CA Reparations Task Force

[TSwizzle]

The charade continues;

It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of overpolicing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations. The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California’s $300 billion annual budget and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have shortened their average life span. Nor does the figure count compensating people for property unjustly taken by the government or devaluing Black businesses, two other harms the task force says the state perpetuated.

LOL

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Racism is very costly.

The charade continues;

It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of overpolicing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations. The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California’s $300 billion annual budget and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have shortened their average life span. Nor does the figure count compensating people for property unjustly taken by the government or devaluing Black businesses, two other harms the task force says the state perpetuated.

LOL

Wait, you just listed 6 harms, but earlier you were saying this was only about slavery.

 

[Derec]

The charade continues;

Goodhair is already backpedaling a little.
Cash for slavery reparations in California draws cool response from Newsom

 

[Derec]

Speaking of "reparations" ...

Woman demands $1,000+ of items from Target for free as ‘reparations,’ police say

I guess this is why Jarhyn and his ilk support Target stores getting vandalized and looted by #BLMers

 

[TSwizzle]

Speaking of "reparations" ...

Woman demands $1,000+ of items from Target for free as ‘reparations,’ police say

According to court documents, 37-year-old Karen Ivery became “belligerent” and “totally unruly” when she did not have enough money to pay for the merchandise that had been scanned, totaling $1,051, a cashier told police.

This "Karen" was not a white soccer mom. This will disappoint a few people I expect.
https://www.wlbt.com/2023/04/13/woman-demands-1000-items-target-free-reparations-police-say/

I guess this is why Jarhyn and his ilk support Target stores getting vandalized and looted by #BLMers

Didn't the incoming mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson say the BLM rioting and looting stores was payback to corporations for being profitable or something?

 

[Derec]

Apparently Boston has a "Reparation Taskforce" as well. Even though reparations are unpopular among the population at large, establishing reparation taskforces is very fashionable among the fauxgressive leftist politicians like Newsom, Breed and Wu.
Well, one of the taskforce members in Boston got himself arrested.
Boston Task Force Employee Fired After City Hall Arrest

A man who worked on Boston's Task Force on Reparations was arrested at City Hall last week on suspicion of trespassing, according to a police report.
The city has since terminated George Williams' contract, which was part-time, a spokesman said Thursday.
"We remain committed to the work of the Reparations Task Force and that work will continue," the spokesman said in a statement.
[...]
City Hall police had Williams in custody, telling Boston officers that he'd been staying in the buiding after hours for three weeks and sometimes threatening other people in the building, according to the Boston police report. He would allegedly sleep in offices that weren't his after bypassing security and then become aggressive when told to leave.

Those taskforces, as racist as their end goals are, are a racial grift in themselves. The members are paid by taxpayer money, and the selection of members is racially exclusive by design. The members also tend to be the more racially radical people - many black nationalists and the like. So is it any wonder somebody like this is hired by Michelle Wu?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

So you're automatically declaring him guilty while he is a suspect and time and time again you say not to do that when the person is a white male. Can you tell us what race this person is?

 

[thebeave]

So you're automatically declaring him guilty while he is a suspect and time and time again you say not to do that when the person is a white male. Can you tell us what race this person is?

All Derec said in his post is that he was arrested. Where do you see that he "automatically declared him guilty"?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

So you're automatically declaring him guilty while he is a suspect and time and time again you say not to do that when the person is a white male. Can you tell us what race this person is?

All Derec said in his post is that he was arrested. Where do you see that he "automatically declared him guilty"?

Right here:

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He would allegedly sleep in offices that weren't his after bypassing security and then become aggressive when told to leave.

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... So is it any wonder somebody like this is hired by Michelle Wu?

Unless you want to say the whole mention of an arrest is a non sequitur, but, no, it seems pretty central to an all out character assassination. And I might or might not be okay with that, except the oft repeated logical inconsistency.

 

[Gospel]

Not saying City Hall can be treated the same but when I was homeless in New York the company (won't name them) I worked for let me stay overnight. I mention this because just maybe he doesn't have a permanent place to live? Threatening other people in the building sounds like a mental health issue if true.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Apparently Boston has a "Reparation Taskforce" as well. Even though reparations are unpopular among the population at large, establishing reparation taskforces is very fashionable among the fauxgressive leftist politicians like Newsom, Breed and Wu.

I'd say reparations are like gay marriage and its popularity based on what is asked, how it is asked, and what is involved.

I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that America is in super-majority for reparations for dealing with the consequences of intentional neglect and abuse up to and including the 1960s/1970s and involves funding to that aims at such issues.
I'm willing to bet dollars to donuts that America is in super-majority against reparations in the forms of an up front cash payout to individuals.

Unfortunately, some people are more interested in judgmental complaints, accusations, and name calling, than being involved in the conversation.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

So you're automatically declaring him guilty while he is a suspect and time and time again you say not to do that when the person is a white male. Can you tell us what race this person is?

All Derec said in his post is that he was arrested. Where do you see that he "automatically declared him guilty"?

Well, then he went on a racist tirade.

 

[Derec]

Well, then he went on a racist tirade.

The only racist thing here are these "reparations taskforces".

 

[Derec]

So you're automatically declaring him guilty

I did not declare him guilty. That said, even the city that hired him to the task force saw fit to fire him, so I do not think it looks too good for him. Or do you think they "declared him guilty" prematurely?

while he is a suspect and time and time again you say not to do that when the person is a white male.

I have challenged presumption of guilt in cases of black people accused without much or any evidence in the past as well. This does not seem to be such a case, no matter Williams' skin color, the only relevance of which is that he was a member of an explicitly race-based task force.

Can you tell us what race this person is?

Given that the only membership requirement for the racial grift that is the "reparations taskforce" seems to be being black, I do not think that is too much of a mystery. What does it have to do with anything?

 

[TV and credit cards]

I think Blacks should get a monument like so many Veterans do in communities across the US. It's a simple straight forward done and done solution to the problem. Nothing like an inscribed slab of granite to let you know your country feels your pain now and always. And the townsfolk are reminded any time they happen by that they've done their part. And *10% off at Home Depot like Veterans get.

How we repair it: White Americans’ attitudes toward reparations

Recent polling data documents Americans’ general opposition to reparations in the form of financial payments to Black Americans as compensation for slavery. In 2014, 68% of those polled opposed such payments while only 15% supported them (17% were unsure). More recent polling in 2020 and 2021 suggests generally comparable results; in 2020, 63% of those polled were opposed to cash payments (31% supported; 6% had no opinion), while in 2021, 62% opposed (38% supported). There are also indications that this robust opposition remains despite a growing awareness of contemporary racial inequality – suggesting strongly that a racial awakening alone may not substantially alter policy views.

In addition, opposition to financial payments was also significantly shaped by gender, education, and social class identification; specifically, women, persons with lower levels of education, and self-identified middle class members were particularly opposed to this proposed remedy.

That was a bit surprising. I wonder if people who feel they've been disadvantaged by society are less likely to be supportive of others getting their due.


*Lumber and copper excluded.

 

[Derec]

Unless you want to say the whole mention of an arrest is a non sequitur, but, no, it seems pretty central to an all out character assassination. And I might or might not be okay with that, except the oft repeated logical inconsistency.

It's neither a "character assassination" (at least on my part, it is either "character suicide" if Williams is guilty, or character assassination by somebody else if falsely accused) nor logically inconsistent.

By the way, City of Boston hastily removed a mini bio entry on their former coordinator for the racial grift that is the "reparations taskforce" (error 403 Forbidden), but Pepperidge Farm Wayback Machine remembers.
George Williams - Project Coordinator, Task Force on Reparations

Nothing too surprising here. Typical resume for an SJW, down to a quote from a Marxist psychiatrist.

 

[Derec]

Not saying City Hall can be treated the same but when I was homeless in New York the company (won't name them) I worked for let me stay overnight. I mention this because just maybe he doesn't have a permanent place to live?

Why would that be the case? The dude has degrees from Morehouse and Boulder, and the position on Wu's racist taskforce is a paid one. No reason for him to be homeless.

Threatening other people in the building sounds like a mental health issue if true.

Could very well be.

 

[Derec]

I'd say reparations are like gay marriage and its popularity based on what is asked, how it is asked, and what is involved.

From the polls I have seem, reparations have been consistently unpopular among the US population at large. Do you have any polls you can point to showing supermajorities in favor of reparations if asked a certain way?

That means that while Gavin Newsom starting the task force might get him points in the majority black South Carolina primary, it will not make him popular elsewhere. Because Dems foolishly scrambled their calendar to have SC go first, Newsom might win the nomination in 2028 buoyed by early SC win and backed by the many CA delegates waiting in the wings, but he would surely be doomed in the general. #neverGavin

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'd say reparations are like gay marriage and its popularity based on what is asked, how it is asked, and what is involved.

From the polls I have seem, reparations have been consistently unpopular among the US population at large.

Can say the same thing about gay marriage 30 years ago. And of course, what is being asked. Reparations over slavery v reparations for centuries of slavery followed by a century of intentional economic discrimination and violence. Also, what type of reparations. I think America would support finally eliminating sources of lead in poor housing. I don't think America would support sacks of cash.

That means that while Gavin Newsom starting the task force might get him points in the majority black South Carolina primary, but not so much elsewhere. Because Dems foolishly scrambled their calendar to have SC go first,

Why are you against blacks having a voice in Democrat primaries? This might come as a surprise to you, but minorities vote in heavy majority for the Democrats. It'd seem stupid not to provide a more prominent spot over fucking Iowa or New Hampshire. Iowa hasn't been the first primary since the founding of the nation, it only started in 1972. Of which, since 1972, only three people have won a contested Caucus and became President (Carter, W, Obama).

 

[Gospel]

Why would that be the case? The dude has degrees from Morehouse and Boulder, and the position on Wu's racist taskforce is a paid one. No reason for him to be homeless.

Bruh, a one bedroom apartment is over 2k a month in Boston and to my knowledge there is no proof the members of the Boston reparations task force is being paid.