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by 0xy 118 days ago
California never had slavery. Reparations for what?
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To be purposely pedantic, it did. It was however mainly the Spanish mission system[1] who enslaved indigenous people.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Californ...

Before red lining San Francisco's zoning laws restricted what neighborhoods black people (and Asians and Hispanics) were allowed to live.
I never said the word reparations… just that it’s a topic that makes a certain group really emotional