State’s reparations task force estimates Black residents of California could receive $223,200 each in reparations payments.
From The Daily Caller:
The nine-member task force, authorized by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, recommended $569 billion total in reparations for black residents due to the effects of housing discrimination, though the number could increase before the final recommendations are due June 2023, according to the NYT. Currently, 6.5% of California’s population, or 2.5 million people, identify as black or African-American. “We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction,” said Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and member of the task force said, according to the NYT. “That is why we must put forward a robust plan, with plenty of options.” To be eligible for the reparations, one must be a descendant of enslaved African Americans or of a “free black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,” according to the NYT. The main areas identified by the task force for reparations were housing discrimination, mass incarceration, unjust property seizures, devaluation of Black businesses and health care, yet the estimated $569 billion, or $223,200 per person, only addresses housing discrimination between 1933 to 1977.
