"I'm going to expose something. And it has the potential to be one of the biggest public scandals in the modern day Reparations movement. Here is goes:
There is a plot underway to divert some of the $12 million dollars Governor
@GavinNewsom
and the CA legislature approved for "Reparations Implementation" last year away from implementing Reparations and give it to a group of *secretly* *hand-picked* non-profit organizations to do God-knows what with. We learned about this plot mid-late last year and have been working to stop it. We were successful in stopping it from happening last year, but we have every reason to believe this plot is still underway.
The money they want was in the budget bill approved last summer. This week, the CLBC introduced the sb437 Reparations genealogy study bill and took half of that money from the budget last year and put it toward a study that has no start date and no end date, putting the study and half of the Reparations Implementation money in the hands of Universities and non-profits.
So now, there is still $6 million dollars left over after that CLBC announcement this week. And these non-profits want the rest of that money too.
That's probably why some of the non-profits you see defending or promoting the CLBCs actions in August of 2024 (or being very quiet about it), and their Descendants Bureau/Study bills sb437/sb518 this year, are doing it... because they want to steal some or all of the Reparations Implementation money so they can fund their orgs, pay themselves, do indefinite studies, etc.
The Governor and legislature approved that money last year to implement Reparations, not fund politicians' non-profit pets picked in a process with no public transparency. I actually think it's probably illegal to do anything else with that money other than what the law says: Implement Reparations.
By the way, I volunteer with CA's original and leading grassroots Reparations and Reparative Justice organizers, mobilizers, and advocates
@cjecofficial
. We're the originators of the CA grassroots Reparations movement. And we don't want none of that money! We want it to be used to implement Reparations. Period.
@GovPressOffice
#CAReparations2025"