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A thread Debunking Propoganda in #AB3121 - Top 10 reasons why lineage-based reparations is a bad plan  thegrio.com/2022/04/11/top…

#AB3121 AB3121 “CA Task force declared they are not rooting for everybody Black.” – I do not even know what rooting for everybody Black means nor was a definition provided in the article …

10: - it is based on white history -He points to colonial era of 1526 predates the founding of America & reflects why a Federal Repair including HR40 should start at 1776 to allow for Black Americans to seek colonial reparations from Spain and the colony of San Miguel De Gualdape

9: And white math – concept of tying reparations is based on white supremacist construct used to demonize welfare queens – The Descendants of actual enslaved people drove the narrative so this is an intellectual myth. His argument also supports cash based repair. #AB3121

8: It excludes actual descendants of enslaved – unowned maroons in NC; Black People Emancipated before 1776 – this is a repeat of #10 with different examples so – see rebuttal in #10 #AB3121

7: It asks the victims of criminal enterprise to solve a crime – as many as 1500 Black People were illegally transported to CA between 1849-1861. So we will just pretend that state paid Genealogy resources was not brought up at all. Okay. #AB3121

6: Reparations for African Americans should not be limited to slavery – defining beneficiaries that also includes free Black Folks – does not limit to slavery it expands the beneficiary class. Hearings have addressed a myriad of issues recommendations are unpublished. #AB3121

5: White supremacy does not differentiate between “kinds” of Black People – this is a misnomer Middle Easter/ North Africans are deemed white; East Indians elected to be white in the 70's as did Latinos. There should be a Freedman's Bureau & OMB/ Census needs to disaggregate data

4: Black immigrants receiving reparations is economically better for Black Communities – this ideology rejects Jim Crow Survivors by equating experiences that are not the same. Repairing the Descendant community is economically better for Black Communities. #AB3121

3: It absolves racists by literally fitting the definition of racist – lineage based reparations circumvent the CA law that forbids preferential treatment based on race. The community of eligibility conforms to both state & federal law. Creating failed policy is not an option.

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1: White people will get all the money – Currently there is no DNA testing of white folks with 1% African Ancestry as a standard set by the #AB3121. So this is pure conjecture.

0: Ground zero is the Ex-Slave Pension Movement and failed reconstruction that has yet to be addressed by America or Michael Harriot in his arguments. Lineage repair is the standard for any municipal or Federal Reparations effort in the United States. #AB3121