Posted on 05/03/2023 7:31:07 AM PDT by Signalman
The State of California is one step closer to paying reparations to Black residents whose ancestry goes back to the American slave trade.
The California Reparations Task Force released estimates, as well as breakdowns of the methodology used to determine the amounts, on Monday ahead of a critical vote that will take place later this week.
The possible payments reflect the work of economists who advised the task force and who were asked to estimate the total financial losses suffered by Black Californians impacted by slavery and institutional racism.
As outlined by the San Francisco Chronicle, an eligible resident who lived in California their whole life and was 71 or older could, in theory, receive as much as $1.2 million.
If approved, the task force would urge that the money begin to be disbursed in the form of “down payments,” according to CalMatters.
A new state agency would need to be established to distribute funds and determine eligibility, CalMatters writes. That agency would also help Black Californians trace their lineage to confirm that they are eligible for the payments.
Those who qualify could receive various payments to compensate for the injustices of “over-policing” of Black communities, discrimination in housing, and inequity in the health care system, CalMatters wrote.
Each of those categories includes a maximum payment based on specific timeframes. For instance, a Black Californian who lived in the state between 1971 and 2020 could receive as much as $2,352 per year due to “over-policing.”
Additionally, the task force may also recommend for the State of California to formally apologize for slavery, as well as state laws and actions that members say actively discriminated against Black residents, including enforcement of the federal fugitive slave law, prohibition of interracial marriage, the construction of monuments that glorify the Confederacy, as well as open segregation and discriminations in the arts.
The task force will meet Saturday at Mills College in Oakland to vote on the proposals. If able to come to an agreement, a formal proposal would be drafted and eventually sent to the California legislature to be voted upon.
The proposals would likely face strong opposition from Republican lawmakers, and some moderate Democrats, the Chronicle suggests.
The California Reparations Task Force was established in September 2020 following the passage of State Assembly Bill 3121, which cleared the way for the state to evaluate the financial impact of slavery on Black residents and determine the best means to repay those who have had been adversely affected by American slavery, which has had long-lasting reverberations for more than 150 years after it ended.
Does that include the ones whose families immigrated here after slavery. Do they get paid, too?
I think I will move to California and get a good tan.....................
That “Task Force” continues to live and operate in a fantasy world. It’s a hive mind mentality, with never a discouraging word.
CA doesn’t have the money to pay out these proposed “reparations,” but the Democrats will somehow stick the U.S. taxpayers with the bill.
The native Indian tribes of California might have a different idea of who should be first in line for reparations.
( just another thing to agitate and worsen race relations. Democrats are the party of division par excellence)
That this proposal isn’t a lame joke demonstsrates that state of California will never give up it’s way too kind title, “The land of nuts and fruits.” There is not one logical assumption or aspect of this proposal. Clearly the crafters want to finish the economic and social and moral demise of the big state. “Divide and conquer” is now “Divide the population in a tremendously huge bank heist and brag about how smart you were to do so \>”
I see stuff like this, done by “government” and realize that America needs, and is heading towards, bankruptcy.
My daughter’s DNA test shows her Mother’s DNA as 2% Nigerian and mine as 1%. Will someone gimme dat too?
You are not very imaginative.
They don't have the money to pay their $5 million + $194K/year x 20 - and they never will.
But the first time they pay ONE FECKING DOLLAR as a "downpayment", the fragile civil peace that still prevails will be over for good - which is the goal.
There will be add-on taxes "to pay what we owe". Every budget cycle will be dominated by "how much from the whites this time? As of 2046, they still owe 94%".
A debt from Group X to group Y simply cannot be allowed to be written into law, not even if the first payment is one cent.
Sounds like there's a lot of highly intelligent people what put in a lot of work and thinking. It must be the right thing to do. /s
Pure eff'n propaganda.
when does my family get compensated for fighting in all these wars?...when does my father get his money for leaving high school to join the Navy in WW2?...or my mother who worked in a TB hospital as a Navy nurse?
IF...California can afford it, the worst elements of society will spread across the nation, bringing incredible inflation and destruction with them.
I’ve just decided to identify as an African American. Down with the racist patriarchy and give me my reparations!
Cause and effect...Slavery is not the cause of their. Give them a mule and an acre in the Grand Canyon...and let them go at it.
Why? How much is whitey and his amigos gonna get? Just asking for a friend.
Californians are a bunch of stupid dumbazzes.
How much do the Caucasians who busted their asses working and paying taxes so these same people could live off the government for their entire lives going to get?
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