Governor Gavin Newsom declined to back recommendations from the state’s reparations task force, which voted last week to recommend proposals that could result in qualifying California Black residents in California receiving up to $1.2 million in reparations.
Newsom told Fox News Digital that reparations “is about much more than cash payments.”
“The Reparations Task Force’s independent findings and recommendations are a milestone in our bipartisan effort to advance justice and promote healing. This has been an important process, and we should continue to work as a nation to reconcile our original sin of slavery and understand how that history has shaped our country,” Newsom continued in his statement.
If enacted, the proposals would provide eligible Black residents with varying payments over the state’s discriminatory policies, including mass incarceration and over inequalities and injustices in policing, housing discrimination, the environment, and health care. The panel’s economists said this could cost California about $800 million.