CA Gov. Newsom Issues Apology for State ‘Being Complicit in Slavery’
Tell me that Newsom is running in 2028 without saying the words.
About a year ago, I noted that California Governor Gavin Newsom was less than enthusiastic about writing massive reparations checks recommended by the racialist panel he was responsible for forming.
The governor’s feelings toward the massive reparation numbers being put forth by that panel are readily explained by an ever-expanding state budget deficit, estimated at $31.5 billion at that time but which has since ballooned to nearly $47 billion (and is likely to be worse because high-tech and fossil fuel firms are exiting the state).
California reparations proponents have called on Newsom to issue an executive order on reparations and made other ludicrous demands, threatening to withhold their vote for Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris. On the other hand, reparations is extremely unpopular with American people as a whole, so signing any reparation measures would doom any likely success for Newsom should he throw his hat in the 2028 ring.
Therefore, Newsom did what he does best and politicked his what through a spate of racialist bills that recently hit his desk. He signed a bill that includes a formal apology for California’s role in slavery and its discrimination against black people, as well as several other related measures in the name of “racial healing” do not directly translate into a reparations bill in the sense that there is any direct financial compensation.
The atonement bill, Assembly Bill 3089, formalizes an apology from the State of California for ‘being complicit in slavery‘…despite the fact it was never a slave state.
California will issue a formal apology for being complicit in slavery during the 19th century and for enforcing segregationist policies against Black residents as one of several new laws that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Thursday to atone for the state’s past discriminatory treatment of African Americans.
Last year, California became the first state in the country to explore concrete restitution for historical racism after a social justice movement was spurred by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. A state reparations task force last year determined, among other acts, that California courts had enforced fugitive slave laws and that more than 2,000 enslaved people were brought to California even after it was admitted as a free state in 1850.
The official request for forgiveness “for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants” was one of the dozens of recommendations the reparations panel made last year.
Clearly missing from any of the apologies is a mention of financial compensation or establishing a fund for reparations. Instead, Newsom signed other bills designed to appeal to social justice activists, such as oversight on book bans in prisons, laws protecting natural hairstyles in sports, and efforts to increase participation in career training among black students.
- Assembly Bill 1986, which requires the Office of the Inspector General to promote access to literature for incarcerated people by posting a list of banned books in state prisons.
- Assembly Bill 2319, which requires the Attorney General to enforce compliance with anti-bias training for perinatal healthcare workers.
- Assembly Bill 1815, which adjusts the definition of “race” to strengthen discrimination protections by including traits associated with race, such as hair texture.
- Assembly Bill 3131, which requires the state department of education to prioritize funding for socioeconomically disadvantaged communities (requiring applicants in historically redlined communities to be given priority California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program).
Being the slick politico that he is, Newsom also recently vetoed a bill that would have helped Black families reclaim or be compensated for property unjustly taken in racially motivated uses of eminent domain….while praising the author of said bill.
Newsom said in his veto message that while he thanked the bill’s author “for his commitment to redressing past racial injustices,” it tasked “a nonexistent state agency to carry out its various provisions and requirements, making it impossible to implement.”
…Newsom also thanked the state’s Legislative Black Caucus Chair Lori Wilson (D) for her efforts along with the rest of the caucus.
“As we confront the lasting legacy of slavery, I’m profoundly grateful for the efforts put forward by Chair Wilson and the members of the California Legislative Black Caucus,” he said in the statement.
Legal Insurrection readers will not be surprised that reparations proponents are unhappy.
An apology and a plaque? Really? 🤦🏾♂️
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Meanwhile, as a Californian, I am equally unhappy that time and resources were spent on this division-creating inanity.
In conclusion: This tells me Newsom is running in 2028 without directly using those words. If he succeeds, this is the kind of leadership that rest of the nation may experience.
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Not an original observation but it needs to be said:
A state that never permitted slavery is apologizing to people that were never slaves on behalf of people that were never slaveholders.
The woke mind virus is worse than the flu.
Plus, any use of an adjective in front of the word “justice” inverts the meaning of justice. It’s nothing but cultural marxism.
Said what I would
Newsom’s time would be better spent focusing on those slaves being trafficked across the Mexican border ever day. I understand there are some 325,000+ unaccompanied minors that the administration can’t account for. What do you think these children are doing tonight Gavin?
They’re probably servicing his friends and allies.
Washing dishes and busing leftover cat entrees at the Haitian Laundry.
Note that besides the facts listed by Peter Moss, there is the detail that the military forces raised in California ALL fought for the Union and not the Confederacy. However, if Democrats were restricted to speaking only facts . . . it would be awful quiet. Kind of like the Harris campaign.
Subotai Bahadur
California entered the union as a slave-free state under the Compromise of 1850.
Franciscans used mission Indians as bondsmen, but that was when Alta California was under Spanish-Mexican control.
“Even though California was a “free state,” California courts still enforced fugitive slave laws, and more than 2,000 enslaved people were brought to California even after it was admitted as a free state in 1850.”
This is no reason for reparations, but California was complicit in the support of slavery. It still is today, in my opinion, in the way that it treats Blacks as chattel of the Democrat Party.
May people demanding reoperations get everything the deserve.
What a d. I.c.k….
Slavery to no slavery was a culture change brought about by the free market, not a moral failing of ancestors.
In a hit the guy on the head and take his stuff, slavery was a win/win. Instead of killing the guy, you enslave him. It was inefficient owing to capital spent on defense, but it worked and was universal.
With the free market and enforceable contracts, a Western invention, slaves contribute more to society working in their own self-interest than as a slave. So slavery became economically obsolete. The culture had to catch up, is all. There’s nothing to apologize for.
While you’re on your knees Newscum, maybe you can apologize to to Japanese Americans .
Even the the General in charge said they were no threat, they were forced to give up their homes and businesses because of their race.
And also because FDR was a progressive, racist tool.
Didn’t those who were actually kidnapped and put into camps receive both an apology and monetary compensation?
California, in particular, treated the Chinese like s*.
Where is their apology, Gavin?
Newsom clown show. Newsom is like steve carell on The Office, episode Diversity Day.
CA continues its descent into idiocracy.
The GOP isn’t lucky enough to have Newsom win the 2028 DNC primary. I’m not sure if any straight, white male can win in that primary anymore.
Rev amos brown of kamala’s church in SF, and member of newsom reparations task force, says blacks owed $1.2 million.
He gonna give sermon now.
Except that Commiefornia was NEVER a slave State. For once, they have absolutely nothing to apologize for.
Born and raised here. Never discriminated. F*ck these $$ grifters
So they’re going to fight racism by disadvantaging other races? Sounds like typical Granolafornia illogic. Hair texture codified in law? Oh brother….
I thought he was going to apologize for using illegals as their slaves, like most of Hollywood and their brethren do.
Apology? Where is the reparation money Newsom promised? Talk is cheap yet so many people continue to be misled by it. Newsom is simply another politician who wants to keep people in the chains of their wilful ignorance.
Said it before, say it again, what an a-hole.