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    The Los Angeles land was seized from the owners in 1924 through eminent domain
    By Brie Stimson | Fox News


    The California state Senate unanimously passed a landmark bill on Thursday that would allow Los Angeles County to return oceanfront land seized from former Black owners Willa and Charles Bruce in the 1920s to their descendants, according to reports.

    The bill next heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk and while his office hasn’t indicated if he’ll sign it, the bill is widely popular, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

    If signed, it would reportedly be the first law returning land to former Black owners to make amends for past discriminatory policies.

    The effort started last summer during the anti-racism protest movement and after a petition demanding reparations at the beach circulated, the Daily News reported.

    The bill "represents economic and historic justice," state Sen. Steven Bradford told the Daily News, "and is a model of what reparations can truly look like."

    The Bruces bought the two parcels of land in Los Angeles County’s Manhattan Beach in 1912 and ran a resort that catered to Black people.

    The Bruces and other Black families faced harassment from racist White neighbors and in 1924 the city condemned the Black-owned lots and seized them through eminent domain to create a park – now Bruce’s Beach Park.

    The couple sued for racial discrimination and eventually received $14,500 but never got their land back, according to The Los Angeles Times.

    In 1948, Manhattan Beach gave the Bruces' land to the state and in 1995, the state gave it to Los Angeles County, which is not legally allowed to give it back to the Bruces, according to the Daily News. The bill would change that.

    "I’m elated, walking on water right now," Duane Shepard, a distant descendant of the Bruces said Thursday. "This is one of the greatest things in American history right now."

    "This is going to be the start of something really big for our people now," he added, the Daily News reported.

    "This is the first time a government has done anything like this and there were a lot of questions about how it would work," Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn said last summer, speaking to the complications in assessing the land’s worth, determining the heirs, moving the current lifeguard station and other issues.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cal...f-black-owners

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    They're doing the right thing for the wrong reason. If it was taken using Eminent Domain and the original use/justification changed, the original owners should get it back, no matter what color they happen to be.

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    The media is screwing up a great American story by injecting politics as usual...

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    If they were Indian would they do the same or this a form of "woke"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mudflat View Post
    If they were Indian would they do the same or this a form of "woke"?
    Dot or feather?

    This was my first thought as well. Especially since the new director of BLM is a "land back" native American.

    Where will/does that end?

    Eminent domain is theft of the highest order. No arguing that. But "we" (We = Christian honkies) eminently domained an entire continent.

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    A railroad passed through my land. They ceased utilization. They gave it back.
    Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenn View Post
    But "we" (We = Christian honkies) eminently domained an entire continent.
    Chiner is fixing to do it to an entire planet, and I am ok with that. If the rest of the world no longer has the balls to stand up to them then tough titty for the honky and every other non Chinaman. Nobody does racism like the Chinese, and we are not talking about which water fountain a man can drink from...

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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    Chiner is fixing to do it to an entire planet, and I am ok with that. If the rest of the world no longer has the balls to stand up to them then tough titty for the honky and every other non Chinaman. Nobody does racism like the Chinese, and we are not talking about which water fountain a man can drink from...
    You trying to tell ma a vaginal headgear march on Hong Kong wouldn't sway the opinions on the treatment of women over there?

    Or here when it's finally made official?

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