The proposal pushes the Empire State toward the center of a national debate over reparations despite the potential political dangers to Democrats.
“Regardless of the merits of the legislation, National Republicans are going to pounce on this and make it a bogeyman in their war on everything related to addressing historical wrongs. But they will just call it wokeism,” an Albany insider said.Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages said reparations could take forms other than cash payments.Both chambers are expected to pass the bill by Friday before sending it to Gov. Kathy Hochul before the end of the year.
And the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan, which contains roughly 15,000 skeletons of enslaved and free Black New Yorkers from the 17th and 18th centuries, highlights the sheer scale of slavery in New York for roughly half its history. “I know the recommendations of this commission will be non-binding, but I don’t see this being helpful to race relations in any way. Writing checks on the basis of race would inherently punish millions of New Yorkers for historical wrongs that they had nothing to do with,” Assemblyman Jarrett Gandolfo said.
“This is an unreasonable and unworkable measure, opposed by the vast majority of Americans but still being pushed by radical New York Democrats,” he said.
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