RACE Report: CA Reparations Could Top $800 Billion, 2.5X State’s Annual Budget

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Looks like Gov Goodhair has declined the recommendations of his Reparations Task Force. This isn't going to go over well.

California Gov. Newsom declines to back reparations checks, says slavery's legacy is 'more than cash payments' | Fox News

California Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to endorse cash payments recommended by his reparations task force, telling Fox News Digital that the legacy of slavery "is about much more than cash payments."
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California Gov. Newsom declines to back reparations checks, says slavery's legacy is 'more than cash payments'
Gov. Gavin Newsom pledges to advance 'systemic changes' after reparations task force backs payments up to $1.2 million

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FIRST ON FOX: California Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to endorse the cash payments — which could reach as high as $1.2 million for a single recipient — recommended by his reparations task force, telling Fox News Digital that dealing with the legacy of slavery "is about much more than cash payments."

"The Reparations Task Force’s independent findings and recommendations are a milestone in our bipartisan effort to advance justice and promote healing. This has been an important process, and we should continue to work as a nation to reconcile our original sin of slavery and understand how that history has shaped our country," Newsom said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

While the Democratic governor applauded the task force's work, he declined to endorse any specific recommendations, though he pledged to continue to "advance systemic changes that ensure an inclusive and equitable future for all Californians."

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California reparations task force members
Kamilah Moore, chair of the California Reparations Task Force, and Amos Brown, vice chair, appear at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
"Dealing with that legacy is about much more than cash payments. Many of the recommendations put forward by the Task Force are critical action items we’ve already been hard at work addressing: breaking down barriers to vote, bolstering resources to address hate, enacting sweeping law enforcement and justice reforms to build trust and safety, strengthening economic mobility — all while investing billions to root out disparities and improve equity in housing, education, healthcare, and well beyond. This work must continue," he said.

"Following the Task Force’s submission of its final report this summer, I look forward to a continued partnership with the Legislature to advance systemic changes that ensure an inclusive and equitable future for all Californians."

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.

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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. For a Black Californian who checks enough boxes, the total payout could reach $1.2 million.

The task force’s final recommendations will soon be submitted to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to Newsom's desk to be signed into law.

"This has been a fool’s errand from the start," James Gallagher, California Assembly Republican Leader, previously 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."
 
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California bill proposes new state agency to handle reparations for Black residents

(FOX40.COM) — Reparations for Californians who are descendants of Black American slaves are one step closer to becoming a reality, but precisely what those reparations will be have not been defined…
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California bill proposes new state agency to handle reparations for Black residents​

by: Sergio Robles, Eytan Wallace
Posted: Aug 23, 2023 / 08:28 PM PDT
Updated: Aug 23, 2023 / 08:28 PM PDT

(FOX40.COM) — Reparations for Californians who are descendants of Black American slaves are one step closer to becoming a reality, but precisely what those reparations will be have not been defined.

Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) introduced SB 490, the first reparations-related bill introduced in the California Legislature since the state reparations task force submitted its final recommendation report to the governor and Legislature earlier this summer.

The bill would establish the state government body that would administer reparations.

“This will be the start,” said Bradford. “In order to implement reparations —whatever it looks like— you need a governmental agency or some sort of oversight department to do so. Before you can even talk about what reparations look like, you need to have the infrastructure there.”

Among the task force’s recommendations is a call for the state to create what is known as the “California American Freedman Affairs Agency,” an entity set to be in charge one day of overseeing and administering reparations to descendants of Black American slaves.

The reparations task force received a lot of attention for its recommendation that the Legislature consider what are described as “down payments” to go to descendants of anyone who was a Black American slave, as well as those in the Black community whose ancestors arrived before 1900.

At one point, the proposal suggested payments of up to $1.2 million to Black Californians depending on certain criteria, such as the wrongs they’ve endured, coupled with the amount of time they’ve lived in California, but Bradford, himself a member of the task force, downplayed that, saying reparations are about much more than any dollar amount.

Sen. Steven Bradford discusses California Reparations Task Force (From May 2023)
“I think we lose the focus of what we’re talking about if we’re only focused on money,” Bradford said. “This was not about money, it was about first a recognition of a debt that was owed to these descendants.”

The legislator says that reparations could be some form of “compensation,” but not necessarily in the form of payments.

“It’s many ways to compensate folks outside of a cash payment, (like) education, free healthcare or tax relief.”

The end goal, Bradford says, “is to make an impact and have an impact on those individuals’ lives.”

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Bradford said he hopes to see the proposed state agency up and running before he is termed out in 2024.

Governor Gavin Newsom has said he supports reparations in principle but needs more time to review the task force’s recommendation before coming out with a formal policy stance.
 
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