Producers’ Pick | Ward Connerly: California is About to Hand Out Reparations for Slavery

The more you listen more, you'll know you brought in from a common perspective reparation for United States slavery and its legacy's Jim Crow with the new Jim Rowe should be for the descendents of US slavery and its legacy Jim Crow and the new Jim Crow that took up his visits, come all, more chairperson California reparations task force and believe it or not reparations are are moving here is Ward Connolly present equal rights for all put a good action committee. She's president of Ward as president of the American civil rights Institute in a former region of the University of California, Ward. We are our reparations for the citizens of California now are they are they on the threshold of passing.

I don't think so. Legislature wants to do something that they realize they've got a political football on their hands and just ordinary citizens think this is not a good idea so I don't think anything is going to actually come about and if it does run or fight it, that's taken formal action to the prop 29 could stop any form of reparation for black Californians from happening and what respect how clock 209 says that you cannot date and about nine other states that we've fought over events over the last 24 years you cannot discriminate against or grant preferential treatment to any fitness center on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, and a preference. I don't know what is.

How can you possibly qualify for how mean it's it's currently the rear individual did has a pure background that dates back to slavery and how does that benefit somebody somebody from something that happened over 200 years ago run the real components of this would really like to just distribute benefits to people like me black people finding that we've had a rough time in this country and it's time to pay it back. I don't disagree with We have had a rough time in this country but we made the conscious decision of the people. The country did 25 years ago or so that we had to resolve the issue raised in our country when we came out of Jim Crow. Pres. Kennedy had said race has no place in American life, or law, and so we consciously decided to integrate not have separate institutions as Malcolm X and propose so would make it certain to integrate. That was a good decision but there are people who are looking for another mission progressives in our country then and over that they're going or they want to go but they want to transform the country and in the process were dealing with issues that we've already resolved. We said that we want integration but people are not comfortable with that. We want to overcome.

We've overcome, but they're not comfortable with that. And so what we have is just a mess on our hands. No political leadership no moral leadership.

Biden is not a leader.

He is the problem. But that's not to say the president prompted that either because to a large extent, the stores of many of our problems that we face right now with 11 policies, but the style of delivering them is problematic for a lot of people and what you say what reparations Brian is the outcome of all of this disarray of the country and and were going to have to debated in California because if we don't it's going to spoke regular rest of the country people will come near who were not residents of California because they might get some sort of a unity distributed by the legislature if advanced, it's just a mess side notes.

I never thought about that people coming from the outside to say I moved out of the country.

My great-grandparents were here. I need to pay out notetakers. I'll take a condo here is assembly assemblyman Reggie Jones Sawyer talking about this very issue, a Democrat from Los Angeles member.

California's reparation task force you done in California because African-Americans is unbelievably I really do need to look at some of the laws that were in place that restricted African-Americans delete certain places that restricted you could marry.

You could not bury your race here in California so the vestiges of slavery that male started in the south and east coast still permeated California society. So that's the sentiment that you say has no place right right right you got wrong and find some of our history, but we do not all problems in our country and bypassing oncogenic different generations. The responsibility of paying for that. My grandkids would be paying for the damage that was done to me, arguing that make reparations were Edward Chinese exclusion act, gave Tori saying we have been marginalized, people who are just now coming to the country from across the southern border are going to argue that illegal immigration has been put around her neck about at work talking trillions of dollars. More importantly were upsetting the fabric of our people. We are pluralistic society in this country is actually in California and people came near my people good from the deep South because we thought the California was the land of opportunity now are being told that we were living a lie. This is idiocy and we have to bring a close to it is America's socks with the real thing throughout your busy day subscribe and listen. Melon sauce is going to start, for wherever you did your project use more from the assemblyman cut 36 do things are going on in America that have stifled imputed or stop African-Americans from really realizing our full potential does not all about money is about generational change for all left America is what's flawed about that reasoning is not all about money is by generational change but is about money it's about money and I think that there is some people who see the low hanging fruit. There because were vulnerable as a society white guilt of medical leadership no moral leadership hey there hello fruit, let's get it and I I just think that there flirting with danger here. I knows I would. I know you are so are you.

Your African-American what is your background was your heritage, which was your family from my family is from Leesville, Louisiana we are a a five multiracial people. Some of my people were Irish on my father's side. My one of my great-grandparents left very left the ranch and married a slave on my mother decided it Irish and Choctaw Indian, no African descent therein as a whole another story. What is right, said America, whose whose been discriminated against when it reaches the point that the resume discriminate tourers are going to be paid by those who didn't want slavery at all touches mended. Most people of California you've reached the land the fantasyland. There of public policy.

You need some courage to stand up to that and let people say well you're being racially insensitive, and you understand and you believe you're denying our past, knowing that were living in the present. We cannot continue to look back the way we are.

We study history. I do think we get a judge is where we are and then asked for cash and return from it. This is their side to say Irish need not apply. The Italians for the Mafia because it felt to be discriminated against.

You couldn't get a job there to transform neuroprotective society. The American Indians constantly say and they might have a case. They were here first. So that's not the way America was made America's cosmic progress we acknowledge where we been weak knowledge we want to go and I think we are coming to their country to continues to self-correct, but this I hundred percent agree with you Ward II think this is this is a sinkhole bill could further poison the country how close or is this the passing. I don't think it's close right now. Well I won't say that it's close but I think that we can prevent it, and we do have in this country laws that some of us respect. This is not an easy one for me). I'm going to be called everything that you can imagine by my fellow black Americans, but this is not right. It has long-term ramifications and if they go forward will try the law because it's a violation of prop 209 which is in our Constitution is sticking to circumvent it by this hokey notion of ancestry and and it will invite people to come to California in search of that low hanging fruit. As I described what your brave guy you know how to take a backward step of America's I get better first and foremost you gotta love the country and then everything else will work out.

If we all get on that page. I'd love to go forward together. That would certainly be an equity relief never deny Jim Crow happened never to lie slavery took place on never deny the do the mistakes but also deny the great that don't deny the greatness of war. Thanks so much. Thank you, Brian. 100 meteorologists and the worldwide resources a fox in your box, whether podcast's personal powerful subscriber Melissa Malik Fox is not just.com or wherever you did your