City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca says white-owned businesses in Denver should have to pay reparations to minority-owned businesses because she’s in a tight runoff reelection and needs the votes.
At least that’s how we interpret her remarks made last week at a forum of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance.
CdeBaca faces Darrell Watson in a June 6 runoff election after failing to win more than 50% in last month’s race. Watson came within 218 votes of coming in first place.
Communists are going to communist.
Did you hear her almost slip and call it re-distribution?#copolitics https://t.co/JpXKmAs8qy— Mr T 2 (@GovtsTheProblem) May 5, 2023
Colorado didn’t even become a state until after the Civil War, and outlawed slavery within a year of becoming a state in 1876, just to make sure.
But the Democrat Socialist says white businesses owners should be taxed by the City of Denver and the money redistributed to black and brown-owned businesses because capitalism is bad and built on “stolen land, stolen labors, and stolen resources.”
Who knew that subsidizing evil capitalism through evil capitalism was okay so long as the end result was (checks notes) socialism?
Or that Humankind has been acquiring and reacquiring land since the dawn of time through war, purchase, or forfeit, usually in that order?
So technically, every inch of Planet Earth at one time or another was stolen from another person.
And since slavery was never condoned by the state, nor can it be proven that current “white” business owners stole land or labor, we’re pretty sure CdeBaca’s scheme would not stand up in court.
But CdeBaca is insistent it can be done, because she says that’s how they do things in California.
9News checked out her claim.
CdeBaca was wrong.
CdeBaca cited San Francisco’s Legacy Business Program as a “similarly aimed” system as her race-based tax idea.
San Francisco’s Legacy Business Program supports long-standing small businesses at risk of displacement due to development and gentrification, but the race of business owners is not considered, according to a representative of the program.
California meanwhile is considering paying reparations to descendants of African slaves in the form of annual checks, also known as socialism.
Denver voters shunned the more progressive candidates in the mayoral election. It will be interesting to see if the radical vote carries again in the 9th District.