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Something's going on in California that I want to share with you. And there is a black family here in

Southern California that had a beachfront property.

And it was taken away, I think it was the city of Huntington Beach, Southern California in Orange County.

And the city took away this family's property.

They had this resort primarily for black clientele.

Matter of back, it was exclusively black clientele.

And this was at the turn of the last century.

And I guess black people can't be successful.

So the government comes in, grabs their land by eminent domain.

Eminent domain is a concept in which a government can literally take away land from someone

for the public good, putting in a road, for example, building a park, usually it's roads, and

the person whose land is being eminently domined upon has to be paid a reasonable price.

First thing that happens is the governmental entity goes and

we want to buy your land because we're going to put a road here. And you say, no, not interested.

Well, there is a system by which that land is going to go to the government and that's eminent domain.

So that happened to this black family in Huntington Beach.

And this family, the descendants, got the land back two, three years ago.

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