A California task force made a recommendation to pay cash reparations to descendants of slaves earlier this year, but a majority of voters in the state oppose the council’s request.
A recent study found that 59% of voters oppose cash payments to some black residents, with over 4 in 10 voters “strongly” opposed to the reparation plan, according to a Sunday poll from the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies that was co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times.
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The report by the California Reparations Task Force was released at the end of June and was a result of multiple years of examining reparations for black residents. The panel, which was created in 2020 by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), had more than 115 policy reforms.
The two-year comprehensive study detailed over 1,000 pages of findings, which included cash payments for multiple types of discrimination. Experts have said black residents could receive millions in reparations.
“It speaks to the miseducation of most Americans when it comes to slavery and the impact that it had on this country and the impact that it still has on African Americans today,” state Sen. Steven Bradford, who served on the task force, told the LA newspaper.
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Debates over the payout method and source of the money have sparked since the report, with Bradford proposing a diversion of 0.5% of the state’s annual budget to a $1.5 billion annuity to support reparation programs and pay out descendants of slavery over time.
The survey asked voters in the Golden State to support their reasoning behind rejecting cash reparations, and 60% selected “it’s unfair to ask today’s taxpayers to pay for wrongs committed in the past” while 53% chose “it’s not fair to single out one group for reparations when other racial and religious groups have been wronged in the past.”