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This has absolutely nothing to do with "woke culture" run amok or reparations. This is directly righting a wrong committed to a family by the city, and their direct descendants would be the recipients.
The descendants of a Black family that once owned a thriving oceanfront resort in Manhattan Beach could get the property back under state legislation announced Friday.
Backers of the proposal, which will be introduced by state Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) on Monday, say it is the first step toward correcting a historic injustice when the city seized the resort of Charles and Willa Bruce and forced Black beachgoers out of town 100 years ago.
This has absolutely nothing to do with "woke culture" run amok or reparations. This is directly righting a wrong committed to a family by the city, and their direct descendants would be the recipients.
And I agree with your stance on this. I know about what happened to Black families at Manhattan Beach. I hope this goes through and a wrong is righted.
While I support the spirit of this, it seems like a double-edged sword to me. Are they going to give the property back and then hit them with a huge property tax bill each year?? I hope not but it is, after all, New York we are talking about here.
While I support the spirit of this, it seems like a double-edged sword to me. Are they going to give the property back and then hit them with a huge property tax bill each year?? I hope not but it is, after all, New York we are talking about here.
If they get the property back, they'll probably immediately sell it to real-estate developers, become filthy rich, and then move to the nearest wealthy white neighborhood they can find.
If they get the property back, they'll probably immediately sell it to real-estate developers, become filthy rich, and then move to the nearest wealthy white neighborhood they can find.
Do you know that for a fact? Prove it. Or are you saying this as a side of the mouth comment based on racial emnity/resentment?
People getting their property back is a good thing. It should have happened sooner. On the flip side, this proves that nowhere in America was good for Black people during the 1920s. Black people tried to build something for themselves, and it was taken away. Manhattan Beach has a reputation today as some really cool beach town. Back in the 1920s, it was a Ku Klux Klan haven, literally. The Ku Klux Klan wasn't only harassing Black people in South. Blacks were being harassed by the Ku Klux Klan in California too. In fact, one of the reasons Bruce Beach was eventually taken away started with the KKK harassing Black resort vacationers. Basically, some people just didn't want Blacks around. Manhattan Beach eventually condemned Bruce's Beach and took everyone's land away.
I'm sure they will be forced to sell it immediately because the re tax bill will be obscene.
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