(05-10-2023, 10:57 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: The demand list will only grow. To many in this movement, it's not just about reparations. It's more than retribution. This represents political and ideological persecution that must be leveraged by the state. 

Oh, and handouts. 

Were they even the direct offspring of slaves I would consider some type of recompense but we're now generations removed. Go, California.

California reparations committee demands state apologize for Reagan using term 'welfare queen' | Fox News

..."The legislature must apologize on behalf of the state of California and the people of California for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and genocide of Africans who were enslaved and their descendants through public apology, requests for forgiveness, censure of state perpetrators, and tributes to victims," the task force writes in its proposal...

...The task force demands the apology include a "censure of the gravest barbarities carried out on behalf of the state by its representative officers, governing bodies, and the people," highlighting several examples in a "non-exhaustive list." Among the list was Reagan using the term "welfare queen," which the task force called "racist coding to promote his philosophy preferring a limited government."...