One priority California’s Legislative Black Caucus passed Wednesday was a proposal to repeal California’s affirmative action ban.
Voters will get the opportunity to decide on the full measure in November if the Senate approves the bill by the end of June.
But now the call is to provide reparations to African-Americans, and considering the hysteria of the moment, one cannot be surprised if they pass something and have no idea how to actually implement it and in that way add to the chaos.
The plan passed its first hurdle yesterday when an African American reparation proposal passed the California Assembly.
CBS reported that a proposal to establish a task force to study and prepare recommendations for how to give reparations to African Americans passed the California Assembly on Thursday.
The bill advanced with a 56-5 vote as protests nationwide over police brutality re-energized the movement for racial justice and activists pressed for sweeping reforms. It is a top priority for California’s Legislative Black Caucus.
If the bill passes the Senate and is signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, 8 people with backgrounds in racial justice reforms would lead a study into who would be eligible for compensation and how it should be awarded.
Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, a Democrat from San Diego who wrote the bill, said the study would reiterate California’s history of abetting slavery, even as it joined the union as a “free state” in 1850.
“The discriminatory practices of the past echo into the everyday lives of today’s Californians,” said Weber, who leads the Legislative Black Caucus.
The panel would start meeting no later than June 2021
Last June, Congress held the first hearing on reparations in over 10 years about a bill to study providing compensation to atone for the country’s history of slavery. But the legislation didn’t make it to a vote.
The federal government has given reparations before. After 120,000 Japanese Americans were held at internment camps during World War II, the U.S. government apologized and in 1988 paid $20,000 to each surviving victim.
“We seem to recognize that justice requires that those who have been treated unjustly need the means to make themselves whole again,” Weber said.
