When is this fantastical nonsense going to end? No former slaves and no former slave owners are still alive today.
More importantly, slavery was not unique to 18th and 19th century America; slavery was the way of the world. Every single group of people historically speaking, including Africans, were both subject to slavery and practiced slavery.
We all saw how a similar push for reparations in California made ridiculous demands that were ultimately shot down and the entire initiative backpedaled on by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Unfortunately, Democrats never learn from their mistakes, and now another prominent Democrat governor has become the latest to signal her support for reparations.
On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill authorizing the creation of a ‘Slavery Reparations Commission.’
The purported goal of the committee is to figure out what slavery reparations would consist of and then to submit those findings to the government of New York.
I am willing to bet that these reparations will end up exactly like the California reparations and that Hochul is simply making pie-in-the-sky moves to virtue signal. Here’s what is currently being reported:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill to form a commission to study what slavery reparations would look like in the state. pic.twitter.com/yFujCHzSfJ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 19, 2023
I spoke at an event today where @GovKathyHochul signed a bill aimed at giving reparations for slavery.
Hochul said that by signing the bill, a commission will be created to study what reparations may look like in New York. pic.twitter.com/6tl72P55oR— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) December 19, 2023
CBS News provided this statement from activist Nicole Carty:
“You can see the impacts of slavery in things such as Black poverty, Black maternal mortality that’s happening.
They’re gonna keep going on unless there’s an intervention,” said Nicole Carty, executive director of the group Get Free.
Activists like Carty said the new law was a long time coming.
She helped advocate for the bill, which was sponsored by Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, after the racially motivated Buffalo mass shooting.
New York Daily News reports that Hochul claimed the Slavery Reparations Committee would “Make it possible to have a conversation — a reasoned debate — about what we want the future to look like.”
Gov. Hochul approves slavery reparations panel in N.Y.
The governor said the commission would “make it possible to have a conversation — a reasoned debate — about what we want the future to look like.”https://t.co/NZB49Hkfmy
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 19, 2023
New York State Senator Rob Ortt exclaimed: “A divisive commission to consider reparations is unworkable. As we’ve seen in California, I am confident this commission’s recommendations will be unrealistic, will come at an astronomical cost to all New Yorkers, and will only further divide our state.”
💬 A divisive commission to consider reparations is unworkable. As we’ve seen in California, I am confident this commission's recommendations will be unrealistic, will come at an astronomical cost to all New Yorkers, and will only further divide our state.https://t.co/6AWT35pTti
— Rob Ortt (@OrttforSenate) December 19, 2023
The New York Post quoted Hochul:
“If this committee can present a viable path forward, to helping the descendants of New York slaves in addressing the harms and disparities, that exist in education, that exist in housing, that exists in health care, that exist in the environment, that my friends will lift all of us up.”
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