Activists Tell California Reparations Committee That $5 Million Per Person Is Not Enough

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California activists are demanding more than $5 million per Black resident in reparations

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Activists are telling the California reparations committee that the $5 million per person is not enough.

On Wednesday, they demanded that the state of California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery and subsequent discrimination.

They dismissed the idea of payments of $5 million per person as “nothing” and “too little.”

Fox News reports: The demands were made at an in-person meeting of the California Reparations Task Force, which was created by state legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020. The committee was hearing comments from the public as it considers final recommendations to submit 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.

The task force is considering a proposal to give just under $360,000 per person to approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the U.S., putting the total cost of the program at about $640 billion.

Meanwhile, the city of San Francisco is weighing its own reparations proposals at the local level. Earlier this month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors expressed “unanimous” support for a draft plan of more than 100 reparations recommendations for the city, including a proposal to dole out $5 million each to qualifying Black residents. The proposal would cost non-Black families in the city at least $600,000, according to Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

Both ideas are skimping on what’s necessary to pay Black Californians, according to activists who spoke at the gathering.

“I believe that 5 million in reparations is too little for the work that foundational Black Americans have done for this country and as well for other countries,” one speaker said. “I believe that 7.6 million [dollars] is a number that can be used very wisely in our foundational Black American communities.”

Foundational Black Americans are descendants of Black people who were enslaved in the U.S. According to the speaker, reparations are overdue for all foundational Black Americans both for the suffering they endured and for helping “every culture get on their feet.” He also called for various other reparations measures, such as giving 40 acres and a tractor and colleges agreeing not raise tuition prices for foundational Black American families.

19 Comments

  1. The money will bring them more misery as not all can handle it wisely… Be careful what you wish for things you want are cursed. Things you accept as they are and things can change but if you want something too much, you miss options that you can’t see. Most winners of lottery are broke five years later. Sure it can help but monney atracts evil and people will be more in danger of greed or envy. In Switzerland they debate even to remove medieval house names zum Mohren, those things don’t solve colonialism it’s erasing the past or whitewash the past… How anyone can be offended by a medival typo is beyond me.

  2. I think I am black! Please send me a check without delay.

    For another five mill I will tell you what my gender is for today.
    SEND THE CHECK!

  3. They all know E gland ran it and profited from it Not California. It’s all pay back fromCathilic 1 Spain for the war of independence against the protestant world Everything actually is. From the Armada being sunk and Spains entire economy destroyed by England wiping out the Spanish Empire, losing them North America to England and the destruction of the Austro Spanish Habsburg dynasty. Its all pay back.

  4. How about to use the money to create Living Wage Productive Jobs, like repairing the infrastructure and keeping the chemical laden trains on the tracks?

  5. It should be enough if you identify as a foundational Black American. $7.6M will compensate me for all the pain others have felt.

  6. California never had slavery. It did, however, commit genocide against a vast set of Native Americans.

    It would only be just that California return the land it stole from their innocent victims with an additional $500 million per surviving Native American for the pain and suffering and incarceration in the “reservation camps”.

  7. YES YES VERY WELL DONE!!!!.Now pick up your check over here at SVB would YOU like the I.O.U OR the funny money?

  8. WILL SMITH is the only black man still in hollywood SO he can hire someone to slap the hell out of old WTF?.J-dah is dat OK? 7.6 million should cover his costs and he can get some coffee in the stars cars JERRY!!!

  9. Anything over one penny is way too much. And, when are they going to pay back the millions of dollars of destruction they have wrought in the big blue cities?

  10. Hollywood actors under satanism do not count as slaves. Even Wesley Snipes. No go. Assess the meteor which landed off the coast of Iraq some 10 thousand years ago and did water erosion 400 feet up the Giza pyramids and left The Black Sea surrounded by fishing villages and ports 20 feet under water. Assess God for that. Or assess The Vatican and the LDS church in Salt Lake City, and assess the Church of England.

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