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2023-06-30 -Great Cultural Revolution
Sparks fly at California's final reparations task force meeting: 'Now's the time for a divorce!'
[FoxNews] Several of the attendees at the California Department of Justice’s final Reparations Task Force meeting created a scene during the public comment section of the event Thursday, demanding reparations from the board.

Several of the attendees at the California Department of Justice’s final Reparations Task Force meeting created a scene during the public comment section of the event Thursday, demanding reparations from the board.

Several excited California residents took advantage of their opportunity to address the board directly, yelling into the mic that the time for reparations is "now!"

One encouraged the crowd in attendance to raise their fists and chant their desires for restitution, while another stood up and screamed for a "divorce" settlement of sorts between Black Americans and the rest of the country.

The Reparations Task Force meeting this week represented the final one in a series of public events facilitating discussions between California residents and state officials about establishing potential restitution for perceived inequality between African Americans and the rest of America stemming from slavery and centuries of discrimination.

The final meeting occurred just over a month after the nine-member panel officially recommended that California state legislators allocate funds to pay African American residents of the state, according to historical discrimination.

According to the task force's recommendation, certain qualifying Black Californians could receive up to $1.2 million in reparations.

The task force’s final meeting in Sacramento on Thursday began with a raucous atmosphere as the public comment section — the first portion of the meeting — featured yelling from animated public commenters, one of whom got the crowd into a frenzy.

California Department of Justice member Aisha Martin-Walton introduced the public comment section and called up the first slate of speakers. The first, a Black woman, began a tense recounting of how her ancestors were never paid back for their enslavement and never benefited "from the promise of America."

She thanked the task force for their work and praised Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for having "changed the course of history" by allowing the task force’s work.

The meeting sparked with the second speaker, a Black man named Reggie Romaine, who claimed that what the board had recommended in payments is not enough. He suggested that African Americans get half the country after divorcing from the rest of America.
Posted by Phoper Clavitle2605 2023-06-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 The divorce settlement was Liberia.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-30 06:59||   2023-06-30 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 ..... who claimed that what the board had recommended in payments is not enough.

Nothing will ever be "enough." The desired end-state is Zimbabwe and South Africa. The same betrayal is now underway. Not certain who get the mines and oil fields. Probably some sort of nationalization scheme.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-30 07:05||   2023-06-30 07:05|| Front Page Top

#3 How degrading. The Whites pandering mealies and The Blacks aggressive panhandling.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-06-30 10:23||   2023-06-30 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Is there anything left in California to give away or steal? How are they going to decide who gets reparations?
Posted by JohnQC 2023-06-30 13:30||   2023-06-30 13:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh, a divorce? Gotta be very careful with that one - ya just might get it.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-06-30 14:03||   2023-06-30 14:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Asking for a divorce in California is generally not profitable. Ask Mike Tyson why he got on a plane and flew to New Jersey to file for divorce.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-06-30 15:23||   2023-06-30 15:23|| Front Page Top

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