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A Blueprint for Reparations
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What y'all think about San Fran's Criteria? Do you think the outline of it should be emulated?
Its a good start, but what if you miss one of those hard dates by a couple months. It would be like having 6 out of 7 winning lottery ticket numbers and getting nothing. There is also the problem of record keeping. Where I'm from white people didn't give a damn about keeping records when it came to black folks and just threw them in the trash if it suited them.
I find a couple of aspects "problematic" but I'd have to investigate further about those. But I love the specificity of it.
I like the idea very bold about addressing the issue but this is some veiled liberal facade to appear progressive imo. They bring this bill out AFTER they’ve pretty much gentrified San Francisco to the point there are very few African Americans who will qualify for this only a small demographic. But I do hope to see this come to fruition for them because it will open the conversation in other states.
All these other states shaking in they boots, now they gon have a real good reason to hate California lol
We'll find out in June when the final proposal gets submitted. Faux News have their resident coons getting ahead of the final proposal trying to stoke anger and resentment.
Council votes to study reparations for Black Bostonians
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MICHAEL CASEY
December 14, 2022·3 min read
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council voted Wednesday to form a task force to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city's role in slavery and its legacy of inequality.
The unanimous vote means Boston now joins a conversation about reparations that is happening across the country from Providence, Rhode Island to California.
Boston will be closely watched given its troubled racial history, including its role in supporting and financing slavery even after Massachusetts abolished the practice in 1783. Supporters of reparations cited its history of segregated housing as well as a political economy after Emancipation that reduced opportunities for Black Bostonians. The result of that, they said, is a wide wealth gap between white and Black families that remains today.
“This ordinance is only the start of a long awaited yet necessary conversation,” City Councilor Julia Mejia said. “The City of Boston, like many areas around the United States, has profited from the labor of enslaved African Americans and has further disadvantaged them by barring them from participating in the same economic mobility opportunities as their white counterparts."
Tanisha Sullivan, the president of the NAACP's Boston branch, called the vote a “historic and important step forward on what will be a deliberative, robust and inclusive process to help our city better understand the role it played in supporting the enslavement of Black people in the United States.”
Lawmakers across the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations. Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in the state. California has formed a commission to study the issue and is meeting Wednesday to consider what form reparations could take and eligibility requirements to receive possible payments.
In Providence, Rhode Island, the mayor earlier this year proposed spending $10 million of federal coronavirus funding on reparation efforts. The money would be spent on financial literacy and homeownership, workforce training, small business development and other programs recently recommended by the city’s reparations commission.
In Boston, activists have been calling for years for the city to atone for its role in slavery. The idea of reparations was first proposed in the 1980s by Bill Owens, the first Black state senator in Massachusetts. He died earlier this year.
Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition which has advocated for reparations for several years, acknowledged the ordinance wasn't perfect but that it “moves our city forward.”
“This reparations ordinance moves us closer to justice for the living legacy of those who were once enslaved in Boston,” he said. "We can only look forward to a productive reparations process and changing the perception of Boston.”
The task force in Boston will examine reparation models and study the disparities that have existed in the city as it relates to the African-American community. It will also collect data on “historic harms” to Black Bostonians and hold hearings where it will gather testimony from the community on problems they have faced.
The panel will make recommendations for reparations as well as ways to eliminate policies and laws that continue to cause harm to Black Bostonians. It will also recommend how the city will issue a formal apology to the “people of Boston for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants.”
“The time is right for us to begin a process of exploring the mechanisms by which a robust policy of reparations can manifest for Boston’s Black community,” Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson said in a statement. “After centuries of entrenched and embedded structures of institutional racism, as emblematized by chattel slavery, legalized segregation, redlining, lynching, racist realty practices, and inequities in education, health care, and policing, amongst other categories, it is clear that a debt is owed to the people who have faced these matters.”
This story has been corrected to show that slavery was abolished in Massachusetts in 1783, not 1780.
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MICHAEL CASEY
December 14, 2022·3 min read
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council voted Wednesday to form a task force to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to Black Bostonians for the city's role in slavery and its legacy of inequality.
The unanimous vote means Boston now joins a conversation about reparations that is happening across the country from Providence, Rhode Island to California.
Boston will be closely watched given its troubled racial history, including its role in supporting and financing slavery even after Massachusetts abolished the practice in 1783. Supporters of reparations cited its history of segregated housing as well as a political economy after Emancipation that reduced opportunities for Black Bostonians. The result of that, they said, is a wide wealth gap between white and Black families that remains today.
“This ordinance is only the start of a long awaited yet necessary conversation,” City Councilor Julia Mejia said. “The City of Boston, like many areas around the United States, has profited from the labor of enslaved African Americans and has further disadvantaged them by barring them from participating in the same economic mobility opportunities as their white counterparts."
Tanisha Sullivan, the president of the NAACP's Boston branch, called the vote a “historic and important step forward on what will be a deliberative, robust and inclusive process to help our city better understand the role it played in supporting the enslavement of Black people in the United States.”
Lawmakers across the country have pushed their states and cities to study reparations. Evanston, Illinois became the first U.S. city last year to make reparations available for Black residents, and public officials in New York will try anew to create a reparations commission in the state. California has formed a commission to study the issue and is meeting Wednesday to consider what form reparations could take and eligibility requirements to receive possible payments.
In Providence, Rhode Island, the mayor earlier this year proposed spending $10 million of federal coronavirus funding on reparation efforts. The money would be spent on financial literacy and homeownership, workforce training, small business development and other programs recently recommended by the city’s reparations commission.
In Boston, activists have been calling for years for the city to atone for its role in slavery. The idea of reparations was first proposed in the 1980s by Bill Owens, the first Black state senator in Massachusetts. He died earlier this year.
Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition which has advocated for reparations for several years, acknowledged the ordinance wasn't perfect but that it “moves our city forward.”
“This reparations ordinance moves us closer to justice for the living legacy of those who were once enslaved in Boston,” he said. "We can only look forward to a productive reparations process and changing the perception of Boston.”
The task force in Boston will examine reparation models and study the disparities that have existed in the city as it relates to the African-American community. It will also collect data on “historic harms” to Black Bostonians and hold hearings where it will gather testimony from the community on problems they have faced.
The panel will make recommendations for reparations as well as ways to eliminate policies and laws that continue to cause harm to Black Bostonians. It will also recommend how the city will issue a formal apology to the “people of Boston for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity on African slaves and their descendants.”
“The time is right for us to begin a process of exploring the mechanisms by which a robust policy of reparations can manifest for Boston’s Black community,” Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson said in a statement. “After centuries of entrenched and embedded structures of institutional racism, as emblematized by chattel slavery, legalized segregation, redlining, lynching, racist realty practices, and inequities in education, health care, and policing, amongst other categories, it is clear that a debt is owed to the people who have faced these matters.”
This story has been corrected to show that slavery was abolished in Massachusetts in 1783, not 1780.
St. Paul City Council creates reparations committee
Following months of work by a city committee, the St. Paul City Council voted 7-0 on Wednesday to establish the St. Paul Recovery Act Community Reparations Commission, an 11-member commission dedicated to the question of racial reparations. The ordinance, sponsored by all seven council members...
Kansas City, Missouri, City Council approves formation of Mayor's Commission on Reparations
The KMCO City Council voted Thursday to approve the formation of a commission to study reparations for Kansas City, Missouri's involvement in slavery, segregation and discrimination of Black people.
www.kshb.com
City adds $1M a year for reparations - Evanston Now
But Council postpones action on adding $5M in ARPA funds to the program.
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It starts from the top.
And the top don't give a damn.
And the top don't give a damn.
Black church, NHL's Penguins reach historic land-use accord
The Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team has reached an agreement with a historic Black church to provide it development rights to a 1.5-acre parcel near the church's former property. Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church's old sanctuary was demolished along with much of the surrounding Black...
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He can wait in line then......coon.
U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants
Change would help quantify eligibility for reparations should the government agree to pay them
Black people who were once enslaved in the U.S. DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (3)
The U.S. government is considering asking Black Americans on federal forms, including the census, whether their ancestors were enslaved.
In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’ race and ethnicity, the Biden administration is asking the public for input on how it might go about differentiating Black people who are descendants of slaves in America from those whose families arrived more recently as immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean or other countries.
The idea of adding more-detailed categories to the census has been gaining currency among some Black Americans, who say society too often conflates their experiences with those of Black immigrants, who only started moving to the U.S. in meaningful numbers in the past few decades. Roughly one in five Black people in the U.S. are immigrants or their children, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
Supporters of the change say one reason they are pushing it is to quantify who would be eligible to receive reparations for slavery should the government ever agree to pay them. An effort to make such payments has stalled in Congress, though local efforts have gained some steam. In San Francisco, the city’s Board of Supervisors is debating a proposal to award eligible Black residents up to $5 million per person in restitution, one of a menu of preliminary recommendations that include free homes, guaranteed incomes and debt and tax relief.
Research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and by researchers at Duke University, among others, shows that Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved tend to lag behind in wealth and education compared with more-recent arrivals.
“America sees Black people as a monolith,” said Chad Brown, spokesperson for the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants, which backs reparations and is pushing for the change. “When you say all Black people are the same, you are ignoring differences in culture, ancestry, economics, and you are doing a disservice to everyone lumped into that group.”
The potential change is one of several the Biden administration is thinking about adopting to redefine how race and ethnicity are measured on government forms, which typically dictate how other institutions collect demographic data.
The Biden administration has proposed combining existing race and ethnicity questions so that “Hispanic or Latino” would no longer be a separate question, but instead would be one of several choices on the race question. It has also proposed creating a new race question category for Americans of Middle Eastern or North African heritage. Unlike for those changes, the administration didn’t include a formal recommendation about identifying Black Americans’ ancestry, but rather solicited comments from the public on how it might do so.
Supporters of the change want an additional question should a respondent select “Black or African American” on a government form where they could indicate that their ancestors were slaves. In its proposed rule on those broader changes, the administration asked whether the term “American Descendants of Slavery” or “American Freedmen” would be the best terms to describe the group. Some have suggested the term “Foundational Black Americans.”
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget, which is spearheading the race-category overhaul, declined to comment on the idea.
Last year California became the first state to require that Black state employees be allowed to specify that they are “African American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States” on employment forms. The law, which takes effect next year, would allow self-identification by Black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean and require that statistics be published each year.
A working group in California, which is drafting a reparations proposal for the State Legislature to study, is looking at partnerships with genealogy websites including 23andMe and Ancestry.com to potentially help verify a Black person’s lineage should she or he apply to receive reparations. The census and other federal surveys rely on respondents’ self-reported descriptions and typically don’t ask for verification.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, said subdividing the Black population in the U.S. is a harmful step that would further divide American society. “Government shouldn’t be in the business of separating people by immutable characteristics,” he said.
Mr. Gonzalez, who has written extensively on issues of race, said he favors reinstating a question removed after the 1970 census that asked respondents to list where their parents were born. Using that information, he said, researchers could group categories as they wish.
If the slavery-related change were adopted, it wouldn’t only be used on the census but also on forms that Americans encounter on a more routine basis, such as applications for federal student loans and home loans.
So far, thousands of members of the public have left comments on the proposed race-category overhaul. Michael Hicks, an administrator at a historically Black college in Louisville, Ky., recently logged into a government website and typed up a 400-word comment in favor of the change for Black respondents.
Michael Hicks, an administrator at Simmons College of Kentucky, and some of his family's memorabilia.JON CHERRY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Mr. Hicks said he became interested in supporting politicians who more directly represent the interests of slavery descendants after becoming disillusioned with former President Barack Obama. During Mr. Obama’s presidency, Mr. Hicks said, many Black Americans felt left behind as their neighborhoods gentrified and their incomes couldn’t keep pace. According to surveys conducted by the Federal Reserve, Black families’ wealth is less than 15% of white families’ wealth, and lower than any racial group.
“His election and his presidency was landmark, but it didn’t help most Black Americans except symbolically,” he said. Mr. Hicks and other supporters of this designation have pointed out that Mr. Obama isn’t descended from slaves—his father was an international student from Kenya and his mother white.
“If America wants resources to go to the populations that need them the most, we must accurately recognize who is affected and why,” Mr. Hicks wrote in his comments in support of the new category.
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
Should the census ask Black Americans if they are slave descendants? Why or why not? Join the conversation below.The government’s proposal comes in the midst of a broader debate among Black Americans over how much experience the descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. share with those whose families came to America voluntarily. Many Black immigrants say they face much of the same discrimination, particularly at the hands of police. Black people from Africa were also brought to the Caribbean and Latin America as slaves. But many of those whose ancestors were enslaved in the U.S. believe they should be considered a distinct ethnic group.
That belief is based at least in part on limited data showing that Black immigrants and their children on average find higher-paying jobs and accumulate more wealth than people whose families have lived here for decades or centuries. Several studies suggest that Black immigrants and their children are overrepresented on elite college campuses—particularly if they emigrated from the African continent.
Because the Black population isn’t systematically categorized along such lines, research on these outcomes is limited.
“There’s still a lot we don’t know, and it would be easier to start knowing those things if we could better document the Black population,” said Camille Z. Charles, a professor of sociology and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania who has researched Black student populations at elite schools and supports more-detailed data collection.
Write to Michelle Hackman at michelle.hackman@wsj.com and Paul Overberg at paul.overberg@wsj.com
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants
Such a change would help quantify eligibility for reparations should the government agree to pay them.
www.wsj.com
This is good.
They gave the Japanese a lot of money because they locked them in internment camps during WW2. That was light. Just take what they gave the Japs, multiply it by 1,000 then pay that to every black descendant of slaves. ... I looked $3.6 billion was given to them.82,000 Japaneses. ....So $3.6 trillion to African Americans. About 45 million folks ..... Thats about $90k per person.
Thats a start
They gave the Japanese a lot of money because they locked them in internment camps during WW2. That was light. Just take what they gave the Japs, multiply it by 1,000 then pay that to every black descendant of slaves. ... I looked $3.6 billion was given to them.82,000 Japaneses. ....So $3.6 trillion to African Americans. About 45 million folks ..... Thats about $90k per person.
Thats a start
U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants
Change would help quantify eligibility for reparations should the government agree to pay them
Black people who were once enslaved in the U.S. DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (3)
The U.S. government is considering asking Black Americans on federal forms, including the census, whether their ancestors were enslaved.
In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’ race and ethnicity, the Biden administration is asking the public for input on how it might go about differentiating Black people who are descendants of slaves in America from those whose families arrived more recently as immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean or other countries.
The idea of adding more-detailed categories to the census has been gaining currency among some Black Americans, who say society too often conflates their experiences with those of Black immigrants, who only started moving to the U.S. in meaningful numbers in the past few decades. Roughly one in five Black people in the U.S. are immigrants or their children, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
Supporters of the change say one reason they are pushing it is to quantify who would be eligible to receive reparations for slavery should the government ever agree to pay them. An effort to make such payments has stalled in Congress, though local efforts have gained some steam. In San Francisco, the city’s Board of Supervisors is debating a proposal to award eligible Black residents up to $5 million per person in restitution, one of a menu of preliminary recommendations that include free homes, guaranteed incomes and debt and tax relief.
Research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and by researchers at Duke University, among others, shows that Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved tend to lag behind in wealth and education compared with more-recent arrivals.
“America sees Black people as a monolith,” said Chad Brown, spokesperson for the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants, which backs reparations and is pushing for the change. “When you say all Black people are the same, you are ignoring differences in culture, ancestry, economics, and you are doing a disservice to everyone lumped into that group.”
The potential change is one of several the Biden administration is thinking about adopting to redefine how race and ethnicity are measured on government forms, which typically dictate how other institutions collect demographic data.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this month received a preliminary report on a proposal to make restitution to eligible Black residents.PHOTO: JEFF CHIU/ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Biden administration has proposed combining existing race and ethnicity questions so that “Hispanic or Latino” would no longer be a separate question, but instead would be one of several choices on the race question. It has also proposed creating a new race question category for Americans of Middle Eastern or North African heritage. Unlike for those changes, the administration didn’t include a formal recommendation about identifying Black Americans’ ancestry, but rather solicited comments from the public on how it might do so.
Supporters of the change want an additional question should a respondent select “Black or African American” on a government form where they could indicate that their ancestors were slaves. In its proposed rule on those broader changes, the administration asked whether the term “American Descendants of Slavery” or “American Freedmen” would be the best terms to describe the group. Some have suggested the term “Foundational Black Americans.”
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget, which is spearheading the race-category overhaul, declined to comment on the idea.
Last year California became the first state to require that Black state employees be allowed to specify that they are “African American descendants of persons enslaved in the United States” on employment forms. The law, which takes effect next year, would allow self-identification by Black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean and require that statistics be published each year.
A working group in California, which is drafting a reparations proposal for the State Legislature to study, is looking at partnerships with genealogy websites including 23andMe and Ancestry.com to potentially help verify a Black person’s lineage should she or he apply to receive reparations. The census and other federal surveys rely on respondents’ self-reported descriptions and typically don’t ask for verification.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank, said subdividing the Black population in the U.S. is a harmful step that would further divide American society. “Government shouldn’t be in the business of separating people by immutable characteristics,” he said.
Mr. Gonzalez, who has written extensively on issues of race, said he favors reinstating a question removed after the 1970 census that asked respondents to list where their parents were born. Using that information, he said, researchers could group categories as they wish.
If the slavery-related change were adopted, it wouldn’t only be used on the census but also on forms that Americans encounter on a more routine basis, such as applications for federal student loans and home loans.
So far, thousands of members of the public have left comments on the proposed race-category overhaul. Michael Hicks, an administrator at a historically Black college in Louisville, Ky., recently logged into a government website and typed up a 400-word comment in favor of the change for Black respondents.
Michael Hicks, an administrator at Simmons College of Kentucky, and some of his family's memorabilia.JON CHERRY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Mr. Hicks said he became interested in supporting politicians who more directly represent the interests of slavery descendants after becoming disillusioned with former President Barack Obama. During Mr. Obama’s presidency, Mr. Hicks said, many Black Americans felt left behind as their neighborhoods gentrified and their incomes couldn’t keep pace. According to surveys conducted by the Federal Reserve, Black families’ wealth is less than 15% of white families’ wealth, and lower than any racial group.
“His election and his presidency was landmark, but it didn’t help most Black Americans except symbolically,” he said. Mr. Hicks and other supporters of this designation have pointed out that Mr. Obama isn’t descended from slaves—his father was an international student from Kenya and his mother white.
“If America wants resources to go to the populations that need them the most, we must accurately recognize who is affected and why,” Mr. Hicks wrote in his comments in support of the new category.
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
Should the census ask Black Americans if they are slave descendants? Why or why not? Join the conversation below.
The government’s proposal comes in the midst of a broader debate among Black Americans over how much experience the descendants of people enslaved in the U.S. share with those whose families came to America voluntarily. Many Black immigrants say they face much of the same discrimination, particularly at the hands of police. Black people from Africa were also brought to the Caribbean and Latin America as slaves. But many of those whose ancestors were enslaved in the U.S. believe they should be considered a distinct ethnic group.
That belief is based at least in part on limited data showing that Black immigrants and their children on average find higher-paying jobs and accumulate more wealth than people whose families have lived here for decades or centuries. Several studies suggest that Black immigrants and their children are overrepresented on elite college campuses—particularly if they emigrated from the African continent.
Because the Black population isn’t systematically categorized along such lines, research on these outcomes is limited.
“There’s still a lot we don’t know, and it would be easier to start knowing those things if we could better document the Black population,” said Camille Z. Charles, a professor of sociology and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania who has researched Black student populations at elite schools and supports more-detailed data collection.
Write to Michelle Hackman at michelle.hackman@wsj.com and Paul Overberg at paul.overberg@wsj.com
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants
Such a change would help quantify eligibility for reparations should the government agree to pay them.
One of BGOL's "coon crew" is what you are.... don't even know why you started this thread or continue to bump it.... coons don't qualify for any reparations.... especially ones from Virginia
One of BGOL's "coon crew" is what you are.... don't even know why you started this thread or continue to bump it.... coons don't qualify for any reparations.... especially ones from Virginia
Tether talk. I'll continue to support reparations for ADOS while you can go support you and your party's top agenda:
Pa. House Democrats mount new push to pass LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination bill
Pa. House Democrats mount new push to pass LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination bill - Pennsylvania Capital-Star
'Every single Pennsylvanian deserves to live with dignity and respect,' the bill's sponsors said in a statement.
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California reparations task force releases first estimate of damages: up to $1.2 million per Black resident
Dustin GardinerUpdated: May 2, 2023 1:22 p.m.
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California’s Reparations Task Force Chair Kamilah Moore listens to public comment during its first in-person meeting in San Francisco on April 13, 2022. Economists’ estimate of up to $1.2 million per eligible Black person in restitution is not a final recommendation on the total amount of reparations needed.
Jessica Christian/The Chronicle 2022
Economists advising California’s task force on reparations have, at long last, released an estimate of the damage caused by the state’s history of slavery and its many vestiges of white supremacy: up to $1.2 million per Black resident over a lifetime.
The payment estimates are described as a rough, partial estimate of what it would cost the state to compensate Black people for that legacy of harm, according to a draft of the task force’s final report. But the report states that those calculations are not a final recommendation on the total amount of reparations needed.
“Rather, it is an economically conservative initial assessment of what losses, at a minimum, the State of California caused or could have prevented, but did not,” the report states. “(T)he Legislature would then have to decide how to translate loss-estimates into proposed reparations amounts.”
Still, the numbers are the first dollar estimate that the task force has released outlining the level of restitution that the panel could recommend. The panel is preparing its final report to send to the Legislature, which will include a recommendation on the amount and form of cash payments.
Task force members are expected to vote Saturday at Mills College in Oakland on whether to adopt the draft report, the capstone of its work after two years of tense meetings and in-depth research.
But the vote is likely just the start of a broader debate about how California will handle the reparations question. Whatever the task force decides, the Legislature and Newsom will have the final say. If reparations are approved, state officials would have to figure out how to pay for the program.
An economist for the reparations panel has said the plan could cost California more than $800 billion; the state has a roughly $297 billion annual budget.
But that total cost is a rough estimate, at best. The report states that not all instances of harm were included, and the panel has not gathered enough precise data to calculate who would be eligible for compensation.
The task force previously voted to limit compensation to those who can directly trace their lineage to chattel slavery in the United States or those whose ancestors immigrated before 1900, excluding Black people who might have immigrated later. Other eligibility criteria, such as how long someone must be a California resident, has not been determined.
A spokesperson for the task force said the panel is working on releasing a statement about the economists’ estimate, though it was not ready Monday afternoon. Task force Chair Kamilah Moore said she wasn’t available to comment on Monday.
The proposal, if forwarded to the Legislature, would likely draw fierce opposition from some Republican lawmakers, as well as some moderate Democrats who’ve expressed skepticism about cash reparations.
Lawmakers and Newsom created the task force in 2020 and directed its members to study the history of slavery in California and its enduring inequities for Black people. While the Golden State was admitted to the Union as a “free state” in 1850, historians say slavery continued to be openly practiced for years by white Southerners, who brought enslaved people to the state and forced them to work in gold mines and on plantations.
The nine-member task force began meeting in June 2021, and has spent the better part of the last two years studying the way that California’s legacy of slavery and racial discrimination has harmed Black residents. It has until July 1 to deliver a final report, and a recommendation on cash payments, to legislators.
Its draft report outlines estimates for restitution to repair harm in three areas:
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- Mass incarceration and overpolicing in Black communities: $115,260 per person in 2020 dollars, or $2,352 for each year of residency in California from 1971 (the first year of the war on drugs) to 2020.
- Discrimination in housing, such as redlining that denied home loans to Black families late into the 20th century: $148,099 per person, or $3,366 for each year between 1933 and 1977, when redlining occurred.
- Health harm, including unequal access to health care, greater exposure to environmental pollution and discrimination from medical workers: $13,619 per person for each year spent in California, or $966,921 with an average life expectancy of 71 years for Black people in the state.
All told, a Black person who has lived in the state for their whole life, until at least age 71, could theoretically receive more than $1.2 million in lifetime restitution, though it’s unclear how the state would pay out potential compensation.
The task force’s draft report states that it wasn’t able to calculate harm in some other areas, such as the unjust taking of property through eminent domain, due to a lack of data.
Its report suggests the Legislature should make a “substantial initial down payment on reparations” that could be added to as new evidence becomes available. The task force’s draft report also includes a recommendation that payments to elderly Black people be prioritized.
“Delay of reparations is in itself an injustice that causes more suffering and may ultimately deny justice, especially to the elderly among the harmed,” the report states.
California reparations task force releases first estimate of damages: up to $1.2 million per Black resident
I was happy to see actual numbers. I wonder if inflation is factored in:
- Mass incarceration and overpolicing in Black communities: $115,260 per person in 2020 dollars, or $2,352 for each year of residency in California from 1971 (the first year of the war on drugs) to 2020.
- Discrimination in housing, such as redlining that denied home loans to Black families late into the 20th century: $148,099 per person, or $3,366 for each year between 1933 and 1977, when redlining occurred.
- Health harm, including unequal access to health care, greater exposure to environmental pollution and discrimination from medical workers: $13,619 per person for each year spent in California, or $966,921 with an average life expectancy of 71 years for Black people in the state.
Fresh news out of California.
Reparations panel recommends possible millions for eligible Black Californians
CA task force says Legislature should base payments to eligible Blacks on years living in state, type of racial harm.
calmatters.org
It is way more complex than cutting a check. Governor Newsom rejected it and he might be on to something.
1. They dumped us off with no type of Marshall Plan for self sufficiency. We basically tied into the professional class of whites while performing labor.
2. The hardcore integrationist and cannibalism has basically undermined us. They need to stop rewarding cannibalism among us, it is hard for me and others to get things going business wise without some fool in the black community desperately coming at me. I am constantly running away from these clowns because I know.
3. Quit using Asians and other groups to mask racists consumerism of our businesses. We have observed this with OG Cosby, how they freaked out when he tried to buy their company. They only let us buy expansion sports teams with no track record of revenue. Apple/Steve Jobs...
4. If you don't want to do business with other groups than come out of the closet, don't put Asians or Indians in-lieu of us.
Based on our spending patterns that money will end up in their hands without proper financial planning. We may be able to fix the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow through other means. I would love to stick around here, but these feeble minded schemes are annoying.
1. They dumped us off with no type of Marshall Plan for self sufficiency. We basically tied into the professional class of whites while performing labor.
2. The hardcore integrationist and cannibalism has basically undermined us. They need to stop rewarding cannibalism among us, it is hard for me and others to get things going business wise without some fool in the black community desperately coming at me. I am constantly running away from these clowns because I know.
3. Quit using Asians and other groups to mask racists consumerism of our businesses. We have observed this with OG Cosby, how they freaked out when he tried to buy their company. They only let us buy expansion sports teams with no track record of revenue. Apple/Steve Jobs...
Business Lesson 102- Apple Inc.
Today I wanted to explore the dark history of the computer industry that conspired to take down Steve Jobs due to his ethnic identity. I am not saying that we are in the same boat/MLK, just wanted to study the tactics used by whites against other ethnic groups. Many of these groups are hostile...
www.bgol.us
4. If you don't want to do business with other groups than come out of the closet, don't put Asians or Indians in-lieu of us.
Based on our spending patterns that money will end up in their hands without proper financial planning. We may be able to fix the injustices of slavery and Jim Crow through other means. I would love to stick around here, but these feeble minded schemes are annoying.
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I would take reparations and leave the country, this is political asylum type of shit. I know other countries are just terminating these one sided "business" relationships with the West.
If you stay, than you got a mountain to climb of crazy type of behavior and bizarre logic of whites you will have to confront. It would take a book to write about it to fully grasp what you are dealing with completely.
Basically they have done a couple of things mainly:
1. No buying their business which have an established track record of revenue/profit
2. Using other minorities such as Indians and Asians to fill-in for us such as hotels, car production, and other industries to mask racist buying patterns.
3. They need to stop incentivizing cannibalistic behavior, it is causing all kinds of problems in the black community.
With reparations, they peel off $5 million dollars, the first thing some of you will do is go out and setup businesses or pool you money to make major investments. This contradicts what they have been slowly setting up with Asians and Indians for decades. Governor Newsom can be put on a death list with WS and taken out quietly.
Why do they have it setup this way? My guess is to mask racist consumer buying patterns. They could be taking our business ownership opportunities to bolster their trade relationship with these countries. Limiting us to expansion teams and committing terrorism when a Historically White Corporation is being sought contradicts bolstering trade relationship.
I ran across this bizarre behavior, causing me to rethink whether I wanted to remain in the U.S. long term.
Why do they have it setup this way? My guess is to mask racist consumer buying patterns. They could be taking our business ownership opportunities to bolster their trade relationship with these countries. Limiting us to expansion teams and committing terrorism when a Historically White Corporation is being sought contradicts bolstering trade relationship.
I ran across this bizarre behavior, causing me to rethink whether I wanted to remain in the U.S. long term.
New York used to lead the world in being the first to do the right thing, California shitted on nyc
by legalizing the holy herb... Of course EVENTUALLY NYC had to one up them and FULLY LEGALIZE it..
So when californina passes it and rightfully hand out reparations to its Organic Citizens, its going to b really interesting to see what New York does....
we are owe waaaay more than five million dollars tho... like I said,
just based off of Jim Crow alone the number is in the hundred millions...
they just need to makes us all exempt from ALL TAXES and FULL TITLES ONE HOME AND LAND OWNERSHIP and call it a day...
Or 25 million each for four generations
by legalizing the holy herb... Of course EVENTUALLY NYC had to one up them and FULLY LEGALIZE it..
So when californina passes it and rightfully hand out reparations to its Organic Citizens, its going to b really interesting to see what New York does....
we are owe waaaay more than five million dollars tho... like I said,
just based off of Jim Crow alone the number is in the hundred millions...
they just need to makes us all exempt from ALL TAXES and FULL TITLES ONE HOME AND LAND OWNERSHIP and call it a day...
Or 25 million each for four generations