Activists demanded California pay millions of dollars to each Black resident in reparations, dismissing the proposals from California's reparations task force as too little.
CALIFORNIA REPARATIONS PANEL SAYS TOTAL COST 'LEAST IMPORTANT' ASPECT DESPITE POTENTIAL $800B PRICE TAG
The task force also urges in its latest documents that eligible Black Californians receive cash"down payments" as soon as possible while waiting for the full amount of money loss due to racism and slavery to be calculated. "$1.2 million is nowhere near enough. It should be starting at least $5 million like San Francisco," said one woman."We want direct cash payments just like how the stimulus [checks] were sent out. It's our inheritance, and we can handle it."is weighing its own reparations proposals at the local level, including a proposal to dole out $5 million each to qualifying Black residents.
Whatever the final figures, it's unclear how California would afford to pay millions of dollars to each eligible Black resident. Newsom announced in January that the state faces a projected budget deficit of $22.5 billion for the coming fiscal year. Weeks later, the California Legislative Analyst's Office, a government agency that analyzes the budget for the state legislature, estimated in a subsequent report that Newsom's forecast undershot the mark by about $7 billion.
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