The first U.S. panel of its kind met one last time Thursday, urging supporters to press lawmakers into action on more than 100 recommendations.
State legislators and Gov. Gavin Newsom must agree for any money to be paid or for any policy changes to be adopted.
The panel narrowly voted to limit any financial redress to residents who can document lineage from Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century. "I am an American," she said."This country has shaped and formed us and we have given to it. And we have a right to be here. We have a right to have the benefits."
The nine-member reparations panel convened in June 2021, the year after Newsom signed legislation creating the group. He and legislative leaders picked the members, including lawyers, educators, elected officials and civil rights leaders descended from enslaved people. The panel did not recommend a fixed dollar amount for financial redress, but endorsed economic methodologies to calculate what is owed for decades of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination. Initial calculations pegged California's potential cost in those areas at more than $800 billion — more than 2.5 times the state's annual budget. The estimated cost was cut to $500 billion in a later report, though no explanation was given for the change.
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