Posted on 06/22/2022 7:48:40 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
'Reparations Task Force' recommends free health care, child support forgiveness for black residents
Black Californians could enjoy child support forgiveness, free college, free health care, fewer police, and a long-term "truth and reconciliation commission" should Golden State lawmakers pass the proposals outlined this week by the state's Reparations Task Force.
Following a 2020 law to study the subject, a panel of left-wing academics and policymakers on Wednesday released their findings on how California can remedy the harm against the state's black residents caused by slavery and discrimination. All black Californians are eligible for the benefits of the program if they can prove they are "descendants of African Americans enslaved in the U.S. or of free Black people living in the country before the end of the 19th century." A new state agency, called the California African American Freedmen Affairs Agency, would provide genealogical tests for residents.
The 492-page report lists the task force's "preliminary findings and recommendations." The final report is scheduled to be released in July of next year.
Here are eight of the most radical proposals:
1. Child support forgiveness The panel recommends that California eliminate overdue child support owed to the government by black parents who no longer have custody of their children. Black Californians would also no longer need to "reimburse the state for current or past government assistance" related to child support.
The panel also recommends the elimination of all interest payments on past child support owed by black Californians.
Under current California law, families that receive government assistance such as food stamps must deduct the cost of those programs from court-ordered child support payments. If an individual in California does not pay child support, he is essentially fined for forcing his child to use state services. The logic of the current law is that the state should not pay for financial support that a parent otherwise provides.
2. Establish a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission,' destroy ‘anti-black memorials and monuments' The task force recommends the establishment of a commission named after the 1996 South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was created following the end of apartheid to identify human rights violations against the majority black population during their time living under white-only rule. The task force also recommends the state "create forms of acknowledgement and apology for acts of political disenfranchisement" and destroy all "anti-Black memorials and monuments," presumably identified by the task force.
Pervasive "police violence against and extrajudicial killings of African Americans occur in California as they do in the rest of the country," the panel concludes. As part of an effort to help heal the state's black community, the panel recommends the state fund art that acknowledges the "trauma of state-sanctioned white supremacist terror."
3. Free college education The task force recommends the state eliminate tuition for all California colleges, as well as offer funding to create black-owned K-12 schools and colleges. Black Californians should also receive scholarships to "cover four years of undergraduate education" at presumably any university in the country, the task force finds.
The task force also recommends that the state "identify and eliminate racial bias and discriminatory practices" in standardized tests, including the SAT, LSAT, and the state Bar exam, with no elaboration on how this would be done. To further "antiracist" education in the state, all California schools must adopt a curriculum that "advances the ideology of Black liberation."
4. Trees in black neighborhoods for ‘shade equity' In the name of ending so-called environmental racism, the task force recommends the state fund the "planting of trees to create tree shade equity."
5. Less McDonalds, more Whole Foods The task force wants to "reduce the density" of fast-food restaurants, and promote the opening of "healthy retailers," such as Whole Foods and farmer's markets, in majority-black neighborhoods.
6. Decrease the police The task force calls for an end to "discriminatory policing and particularly killings, use of force, and racial profiling" of black Americans. That means a review of every incarcerated black Californian "to determine whether they have been wrongfully convicted or have received longer or harsher sentences than white people convicted of the same or similar crimes."
The task force recommends fewer police in black communities. The "scope of law enforcement jurisdiction" must be curtailed and replaced with "more funding for prevention and mental health care." Law enforcement should also issue fewer citations at liquor and tobacco stores in black neighborhoods.
7. Free health care Black Californians should be entitled to free health care, the task force finds. All black Californians who suffered from the country's "anti-Black health care system" should be entitled to financial compensation as well.
To create more black doctors and health care professionals, the task force recommends that the state engage in more affirmative action programs and a "race-conscious public health policy."
8. Cash payments to close ‘racial wealth gap'
Get paid to stay at home... universal income.
I was about to denounce this. But, hey. It’s exactly what Californians voted for. As long as no federal money is involved, they can do what they want.
Side note #1: This sort of thing is extremely divisive and extremely corrosive. So Californians, please keep this idiocy confined to your own borders.
Side note #2: Yes, I do feel for the many conservative Californians. You guys are stuck on a Titanic not of your own making.
ok,here we go. Now the liberals are pushing reparations for slavery.
My unanswered question is, what about all the affirmative action programs which have been implemented in recent decades, to make up for the discrimination of the past? Why are those efforts apparently just simply not good enough, and are ignored as they come up with all these new proposals for handouts to right a wrong which affected people who are long since dead?
You clowns don’t understand the legal intent of economic reparations. They are to leave the person in the same economic condition that they would currently face if the “event” did not happen. Do the math. Most US slaves came from the area now associated with Angola and the Congo. Comparing income levels for blacks in the US and those countries, each black in the US owes every non-black US citizen approximately $14,000/year since the Emancipation Proclamation, adjusted backwards for inflation.
I can’t wait to get my first check...
5. Less McDonalds, more Whole Foods The task force wants to “reduce the density” of fast-food restaurants, and promote the opening of “healthy retailers,” such as Whole Foods and farmer’s markets, in majority-black neighborhoods.
What if Whole Foods isn’t profitable in those neighborhoods? Are they required to stay and have a losing business, so they can prove they aren’t racist?
I think it’s a great idea as long as the funds are taken from CA taxes, and no federal money can be obligated to its expense.
Let the blue collar hispanics, asians, stupid white people and the Hollywood elite pay for it.
” Less McDonalds, more Whole Foods The task force wants to “reduce the density” of fast-food restaurants, and promote the opening of “healthy retailers,” such as Whole Foods and farmer’s markets, in majority-black neighborhoods.”
Pretty sure the shoplifting and looting epidemic in these black neighborhoods will highly discourage this.
Minorities should move to California. Like the dust bowl migration. This should be advertised nationwide. Free everything.
I cannot understand why anyone who doesn’t have their head up their ass would live in that insane state.
This only further proves that liberals live in an alternative universe, a fantasy land, a utopia of their own mental construct. They really are mentally ill.
And arresting shoplifters and looters is “racist.” Looters are just getting their “fair share” and if rioters burn a store down, that’s “social justice.” And it is a “racist conspiracy” for businesses to flee such an environment.
Now that we open this door, to have programs to supposedly right the wrongs of history, what else will be done, in the interest of “fairness”?
What about historic discrimination against Hispanic people, Asian people, homosexuals, women?
What about people such as coal miners, who were exploited in God forsaken coal camps in Appalachia?
What about historic discrimination against immigrants such as Irish and Italian and Slavic peoples?
What about historic discrimination against laborers in dangerous industrial jobs over a century ago?
This list could go on and on, if we establish the concept that we need to pay reparations today, to people who descended from those who were discriminated against by today’s standards, sometime in the distant past.
Reparations are a scam.........nobody alive today is a slave....and nobody alive today had slaves. It’s BS.
So if all this wonderfulness is given to black folks, does that mean there will be no more gangs, no more looting, no more welfare, no more free phones, free food, etc?
This would be a final settlement of all grievances held by idiots who were never slaves over past slavery and that black people will no longer use race as an issue?
We all know that none of this will do a thing for race issues caused by the gaslighters here in the US.
It boggles the mind, doesn’t it? California’s anti-slavery laws were one of the reasons the whole abolitionist movement started in the US. They didn’t want slaves used for mining gold.
Oh yes, of course! They will never demand anything else once they get their checks in the mail. This will end the issue forever. Phew, no more demands and angry foot stomping by them, and no more burning down cities, and no more destroying white peoples businesses, and no more screams of “racism” “white supremac” and “white privilege” because now they will have their reparations which equalize everything once and for all /s
Nope none of that matters as blacks are the only ones allowed to have their grievances of any kind considered for massive payments (which Wil. Never end)
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