Bruce’s Beach Family Speaks Out After LA Returns Seized Property
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Los Angeles county is returning beach-front property worth millions that was seized from an African American family a full century ago. The descendants of the original owners spoke with NBC’s Harry Smith on the “bittersweet” moment that was years in the making.
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Never sell. Lease it out forever, generational wealth.
Lol they can’t…the city set the terms of that…at 24 months. With an option to buy it for waaaaaaaay less than its worth…it’s messed up.
Dang I just typed that, should’ve read ur comment first 😂❤
@Mr. Felix They should first, add loss of income throughout the 100 years and the current value of the property. It should be running into billions.
They sold it back...SMH
@@santo8389 I was just about to type that.
I'm so happy that the Bruce family has gotten their property back
Even happier if the Bruce family returned the property to the indigenous people that lived there before them.
Congrats Bruce Family, you owned it for 7 minutes.
they sold it back for $20 million dollars, my God Lord in heaven
@@FamilyWinn at least they were properly compensated
@@johnhenningfield4360 good for them. I'm happy they were properly compensated
Never Sell It, it's worth $50-Million just from it's historical value
Anybody will sell if the price is right
Returning what they stole does not make up for the injustice of having taken it in the first place… justice has not yet been achieved here. “Here you go, here’s the parking lot that used to be your house. So we’re cool now right?”
No it doesn't, but its better than not returning it at all.
The collective current market value of all properties on said stolen land plus the cumulative amount of missed property tax revenue over the course of a century would total hundreds of millions of dollars in owed monies to the Bruce family. Factor in inflation plus restitution and they’d probably be the wealthiest people in that city. 🇺🇸
That's what I thought about. And if we ( Black people) were given ALL owed to us, yes, we could have had a whole different history of generational wealth.
I think the county duped the brother. He took the first offer of $400K without realizing it was all fraudulent conveyance on the county's part. This was a bad deal for him. Shame on the county for robbing black folks twice.
That's the kind of assessment I'm thinking of ...I hope the family will take it slow and weigh their options and get ad ice from some who know these things. Some sharp eyed predators are already circling, I'm sure
Not as much as the Native Indians, indigenous groups comprised as the First Nations etc. in the Americas.
@@royaldomain4055 as a mixed African American with Blackfoot Sioux and Choctaw blood in my veins, this country would go broke paying reparations to everyone who got robbed after 1492. We’d all be billionaires using gold as toilet paper and the Mexican border would reach up to Canada. 😂
City council refused to apologize smh. Ppl always show you how they feel about you
Why should they apologize the city Council was Not a live 100 years ago
@@1990758 yeah, none of them are still living!
So why even return the stolen property?
The people that stole it are dead, and the people it was stolen from are dead.
So.....no one should receive any compensation from the city, and the city shouldn't receive any blame for the theft, right?
Lmfao 😂
No, because that's just stupid!
We're talking about the CITY, not individual PEOPLE buddy!
the apology isn't about the individual people who serve on the city council.
It's about the city council, that currently represents the city, issuing an apology for the wrong doings by THE CITY to that family.
the speakers and representatives of the current city council have a job to do.
the same city council that did the wrong to this family 100 years ago, shouldn't have any problems with issuing an apology for the city's passed transgressions.
Bec the city council represent the city who stole the property
@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 I agree with your comment. But I understand life more as I get older that's how things were back then. I don't accept it but that's all things were. Me personally I set me personally I don't think well I well I would never take a reparation check. The government of today do not owe me anything for what happened in the past. I would rather black on black prime to go way down instead of having that beach back., My grandmother passed away at 94 years old there's old I talk to her lots of time she doesn't remember anyone and her family been a slave. But you never know.
@@1990758 yeah this news story we're watching isn't about slavery tho.....
Is it?
Slavery ended and then it took another 100 friggin years until equal rights finally became law.
That was back in 1965.
It took til the late 80's early 90's before schools were desegregated.
Pretty sure there's plenty of people still alive TODAY, who lived through that.
My great grandparents on my dad's side, were slaves.
My great great grandfather on my mom's side was a confederate.
Yeah....change happens.
Don't sell!!! Yeea for them.
Justice delayed but finally done
lease or keep but do not sell, no matter what.
Agreed. They can raise all the money they need.
I got bad news for you...
Keep leasing it, Never sell please!
I pray I will continue to see more and more stories like this. What God got for you....God got for you. The curse of poverty is dead
Congrats Bruce Family, you owned it for 7 minutes.
As one of the privileged, I’m still waiting for all that money and property that my ancestors piled up so I would have the easy life. I had to go to work straight out of high school and paid for my own college because my parents couldn’t afford to. And to top it off, I spent years saving for a down payment and kept up good credit just so I could get a home loan. It seems like the right way to do thing based on what my father taught us, but it just don’t match the stereotype.
DONT SELL, employee your kids and keep it going .....
But, 20 millionfor its value today?I'm no real estate person but I think they're being low- balled!! I hope they negotiate a better price or develope it themselves
They are.
It was probably a take it or leave it and you know most people are gonna take it you would do the same thing
The Daily Breeze says they are selling the property back. It's in today's paper. Jan 3, 2023. And for the city council not willing to apologize is disheartening and sad.
If you start returning all the land seized by eminent domain in this country, there would be no public land. Highways, parks, schools, water towers, communication towers, beaches…. Most are sitting on land forcibly seized through imminent domain.
I do hope that they are smart about cultivating and developing it for Generational Wealth! If not, then lease the property back to Huntington Beach for $20,000,000.00 pet year!
If they don't, they will get what they deserve! Their ancestors, will turn over in their graves! NEVER SELL IT BACK!! Taxes, will take it all!
it is in Manhattan Beach as the story says... and the property is likely worth 10 times what they are being given
@@pierremihatov3483 Yes! I know!! $20 million is no money, for 100 years or a life time! After taxes, they may end up with 1 million!! 😳 Their ancestors purchased the land, and was forbidden to live on it! Sad!!
Don't tell me they are selling??? They can't be that daft.
They are selling it back for $20M..SMH
They sold it back for 20m
Have the family started taking each other to Court yet for
their share of the money ?
The Bruce family should sue the local county for loss of income for over 100 years, and they're still on their horses to offer an apology.
You got robbed sir. They took it from your ancestors and you gave it back for far less than it's worth. I wish you leased the land.
Invest the income in the S&P500, and get compound interest, generational wealth forever!!
Those Thieves can't have anything in this country!
We have the record we also have the records for slaves 🤦🏾♂️
They won the lottery and are smiling all the way to the bank!
The property was seized under eminet domain the Bruce family was paid for the land a hunderd years ago. There's no reports they were gyped. Technically L.A county would not have had to return anything to Bruce family since L.A county paid the family for the land a hunderd years ago.
“Technically” wasn’t the property taken from them under “eminent domain”? Which sat vacant? Knowing the back story and the obvious racism & jealousy towards the Bruce family why wouldn’t L.A. county finally make it right? I’m sure if given the option, the Bruce family would have never sold that land. I noticed no mention about compensation for decades of lost revenue.
@@incognito3743 under eminent domain landownsers are paid for their property. Weather it sat vacant or not is irrelevent. Just b/c they are black does not make it automatically racist. There are no reports of this or anyother family not getting paid. There's nothing to return since L.A county paid the family for the land a hunderd years ago.
@chronicreader pretty much and acutal data are two seperate things. It does not change the fact under eminent domain means this family was already paid for this land.
If you tell white people they are right, it makes their day.
@@glassesstapler no we don't care to be patronized
I can’t believe they sold it back for only 20 million
Seriously. It's a tragedy. It makes the whole thing seem like a scripted front. I wonder if the something we don't know that the state/county did that forced them to sell. If so, it just goes to prove, not much has changed.
Please don't sell it back! This is your family's generational wealth and legacy.
If the price is right they will and my neighborhood in the mid 90s We had a couple black businesses but the price was right so they sold out noun the only thing we have is a black Barber shop
@@1990758 you're probably right. But to sell it back to the people who stole it from them would be an abomination. Getting that land back was a miracle. There is so much black land that was stolen that the families who originally owned it will never get it back. Plus that land is probably worth more than the $20 million the city is offering them. I wish the Bruces understood the importance of generational wealth.
@@queenbee4350 Do you know of any other land in any state that similar to this situation. I think they would have settled for 15 million.
Property taxes will be astronomical unless they waive to repay the family for the lost revenue in the last century.
@@1990758 Ohio, but I can't elaborate in the comment section of a RUclips post. You'll just have to take my word for it.
I don’t know but 20 million doesn’t seem to be enough
It's a lot better than getting nothing who want a zero that was Bruce livelihood and they took it away from him like nothing and now his bloodline get to reap the benefits as they should
It’s not. There’s homes near the beach worth more than that.
It's not!
It's worth way more than that!
@$hiek Yobooty The Bruce's are the real authentic native Americans. Media lies to society.
@Xecutioner all other places belongs to the native americans go take that
Can you return Mexico land too 😂😂
It doesn't belong to Mexico it belonged to the melanated Aboriginals who inhabited here before the Spainards arrived then the 20 yrs of Mexican occupation.
Gotta see what's left first lol
No need to. ! Half of Mexico is
already here ...
I thought the KKK were only in the South… 🤔
*This is sarcasm for the simpleminded.*
Kkk was all over America !!!
20 million is an insult
1 Billion would be a start. 100 family members get 10 million each. Plus the land.
Beautiful story!
Nothing beautiful about this story, it's rather SAD and EVIL of the past.
@@paygorenewableenergy312 you're entitled to your opinion, as well as mine. You're a pessimist person and I'm an optimistic person. Beautiful story!
Congrats Bruce Family, you owned it for 7 minutes.
What's not so beautiful is that they are selling the property back to the state for 20 million. Yes, it's nice they have that money but what do you think is worth more? And, was it really their choice to sell it back? If not, has anything really changed? Food for thought.
@@danamej that's the families decision, not yours. Yall always running in the victim Olympics
Reparation? Sheesh, give the family back their own property already.
Aint not reparations.😐
Don't sell it's worth much more and as being a FBA it's your land
lets be happy for them and hope it happens all over America so that poverty could be reduced in the Black communties.
I wish all white Americans adopted all of us, just so we could get stuff passed down to us up until they die.
A tiny bit of justice!
Congratulations to the Bruce descendants on this major victory! It's impossible to fully absorb the cruel injustice his great-grandparents endured as their dreams for prosperity & generational wealth was illegally stolen from them by racist whites who were threatened by their success. It should be noted that the respected and industrious Bruce family is just one of countless African-Anericans who were victimized by systematic racism to the level of having their businesses destroyed, land stolen and "American Dreams" anillHATED. An egregiously insulting offer of $20 million is clear evidence this evil is still genetically rooted in the political fibers of this community. Please honor your ancestors memory and don't sell "them" absolutely 💩💩!! Maintain total ownership and begin to reap the generational weath that was stolen.
Reparations should hundreds of millions
No one living today should get a penny because most people don’t care about our ancestors only in February
Yeah it's worth 300 million!!!
Not 20!
That lowball offer is just insulting!
1 Billion dollars equals 10 million each for 100 years lost income in a trust, because... hm. They need a new lawyer.
What does it matter? They are getting 20mil for NOTHING!!! IT'S such bS that because they are of a certain shade, they get anything!!! What happened 100 years ago is NOBODY'S fault today!!! At this rate they should strt paying the native Americans back too. Which I think would be better!!
In a 100 years it will STILL be seen as an unfair sale. The Bruce family should give the money to the Chilula Indian tribe whole stole it from the Kumeyaay tribe who took it from the Chumash people.
Nope. Native Americans got casinos and tribal land
How do you deal with this in Virginia?
What's up "Cousin"! Raise the rent!
Please don't sell it deny there offer
I'm a Bruce and would like to visit?
An interview with the ghost, Derrick V. Bruce. Do we learn anything about the gentleman? About his life? Did he graduate from high school, from college? Has a wife? A job? Served his country? Nope. But at least we see him.
Sold it back for peanuts !! I don't get it !!
They had no choice.
I think that the former land of Bruce's Beach would be a perfect site for a California African American Museum. There is already one such museum in Exposition Park near USC, but it would great if the legacy of Bruces Beach lived on in a permanent museum or memorial, not just a tombstone-looking rock with some words etched into, something more substantive and teachable. Would be better than just some "real estate", commercial strip mall or an empty park.
What about the Native Americans who owned the land originally? Shouldn’t the land go back to them? I feel for the Bruce’s and they should be compensated. But the native tribe is the real victim.
Native Americans owned the land
What's crazy is these people are Native Americans just because today the government identifies them as black doesn't mean the family or not original Aborigines and indigenous.
all the other land other than what blacks live on is open game for the indians to reclaim. dont come to deny us further. we will win eventually or ultimately. slavery was wrong. jim crow was wrong and it must be righted. blacks will be rich once again.
@@tinathomas8593 thank you for beeing part of the group who knows the real history. So called black Americans are the true natives!
Just wait for the property taxes to kick in on the property they'll sell
Unless they city waives it as reparation.
Wouldnt be surprised
There should be no taxes for 100 years. They need better lawyers.
He, u mean they already took an offer?? OMG! When will we learn to research, get input from those who know about these type deals?? OMG I'm sad now
They probably were talking to too many people and you know the lawyer probably got his cut