Gavin Newsom’s Reparations Committee Recommends $223,000 Per Slave Descendant for ‘Housing Discrimination’

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s reparations committee will recommend $223,000 per person who is a descendant of slaves.

The nine-member ‘Reparations Task Force’ has been trying to figure out a way to counter the claimed housing discrimination.

“Overall reparations would cost approximately $569 billion to compensate the roughly 2.5 million black Californians for ‘setbacks’ between 1933 and 1977 – eclipsing the state’s $512.8 billion expenditure in 2021,” Zero Hedge reports.

And who’s funding this massive expenditure?

California taxpayers who never owned slaves?

“We want to see the land and economic wealth stolen from Black families all across this country returned,” said activist Kavon Ward.

BREAKING REPORT: CA Gov. Newsom's reparations committee to recommend handing out $223,200 PER PERSON to all descendants of slaves in California for 'HOUSING DISCRIMINATION' at a cost of $559BN – nation's biggest restitution effort ever..

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A nine-member Reparations Task Force found that Californians who are the descendants of enslaved African Americans should be compensated $223,200 each due to housing discrimination practices from 1933 to 1977

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Zero Hedge reported:

The panel is still mulling how payments should be made – with some suggesting tuition and housing grants, while others are suggesting cash. Final figures will be released in a 2023 report, which would then be up to the state Legislature to act upon the recommendations and figure out how to fund them.

They have also identified four other reasons for reparations – mass incarceration, unjust property seizures, devaluation of black businesses and health care. The $223,200 figure only applies to housing discrimination.

“We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction,” task force member Jovan Scott Lewis, a Berkeley professor, told the Times.

Every year for almost three decades, Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan introduced legislation that would have created a commission to explore reparations, but the measure consistently stalled in Congress. After Mr. Conyers retired in 2017, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas began championing the measure, which passed a House committee for the first time last year, but stalled on the floor.

Underscoring the political hurdles, opinions on reparations are sharply divided by race. Last year, an online survey by the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that 86 percent of African Americans supported compensating the descendants of slaves, compared with 28 percent of white people. Other polls have also shown wide splits. -NYT

Newsom’s committee has until June 2023 to submit its final recommendation, according to the Daily Mail.

The Daily Mail added:

Their estimations came after the task force hosted meetings across the state to meet with members of Black communities to better understand the economic impact of slavery.

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‘We are looking at reparations on a scale that is the largest since Reconstruction,’ task force member Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at Berkeley, told the Times.

One example of housing discrimination the task force has considered is Russell City, a city that once existed near the San Francisco shoreline and provided refuge to Black families fleeing violence in the Deep South.

The task force was told by people that lived in Russell City, which has since been bulldozed, that the area was replaced with an industrial park and residents were expelled.

One former resident, Monique Henderson-Ford, told the Times she was paid out $2,200 for her home – less than a third of what she bought it for.

‘Imagine if the houses were still here,’ she said. ‘We would all be sitting on a fortune.’

The median wealth of Black households in the US is $24,100, compared with $188,200 for white households, according to the most recent Federal Reserve Board Survey of Consumer Finances, the Times reported.