Governor Gavin Newson has proposed a bill in California for what he calls housing reparations , and it will give anyone whose ancestors were slaves around $223,000 . So, it looks to me like they are taking money from people who never had slaves, giving the money to people who never were slaves, and doing this in a state that never had slavery in the first place. You would think that California would learn something, eventually. They have homeless living all over on the streets, and they are not helping them to live a better life if they want to have one. The designation of Sanctuary Cities only made the crime worse than it already was, and now states like Texas are shipping the illegals out of their states and taking them to sanctuary cities all over the United States. Now, they will probably have thousands of poor black people moving to California and going on the welfare rolls there, so that they can qualify for the big money windfall. I really doubt that they will ever actually give people this money, but if people think it will happen, they will still move to California .
I suspect it is an attempt to buy votes. I don't know if it will work or not, but he will use it in his presidential bid at California's expense. I guess all those descendants could use the money to move back to Africa where they will be free and better off.
I recently read that Pelosi's predecessor, Jeffries, is also a proponent of reparations. "Coming to a Nation Near You."
And the caravans of African Americans headed toward California to take up a quick residency will begin. It will be reminiscent of the 1845 gold rush when nearly 300,000 people across the U.S. migrated to the western state to seek their fortune.
Now that I've had sufficient coffee, I can't believe y'all let me get away with this. (Should be "successor," duh.)
I wish they would invest money into making schools in heavily black neighborhoods as good as in others. That would be a fair way to address the inequities. That would be beneficial to everyone. If every change had to be completely fair to everyone, nothing would ever improve. Life isn't always fair, is it?
I hadn't seen inequity in schools by race until I lived in the South. It certainly exists there by the real estate people directing old people here, Whites here, Blacks in this subdivision.... What I saw was done by those who sold property, not so much by the schools themselves. The White schools were better funded because the white neighborhoods paid more taxes; at least that was the excuse I heard. I have never lived in a big city, so I don't know how it works there. We don't appear to have an issue here, as Alaska is the most integrated place I have ever lived except in the Native villages.
We seem to be pretty integrated here, too. This neighborhood has a mix of white, black, Hispanic, and Hindee , as well as a few Koreans and other orientals. We noticed that many of the children coming out of the nearby grade school were Hispanic, so I think there are about the same amount of those as black kinds or white kids. This is a poor neighborhood, but the schools seem to be fine.