Moment CA Dem WEEPS when GOP Latina says reparations are doomed

By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:30 EDT, 20 June 2024 | Updated: 11:30 EDT, 20 June 2024 A top California Democrat was brought to tears when he was told in a heated debate that Asian and Latino residents shouldn’t have to pay for a controversial slavery reparations package. Ash Kalra, the Indian-American chair of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, briefly sobbed in a tense exchange with Latina Republican Kate Sanchez as she slammed race-based payouts. The pair were debating Senate Bill 1331, one of 14 reparations bills being weighed by lawmakers after a task force last year proposed $1.2 million packages for every descendant of slavery. Sanchez, a GOP Latina and businesswoman from the Los Angeles suburbs, slammed payouts as ‘fundamentally unfair’ because of who would foot the $800 billion price tag. Asians and Latinas make up 55 percent of the Golden State’s population and shouldn’t have to pay through a ‘major tax hike unlike anything this state has ever seen before.’ ‘Most of them, like me, are first, second, or third generation immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery, discrimination, Jim Crow laws, nothing,’ she said. ‘It is fundamentally unfair to force these people to...