California Bill Would Give Black Applicants an Edge in Getting Occupational Licenses.

Supporters say the bill addresses historical injustices and is no more discriminatory than giving preferences to veterans.
California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give preference to African American applicants seeking occupational licenses, for such professions as teaching, nursing, counseling, electrical work and others, especially those who are descendants of slaves.
Assemblyman Mike Gipson, author of AB 2862, said the state’s licensing process poses barriers for African Americans seeking employment, particularly in terms of wage disparities and access to leadership or managerial positions.
“There has been historical longstanding deficiencies and internal barriers … [for] African Americans seeking professional work, and by prioritizing their applications, we are bridging the gap of professional inequities of under representation and under compensation,” Mr. Gipson said in a bill analysis.
Under current law, only veterans are eligible for such prioritization.
Mr. Gipson argued in the analysis that if such priority can be granted to veterans, similar standards should be applicable to African-American applicants.
“If expediting licensure for veterans does not discriminate, then perhaps prioritizing African American applicants also is not discriminatory,” his statement reads. “Nor would a preference for African American applicants violate the equal protection clause of the California Constitution any more than the existing preference for veterans.”
Supporters of the bill, including the Greater Sacramento Urban League and the California African American Chamber of Commerce, said the legislation addresses historical injustices and “promotes equity and provides opportunities for economic advancement within our community.”
However, opponents say it is “unconstitutional” and lacks legal backing.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm, argues in a statement that both the U.S. and California Constitutions guarantee citizens equal protection under the law, prohibiting the government from treating citizens differently based on race, ancestry, or other protected categories.
The law firm suggested if the bill were to become law, it would probably not hold up against legal challenges, referencing the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard last summer. The court deemed the consideration of an applicant’s race as a factor in admissions decisions unconstitutional.
They argued that while the constitution allows the government to use race to remedy instances of past discrimination, the bill doesn’t cite any specific California laws that exclude African Americans or that were drafted with the intention of excluding workers needing redress.
Additionally, they said that introducing race as a factor in the licensing process would exacerbate barriers for many Californians seeking to enter the workforce, particularly low-income workers, who already face numerous challenges.
The law firm also pointed out that the representation of minority groups within industries often varies, suggesting that prioritizing one group over others would fail to address the root of the problem.
They argued that if the state were to do so, it should reduce barriers to licensure for all Californians.
The bill, which will now be heard in the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee, passed the Assembly’s Business and Professions Committee on a 13–2 vote last week.
If ultimately passed, it would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2029.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/california-bill-would-give-black-applicants-an-edge-in-getting-occupational-licenses-5642691?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge

Reparations Payments Are Underway

Plans to pay blacks gargantuan sums of public money explicitly for being black are so insane that people probably assume not even Democrats would go through with them. But nothing is too insane for liberals to go through with:
A Chicago suburb has become the first city in the nation to begin disbursing reparations payments to black residents over discrimination and limited access to housing, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Approximately 140 residents in Evanston, Illinois, will receive $25,000 from the city by the end of the year, according to the outlet.
In 2019, the city of roughly 75,000 residents approved a $10 million reparations package to be distributed over 10 years. So far, the city has already disbursed reparations payments to sixteen qualified residents, the Evanston Round Table reported.
With government, what starts small expands rapidly to monstrous proportions.
Justin Hansford, the head of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University, said he sees the city’s reparations plan as “a test run for the whole country.”
No doubt Howard University alumnus Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris concurs. We can expect her to deliver some enlighteningly esoteric thoughts on the matter, as soon as she feels we have properly digested her revelations about culture.
Already official reparations recommendations have reached $5 million per sacred black person in San Francisco. Thanks to reparations math, the number will soon climb high enough to require new currency with extra zeroes, as in Zimbabwe.
Will they be happy when we bankrupt the country to hand them free money for being black directly instead of through the welfare state? No:
Resident and civil rights activist Bennett Johnson … argued that black residents were still being “discriminated” against and “hurt,” the Evanston Round Table reported. He also contended that the payments were not enough.
“I believe that [Evanston is] doing the same thing that we’ve done in the past, downgrading the ability of black people to do things for themselves,” Johnson stated. “We could realize that if we don’t let black people control this, we [are] still doing the same thing that we’ve done in the past.”

https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-suburb-starts-disbursing-10-million-reparations-package-to-black-residents

 Democrat bill in California would mandate judges to consider race when doling out prison sentences.

A Democrat-backed bill making its way through the California Legislature would require judges in the state to consider a convicted criminal's race when determining how long to sentence them to prison.
Assembly Member Reggie Jones-Sawyer, the Democratic chair of the California Assembly's Public Safety Committee, quietly introduced Bill 852 in February. The Assembly went on to pass the little-known legislation in May, and the measure is currently being considered in the state Senate.
The bill would add a section to the Penal Code of California requiring courts, whenever they have the authority to determine a prison sentence, to "rectify" alleged racial bias in the criminal justice system by taking into account how historically persecuted minorities are affected differently than others.
"It is the intent of the Legislature to rectify the racial bias that has historically permeated our criminal justice system as documented by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans," the proposed new section to the Penal Code reads. "Whenever the court has discretion to determine the appropriate sentence according to relevant statutes and the sentencing rules of the Judicial Council, the court presiding over a criminal matter shall consider the disparate impact on historically disenfranchised and system-impacted populations."
The California task force referenced in the bill was created by state legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020 to examine the possibility of implementing statewide reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and racism.
Late last month, the task force released its final recommendations, which the state legislature will now consider whether to implement and send to the governor's desk to be signed into law.
In its 1,00-page report, the task force proposed dozens of statewide policies and ways to calculate monetary reparations designed to redress slavery and historical injustices against Black Americans. According to the task force, such history has created lingering consequences that exist today in the form of systemic racism.
The task force estimated the minimum dollar amount in harm that California has caused or could have prevented totals at least $1 million per eligible Black Californian.
In terms of criminal justice specifically, the task force determined that qualifying Black residents could be owed over $115,000, or around $2,352 per year of residency in California from 1971 to 2020, as compensation for over-policing in Black communities, excess felony drug arrests, and disproportionate prison time during the so-called war on drugs. The final report also included proposals to end cash bail and the prosecution of low-level crimes.
Bill 852 seeks to build off the task force's findings and recommendations by mandating that California courts fight what it describes as racial bias in sentencing that can disadvantage Black people and other minorities.
Critics argue the reparations proposals are fiscally unmanageable for a state already facing a deficit of tens of billions of dollars and say it doesn't make sense to implement them when California never allowed slavery. The state explicitly outlawed slavery when it joined the Union in 1850.
Jones-Sawyer didn't respond to a request for comment to elaborate on his legislation. However, when asked about the bill, a fellow member of the Public Safety Committee told Fox News Digital that the justice system should be color blind rather than make decisions with one's race in mind.
"Our justice system is intended to focus on accountability for behavior without racial considerations," said Assembly Member Tom Lackey, a Republican. "The voice of victims and any potential repercussions for public safety should be our highest consideration when making decisions that directly impact California communities."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-bill-california-mandate-judges-consider-race-when-doling-out-prison-sentences

The Case Against Reparations Blows OUT the insane calls for reparations for people who were never slaves by people who never owned slaves.
Douglas Murray eviscerates the case for historical apologies.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir9HX7hr_Xk

 Straight white men ‘dangerous’ says San Francisco campaigner for slavery reparations.

Nikcole Cunningham, who serves on the African American reparations advisory committee, wants black people to be paid millions of dollars.
(SO … is this stupid pink-haired black bitch saying that because I am White, I have NO CHOICE but to hate her black ass ?? Well, so be it. Sounds like a return to the Democrat policy of segregation is the only answer.)

A member of San Francisco’s reparations committee, which has proposed paying the city’s black inhabitants millions of dollars in compensation for slavery, has described straight white men as a “danger to society” and claimed “white supremacy is ingrained in the DNA” of America.
Nikcole Cunningham, who serves on the 15-strong African American reparations advisory committee, told The Telegraph that white people should be held responsible for the actions of slave owners as they are “still benefiting from the harms that… [their] ancestor[s] caused”.
The committee was set up in 2020 to advise local officials on how to address discrimination in the city, and is proposing to give every eligible black resident $5 million (£3.9 million) in reparations for slavery.
Ms Cunningham’s remarks, in a rare public interview, are likely to inflame tensions between advocates and skeptics of the reparations policy.
The comments come at a time of heightened racial tensions in America after the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that universities cannot discriminate in their selection of students based on their skin colour.
Read the rest of this morons rantings at the link:

https://archive.fo/nIciL#selection-2935.0-2959.207

Only 33% of BLM’s $90M in donations helped charitable foundations.

(This is one of the best layouts of BLM’s VERY questionable finances I’ve ever personally read.)
Black Lives Matter’s national organization doled out just over $30 million, 33% of the nearly $90 million it received in public donations from 2020 to 2022, to charitable foundations, public filings show.
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, an Oakland, California-based non-profit, gave away the $30,498,722 in grants to black, trans and anti-police non-profits in the fiscal years for 2020 and 2021, according to two federal filings which cover the periods from July 1 2020 to June 30, 2022.
That total includes the $4.5 million the group doled out last year to non-profits run by the movement’s own supporters and friends, even as BLMGNF registered losses of more than $8.5 million last year, its latest public filings for the fiscal year 2021 show.
The group also gave a grant to one of its harshest former critics, paying out $400,000 to the Tamir Rice Foundation.
BLMGNF handed out millions of dollars to supporters of its co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who resigned from the group in 2021. The Post revealed Friday that her lucrative TV deal with Warner Bros. had ended without producing any shows.
Among those taken care of by BLMGNF is Cullors’ brother, Paul Cullors. The self-taught graffiti artist took home $139,708, making him one of only two members of the seven-person board to receive a salary from BLMGNF, according to filings. The other payee was Kailee Scales, the group’s former managing director, who received a payout of $114,625. Scales left the organization in 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Paul Cullors’ company, Black Ties Security, LLC was one of the group’s highest paid contractors, earning $756,330 in 2021 in “security services.”
The security company, which is run out of a UPS store in Mission Hills, California, is close to Paul Cullors’ home.
He purchased the three-bedroom house in the Los Angeles suburbs in February 2021 for $637,006, according to public records.
In 2020, the previous fiscal year, filings show BLMGNF paid another company controlled by Paul Cullors, Cullors Security LLC, $840,993.
That company, which is still active, was registered with the address of his Mission Hills home, according to public records.
BLM’s national group also gave a $400,000 grant to the Tamir Rice Foundation, which was set up by Samaria Rice, the mother of the 12-year-old African American boy who was killed by a white policeman in 2014 while playing with a toy gun.
Rice, who started her foundation in 2018 to conduct after school arts programs for at-risk children, had been a vehement critic of Cullors and BLM.
She claimed that the group did not support mothers of black children who had been killed in police violence and pointed the finger at Cullors, blaming her for the disarray in the organization.
“They are benefiting off the blood of our loved ones, and they won’t even talk to us,” Rice told The Post in 2021.
“The ‘activists’ have events in our cities and have not given us anything substantial for using our loved ones’ images and names on their flyers,” Rice said in a 2021 joint statement with Lisa Simpson, the mother of Richard Risher, who was killed by LAPD officers in 2016.
Rice declined to speak with The Post this week.
BLMGNF’s biggest grant of $1,269,368 last year went to the Love Not Blood Campaign, which was set up by Cephus “Uncle Bobby X” Johnson in memory of his nephew Oscar Grant, a black drug dealer, who was gunned down by a white transit cop in Oakland in 2009.
Johnson is a longtime activist and member of Black Lives Matter, who has worked closely with Cullors over the years. Grant’s death inspired the award-winning film “Fruitvale Station.”
Johnson has said he started the charity in 2010 although he did not apply for charitable status from the IRS until 2019, records show. In 2020, Love Not Blood recorded receiving less than $50,000 in contributions.
LGBTQ causes championed by Cullors were also rewarded by BLMGNF in its most recent disclosure. Cullors, who identifies as queer, married black Canadian activist Janaya Khan, who identifies as queer and non-conforming.
BLMGNF gave out $200,000 to the Trans Justice Housing Project in Atlanta, which helps trans people find housing.
It gave the same amount to Reuniting of African Descendants, a New York-based “black, trans-led grassroots initiative to end genocide against trans and queer people of African descendants” even though the group’s non-profit status had been revoked.
BLMGNF sent the money to Nala Simone Toussaint, a cosmetologist and co-founder of the group who had initially set up a limited liability corporation, which was dissolved last month, public records show. LLCs are allowed to accept donations provided they register with the IRS.
Last year, Toussaint registered Reuniting of African Descendants as a separate non-profit, according to the New York State’s Department of State website.
BLGNF also gave grants to charities honoring other young black men killed by police. It donated $297,000 to the Michael Brown Chosen for Change Foundation, which had its non-profit status revoked for failure to file returns in 2018, public records show.
The group was set up in 2015 in honor of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.
His death led to the wave of protests that fueled Black Lives Matter.
The Michael Brown Foundation Chosen for Change Foundation was set up by Janie Jones, a black Washington-based mediator who was a spokeswoman for Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr, and stepmother, Cal Brown.
Another Michael Brown charity, Michael OD Brown We Love Our Sons and Daughters Foundation, set up by his mother Lesley McSpadden took in $89,303 from BLMGNF, filings show.
BLMGNF saw contributions tank in the 2021 fiscal year, from $76,872,002 in the previous year to $9,268,283. (It recorded total revenues, which include investment income of $79,644,823 in 2020 and $8,489,062 in 2021, for a total of $88,133,885.)
“These latest revelations in audited financials and 990s [federal tax filings] prove the chaos we cited in our complaint with the IRS,” said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center, an ethics watchdog group.
The group filed a complaint against BLMGNF with the IRS last year for allegedly violating IRS rules prohibiting the use of nonprofit assets for private benefit, self-dealing, conflicts of interest and unlawful political fundraising,
The Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the disclosures, observed that the foundation had “blown through two-thirds of the $90 million it raised in the wake of George Floyd’s death in the summer of 2020.”
Over the last two reporting periods, the group recorded a total of $22,704,829 in expenses, which included legal fees, rent and office costs. It paid $969,459 paid to Trap Heals LLC, a company run by Damon Turner, the father of Cullors’ child, in 2021.
More than $2.1 million was paid to Bowers Consulting, a company run by current BLMGNF board member Shalomyah Bowers, according to 2021 federal filings. Bowers’ firm received a further $34,800 in fundraising expenses, according to the latest IRS filing.
Some $12 million was spent on luxury homes in Los Angeles and Toronto, which the group said it would use for office space and special events.
It suffered a $961,000 loss on a securities sale of $172,000, and paid out $600,000 to an unidentified former board member’s consulting firm “in connection with a contract dispute,” according to the non-profit’s audited financial statements.
Cullors resigned from the leadership of BLMGNF a month following The Post’s exposé of her $3.2 million real estate buying spree in 2021.
At the time, Cullors claimed that she did not use any movement cash to buy the properties in Los Angeles and in the Atlanta suburbs.
She has since sold the Georgia property, which included an airplane hangar and a shared runway, public records show. In 2021, she spent $1.4 million on a home in tony Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles, according to reports.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/27/only-33-of-blms-90m-in-donations-helped-charity-foundations/

Okay, I searched the ENTIRE World Wide Web Internet Thingy And Came To The Conclusion That This Is Just A Meme And The Article Is Nonexistent ... But I Agree 100% With The Premise ... That Debt Can Never Be Paid.

 

 Democrats Have A History Of Putting A Price Tag On Black Americans

Martin Luther King Jr. Vs The Dream Of Reparations

When they approve reparations to all the ancestors of the soldiers in the Civil War who died to set the blacks free, then we can start discussing reparations for other people.

 

Equity Applied to Fines

(https://moonbattery.com/equity-applied-to-fines/)
A truly totalitarian ideology like moonbattery can be applied to everything, even fines for civil infractions:
[New York] City Councilmember Justin Brannan … is proposing the creation of a pilot program to implement a day-fine system for civil offenses.
The concept was tried in Staten Island back in the 1980s.
“First, the court sentences the offender to a certain number of day-fine units (e.g., 15, 60, 120 units) according to the gravity of the offense, but without regard to his or her means,” explained the Vera Institute of Justice’s Judith Greene in a 1990 report assessing the efficacy of Staten Island’s program. “Then the value of each unit is set at a share of the offender’s daily income (hence the name ‘day fine’), and the total fine amount is determined by simple multiplication.”
Why settle for justice when you can have social justice?
Inevitably, reparations ideology will be applied. If blacks deserve to be paid vast fortunes for being black, surely they deserve to pay lower fines.
Next after that, the principle will be applied to prison sentences, if it isn’t already. How else to achieve equity?
From there, our moonbat overlords will apply it to the cost of housing, food, and all other goods and services. If you have less, then you should pay less. It follows that if you have nothing, then everything should be free. An advantage of this approach is that since there would be no point working, we would all have more free time.