CdeBaca faces a June 6 runoff to represent District 9. Her challenger, Darrel Watson, said he also supports racial reparations in the form of private business investment in underserved communities.
“Capitalism was built on stolen land, stolen labors, and stolen resources,” said CdeBaca, who identifies as a Democratic Socialist.
CdeBaca said a business improvement districts, or BID, could be used to enact a race-based tax on white-owned businesses.
“You could be collecting those extra taxes from white-led business all over the city and redistributing them to Black and Brown-owned businesses,” CdeBaca said.
Note that the NBC 9 News author writes Black and Brown in uppercase, whereas White is written in lowercase. This is part of the reason the term “equality” has been replaced with “equity.” They are not interested in equality; they want to belittle Whites — in this case quite literally.
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