Governor Gavin Newsom of California is now reportedly coming under increasing pressure to use his executive power to unilaterally enact proposals that would hand out billions of dollars to Black residents of California in the form of reparations as a way to make amends for the institution of slavery an appease far-left pressure groups.
It is estimated that there were approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the United States.
The California Reparations Task Force, which was established by state legislation in 2020, is currently considering a proposal to give just under $360,000 per person to each of these individuals.
This would put the total cost of the program at approximately $640 billion.
The final recommendations for reparations will be presented to the California Legislature, which will then determine whether or not to put the measures into effect and send them to Newsom’s desk to be signed into law.
The task force’s final report will also be presented to the legislature.
Over the past few months, activists for racial justice and certain Democrats in Congress have been putting pressure on President Biden to issue an executive order establishing a national reparations commission.
The White House has indicated that President Biden, who has been largely silent about the issue, is in favor of researching the possibility of reparations for African Americans.
However, the White House has refrained from stating that Biden would support a bill introduced in Congress that would create such a commission.
In contrast, the process of making amends is well under way in the state of California.
An initial report was created by the state task force in which it contained numerous preliminary suggestions the previous year.
The state legislature is expecting to receive a final report with the panel’s formal recommendations by the first of July.
The committee was established in the midst of the upheaval that followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the year 2020.
None of the nine people on the panel identify as White.
The task team had first suggested $220,000 per individual for Black Californians the previous year; however, the sum was subsequently upped by more than 60% to $360,000 as one of many suggestions that are currently being thought over to hand out reparations.
Using a model that evaluated California’s racial wealth gap and calculated damages related to injustices such as housing discrimination, mass incarceration, and health harms, economists and scholars consulting with the task force came up with the most recent proposal.
The commission accomplished this by using a model that evaluated California’s racial wealth gap.
It is not obvious how the state of California would pay for such a significant undertaking.
It was announced in January that the state is expected to have a budget shortfall of some $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year, putting the question of how it would pay for such a proposal in serious doubt.
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He should write a personal check and pay in full!
The jerks elected by fools to steer Kaliforniastan back into the 9th century keep trying to invent a better past. Look to the future, Goblin Nuisance!
How can any normal person living in California put up with that Governor? He is destroying what’s left of that state that the the other left wing democrats haven’t already destroyed. If the legislature approves a bill to pay for this phony reparations business then the voters need to work to remove from office every one of the members that voted to approve this scam. There is no black citizen in this country alive today that ever felt the effects of slavery, and they would have to go back many generations to find the few that was a slave. There is no citizen in this country alive today that has ever owned a slave, yet Newsom, and his left wing politicians want those citizens to pay for something they had no part in doing. No wonder this country is going down the tubes.About the only hope we have to keep this country from being totally destroyed is to purge every left wing democrat from our governments, from county to federal level.