Who should be eligible for reparations? Only descendants of U.S. slaves, or anyone who is Black?
The Rev. Robert Turner leads a protest to demand reparations in Tulsa, Okla., in May. In September 2020, California created a task force to study and recommend reparations for Black Californians. If California were to provide reparations for Black residents, who exactly should qualify for the payments?
As can be seen from that language, the law prioritizes people whose ancestors were enslaved, but doesn’t detail exactly what that means. Some task force members want to limit payments only to people who can trace their lineage to someone enslaved in the United States, while others bristle at the idea of excluding any Black Californians.
The panel is supposed to finalize a report by the summer of 2023 that would detail who should get reparations, in what form and in what amounts. But at last week’s meeting, nailing down an answer to the first question of eligibility did not prove easy. But some members of the task force opposed distinguishing between groups of Black Californians. All grapple with widespread anti-Blackness left behind by decades of slavery, they said.
Others expressed concerns that it would be difficult for descendants of enslaved people to prove their ancestry so they could qualify for payments. Others said they worried that barring some Black Californians from reparations would cause unnecessary fighting within the Black community.
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