Paying cash to descendants of enslaved people is just the beginning of the California Reparations Task Force’s ambitious progressive vision.
The task force voted to limit eligibility for cash reparations to descendants of an enslaved person or a “free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,” but many of the report’s recommendations would include vast swaths of Black Californians.
The report proposes that only descendants would benefit from free college tuition at public universities and guaranteed basic income, but it also calls for funding education training in medicine, tech and other fields, as well as tuition-free law school. Many proposals are similar to those pushed by Black Lives Matter, such as eliminating cash bail, expanding anti-racist training, removing officers from schools, ending qualified immunity for law enforcement, and blocking police enforcement of certain low-level offenses.
The report recommends eliminating the 10% interest on unpaid child support, saying that Black residents carry 18% of child-support debt despite comprising just 7% of the state’s population.
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