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The California Reparations Task Force, a Governor-appointed body, has estimated that the state’s payouts to modern-day descendants of Black slaves could total as much as $569 billion.
A 550-page report from the task force is the first government-commissioned study on harms against the Black community since the 1968 Kerner Commission report ordered by President Lyndon Johnson, according to task force president Kamilah Moore.
The task force projects that California residents who are recognized descendants of slaves could be eligible for as much as $223,200 per person as part of an effort to redress historical housing discrimination.
The number estimated by the task force after it multiplied “the average-per capita housing wealth gap” with the number of Black residents living in California in 1980. However, the task force also acknowledged that not all Black residents in California were descendants of enslaved African Americans, or were subject to the discriminatory housing practices of the state between 1933 and 1977.
“So, the community eligibility will be based on lineage determined by an individual being African American, the descendant of a (person enslaved as chattel) or descendant of a free-Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,” Moore said during an April task force meeting, as reported by Black Voice News.
Although California was never a slave state, it still had segregationist policies in the post-civil war period, with a rise in racial violence against African Americans that began during slavery, and peaked in the years after World War II, when new opportunities resulted in African American families attempting to move into historically white neighborhoods, according to the findings of the task force.
“Reparations are designed to repair and heal the damages done to Africans for 400 years who (suffered) through Jim Crow (laws),” California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said at a January task force meeting. “Recent immigrants do not share our common oppression at the same level. … Reparations are for those who are descendants of slavery. Their ties are permanently severed from their homeland and their ability to return to Africa is almost impossible. We are truly Americans.”
In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan hosted more events in California than in Louisiana or Mississippi, according to the report from the task force.
The report also cited discriminatory policies on a federal level that negatively affected African American Californians, including redlining. Black neighborhoods were destroyed to construct parks and highways, according to the task force.
“Government laws and policies perpetuating badges of slavery have helped white Americans accumulate wealth, while erecting barriers that have prevented African Americans from doing the same. These harms compounded over generations, resulting in an enormous gap in wealth between white and African Americans today in the nation and in California,” reads an excerpt of of the executive summary of the 2022 interim report.
Santa Clarita had a close brush with hate groups in the late 1960s, when a San Fernando man and “Grand Cyclops” or chief officer of the California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, held a faux cross burning at an address on Soledad Canyon Road near Capra Road,in the eastern reaches of the Santa Clarita Valley.
Local Santa Clarita representative, Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, voted in favor of AB 3121, which established the Reparations Task Force. Upon being contacted by KHTS for comment on the findings of the task force, Wilk determined that he needed more time to provide meaningful thought on the complex issue.
Requests for comment to the office of newly-elected Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Simi Valley have gone unanswered as of the publication of this article.
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This is absolutely ridiculous. People burned the USA history sites, flags and made teams change their name and now this? Where and what are people thinking? Because I’m Indian descent are you going to give more land to the Indian you took away? Backpay them pain and suffering you caused them? Every person of any color originally did not come from the US and that’s a part of history we can’t forget. Why are going believing nonsense? I’m not saying this in any racial context so don’t take it that way but stop it with the hand outs.
So how about reparations for the descendants of the families kicked out of Chavez Ravine – to build Dodger Stadium. Or the descendants of Irish that were inscribed into the union army when they stepped off the ships in New York during the civil war. There are so many groups that can claim some sort of harm done to their families in the past that while I support some sort of reparation to those slave-descendants; I really fear that this is the beginning of the snowball rolling downhill as more groups step up to claim their “share” of “damages” done to their families in the past.
California ‘leadership’ continues to demonstrate that they are products of our failed educational system. Get ready for influx of African Americans that will dwarf the invasion from the southern border in 3..2..
Will the primitive African tribes that still exist in Africa that enslaved them before selling & trading them & the Middle East Muslims tribes that stole the Africans as well as white peoples they kidnapped & enslaved also chip in for reparations?! Will the victimhood & whinnying/blaming for their chosen failures in the wonderful USA where one can become anything they honestly work hard for ever end?! Constantly claiming victimhood never works!!
It’s all for the vote…. look at gascon, still there, why? keeps criminals out of jail, and those families voted for him. Newsom doesn’t care about any of you or the state of California. All he cares about is controlling the sheep..
I’m so glad I moved from that toilet. The blacks should be paying for this as the are the ones who sold their own people.. this is about the dumbest bill I have every seen.. billions of dollars wasted on 400yrs ago.. booo whooo get over yourselves and get a job, plenty out there..
Blacks sold their own people? Huh? Explain, Bobbyg.
KKK was the strong arm of the Democratic party. Let their caucus pay for it if they feel so guilty. And “recognized descendants of slaves”? Some of my relatives were Irish. They were slaves. “Recognize me”! I don’t want reparation. That’s ridiculous. I want some money too. Some descendants have great, great, great, grandmas that were slaves, but their great, great, great grandpas were the slave owners. Are descendants of slave owners going to be getting money too? What’s racist is to even consider this BS. Slave ownership has nothing to do with the state todays black people in California. Nor white people. If some races feel like they are less than others, it’s because they keep getting told they are by others that feel sorry for them and think they have to help them. Treat everyone equal. Help people because they are people. Not because of their race. Giving something to todays black people without giving to the other races is racist.
No one living had anything to do with this, and should not be taxed to fund wasteful, senseless liberaltard spending
Every group of people has been enslaved at one point in time. These fools want to do everything to divide us and bring out more hate. I can’t wait to leave this nutcase world!
Not ALL groups have been SLAVES in the past! Please tell me you didn’t go to school in the SCV.
Also, you said you’re leaving this world. Where are you going? Maybe you should take some legitimate history books to read with you.
Slavery stands out as the WORST injustice, so the focus is there.
Our history with stealing Native American land is also shameful, while trying to force assimilation and stripping them of their language, religion, and culture.
The Irish and Chinese were treated terribly. Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII.
True, Chavez Ravine was home to mostly Mexican Americans who got forced out for Dodger Stadium.
These are just a few examples of the injustices caused by the “white man.”
We need to allow our teachers to include these facts (as well as the things we’re proud of) when teaching history so that our next generation is aware. How else can we heal?
Ain’t no one got it worse than the Jewish in the holcoust with the Germans and hitler. The blacks were kept alive and their generation kept on growing.. no need to pay up.. why people of California keep voting for Newsom is beyond me..