Sane California Democrats have sought a way out of the state’s nutty slavery reparations scheme ever since last year when a special task force appointed by left-wing Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that the price tag could reach $800 billion.
Other than some black state residents who stand to benefit from the proposal, Californians overwhelmingly oppose the idea of direct cash payments to blacks, some of whom could reap $1.2 million each.
But here’s one thing that could surely kill California’s reparation scheme: white people could qualify for payments.
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The conservative Media Research Center reported last week that the state is considering creating an office of genealogy within the proposed California American Freedmen Affairs Agency, a cabinet-level office that would judge who’s eligible for reparations.
The genealogy office would evaluate claims based on the proposed qualifications, which say reparations would go to “descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States.”
“As no ancestry percentage qualifications have yet been determined, this has raised the prospect that whites with some quantity of black ancestry may find themselves qualified to receive reparations,” the MRC reported.
The outlet quoted Michael Harriot of the National African American Reparations Commission, who noted recently that nationwide, “about 3.5 percent of people who identify as white—including around 5 percent of white Californians—have at least one percent African ancestry.”
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Thus, Harriot added, “It is entirely possible that white people could claim the bulk of reparations.”
While it’s not entirely clear if black Democrats in California considered whether whites would benefit from a reparations scheme, the California Legislative Black Caucus, as the Tampa Free Press reported in January, introduced 14 measures related to civil rights, education, and criminal justice reform aimed at “dismantling the legacy of slavery and systemic racism.”
Notably what was excluded in the proposal was direct cash payments to descendants of slaves.
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