Black Californians warn of ‘direct impact’ on Harris’ election chances after Democrats kill slavery reparations bills

These bills are ridiculous, and never should have come up for consideration in the first place.

The law can, in justice, enforce claims only between victims and those who genuinely caused the harm. If there were to have been reparations, they could only have come from slaveholders.

Not that it matters, but California wasn’t even a slave state. And logic is “hate speech” anyway.

Now reparations advocates, in a rare instance of leftists turning against other leftists, are threatening to withhold votes from Harris unless the Dems soak taxpayers in order to pay them.

“Black Californians warn Newsom of ‘direct impact’ on Harris after Democrats kill slave reparation bills,” by Danielle Wallace, Fox News, September 1, 2024:

Black activists at the California assembly threatened a “direct impact” on Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign after state Democratic lawmakers held off on two bills that would have greenlighted slavery reparations.

Last week, the California legislature approved proposals allowing for the return of land or compensation to families whose property was unjustly seized by the government, and issuing a formal apology for laws and practices that have harmed Black people. But none of those bills would provide widespread direct payments to African Americans. After hours of heated debate and protests on Saturday, state lawmakers left out two bills – Senate Bills 1403 and 1331 – that would have created a fund and an agency to oversee reparation measures.

“The speaker needs to bring the bills up now, now, now. These are their bills. They have their names on the bills. They’re killing their own bills because they’re scared of the governor,” one Black man, a member of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, said in the rotunda on the last day of the legislative year on Saturday. “Now listen, they’re gonna see this, and they’re gonna get mad at us. They killing their own bills, and then they’re gonna get mad at us. They’re killing their own bills because they’re scared of the governor. We don’t care. Bring the G– d— bills up now, now, now.”

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“We need to send a message to the governor,” a Black woman who is part of the same group chimed in, according to video shared on X. “The governor needs to understand the world is watching California and this is gonna have a direct impact on your friend Kamala Harris who is running for president. This is going to have a direct impact, so pull up the bills now, vote on them and sign them. We’ve been waiting for over 400 years.”

“We have the votes,” the man added.

State Sen. Steven Bradford, who authored the measures, said the bills failed to move forward out of fear that Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom would veto them….