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-Great Cultural Revolution
LA board of supervisors votes unanimously to give BACK prime beachfront land worth hundreds of millions of dollars to black family - almost a hundred years after it was seized by the state to build public park
2022-06-29
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The land was bought by Charles and Willa Bruce in 1912 who turned it into a resort for Black families known as 'Bruce's Beach'

  • It was taken from the family by the local government in a forced transaction that officials in 2022 have conceded was motivated by racism

  • In Tuesday's vote, the county voted 5-0 n favor of returning the land to the descendants of the Bruce family

  • The county will lease the land from the family for two years at a cost of $413,000 and have an option to purchase for $20 million

  • It's not clear what the Bruce family intends to do with the land
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  DooDahMan, I got the impression it was the misuse of eminant domain that started the problem. Happy for the family, but also doubt its completely on the up-and-up.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-06-29 15:20  

#7  I hope that family does NOTHING with the land but let it sit there while developers rend their clothing, wail, and gnash their teeth.

The question is so obvious I'm embarrassed to ask: Where's the graft in that?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-06-29 13:34  

#6  Good!
Now do the Mexicans. And the Japanese internees.
It never ends. Just ask the State of Oklahoma.
Posted by: ed in texas   2022-06-29 13:15  

#5  I hope they install a putt putt golf course or a Dollar General.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-06-29 12:24  

#4  LA can always use eminent domain, but would they have the cojones?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-06-29 07:13  

#3  It's not clear what the Bruce family intends to do with the land

See cmnt #2 above.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-06-29 07:09  

#2  

While I agree that the Bruce Family deserves to be fully compensated.

But one has to ask.
Is this also some back door round-about way of filling some Developers / Political pockets in 3 years?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-06-29 06:59  

#1  ...A little bit of justice. I hope that family does NOTHING with the land but let it sit there while developers rend their clothing, wail, and gnash their teeth.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-06-29 06:39  

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