got this from knuckledraggin and i use his intro as well and here it is:

So here we have a State that sided with the Union during the War, and a State that had no slaves in it, yet they're wanting to take tax money from its residents who never owned any slaves to pay reparations to people that never were slaves.

I just gave myself a fucking headache trying to comprehend that;

California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted Tuesday to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people. 

The vote was split 5-4 with some members pleading with the commission to move ahead with a clear definition of who would be eligible rather than studying the issue for months.......read more......