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zug_zug
121 days ago
This is the type of thing that sends certain people emotionally of the rails, but I suppose I can't say a city shouldn't do whatever they think is right just because some bad-faith actors will try to use it as a rallying-cry.
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0xy
121 days ago
California never had slavery. Reparations for what?
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kelseyfrog
121 days ago
To be purposely pedantic, it did. It was however mainly the Spanish mission system[1] who enslaved indigenous people.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Californ...
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Gibbon1
121 days ago
Before red lining San Francisco's zoning laws restricted what neighborhoods black people (and Asians and Hispanics) were allowed to live.
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zug_zug
121 days ago
I never said the word reparations… just that it’s a topic that makes a certain group really emotional
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