#Socialites get into this! The California Reparations Panel has formally approved payments of up to $1.2 million to every qualifying Black resident, in addition to an apology from the state.
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California Reparations Panel Approves Payments Of Up To $1.2 Million For Black Residents, Plus An Apology
While holding a public meeting in Oakland on Saturday (May 6), the California Reparations Task Force — made up of nine members — voted on the final set of recommendations needing to be sent off to the state’s legislators, for their next moves, like making the recommendations legal.
In addition to the nine members calling on the state to offer payments to its Black residents, they are also asking that the qualifying residents be issued a formal apology as well.
It is reported that the panel, who first convened nearly two years ago, has now recommended that the payments be broken down into various “types of historical discrimination.”
So, for Black residents that were affected by banks redlining them, they would receive $3,366 for each year they lived in California — beginning from the early 1930s to the late 1970s. So this would ultimately amount up to $148,099.
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Additionally, for other Black residents who were victims of over-policing and mass incarceration, could get about $2,352 in compensation for each year they lived in California between 1970 and 2020. Those payments could ultimately amount to $115,260.
Per an analysis from the New York Times, a Black Californian who is 71-years-old and who has lived in California their entire life, could essentially received up to $1.2 million — this total coming from the these and other payments included in the plan.
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Following the meeting, Democratic Representative Barbara Lee, Oakland, said, “Reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address long-standing racial disparities and inequalities.”
Additionally, Chris Lodgson, who is an organizer with reparations advocacy group Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, stated, “An apology and an admission of wrongdoing just by itself is not going to be satisfactory.”
According to the draft recommendation approved by the task force, an apology must “include a censure of the gravest barbarities” carried out on behalf of the state.
It is reported that this would include a condemnation of former Gov. Peter Hardeman Burnett, who was California’s first elected governor, and a white supremacist who had pushed for laws excluding Black people from California.
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