Black Californians may soon benefit from child support forgiveness, totally free college, free healthcare, less police, and a long-lasting “truth and reconciliation commission” should Sacramento’s Elite legislators pass the propositions presented by the state’s dubious Reparations Task Force.
Following a 2020 law to study the topic, a panel of leftist academics and policymakers released their findings on how California can ‘remedy the harm’ against the state’s black locals triggered by slavery and discrimination. All black Californians are qualified for the advantages of the program if they can show they are “descendants of African Americans enslaved in the U.S. or of free Black people living in the country before the end of the 19th century.” A brand-new state firm, called the ‘California African American Freedmen Affairs Agency’, would offer genealogical tests for citizens.
The 492-page report notes the task force’s “preliminary findings and recommendations.” The last report is arranged to be launched in July of next year.
Here are 8 of the most extreme recommendations:
1. Child Support Forgiveness
The panel advises that California get rid of past-due child support owed to the federal government by black parents who no longer have custody of their kids. Black Californians would likewise no longer require to “reimburse the state for current or past government assistance” associated with child support.
The panel likewise advises the removal of all interest payments on previous child support owed by black Californians.
Under existing California law, households that get government assistance such as food stamps need to subtract the expense of those programs from court-ordered child support payments. They are basically fined for requiring their child to utilize state services if an individual in California does not pay child support. The reasoning behind the existing law is that the state ought to not pay for financial support that a parent otherwise offers.
2. Develop a ‘Truth and Reconciliation Commission,’ ruin ‘anti-black memorials and monoliths’
The task force advises the establishment of a commission modeled after the 1996 South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was produced after the end of apartheid to recognize human rights offenses against the majority black population throughout their time living under a white-only regime. The task force likewise suggests the state “create forms of acknowledgment and apology for acts of political disenfranchisement” and destroy all “anti-Black memorials and monuments,” probably recognized by the task force.
Prevalent “police violence against and extrajudicial killings of African Americans occur in California as they do in the rest of the country,” the panel concludes. As part of an effort to assist in the recovery of the state’s black community, the panel suggests the state fund art that acknowledges the “trauma of state-sanctioned white supremacist terror.”
3. Free college education
The task force suggests the state get rid of tuition for all California colleges, in addition, to a deal financing to creation of black-owned K-12 schools and colleges. Black Californians should likewise get scholarships to “cover 4 years of undergraduate education” at most likely any university in the nation, the task force discovers.
The task force further advises that the state “identify and eliminate racial bias and discriminatory practices” in standardized tests, consisting of the SAT, LSAT, and the state Bar test, without any elaboration on how this would be done. To add even more “antiracist” education in the state, all California schools need to embrace a curriculum that “advances the ideology of Black liberation.”
4. Trees in black areas for ‘shade equity’
In the name of ending so-called ecological bigotry, the task force advises the state to fund the “planting of trees to produce tree shade equity.”
5. Less McDonalds, more Whole Foods
The task force wishes to “minimize the density” of lunch counter, and promote the opening of “healthy sellers,” such as Whole Foods and farmer’s markets, in majority-black areas.
6. #DefundThePolice
The task force requires an end to “discriminatory policing and particularly killings, use of force, and racial profiling” of black Americans. That suggests an evaluation of every incarcerated black Californian to determine whether they have been wrongfully convicted or have received longer or harsher sentences than white people convicted of the same or similar crimes.”
The task force advises less cops in black neighborhoods. The “scope of law enforcement jurisdiction” should be reduced and changed with “more funding for prevention and mental health care.” Police must likewise issue fewer citations at alcohol and tobacco shops in black areas.
7. Free healthcare.
Black Californians ought to be entitled to totally free healthcare, the task force discovers. All black Californians who suffered from the nation’s “anti-Black health care system” ought to be entitled to monetary payment.
To develop more black medical professionals and healthcare experts, the task force advises that the state take part in more affirmative action programs and a “race-conscious public health policy.”
8. Money payments to close ‘racial wealth gap’
On top of all the new kinds of wellfare and government support described in the task force report, black Californians are entitled to cash reparations planned to diminish “the racial wealth gap.” The specific dollar quantity is not defined.
The state should likewise offer financing and “technical assistance” to “Black-led and Black community-based land trusts to support wealth building and affordable housing,” along with raising the minimum wage beyond the state-mandated $15 per hour. The task force likewise advises the production of a state fund “to support the development and sustainment of Black-owned businesses.”
