I'm born in cali, my dad also, and his mother graduated from high school in oakland..that's jim crow era for both on them...my mom as been in cali since the mid 60's that's jim crow so I think I'd you endured the jim crow era that should be worth something, especially since both my parents were involved in race riots during the early 70's.
Think you should be cali born, and have lived in cali at least 20 years, claimed black and have slave ancestry
Yeah there should be some generational weight placed on what defines you as a Californian, relevant to reparations. Everyone black deserves it period, but as i said my grandma feels like they are gonna limit it to current residents, which would be a slap in the face to those of us who don't live in California but are from there and come from a line of multi generational black families, as opposed to those of us who are black in Cali but are new, either first generation or second generation...
Thats all speculation anyway, its way too soon to know where they are leaning on this. As I said I'm 3rd generation on my maternal side and on my paternal side we can at the very least trace it back to the Great Depression. Me not being a current resident shouldn't exclude me whatsoever...
On these white sites they are mocking how they are gonna make a determination of who is black. Which isn't all that hard to me, because again you instantly should be aware this isn't gonna be all inclusive. Somebody is gonna be left out, but these nonblacks making a mockery of the shyt like if you have black cousins or a black great grandparent or some shyt, this part isn't terribly hard...
Defining who counts as a Californian will be harder. As to who is black enough to qualify:
•if you have two black parents, you qualify. No grey area there...
•if you self-identify as black
and have at least one black parent, you qualify (instantly axe the Rachel Dolezals who will try to identify as black but don't have one black parent). I do think there should be a history, it has to be validated through your tax statements or Census records or medical or whatever, but people can't cheat by knowing they have black lineage and voluntarily labeling themselves as something else, then trying to dip into reparations. fukk all that...
•someone mentioned if you have a nonblack parent you should be disqualified, but I disagree. People get to choose self-identification, but they don't get to choose who their parents are/were. Like I said my paternal grandmother had a white mother. She'll be 68 on Monday, spent 7 years as a Panther and has identified as a black woman her entire life. Not "other" or "mixed", but black...
My maternal grandmother will be 71 at the end of the month and is Black Creole, as are her children and grandchildren by extension. She doesn't identify as "mixed" or "other" even though we all know Creole is heavy on the white intermix...
So saying people who have a nonblack parent should be disqualified just doesn't fly with me, you didn't pick your parents...
To circle it back though, all of our birth records, tax statements, etc will show if we are AfrAm or another black ethnicity. If you're from a multigenerational black California family you should qualify, because your family has endured the stresses of being black in California, period....
