Calif. Reparations Task Force Split on Eligibility; Decision Delayed

California Globe ^ | February 25, 2022 | EVAN SYMON

[artichokegrower]

The Reparations Task Force voted Thursday 5-4 to delay a vote on the matter of who will be eligible for reparations, surprising many who believed that they would come a definite decision on the issue.

The Reparations Task Force was created in 2020 when AB 3121 was passed and signed into law. The bill established the “Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” with the task force charged with documenting and looking into issues surrounding slavery in California, including denying free and runaway blacks into the state pre-1865. Most critically, the task force is to issue recommendations if any kind of reparations are to be given. Specifically, the task force, comprised of 9 members selected by the Governor, Assembly, and Senate, is also to set parameters on who would be eligible for possible reparations and how reparations, most likely cash, would be distributed.

[artichokegrower]

The task force first met in June of 2021 but soon came up to a major issue of who receive reparations. In previous months, Secretary of State Shirley Weber has said that reparations would only be given to direct descendants of slaves. However, other members of the task force have since said that they would want to back a system where all black Californians would be covered in a tier-like system. While descendants of slaves would be at the top of the tier for receiving reparations, other black Californians hurt by “historic and systemic racism” could still receive funds. Mixed-race Californians with black ancestry and recent black immigrants from overseas countries would, theoretically, also be able to receive funds under such a tiered system.

In that this is California and anyone can declare what sex they are I have decided to claim that I am African American. Where’s the money honey?

[posterchild]

I think my ancestors came from Africa about 60000 years ago. Where is my money???

[deks]

What about William Ellison's descendents?

Ellison, was a U.S. cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War.

He eventually became one of the wealthiest property owners in the state.

According to the 1860 census he owned 63 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina.

[dragnet2]

What will this cost the CA tax payers?

[DazedVet]

Democrats buying votes program bound to really piss off everyone else.

I think giving out crack pipes would get a bigger bang for the buck.

[HKMk23]

Yyyyeeeaaahhh....

Don’t go talkin’ ‘bout “bang for the buck” in South Central.
I mean... you could prolly get votes that way, but... jus’ sayin’...

[Salman]

It's not about black slavery. There was never black slavery in California.

It reparations to be paid by the losers of the civil war that's going on right now.

[Night Hides Not]

Simple solution: go back to the original deal: 40 acres and a mule. US Govt owns millions of acres of Nevada desert.

[CoastWatcher]

There were no slaves in California; but the state did confiscate untold ranches owned by Mexicans who were living there long before it was a US territory.