California Proposes Giving Beachfront Property to Black Descendants

Venice Beach- food giveaway in homeless encampment via wikimedia commons

The California State Senate recently passed a proposal that would authorize Los Angeles County to return beachfront property previously seized from two black owners to their descendants, the move is the latest in a long string of proposed reparations in the state.

Fox News reports:

The bill next heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk and while his office hasn’t indicated if he’ll sign it, the bill is widely popular, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

If signed, it would reportedly be the first law returning land to former Black owners to make amends for past discriminatory policies.

The effort started last summer during the anti-racism protest movement and after a petition demanding reparations at the beach circulated, the Daily News reported.

The bill “represents economic and historic justice,” state Sen. Steven Bradford told the Daily News, “and is a model of what reparations can truly look like.”



  1. That’s it? where are the rest of the facts? Was the property illegally seized? Eminent Domain issue? Seized and given to -gasp- white people?

    1. Thank you, John, you are one step ahead of me on these and many other questions. The headlines initially gave me great pause figuring that our boys and girls on the Left Coast had once again gone off the deep end, but after reading that the land was seized, many, many more questions come to mind. First was the Ancesters paid for the land (via eminent Domain or not)? Were they given fair market value for the land in any event? Are their decendants going to have to pay back any previous funds received by their ancesters, adjusted for inflation over the years? Far too many questions raised to make any type of assessment of the appropriateness of this proposal.

      1. NPR.ORG contains this:The rise and fall of Bruce’s BeachMarried couple Willa and Charles Bruce began purchasing land along the shoreline in the city of Manhattan Beach, just outside Los Angeles, in 1912.
        The pair ran a successful resort for Black families — the spot was quickly dubbed Bruce’s Beach — during a time when Jim Crow laws were common and Black people had limited access to the beach, the Southern California News Group reported.
        But white landowners suggested the growing Black population would depreciate land prices. They were also angry over the success of Bruce’s Beach.
        According to a report Manhattan Beach prepared in April, historical documents indicate that “white neighbors resented the resort’s growing popularity and prosperity of its African American owners.”
        Ultimately, it was the Bruces’ own government that ended their run in the seaside community.
        According to the text of the bill, the Manhattan Beach board of trustees voted in 1924 to condemn Bruce’s Beach and the surrounding land, taking control of it through eminent domain.

        1. That is a pretty good description of what happened the family was not given a fair market value as compared to other comparable park properties at the time and therefore they were also pushed out of the appreciation and the ability to operate a business and have a livelihood they were cut out of access in that area to the Pacific Ocean it was a very emotional and very racially predicated act of the government. This is a clear case of curing a long ago wrong. That use of eminent domain what’s wrong in the board voting to rectify this is an appropriate use of government power now. Most of the time there are no records and there is no way to go back and fix poor actions of the past. In this case there is documentary evidence therefore to be fair and just this miscarriage should be amended.

          1. What about Chavez Ravine where the whole town was taken over by eminent domain-churches, small businesses, mix low income mexican families who had lived there over 100 years? Town was reduced to a parking lot for the Dodgers. I remember as a child seeing the newspaper picture of an old man holding a shot gun in front of his home as the police came to evict him physically off his property. Bet no reparations will go to any of these families of mexican heritage.

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      3. Good one Lawrence – I did not mention that in eminent domain, the government is supposed to pay you fair market value or above at the time of the taking.

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    4. Remember, if this was a result of eminent domain – then the GOVERNMENT f-k-d up! But eminent domain is only supposed to be instituted for the good of many. If it like putting in I-5 or HWY 101 or even a park or to clean a blighted area for the good of all – not one race or a few. If this goes through (and Newsom is a lawyer), then it will start a rage of ’eminent domain’ force takings across the country, and the taxpayers, like always will pay 100% for all because the government only steals money from the backs of hard working American taxpayers – it does not make a dime. most of it goes in the politician’s and their relatives pockets.

    1. Maybe the state stole, we really don’t know HOW the state acquired it. Eminent domain, seized for back taxes, purchased at market value, perhaps even taken over upon the owners’ death
      & no NOK found. All are legitimate possibles that don’t include stealing anything from anyone.

      1. Well, if there are about 20+ relatives being repaired, seems there were NOK to be found, but disregarded. It’s not the State of CA, but the City of Manhattan Beach that is to blame.

  2. I had an ancestor killed fighting to free slaves during the Civil War. Where do I sign up for reparations for his death. I think descendants of freed slaves should pay reparations to descendants of white people who died for their ancestor’s freedom.

  3. I truly think the left has fell and busted that nogin pretty hard I think. They are a complete group of clowns, pedo’s, and freaks. And the thought that there is also someone that utterly ignorant and disgusting that thinks they walk on water. When in reality they are nothing but a moronic group of completely demented sickO’s that actually think their souls are protected. Bahahahahahahah Idiotic buffoons is all I see. Sad part even the Black folks are starting to get pissed with this attempt to screw up our country beyond saving.

  4. That is a racist attack on whites. Just give our money and property to blacks. No one of us owned blacks and no one alive now was ever a slave. Democrats are deepthroating blacks for votes. I thought paying for votes was illegal? Lock these stupid politicians up.Stop using tax dollars to buy votes.

    1. Not an attack on whites, just a return of property taken unjustly through a city’s (Manhattan Beach) eminent domain process. This is the resolution of an unlawful taking. No more, no less. No need to be afraid. And, about what you’re thinking? I’m more white and most likely more conservative/right-leaning than you.

      1. Wait until the Indians hear about this. Wait ’till the Spanish hear about this. Wow! Who gets the beachfront property? Might open a real big can of worms. Oh, goody. Anything that makes life difficult for Californians is OKAY with me!

  5. I agree with giving the beachfront property away. I think that the entire stretch of Malibu should be seized from the current owners and given to them.

    1. Yup, that picture is deceptive, makes you think that whole stretch of strand is to be given away.

      Item #2 – I can’t imagine the property taxes that will come with acquiring that property. YIKES!!!

  6. They should pass reparations to the white tax payers while they are at it.
    Actually all California tax payers have had much of their money stolen, kinda like the gas taxes that go to ineficient bus routs and trains to nowhere while electric cars go free.

  7. Next they’ll mandate that beachfront property in West Africa be gifted to the descendants of the BLACK slave marketers who sold other blacks all over the world for profit. Yup. That’ll show ’em!

    By the way, what are the particulars in this case? Was it justified to seize the land? Tax issues? WHAT??

    Next thing we see from Commiefornia will be them issuing million dollar reparations checks to convicted murderers, rapists and thieves as they are walking out the prison gates. Black ones, that is. Whitey will remain behind bars.

    I keep asking myself “can it get any worse?”, and then it does.

  8. Lots of misinformation in comments.
    I’ve been a resident of MB since 1957.

    1) There is no evidence to show that white neighbors were concerned about property values. Undoubtedly there were some, but not everyone as some comments suggest.
    2) A number of white land owners near the Bruce’s lost their property also in the eminent domain proceedings. Should descendants of those families get reparations as well?
    3) The Bruce’s were indeed given fair market value. They went to court to get more and lost their case.
    4) The task force was primarily comprised of activists determined to mete out “social justice” They pressured the present city council to issue a formal apology, which according to numerous attorneys, would have opened the city to lawsuits. The City did issue a formal acknowledgement of what happened.
    5) We presently have a number of black families living in MB. The property values are extremely high; if we hadn’t bought our home in 1971, there’s no way we could afford to live here. Every one of the neighbors on our block is either a doctor, a dentist, or a CEO. Our street is also diverse; we have Middle Eastern, Filipino and Vietnamese families on our block alone.

  9. While their at it give ’em Newsome’s paychecks as he stole that money too!!! Should just take the entire state/west coast and wall it off from the rest of the US and hand it over to the left-wing morons so they can create their Socialist Eutopia they’ve always wanted and the rest of us can get back to being the greatest country on earth without the left flushing anymore of it down the drain!!! And when their Eutopian society collapses they won’t have nobody to blame but themselves and they can live out the remaining days in misery!!!

  10. How about they make the ancestors of those that took it from them, pay the ancestors of those that had it taken? Who where the Manhattan Beach Board of Trustees in 1924?

  11. Well, now that I think about it, who did they buy it from? Was it taken from somebody before? American Indians maybe? How far back should we go?

  12. If the land was illegally seized just because the owners were Black, then this is not reparation, it is righting a wrong that was done. But I agree that a lot more information needs to be revealed about why the land was seized in the first place.

  13. Give beach front property to black ppl? Ok, start with property owned by Hollywood actors, government elected state & Federal reps, and tech mogels.

  14. This is absolutely one of the dumbest things I ever heard. Soon all the monies will be given to all the poor, the buildings to all the homeless, the parks to all the criminals…

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