

Great video thanks 🙏🏾💯✊🏾

And that's why so many properties became heir property it was either getit so hung up that no one profits or loose it for cheap...give us our land back as welll.....

So illegal immigrants come before us!!!

A waste of OUR fugging money!

Cut the check Enough with the Procrastination❤️🖤💚✊🏾

Reparations in the form of cash payments to freedmen and foundational black Americans now

"We"... lady YOU weren't even alive! You are responsible for YOU!

Who’s paying the bill? The people in Congress? Not me, better get on 23 and me and find out who’s ancestors owned slaves cuz this shit ain’t got nothin to do with me…

😂 😂 😂

The payment will only cost 75% of the entire CA economy - I don't see any problems.

I was once Asian and now identify myself black so I better get some of that money!!

And who the hell will pay for this. Oooh, that's right, the California taxpayers. You people have lost your minds. But hey, I guess the hurt isn't deep enough for you.

“Justice” my ass.

Even now be not fooled..

How many people here owned an slave???

The UN stated the United States owes African Americans reparations! The whole world is watching and the interest is compounding.

Will it ever end?

No check no deal

My ancestors were pillaged 3 generations ago. Where are my reperations? Where's the loot homeboy Gavin?

"REPARATIONS IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.". . 🌹

And we still have nothing . I want Reparations, and I want out of this racist country.

Hummmmmm. So reparations means cash payments to everyone else, but for ADOS, they get a book report. SHAME, SHAME SHAME!

Had nothing to do with it sorry.

So, a people that were never slaves needs to be paid reparations by people who were never slave holders. And, where on earth did slavery begin? Africa of course. African Americans living in America are very fortunate they do not live in Africa today.

California was a union state back during the civil war

Foundational black Americans alone we don’t want no grifters we already woke on that con too.

You know in watching this video, it makes me think of how this is history and how some states are now electing to not teach Black history to the youth. Some people have said "systemic racism" does not exist, but isn't voting something into law considered "systemic." It's truly sad and some people are delusional about facts.