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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN: Seized beach property to be returned to Black family almost 100 years later
For the first time in Los Angeles County's history, they are returning property that was owned by a Black family to the heirs 98 years after it was seized.[Envy/jealousy that the business was popular and profitable. Scummy.]
Source: CNN
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/06/29/bruces-beach-return-98-years-los-angeles-county-elam-nr-vpx.cnn
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CNN: Seized beach property to be returned to Black family almost 100 years later (Original Post)
sprinkleeninow
Jul 2022
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RANDYWILDMAN
(2,673 posts)1. This would happen a lot more
but white people destroyed the records and refused to return the land.
Freaking, give the black hills back to the people who own it, they still want it and would take good care of it.,
JI7
(89,260 posts)2. Something that was common and hurt the black community for decades
Along with redlining.
brush
(53,815 posts)3. Wonder how many more instances of this kind of theft...
there was? And I won't get into the hundreds of years of stolen labor and no pay during enslavement.
sprinkleeninow
(20,254 posts)4. America thee beootiful...