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There have been a lot of moments in American politics when candidates realize they&#8217;re trailing badly in the polls, so they do something extreme in an effort to win some support. It usually doesn&#8217;t work out too well. Think of the &#8220;Dean Scream&#8221; back in 2004, which was supposed to rally the base after a tough loss in the Iowa caucuses. It ended up being played about 600 times on cable news until Dean dropped out of the race. Or if you want to go back further, think of George McGovern&#8217;s plan to shake up the race in 1972 by picking a totally unvetted running mate. That was exciting right up until it emerged that his running mate had received electro-shock therapy several times to treat his chronic mental illness. McGovern ended up losing 49 states. 
As we enter the homestretch of the 2024 presidential election, it&#8217;s clear that the Kamala Harris campaign now finds itself in a similar desperation mode. They&#8217;re trailing badly in pretty much every important poll and prediction market that matters. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz admit that they&#8217;re now the &#8220;underdogs&#8221; in the race. And so, inevitably, they&#8217;re feeling the pressure to do something unthinkable in a desperate attempt to win back votes. They have to throw out the playbook and try a new strategy.
In recent days, we&#8217;ve learned what this last-minute Hail Mary looks like. It means that Harris will actually go out in public and speak without a script. This clearly wasn&#8217;t the plan when she first entered the race. For the first month of her candidacy, Kamala Harris was completely shut off from the media. It was one of the most surreal periods in modern presidential politics. We had a presidential nominee who wouldn&#8217;t talk to any journalists at all — even journalists who are friendly to her campaign. 
But now Harris has no choice. She&#8217;s facing a blowout loss. So, now she has an interview with Fox News planned for tonight. She&#8217;s also participating in &#8220;radio town halls&#8221; with hosts like &#8220;Charlamagne Tha God.&#8221;
Unfortunately for Harris, already, this strategy isn&#8217;t going well. Like so many other Hail Mary&#8217;s in presidential politics, it&#8217;s backfiring. And it&#8217;s backfiring because every single time Harris opens her mouth, it becomes very clear why her campaign was hiding her away for so long. 
Let&#8217;s start with one of the questions asked on &#8220;Charlamagne tha God&#8217;s&#8221; show, because the question raises a bunch of its own issues. It concerns taxpayer-funded reparations for black people. Watch:
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Vice President Kamala Harris says she&#39;s open to using taxpayer&#39;s money to pay racial reparations: &quot;It has to be studied, there&#39;s no question about that.&quot;
She adds: &quot;In terms of my immediate plan &#8230; as it relates to the economy &#8230; I grew up in the middle class&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HPjdHSgB29">pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1846308621270888947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The first thing he says is, &#8220;We all know that America became great on the backs of free black labor.&#8221; So, I guess we&#8217;re pretending that slaves didn&#8217;t cost anything, for starters. That&#8217;s being conflated here with the idea that &#8220;black people weren&#8217;t paid.&#8221; That might seem like an irrelevant distinction but actually, it matters quite a bit in relation to the argument he&#8217;s making. As a factual matter, slavery involved massive investments that ultimately slowed the progress of this country dramatically. It turned out to be a much worse investment than the alternative.
A professor at Brown University named David Meyer has <a href="https://fee.org/articles/no-slavery-did-not-make-america-rich/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that, in the South prior to the Civil War, “investments were heavily concentrated in slaves,&#8221; relative to the North. And that led to the South&#8217;s failure to, “to build a deep and broad industrial infrastructure.&#8221; That includes services like railroads and schools. Once slavery was abolished, that infrastructure is what led to this country&#8217;s success in the generations following the Civil War. We became the top economy in the entire world once we jettisoned slavery.
What didn&#8217;t lead to this country&#8217;s success — before or during the civil war — was slavery. The majority of slaves were involved in growing or picking cotton. But as the Foundation for Economic Education has <a href="https://fee.org/articles/no-slavery-did-not-make-america-rich/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, cotton didn&#8217;t account for a big portion of the overall U.S. economy. Economic historians, &#8220;have observed that although cotton exports comprised a tremendous share of total exports prior to the Civil War, they accounted for only around 5 percent of the nation’s overall gross domestic product, an important contribution but not the backbone of American economic development.&#8221;
<h3><a href="https://www.amiracist.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MATT WALSH&#8217;S &#8216;AM I RACIST?&#8217; COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28</a></h3>
So, if you&#8217;re saying that slavery was instrumental to this country&#8217;s success, you&#8217;re vastly overstating the case. And it&#8217;s an argument that applies to many other countries far more credibly than it applies to ours. Africa was the last continent to officially abolish slavery, and that didn&#8217;t happen until the 1980s. So, why exactly is this America&#8217;s burden to bear? Why are we uniquely responsible for slavery? And why would we want to stoke the kind of generational race hatred that&#8217;s led to the murders of white farmers in places like South Africa?
And for that matter, when is Kamala Harris going to pay her reparations? The Washington Free Beacon has reported that Harris was the &#8220;descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica.&#8221; So, why hasn&#8217;t she pulled a Robin DiAngelo and opened her purse to offer black Americans some of her own money? She hasn&#8217;t even handed over a single dollar as far as I can tell, much less 20 dollars. It&#8217;s an outrage.
But it&#8217;s not one that Harris has ever addressed. Maybe she&#8217;ll explain her reasoning in my next movie. 
Instead, in this &#8220;radio town hall,&#8221; Harris predictably chose to focus on the &#8220;systemic&#8221; ideal of reparations. And here&#8217;s her plan in that regard:
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Vice President Kamala Harris says she&#39;s open to using taxpayer&#39;s money to pay racial reparations: &quot;It has to be studied, there&#39;s no question about that.&quot;
She adds: &quot;In terms of my immediate plan &#8230; as it relates to the economy &#8230; I grew up in the middle class&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HPjdHSgB29">pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1846308621270888947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She starts rambling again about growing up in a middle-class family or whatever, even though she didn&#8217;t actually grow up in a middle-class family, and even though (as always) it&#8217;s completely irrelevant to what she&#8217;s talking about. But already — just from this short, 30-second answer — it&#8217;s clear that Harris herself doesn&#8217;t even know what she&#8217;s saying. In response to that question about reparations, here&#8217;s what she just said: &#8220;It has to be studied. I&#8217;ve been very clear about that position.&#8221;
But she hasn&#8217;t been &#8220;very clear&#8221; about that position. In fact you can find multiple clips of Harris stating that she supports reparations. She doesn&#8217;t support a &#8220;study&#8221; of reparations, she actually thinks they should be paid out, in some form. Watch:
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Kamala says she’s in favor of reparations because America is racist and there are inequities including Black people not being able to vote <a href="https://t.co/DFlafInsJd">pic.twitter.com/DFlafInsJd</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1830650612134080901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&quot;There have to be some form of reparations&quot;
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&mdash; Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) <a href="https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1818322296169214294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So, this is, once again, a complete retreat from what Kamala Harris previously claimed to believe. We can add it to the list of policies that she supported back in California, but disavows now. That&#8217;s a list that includes decriminalizing illegal immigration, providing free healthcare to illegals, abolishing private health insurance, banning gas-powered cars, banning fracking, confiscating guns, and so on. Now &#8220;taxpayer-funded reparations&#8221; are on the chopping block, at least temporarily. Now Harris says that reparations must be &#8220;studied.&#8221;
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But that&#8217;s already happened too. And it happened in Harris&#8217; home state of California, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-reparations-grift-is-finally-collapsing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> earlier this year, all the way back in February. California established a &#8220;reparations task force.&#8221; That task force suggested that it would be a good idea to pay more than a million dollars to every descendant of a slave — which, altogether, would cost something like a trillion dollars. And then a bunch of lawmakers decided to reel that back in. They suggested that &#8220;reparations&#8221; shouldn&#8217;t consist of cash payments after all, after Gavin Newsom pointed out that the state is broke and doesn&#8217;t have the ability to pay anything. This was a whole conversation that lasted for years, in Harris&#8217; home state. But apparently she&#8217;s not aware of this conversation. She wants to keep having it, again and again, for the rest of time.
This is a dodge that&#8217;s meant to hide the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has already announced massive race-based reparations plans, and continues to do so. They started with billions of dollars in race-based aid to black farmers. They continued with various affirmative action programs in the government — which, as I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-shockingly-easy-test-has-been-deemed-racist-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlined</a> last week, now involves filing a lawsuit against any fire department or police department that declines to hire black people, regardless of how unqualified they are. And just the other day, Kamala Harris herself personally announced an openly racist policy to send money directly to black people, solely because they&#8217;re black. Here&#8217;s an image of the plan Kamala Harris&#8217; account posted on social media:
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Black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better. <a href="https://t.co/cUCdsvvYZ6">pic.twitter.com/cUCdsvvYZ6</a>
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1845993766441644386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Here are the key bullet points: &#8220;Provide 1 million loans that are fully forgivable up to $20k for Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. &#8230; Protect cryptocurrency investments so Black men who make them know their money is safe. &#8230;. Legalize recreational marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in this new industry.&#8221;
So, first of all, a loan that&#8217;s &#8220;fully forgivable&#8221; isn&#8217;t actually a loan. It&#8217;s a cash payout. The government is never going to see any of that money back. But even if this were just a loan, it&#8217;d still be a completely unconstitutional, overtly anti-white policy, to the point that it&#8217;s insane that any presidential candidate would ever put this in writing. This is a stage of desperation that has no parallel in American politics. Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign is now so underwater among black voters that they&#8217;re straight-up offering to hand them cash, and get them some weed.
Oh, and they&#8217;re going to &#8220;protect cryptocurrency investments so black men know their money is safe.&#8221; You can read that 20 times, and still have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about. Does Bitcoin work differently for black people? And why wouldn&#8217;t we want to make sure that everyone — not just black people — feel that their crypto is &#8220;safe&#8221;? No one knows. Kamala Harris doesn&#8217;t know. Imagine asking her to explain what that line means. She probably has no idea someone wrote that and posted it to her account.
What&#8217;s underlying all of these proposals isn&#8217;t just anti-white racism, although that&#8217;s a big part of it. This is also about Kamala Harris&#8217; deep and abiding disdain for America and its history. This alone makes her unqualified for the position she&#8217;s seeking. It&#8217;s the same reason she posted on social media the other day about &#8220;Indigenous People&#8217;s Day,&#8221; instead of Columbus Day. She&#8217;s previously gone on the record saying Columbus Day should no longer exist:
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Kamala Harris: I&#39;ll eliminate Columbus Day, make it Indigenous People&#39;s Day <a href="https://t.co/sM2Um8YrFF">pic.twitter.com/sM2Um8YrFF</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1845808197799420019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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We&#8217;re at a point in this country where the political Left and Right celebrate different national holidays. And we&#8217;re in this position because of politicians like Kamala Harris, who have nothing to offer. So, in the absence of any substance, she&#8217;s trying to destroy anything Americans have in common. She&#8217;s trying to revise America&#8217;s history, which is the go-to move for communist dictators throughout the ages. And for good measure, she&#8217;s looting the treasury for the benefit of her preferred racial groups. 
Fortunately for the Trump campaign, Kamala Harris isn&#8217;t capable of hiding any of this. Every time she sits down for an interview, Kamala Harris makes it very clear she doesn&#8217;t know anything. She also doesn&#8217;t have any idea what she&#8217;s saying. She wants to simultaneously signal that she&#8217;s backing off reparations, even as she proposes explicit payments to Americans on the basis of their skin color. This is the kind of incoherence that defines the last days of a desperate campaign. And it&#8217;s a sign that Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign — like so many other transparent train wrecks in modern politics — is on a path to a very public implosion in just a couple of weeks.

We The People: An Audio Townhall With Kamala Harris And Charlamagne Tha God

Kamala’s Pathetic Plan To Bribe Black Voters With Reparations And Marijuana

2024 Election

Blacks

Democrats

Kamala Harris

Marijuana

Racism

Slavery

Voters

Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> signaled during an interview on Tuesday that she was open to spending taxpayer money on racial reparations, which studies show would cost trillions of dollars.
&#8220;It has to be studied. There’s no question about that,&#8221; Harris said when asked about reparations, which numerous <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/12/slavery-reparations-cost-us-government-10-to-12-trillion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a> pin well into the trillions of dollars. &#8220;And I’ve been very clear about that position.”
Harris made the remarks during a radio interview with Charlamagne tha God where she fielded questions about her agenda.
She quickly pivoted to the rest of her economic agenda, uttering her common refrain that she &#8220;grew up in the middle class.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Vice President Kamala Harris says she&#8217;s open to using taxpayer&#8217;s money to pay racial reparations: &#8220;It has to be studied, there&#8217;s no question about that.&#8221;
She adds: &#8220;In terms of my immediate plan &#8230; as it relates to the economy &#8230; I grew up in the middle class&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/HPjdHSgB29">pic.twitter.com/HPjdHSgB29</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1846308621270888947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
Harris <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/03/kamala-harris-reparations/">said</a> during her failed presidential campaign in 2019 that she supported &#8220;some form&#8221; of reparations, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/03/kamala-harris-reparations/">voted</a> in support of reparations legislation in Congress. She has not taken a position on the issue since joining the presidential ticket with Joe Biden in 2020.
Harris&#8217; remarks come as recent polling, including from CNN this week, has found that Trump is in position to have more support from the black community, including from black women, than any Republican since 1960.
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No matter how you splice the data, Trump seems to be the strongest Republican with Black voters since 1960. Young Black men in particular have trended right during Trump&#8217;s runs (cutting the Dem margin by 40 pts from 2012).
But Trump&#8217;s doing historically well with Black women too <a href="https://t.co/FyUqqDKLjE">pic.twitter.com/FyUqqDKLjE</a>
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1845830818243240428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
It is unclear who would be eligible for reparations, leading many like Harris to call for the issue to be studied further.
A <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harriss-ancestors-owned-slaves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Free Beacon in 2019 said that Harris was the descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica, according to a summary of the family&#8217;s ancestry posted by her father.
&#8220;My roots go back, within my lifetime, to my paternal grandmother Miss Chrishy (née Christiana Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown who is on record as plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown’s Town),&#8221; <a href="https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-jamaican-heritage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Harris&#8217; father, Marxist economist Donald Harris. The report said that Jamaican records showed Hamilton Brown &#8220;owned scores of slaves,&#8221; the majority of whom was taken from Africa.

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Kamala Signals She’s Open To Spending Trillions On Racial Reparations

Charlamagne Tha God

Economy

Elections

Politics

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a formal apology on Thursday for the state&#8217;s &#8220;role&#8221; in slavery just one day after the governor vetoed two reparations bills.
Assembly Bill 3089, which Newsom signed, mandated that the state offer a formal apology along with memorializing the apology in a plaque on the state Capitol, the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-26/newsom-signs-formal-apology-for-california-role-in-slavery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Slavery was never legal in California after it became a state in 1850, but some argue that the state&#8217;s laws allowed slave owners to keep slaves even after the practice was outlawed in California&#8217;s 1849 Constitution.
“The State of California accepts responsibility for the role we played in promoting, facilitating, and permitting the institution of slavery, as well as its enduring legacy of persistent racial disparities,” Newsom said in a statement. “Building on decades of work, California is now taking another important step forward in recognizing the grave injustices of the past — and making amends for the harms caused.”
Democrat Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer added, “Healing can only begin with an apology. The State of California acknowledges its past actions and is taking this bold step to correct them, recognizing its role in hindering the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness for Black individuals through racially motivated punitive laws.”
The apology, however, doesn&#8217;t take any steps toward reparations as Democrats in California take heat from reparations advocates for the lack of progress on the issue, the LA Times reported. California was the first state in the nation to appoint a reparations task force.
On Wednesday, Newsom vetoed two reparations bills, one of which would have allowed black Californians to reclaim or be compensated for property that was taken by the government through eminent domain decades ago, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-eminent-domain-30e904077112f67690b402a7899120a8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
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Newsom said that if he had signed the bill, it would not have gone into full effect because lawmakers previously blocked another piece of legislation to create an agency tasked with reviewing reparations claims.
&#8220;I thank the author for his commitment to redressing past racial injustices. However, this bill tasks a nonexistent state agency to carry out its various provisions and requirements, making it impossible to implement,&#8221; Newsom stated.
The second reparations bill vetoed by Newsom would have expanded California&#8217;s Medicaid program to include medically supported food and nutrition. The governor argued that the bill &#8220;would result in significant and ongoing general fund costs for the Medi-Cal program that are not included in the budget.&#8221;

Gavin Newsom

Newsom Signs Formal Apology For CA ‘Facilitating And Permitting The Institution Of Slavery’

Newsom Signs Formal Apology For CA 'Facilitating And Permitting The Institution Of Slavery'

California

Social Issues

The leftist New York City Council passed legislation on Thursday that pushes the largest city in the U.S. closer to a program that would hand out reparations to black residents.
The passage of two bills sponsored by Councilmembers Crystal Hudson and Farah Louis means NYC taxpayers will now fund a &#8220;Truth, Healing and Reconciliation Commission&#8221; along with a reparations task force, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyc-council-passes-slavery-reparations-legislation-yield-material-solutions-from-us-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The legislation will also require information signs to be posted at the site of New York City&#8217;s &#8220;first slave market,&#8221; according to a <a href="https://council.nyc.gov/press/2024/09/12/2692/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the city council.
&#8220;The legacy of slavery and systemic racism has impacted all facets of our society today, and it’s important that our city recognizes and takes steps to redress these longstanding harms,” NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said. &#8220;By creating new processes to fully examine the present-day impacts of injustices inflicted on Black New Yorkers and communities, we are advancing necessary efforts to consider potential remedies that can lead to healing and reconciliation.&#8221;
Hudson, who sponsored one of the bills, said the passage of her legislation is a major step in her &#8220;Black Agenda for New York City.&#8221; She added that &#8220;it is [her] hope that as the nation’s largest city––with the biggest municipal budget––our truth, healing, and reconciliation process will work; it will identify racist, anti-Black policies at the foundation of our city’s institutions, and it will yield material solutions to address these foundational cracks.&#8221;
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Louis, whose bill focused on starting a reparations task force, said, &#8220;Throughout my tenure in the Council, we have heard countless testimonies and conducted numerous hearings revealing the ongoing impacts of historical injustices. Black women, in particular, continue to be disadvantaged in both public and private sectors, facing systemic inequities that hinder their progress and well-being. Addressing these compounded injustices is essential to forming a more just municipality and society.&#8221;
Republican City Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli blasted the legislation, telling <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/11/us-news/nyc-council-expected-to-back-taskforce-to-study-reparations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the New York Post</a> that he would move out of the city before paying reparations.
&#8220;If they can introduce me to one New Yorker who owned a slave I’d be happy to consider it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But until then, I am not paying a dime as a reparation for a harm I did not cause, nor condone, nor once participated in.&#8221;
Numerous cities — and the states of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-creating-task-force-to-consider-race-based-reparations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-budget-black-25a4e549c64fafde3f71f77c201b3030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> — have created reparations task forces in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death and the protests and riots in the summer of 2020. Many of the task forces have failed to yield any significant results, and two members of Detroit&#8217;s reparations task force <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/members-resign-from-detroits-reparations-task-force-over-lack-of-progress-no-broad-strategic-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a> last year after expressing frustration over the lack of &#8220;progress.&#8221;
Even though slavery was never legal in California, the state&#8217;s exploration into slavery reparations has seen the most success, with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a state budget in July that included <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-reparations-budget-black-25a4e549c64fafde3f71f77c201b3030" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$12 million</a> for reparations legislation.
Vice President Kamala Harris has also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-now-mum-reparations-she-signaled-support-2020-white-house-run" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed her support</a> for reparations, saying in 2019, &#8220;I think there has to be some form of reparations, and we could discuss what that is, but look, we’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow.&#8221;
She also said as a candidate in 2019 that if elected president, she would sign a bill that would provide reparations to the descendants of African slaves. The Harris campaign has not said if the Democratic nominee still supports that position.

New York City

NYC Moves Closer To Slavery Reparations

NYC Council Passes Slavery Reparations Legislation

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Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> faced a fresh round of mockery on Wednesday because her 2024 presidential campaign will not release her &#8220;current position&#8221; on reparations.
Philip Letsou, who works for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, got the ball rolling by posting to X a screenshot from POLITICO&#8217;s &#8220;Playbook&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/09/04/the-republicans-secretly-rooting-for-a-trump-loss-00177272?tab=most-read" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newsletter</a>.
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Harris&#39;s campaign &quot;isn&#39;t commenting on her current position&quot; on reparations <a href="https://t.co/7t10pHNjOr">pic.twitter.com/7t10pHNjOr</a>
&mdash; Philip Letsou (@philipletsou) <a href="https://twitter.com/philipletsou/status/1831331767074087285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The newsletter cited a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/03/kamala-harris-reparations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> about advocates hoping Harris would support any reparations for black people <a href="https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-kamala-harris-calls-for-decriminalization-of-1832883951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">like she did</a> during her first presidential campaign in the 2020 race.
But as shown in the screenshot, POLITICO noted that, so far in the 2024 contest — with less than nine weeks until Election Day, &#8220;Her campaign isn’t commenting on her current position.&#8221;
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Critics piled on with jabs, with some poking fun at Harris for not releasing very many policy stances despite having led a White House campaign this election cycle for more than a month.
&#8220;No policy platform on her website and now just straight-up refusing to say where she stands on issues. Very normal behavior,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/abigailmarone/status/1831336043364114536" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Abigail Jackson, communications director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
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No policy platform on her website and now just straight-up refusing to say where she stands on issues. Very normal behavior. <a href="https://t.co/3bmF2yZo6J">https://t.co/3bmF2yZo6J</a>
&mdash; Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1831336043364114536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Is this a thing? We&#8217;re not commenting on our current position? If this is a thing, why hasn&#8217;t every candidate always done it?&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/StuDoesAmerica/status/1831343077551743386" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> BlazeTV podcast host Stu Burguiere.
Others brought attention to a CNN interview in which Harris repeatedly said her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-defends-flip-flops-in-cnn-interview-says-her-values-have-not-changed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;values have not changed&#8221;</a> when pressed about her flip-flopping on a number of policy issues.
Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s campaign <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831335425254044000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> a clip of Harris saying, &#8220;I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed.&#8221;
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&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831335425254044000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The MAGA War Room account run by Make America Great Again Inc. <a href="https://x.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1831343973014569276" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Harris is being tightlipped now on reparations &#8220;because her position is dangerously liberal and wildly unpopular.&#8221;
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And the hits kept coming, with one quipping how Harris would rather stick to <a href="https://x.com/sunnyright/status/1831343596458410146" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;vibes&#8221;</a> than outline her policy stances. Others condemned the media for not being tougher on Harris.
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Kamala is the most radically left-wing politician to ever be nominated by the major parties, and the media is letting her cruise to election on Vibes! and memes. <a href="https://t.co/bqNtsZUuyr">https://t.co/bqNtsZUuyr</a>
&mdash; Sunny (@sunnyright) <a href="https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/1831343596458410146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The press have spent more time this campaign on Trump taking a picture with Gold Star families than they have asking Kamala Harris to release *any* type of policy platform,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/bonchieredstate/status/1831333909361270992" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> RedState&#8217;s Bonchie.
Republican commentator Matt Whitlock <a href="https://x.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1831344309326537196" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in another post to X, &#8220;Media literally yesterday: “let’s get back to what the end of ‘brat Summer’ means for the Kamala Harris campaign.&#8221;

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris

Kamala Won’t Share Her ‘Current Position’ On Reparations. Mockery Ensues.

Kamala Won’t Share Her ‘Current Position' On Reparations. Mockery Ensues.

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Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris supported racial reparations for black Americans during her 2020 run for the White House, and so far has not denounced the policy position.
Nationally, reparations are deeply unpopular, with about two-thirds of Americans opposing such policy. Opponents, specifically asked about reparations for slavery, often <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/27/1164869576/cities-reparations-white-black-slavery-oppose">argue</a> that Americans would be paying for sins they didn&#8217;t commit, and paying people who didn&#8217;t actually experience slavery.
&#8220;In the area of reparations for descendants of Africans enslaved &#8212; if you&#8217;re elected president, would you sign that bill if it came across your desk?&#8221; racial agitator and MSNBC personality Al Sharpton asked Harris during her 2020 run for the White House.
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&#8220;When I am elected president, I will sign that bill,&#8221; Harris proudly responded.
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When running for president in 2020, Kamala Harris told Al Sharpton that she would sign a reparations bill once elected: 
Al Sharpton: &#8220;In the area of reparations of for descendants of Africans enslaved: If you&#8217;re elected president would you sign that bill [Commission to Study and… <a href="https://t.co/NuawfxhUQJ">pic.twitter.com/NuawfxhUQJ</a>
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricAbbenante/status/1830370934966067472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
In another video, Harris <a href="https://www.theroot.com/exclusive-kamala-harris-calls-for-decriminalization-of-1832883951" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voiced</a> her support for racial reparations during a 2019 interview with The Root, citing slavery, Jim Crow laws, and &#8220;segregation on so many levels that exist today.&#8221;
&#8220;Should black people get reparations,&#8221; The Root asked Harris directly.
“I think there has to be some form of reparations, and we can discuss what that is,” she said. “We’re looking at more than 200 years of slavery. We’re looking at almost 100 years of Jim Crow. We’re looking at legalized segregation and, in fact, segregation on so many levels that exist today based on race. And there has not been any kind of intervention.”
According to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/28/black-and-white-americans-are-far-apart-in-their-views-of-reparations-for-slavery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling</a> from Pew Research, 66% of Americans oppose reparations, with only 30% in favor. Broken down by race, the disparity is even larger: 77% of black Americans support reparations, while only 8% of white Americans, 33% of Asian Americans, and 39% of Hispanic Americans support them.
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It&#8217;s unclear if Harris still holds the same position in 2024. Harris has flip-flopped on a number of issues, trying to moderate her far-Left platform. Notably, Harris herself has yet to explain her supposed new positions, instead relying on anonymous staffers to tell the press, which is overtly friendly to Harris.
The presidential hopeful has, for example, flipped on immigration, fracking, and single-payer healthcare. Previously, Harris said it should not be a crime for migrants to enter our country illegally, she enthusiastically promoted a ban on fracking, and said we should do away with private health insurance.

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A Democratic lawmaker proposed exempting black people from paying taxes as a form of reparations last week.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas said on an episode of “The Black Lawyers Podcast” that a celebrity – she could not remember who – inspired her to look at exempting black people from paying taxes, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/democrat-congresswoman-suggests-black-people-be-exempt-from-paying-taxes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>.
“I don’t know that that’s … necessarily a bad idea,” Crockett remembered thinking when she heard the proposal. “One of the things they propose is black folk not have to pay taxes for a certain amount of time because … that puts money back in your pocket.”
Crockett said that a tax exemption may be a more palatable reparations solution to get behind rather than “actually giving out dollars.” The shortfall is that the proposal would only help those black people who are currently paying taxes.
“If you do the no tax thing, for people that are already, say, struggling and not paying taxes in the first place — ” Crockett said.
Progressive Democrats have backed reparations as a way to pay black Americans for the United States’ history of slavery for years, though the proposal has failed to gain popular support. Even in deep blue California, nearly 60% of voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-60-of-california-voters-oppose-cash-reparations-for-slavery-poll">said</a> they opposed such a policy. Just 28% of California voters support it, according to a September poll by the University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
Elected Democrats have continued to push the policy, however. In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul in December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-signs-bill-creating-task-force-to-consider-race-based-reparations">signed</a> legislation creating a commission to study the issue. The bill set forth a nine-member committee tasked with examining “the institution of slavery” and making “determinations regarding compensation.”
In January, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) called for reparations in a post on X. Bush said that the United States “owes” the descendants of slaves.
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“Our country owes – OWES – a debt to the descendants of enslaved Black people, not just for slavery, but for what followed, like Black Codes, red lining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cori-bush-demands-reparations-gets-a-virtual-earful-instead">said</a>. “That’s why I introduced my Reparations NOW resolution. This country has an obligation.”
Aside from its unpopularity with Americans, reparations have faced other hurdles, such as questions over legality and who would qualify for the special treatment. Critics have said that such a policy would be racist against Americans who had nothing to do with the historic racism against black people.

Jasmine Crockett

Texas Democrat Proposes Race-Based Tax Exemption As Reparations

Cori Bush

Texas

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Sunny Hostin of ABC’s “The View,” who recently discovered that her ancestors were slave owners, insisted that she still deserves slave reparations.
Hostin was <a href="https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/watch/episodes/far-and-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> on PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” by host Henry Louis Gates Jr.
He informed her that her great-great-great grandfather, born in 1824, was the son of a merchant who was likely involved in the slave trade. Her great-great-great grandfather owned at least one human being, Gates Jr. stated. That side of the family came from Spain.
&#8220;Wow. I’m a little bit in shock; I just always thought of myself as Puerto Rican,&#8221; Hostin, whose husband comes from Spain, responded. &#8220;You know, half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think I was a – my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.&#8221;
“So how are you feeling, my friend?” Gates Jr. asked.
“I think it’s actually pretty interesting that my husband and I have shared roots, so I do appreciate that,” she answered. “And I think it’s great for our children to know this information. I guess it’s a fact of life that this is how some people made their living, on the backs of others.”
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The View host Sunny Hostin is a staunch proponent of slavery reparations.
She went on PBS to explore her ancestry.
Turns out, she is the descendant of slave-owners from Spain who owned Africans.
This was her reaction when she found out: <a href="https://t.co/yFBgjMOSGc">pic.twitter.com/yFBgjMOSGc</a>
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On Thursday’s episode of The View, Hostin spoke of the revelation regarding her family, stating, “At first I was deeply disappointed.”
Co-host Joy Behar chimed in, “This slave thing, it’s a bummer.”
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“It’s a bummer,” Hostin repeated, then continued, “I still believe in reparations, by the way. So, y&#8217;all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I&#8217;m a white girl and I don&#8217;t deserve reparations! &#8230; I still believe in reparations. I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice.”
Hostin spoke of her mother, saying, “Her race is white, She’s European,” adding of her mother’s reaction to the news of her ancestry: “She was deeply disappointed. She actually cried about it. And then she said maybe that&#8217;s why I have been so connected to black culture because it&#8217;s an atonement in my spirit. And I received that. I also found out – and there were slaves on both sides of our family, mother’s and father’s. But we are seven percent indigenous Puerto Rican!”
In October 2022, Hostin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-view-host-sunny-hostin-fumes-being-called-racist-social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “People need to start just looking up what the definition of racism is. It’s really a power dynamic. It’s not just about the color of your skin, and I think when you talk about those who committed crimes that owe reparations, those are the people who committed the atrocities of slavery, who stole land, who killed indigenous people.”
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Sunny Hostin Says She Still Deserves Reparations After Discovering Her Ancestors Were Slave Owners

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Sunny Hostin

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) got a virtual earful in response to her latest demand for &#8220;reparations,&#8221; in which she claimed that black Americans were &#8220;OWED&#8221; restitution for the damages wrought by slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other policies.
Bush took to X to outline her grievances and announce that she had put forth a resolution designed to address them.
&#8220;Our country owes – OWES – a debt to the descendants of enslaved Black people, not just for slavery, but for what followed, like Black Codes, red lining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;That’s why I introduced my Reparations NOW resolution. This country has an obligation.&#8221;
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Our country owes–OWES–a debt to the descendants of enslaved Black people, not just for slavery, but for what followed, like Black Codes, red lining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
That’s why I introduced my Reparations NOW resolution. This country has an obligation.
&mdash; Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1744475131626271005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Critics questioned Bush&#8217;s knowledge and understanding of history, noting that every one of the policies she had taken issue with had been authored, supported, and even championed by her own party: Democrats.
&#8220;All Democrat policies,&#8221; radio host Dana Loesch pointed out, adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m totally for your party making amends for what it did — including to Indigenous Americans when they sent them on the Democrat Genocide Trail.&#8221;
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All Democrat policies. I&#39;m totally for your party making amends for what it did &#8212; including to Indigenous Americans when they sent them on the Democrat Genocide Trail. <a href="https://t.co/1YFc0xz6wC">https://t.co/1YFc0xz6wC</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1744766343323238643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Maybe *your* party does, but I&#8217;m a Republican,&#8221; Chad Felix Greene added.
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Maybe *your* party does, but I&#39;m a Republican. <a href="https://t.co/oKvCdSutm6">https://t.co/oKvCdSutm6</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1744480260677099847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Given her list of grievances, sounds like Cori Bush is calling for the Democrat party to be sued,&#8221; another posted.
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Given her list of grievances, sounds like Cori Bush is calling for the Democrat party to be sued. <a href="https://t.co/JgeK1ACsCr">https://t.co/JgeK1ACsCr</a>
&mdash; Mary Beth | ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ 🦅🇺🇸 (@IfUCanKeepIt) <a href="https://twitter.com/IfUCanKeepIt/status/1744831957786096022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Mass incarceration you say @CoriBush? Your Democrat boys BillClinton and @POTUS did that. You think you get to vote for the problem AND demand compensation for it?&#8221; @thevivafrei wanted to know.
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Mass incarceration you say <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoriBush</a>?
Your Democrat boys BillClinton and <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> did that. 
You think you get to vote for the problem AND demand compensation for it? <a href="https://t.co/MbFHsKNPhK">https://t.co/MbFHsKNPhK</a>
&mdash; Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) <a href="https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/1744828014569865474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Attorney Marina Medvin argued that families whose loved ones died fighting to end slavery during the American Civil War ought to be eligible for reparations as well, posting, &#8220;360,000 Union soldiers died in the Civil War. They paid with their lives to end slavery. If reparations were due it would be directly to the slaves AND to the families of Union soldiers killed— out of the pockets of Confederate slave owners, not from US citizens 160 years later. Many of those asked to pay today have already paid for slavery with the lives of their ancestors.&#8221;
&#8220;This discussion is both absurd and insulting to US history,&#8221; Medvin continued. &#8220;Note to Conservatives— Do not allow the talk of reparations to go on without demanding reparations for families of Union soldiers. The left wants to play. Go play.&#8221;
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360,000 Union soldiers died in the Civil War. They paid with their lives to end slavery. If reparations were due it would be directly to the slaves AND to the families of Union soldiers killed— out of the pockets of Confederate slave owners, not from US citizens 160 years later.… <a href="https://t.co/2LbcZWKtA7">https://t.co/2LbcZWKtA7</a>
&mdash; Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1744780448515977339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cori Bush Demands Reparations, Gets A Virtual Earful Instead

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Dana Loesch

New York will begin deliberations on reparations for slavery after Democratic Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kathy-hochul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kathy Hochul</a> signed legislation Tuesday creating a commission to consider the race-based payments. 
In June, New York lawmakers passed a bill that called for a nine-member commission to “examine the institution of slavery” and “make determinations regarding compensation.” Three of the task force members will be appointed by the governor, three by the state Assembly, and three by the state Senate, according to the <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S1163/amendment/A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>. The commission will have a year to submit a written report on its findings and recommendations to the state legislature, the bill stipulates.
“In New York, we like to think we&#8217;re on the right side of this. Slavery was a product of the South, the Confederacy,” said Hochul, who was flanked by social justice activist Al Sharpton at the bill signing ceremony, the Associated Press <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/york-set-commission-consider-reparations-163629026.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. &#8220;What is hard to embrace is the fact that our state also flourished from that slavery. It&#8217;s not a beautiful story, but indeed it is the truth.”
New York joins other Democrat-led states that have established reparations commissions after California was the first to do so in 2020 followed by <a href="https://adcrc.illinois.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a>. California’s reparations task force determined that the state was responsible for dishing out over $500 billion to black Americans even though slavery was illegal in California when it joined the Union in 1850.
The task force also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-reparations-task-force-approves-plan-giving-up-to-1-2-million-to-each-black-resident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> a plan that suggested paying up to $1.2 million to black residents who descended from slaves or free African Americans who lived in the U.S. before 1900, and the state legislature is expected to look into the recommendations.
In New York, State Senate Republican leader Rob Ortt said that the commission’s recommendations would come at an “astronomical cost” to taxpayers and argued that reparations have already been paid.
“The reparations of slavery were paid with the blood and lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought to end slavery during the Civil War,” Ortt said.
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Along with the state of California, some cities across the country put together task forces in a renewed push for reparations which came in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and the ensuing demonstrations and riots in 2020. In Detroit, two members of the city’s Reparations Task Force — including one of the co-chairs — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/members-resign-from-detroits-reparations-task-force-over-lack-of-progress-no-broad-strategic-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a> earlier this month, citing their growing frustration over the “lack of progress” and a missing “broad strategic vision” less than a year after the group was formed.
“I think, collectively, that group of people has different ideas about what reparations is fundamentally and we didn’t get to a place where we had a broad strategic vision,” said former task force co-chair Lauren Hood.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul

New York Governor Kathy Hochul Signs Bill Creating Task Force To Consider Race-Based Reparations

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