Kamala politicizes plans on trying to force through reparations. And I guess if she wins and the Deep State goes full socialism, she may be able to get it through. If Kamala wins, this ends either in socialism or another civil war.
California Reparations Task Force calls for elimination of child support debt for black residents because ‘nation's laws have torn African American families apart.’
California's controversial Reparations Task Force has called on the state legislature to end child support debt for black residents claiming that the nation's laws have hindered their growth and have torn African American families apart.
The task force released their final report last week that laid out a series of calculations that could amount to hundreds of billions of dollars in payment.
The 1,100-page document revealed that the state's black residents represent a larger percentage of those who owe child support debt than their proportion of the state's population.
The task force alleged that 'discriminatory' laws 'have torn African American families apart,' and that one effect of that is the 'harms' caused by 'the disproportionate amount of African Americans who are burdened with child support debt.'
The report claims that the 10 percent interest that the state charges on back child support has hampered black residents to find employment, maintain a home, and further their education due to the legal consequences of not paying such debt.
The report cited a 2003 California Department of Child Support Services study, which estimated 27 percent of owed child support in the state was unpaid interest.
It also highlighted that those who did owe child support had lower incomes than 'the typical California worker' and that such interest required a larger portion of their income to actually pay the debt,' The New York Post reported.
Some of the recommendations the task force cited included the termination of all interest accrued on back child support. This move, they said, would require only the payment of the principal owed.
'At a minimum, the proposal recommends that the Legislature eliminate the prospective accrual of interest on child support debt for low-income parents,' the report said.
'The Task Force further recommends that the Legislature amend Family Code section 17560, the 'offers in compromise' provision, to allow for offers in compromise and forgiveness of child support debt based solely on a parent's financial (sic) circumstances and ability to pay,' it added.
The report is a culmination of two years of research done by the task force into what it says is the historical discrimination faced by black Californians and their ancestors in the state.
It also offers a broad account of the ways it accuses the state of wronging descendants of black slaves.
The state legislature will now determine what aspects of the report, including monetary compensation for black residents, it will approve or deny.
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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.”
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."
Ben & Jerry - I'm thankful that I have never given them a penny of my money. I had never even noticed BJ, whoops, I meant B&J's ice cream before they politically advocated in favor of marriage "equality" in 2016 but after that I have noticed that they seem to think that having politically nauseating opinions shoved down customers throats is a profitable endeavor. I think it has not worked out in their favor.
