Maryland passing reparations? UPDATE: 5/16/25 - Moore just vetoed the study.

[Secure Da Bag]

MSN

A Maryland bill to create a commission to study and recommend future reparations for slavery and racial discrimination is heading to Gov. Wes Moore’s (D) desk for consideration.

The bill, a top priority of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, passed in a 101-36 vote in the state’s House on Wednesday.


The legislation outlines a host of potential reparations, including official statements of apology, financial compensation, assistance with making a down payment on a home, debt forgiveness and tuition payment waivers for higher education.

Moore — the state’s first Black governor and the nation’s only sitting Black governor — has said he will consider the bill but pointed to the state’s budget concerns.

The state currently faces a $3.3 billion deficit, and the nonpartisan Maryland Department of Legislative Services calculates the proposal for the study could cost a the state a total of $54,500 extra for the 2026 fiscal year.

There is no estimate yet on how much reparations would cost as a study has not been conducted to determine how much descendants of slavery would be awarded.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

I actually find initiatives like this disrespectful. It's pandering. They are using government money to high people they already know to study material that's already available.

 

[Strapped]

Absolutely nothing will come out of this

 

[42 Monks]

maybe this is the study that finally gives us the answers we need

 

[Born2BKing]

wE dOn'T NeEd a StUdY, wE nEeD a ChEcK

 

[Buddy]

I actually find initiatives like this disrespectful. It's pandering. They are using government money to high people they already know to study material that's already available.

Marianne Williamson-- a woman who wanted people to move a hurricane with their minds-- pulled a random number out her ass and people actually took that bullshyt seriously, but "we don't need a study"

How the hell are people so paranoid about specificity, and yet so averse to the actual nuances of harm being known

 

[Peter Popoff]

maybe this is the study that finally gives us the answers we need

 

[RickyDiBiase]

I actually find initiatives like this disrespectful. It's pandering. They are using government money to high people they already know to study material that's already available.

Marianne Williamson-- a woman who wanted people to move a hurricane with their minds-- pulled a random number out her ass and people actually took that bullshyt seriously, but "we don't need a study"

How the hell are people are paranoid about specificity, and yet so averse to the actual nuances of harm being known

He’s retarded.

He’s the type to get mad that you have to split $100 between 3 people and that’s only because that mfer can’t do basic division

 

[TripleAgent]

Cacs FURIOUS, Moore might get clapped.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Absolutely nothing will come out of this

You weren't wrong.


Let's see if Moore proves you correct again right after midterms.

 

[TRUEST]

For this to be successful you have to be ready to expose family history of the opposers. When the family history of the opposers reveal involvement in the slave trade they’ll learn to shut the fucck up quick.

 

[Wiseborn]

wE dOn'T NeEd a StUdY, wE nEeD a ChEcK

You said it.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-16/maryland-gov-wes-moore-vetoes-slavery-reparations-study-citing-need-for-the-work-itself

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/16/wes-moore-reparations-vetoe-maryland/

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Friday vetoed a bill that would have required the state to define the economic harms to Black descendants of enslaved people and recommend remedies, dealing a blow to reparations supporters who counted on the only Black governor of a U.S. state to be an ally.
The veto of a reparations study was the highest profile of two dozen vetoes Moore issued late Friday, the most the governor and rising Democratic star has fought back against the Democratic-controlled legislature during his 2½ years in office.
Moore said, given the state’s economic problems, he was focused on laws that helped the state recover from the severe impacts of the Trump administration’s federal spending cuts.

“I was very transparent with the leadership and members of the General Assembly that anything that fails to meet the urgency of this moment, I will not sign it and it must wait for another time,” Moore said in an interview, calling the reparations study “the most challenging” of his veto decisions.

 

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[The Realist Perspective]

I just read the thread title but whenever these fakkits are saying they are conducting a study they are not doing a god damn thing. What a joke.