Florida Ballot Measure Would Ban Slavery Reparations

Florida Politics reports:

Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wants to end the debate in Florida over whether reparations should be paid to descendants of slaves — by banning it in the state constitution. On Monday, he filed a resolution (SJR 582) that would place a question on the 2024 ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment prohibiting any government in Florida from “paying reparations to certain individuals.”

Those individuals, the measure says, include anyone with an ancestor who was “an enslaved individual who lived in the United States before Dec. 6, 1865.” Ingoglia, a former Florida GOP Chair, is no stranger himself to resorting to race-baiting to score political points. In February, he filed a billtitled the “Ultimate Cancel Act” that would have eliminated the Democratic Party for once including slavery as part of its platform.

Read the full article. Ingoglia previously appeared here for a bill to undermine teachers unions and a bill that would have banned giving water to people waiting in line to vote. His February 2023 bill to ban the Democratic Party never got a hearing. In May 2023, the state legislature passed his bill to retroactively invalidate Disney’s agreement with its special district’s outgoing board.

Senator proposes banning reparations for descendants of slaves

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