“I don’t want to set folks’ expectations and hopes up that they’re going to be getting, you know, seven-figure checks,” California state Sen. Bradford said. “That’s just not happening.”
a state senator on the task force is warning Black residents to not assume that large cash payments are on the way.
The task force on Saturday approved proposals in its final report, which is officially due to lawmakers by July 1. They included estimates from economists who say the state is responsible for more than $500 billion due to decades of over-policing, mass incarceration and redlining that kept Black families from receiving loans and living in certain neighborhoods.
“That is not the way you come to the table to pay a historic debt,” he said. “That is not the way that you come to the table in any type of negotiation. Start as high as you possibly can, and then work from there.” People listen to the California reparations task force at a meeting at Lesser Hall in Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, Calif., on May 6, 2023.Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, another Los Angeles-area Democrat on the task force, took a more cautious approach in predicting the fate of payments or other reparations proposals. He said in an interview that it’s too early to know whether payments could get passed in the Legislature, as the committee’s report deadline looms.
Assemblymember Lori Wilson, who chairs the state Legislative Black Caucus, said in a statement that the caucus will champion policy proposals included in the task force’s report.
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