The Need to Completely Debunk and Thoroughly Discredit California Slavery Reparations Proposal

Presently there is a great opportunity to completely debunk and thoroughly discredit the thousand plus page California Reparations Report, also known as reparations for slavery and its aftermath, that demands huge cash payments and other compensations to be paid by a state where slavery was never legal, California. The problem is that no organization has yet taken on that comprehensive debunking task. There have been a number of articles pointing deficiencies of aspects of that report, but no systematic deconstruction.     

Timing of a systematic deconstruction of that report is of immediate importance, due to the months required for complete research. Early December will likely see the introduction of state legislation to enact aspects of the report and a properly timed attack on that report should be weeks prior. 

The systematic refutation of that report must start immediately, as it will require months to completely demolish all aspects, including highly questionable citations blindly accepted as fact by the report.  

Anything in that report that is not credibly refuted will be construed to be true, no matter how stupid. While there have been published articles debunking some aspects of the reparations report. Only a well researched and thorough shredding of that specious document will expunge deliberate deceptions of the taxpayer paid multimillion dollar reparations report.      

There is a great threat presented by the California Reparations Report, and that threat is intended to be nationwide, as is outlined in the legislation that created the commission rendered the specious California Reparations Report, AB 3121 of 2020 by then-Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego). That legislation  incorporated historic factual lies and copious partial truths to justify slavery reparations by the non-slave state of California, which would then set the precedent that every state must render huge cash and other payments to every black American with slavery ancestry, regardless of their present wealth, which is very large in many cases. 

The California Reparations Report contains, as the premise for its creation, wildly idiotic assertions such as, “America’s wealth was built by the forced labor of trafficked African peoples…” For that to be true, the last two hundred years of efforts by all those of all other ethnic backgrounds had absolutely no economic impact on the United States. As example, how did we not know that all of the Silicon Valley innovations came from black slaves?

There are online “reparations calculators” to lead a California black citizen to the illusion that they will each receive over a million dollars, just because they are a California black. 

The Cal Reparations Report was staffed by the California Department of Justice, a department full of hundreds of attorneys, were they competent, any one of which should have noticed that the California State Constitution prohibits a “gift of public funds,” which is the definition of California slavery reparations of any manner, including free college tuition, and most of the other recommendations of the Cal Reparations Commission.

Further, reparations of any type are likely violations of Proposition 209, recently reinforced by a second statewide vote. Those omissions are additional illustrations that the Cal DOJ has been converted from a major law enforcement agency into a slimy major political enforcement agency, and can never be trusted. 

Members of the Reparations Commission that controlled creation of the reparations report were far from diverse in ethnic or ideological makeup, illustrating the pre-ordained “loaded dice” outcome, that would never be allowed on a jury in a California court. 

A great example is Commission member, Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee. In July, as that committee chairman, Sawyer personally killed legislation to make sex trafficking of children a major crime, though the State Senate passed that bill with all Senators of both political parties voting in favor. 

After a huge national uproar, Sawyer had a quick committee meeting to pass that proposed legislation, yet Assemblywoman Bonta, wife of California’s Attorney General, declined for a second time, to support the anti-child slave trafficking bill, showing that present day slavery does not bother her. 

The sex traffic of children is the definition current day slavery. Apparently, Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, and Assemblywoman Bonta, are only offended by slavery that completely disappeared well over a hundred and fifty years back, but slavery in current day California is of marginal concern to them. Therefore, Assemblyman Sawyer and Assemblywoman Bonta, completely lack credibility on any aspect of the slavery issue in California.      

Judging from the Reparations Report result, minds ignorant of history and law were paid huge amounts, perhaps five million dollars or more, of state tax money to render a mediocre report that now demands tens of billions of state tax dollars as reparations. 

The reparations threat is imminent, a few days ago reparations task force member, State Senator Steven Bradford introduced SB 490, a bill to create the California American Freedman Affairs Agency to administer anticipated reparations. There is no language in the bill at present, but such an agency would be a massive bureaucracy costing the state massive amounts of money, and likely to become a massive boondoggle, plus setting up massive and expensive litigation.     

There is an urgent need for an entity of established credibility to lead the diverse efforts to debunk in detail the absurd California Slavery Reparations Report. Otherwise, we will all live with this ridiculous reparations fraud for decades of coming public debate in California elections.