“That’s a false narrative,” Lewis said. “I don’t give a f**k what California did.”
“You can’t just say, `only descendants of slaves from the South.’ Black people faced the effects of slavery — discrimination — simply because they’re black.”
If that's the case, and she gets her way, then Afro-Latinos would definitely end up getting some. Most oppressors didn't take time to verify the person's country of origin before opressing them. They just looked at the skin color and got to oppressing.
And if Afro-Latinos get some, that means I'm going to end up getting some, because...even though I'm not Afro-Latino, I've got cousins that are, and they're going to share, because we're a real family.
So...either it's going to be based off of skin color, or it's going to be based off of lineage, and you're going to have a whole bunch of Beckys where the black has already been filtered out, but the lineage is still there, getting a piece of the pie.
It's an interesting topic, and an even more interesting situation.
Maybe if they can devise a way to tax companies and famous families that clearly benefited off of the slave trade, then more people (of all races) would be on board and root for y'all to get what y'all deserve. But if they try to make US citizens pay higher taxes as a way to cover reparations, then immigrants can just argue that in the same way that they weren't around to qualify for getting reparations, that they also weren't around to be slave masters, so they should not have to pay into the taxes that go toward reparations.
Anyway, try not to kill each other.