California Governor Gavin Newsom’s own reparations task force has recommended $1.2M in taxpayer cash for every qualifying black resident in California —Newsom has stayed silent so far.
According to a Fox News report, the California Reparations Task Force, which was created by state legislation Newsom signed in 2020, has been working on this decision for nearly two years; now its findings will be submitted to the California legislature.
If the recommendations clear the legislature, they will head to Newsom’s desk.
“This has been a fool’s errand from the start,” James Gallagher, California Assembly Republican Leader, told Fox News Digital. “Democrats have promised the world with this reparations task force, and now the massive taxpayer bill is coming due. Newsom has painted himself into a corner, and he’ll have to choose between signing off on a ridiculous policy that will bankrupt the state or admitting once and for all that this task force was nothing more than a political stunt.”
From Fox News:
The task force’s recommendation breaks payments down by types of historical discrimination. For instance, Black residents affected by redlining by banks would receive $3,366 for each year they lived in California from the early 1930s to the late 1970s, amounting to up to $148,099.
Similarly, Black residents could receive roughly $2,352 in compensation for over-policing and mass incarceration for each year they lived in California between 1970 and 2020. Those payments could amount to $115,260.
The task force recommends giving just under $360,000 per person to approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the U.S., putting the total cost of the program at about $640 billion, exceeding the state budget by more than double.
In total, from these and other payments included in the plan, a Black Californian who is 71 years old and has lived in California his entire life could receive up to $1.2 million, according to analysis from the New York Times.
Some proponents of reparations think $1.2M doesn’t go far enough. Activist Reverend Tony Pierce says $200M per person is more accurate.
“You know that the numbers should be equivocal to what an acre was back then. We were given 40, OK? We were given 40 acres. You know what that number is. You keep trying to talk about now, yet you research back to slavery and you say nothing about slavery, nothing,” said Pierce. “So, the equivocal number from the 1860s for 40 acres to today is $200 million for each and every African-American.”
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