Economists sitting on a California Task Force panel for reparations are entering their final suggestions for how large those reparations should be.
They are making these calculations based on the data they are reviewing, but some people are shocked at the measures these individuals have come out with.
Fox News reports that the panel intends to look at the feasibility of economic reparations for Black Americans who have ancestors victimized by the slave trade and the legacy that it left behind. Many point out that California was a free state when it joined the Union, though.
Despite all of this, the push for reparations gained a lot of ground after the 2020 death of George Flyod at the hands of police officers.
California has made a lot of headlines for the ideas that this panel has come up with, and they are in the headlines yet again after they have come out with some of their estimates for how much they might dole out in reparations.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported the following:
Economists advising Californias task force on reparations have, at long last, released an estimate of the damages caused by the states history of slavery and its many vestiges of white supremacy: up to $1.2 million per Black resident over a lifetime.
The task force plans to recommend that California offers an apology and presents a down payment to Black Americans. This decision is even though California outlawed slavery for the state in 1850.
The task force began in 2020 at the order of Governor Gavin Newsom and has created more than 500 pages of documents, according to reporting by Fox News.
The Chronicle suggested that the recommended payments were just a rough, partial estimate of what it would cost the state to compensate Black people for that legacy of harm, according to a draft of the task forces final report.
The newspaper quoted directly from the report itself and said: Rather, it is an economically conservative initial assessment of what losses, at a minimum, the State of California caused or could have prevented, but did not, the report stated. (T)he Legislature would then have to decide how to translate loss-estimates into proposed reparations amounts.
The Chronicle noted that the process is ongoing and that more decisions are underway. Regardless, some are upset that things have been allowed to get as far down the road as they have.
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