California likes to think that it it sets the pace for the rest of the country and thank God they are wrong. The non-slave state has just taken the first step in paying out slave reparations, which is exactly as dumb as it sounds. With that, California is taking responsibility for something the state has never been guilty of and you can bet your ass that all on the non-slave owning taxpayers will be footing the bill.
The LA Times brings that latest Golden State shame:
With Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature, California became the first state government in the country on Wednesday to adopt a law to study and develop proposals for potential reparations to descendants of enslaved people and those impacted by slavery.
Newsom said the new law and bipartisan support for its passage is proving “a paradigm that we hope will be resonant all across the United States.”
In a year of national protests against racial injustice, state lawmakers approved Assembly Bill 3121 to force the state to begin to confront its racist history and systemic disparities that persist today.
The new law creates a task force to recommend appropriate remedies to the state Legislature and determine who should be eligible to receive compensation, which advocates hope will become a model in a country where movements to make amends for centuries of slavery have failed to gain traction at the federal level.
California entered the Union in 1850 as a free state, meaning slavery was outlawed. Even before becoming a state, California banned the practice of slavery. The idea that California and more importantly, California taxpayers owe descendants of slavery a dime is ridiculous.
I’d be willing to bet that there isn’t one black person in California who can trace his or her family back to the state before slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment of the Constitution. They came here after being freed.
Also, what the hell is a person who was impacted by slavery but not actually a slave? Is the state planning on giving out cold hard cash to people who were offended by slavery? That appears to be the case. Remember, this is California so there are millions of liberals who are offended by everything. I don’t think California can raise enough revenue to cover reparations for liberal outrage. I don’t think that sum of money exists in the whole world.
California is also hoping to export this insanity to the rest of the country because as was already mentioned, the state thinks they lead the nation. What’s actually going to happen is an exodus of normal productive people who don’t feel like their hard-earned money should go to people who don’t deserve it.
Taxes are already unreasonable in California and a slave reparation tax will even drive away liberal Hollywood douchebags who pretend like they give a shit about stuff like this.
On the flip side of that, when word gets out that California is doling out reparation dollars, black people from all over the country and possibly the world will flood the state to get a piece of that action.
While California has no reasons whatsoever to pay out slave reparations, they should definitely consider issuing reparations for victims of shitty liberal rule.
