New York Passes Bill That Considers Slavery Reparations
The New York State Assembly passed a bill this week that would create a commission to consider slavery reparations, The Associated Press reported.
The bill, initially introduced in January, was passed after a three-hour debate in the Democrat-controlled State Assembly on Thursday. The state Senate passed the bill hours later, and is now being sent to Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk, who has yet to comment on the proposed legislation.
If signed, the New York legislation would create a nine-member commission to examine how complicit federal and state governments were in slavery. The commission would also address “racial and economic discrimination against people of African descent, and the impact of these forces on living people of African descent and to make determinations regarding compensation,” according to the bill.
“We want to make sure we are looking at slavery and its legacies. This is the process of healing our communities,” said Democrat state legislator Michaelle Solages before the floor debate on the bill, according to the AP. “There is still generational trauma that people are experiencing. This is just one step forward.”
Republican state legislator Andy Gooddell is far more skeptical: “I’m concerned we’re opening a door that was closed in New York State almost 200 years ago,” he said during floor debates. Goodell, among other Republicans, voted against the bill, and said he supports efforts to create equal opportunity but wants to “continue on that path rather than focus on reparations,” the AP reported.
New York is following in the footsteps of California, which was the first state to establish a reparations commission in 2020. That commission recommended a “formal apology” and concluded that California was responsible for $500 billion in debt to black Americans, which is $200 billion higher than the state’s yearly budget. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to endorse cash payment reparations – which could reach $1.2 million per person – and told Fox News that dealing with the legacy of slavery “is about much more than cash payments.”
The latest data from Pew Research Center shows that only 30% of Americans support monetary reparations.
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Anyone with half a brain knows that reparations is the most inane and idiotic proposal ever formulated by the race baiting Marxist Democrats but most people are greedy and uneducated. Just like they were stupid and ignorant donating 90 million dollars to BLM in 2020 despite the fact that they are openly Marxist and anti-family, anti Christian, race grifters. The Socialist/Communist goal is always to make everyone government dependent and, sadly, we are almost there as 50% of Americans receive some form of government assistance and 40% pay no taxes. Our debt is unsustainable yet the government continues to promise more and more “free stuff” from student loan forgiveness, to illegal mortgage subsidies, to the insane idea of reparations. Of course, the majority of the populace who is indoctrinated and not educated and knows little of world history, will always vote for more “free stuff”. The Coup is almost complete.
As the economy collapses, people will demand more government help which always means more government control and always ends the same. Then we will become just like Venezuela, now Brazil and every other Socialist/Communist country in history. A country of just two classes: 1) The rich politicians in collusion with their crony capitalist oligarchs. 2) The poor masses that will own nothing.