California inches closer to reparations
Shared By Peter Boykin – American Political Commentator / Citizen Journalist
California inches closer to reparations
California moved one step closer to paying black residents up to $1.2 million each in reparations for slavery after an official task force approved its recommendations recently.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom created the nine-member panel back in September 2020 and tasked them with coming up with a list of reparation recommendations for the state to implement.
The numbers: A black person who has lived in California for 71 years could receive up to $1.2 million dollars. That number is based on several provisions of the panel’s final report, including the number of years they’ve been impacted by:
mass incarceration and over-policing, up to $115,260
lending and zoning redlining, up to $148,099
gaps between black and white “housing wealth,” up to $145,847
plus a laundry list of other provisions
Who is eligible under this plan? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are over 2.5 million black Californians who could be eligible.
What do Americans think? According to a Pew Research poll: 77% of black Americans support reparations. But other races overwhelmingly reject them, with 68% of the overall population opposing.
What happens next? The California legislature is expected to prose a bill based on this panel’s recommendation sometime next year.
Honestly, Reparations are immoral. They take from Americans who never owned slaves and give to other Americans who never were enslaved. There’s no justice in this. But California will do what California does. This is what you get when you elect psychopaths.
[Source: Daily Wire, Pew Research]
