California lawmakers have voted to officially apologize for the state's role in slavery, but efforts to make cash reparations payouts have been shelved.
The California Assembly on Thursday backed a bill authored by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer that accepts responsibility for 'all of the harms and atrocities committed by the state.'
IIRC CA was on the Union side and there weren't that many Negroes anyway.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia never had slaves. So the state paying reparations would be paying for something that never happened. It'd be like paying child support to a woman that you never slept with.
ReplyDeleteWhat part did it play? Remember CSA POWs where confined at what is now known as Alcatraz.
ReplyDeleteI would think when idiot Governor asked Fund Controller of CA "say how about creating a payout fund to po little black din-do-nuffin children?" that same Controller would have replied "'scuse me but with what money? You realize the state is deep in debt and we have no spare money right?"
ReplyDeleteAny slaves in California were Indians enslaved by the Spanish mission system before statehood.
ReplyDeleteGiven jobs that provided them and their families sustenance, maybe. Or that they were removed to reservations in Mendocino County yes, that did happen. But if you can give me specific citations of indigenous Californians being enslaved, I'd like to see that. I've never seen any such evidence.
DeleteMy family bought their first property in California in 1854. There were native Nisenan Maidu that used the land in their migratory travels when my family bought the original parcel from a Fench fur trader, and the family never made any attempt to remove the Nisenan from their ranch. As a matter of fact, the natives knew that Tuesday was the day that my wife's great grandmother baked bread. They would come line up at Grandma's kitchen window to receive their slice of fresh bread. She loved the natives and enjoyed providing them that weekly treat.
The family also tried to save the oaks on the ranch that were the Nisenan's favorite acorn trees. That source was very important to them.
The only downside to life with the natives was that Grandma Elizabeth couldn't maintain a fleet of mousers, as the Nisenan considered cats a delicacy. My bride is making up for that lost heritage.
The only slaves in Kali are those of us white folk working and paying taxes. Everyone else is a free loading POS. Legio XIX
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