Democrat Lawmakers Reintroduce Slavery Reparations Bill
Democrat lawmakers reintroduced legislation on Wednesday aiming to deliver slavery reparations to Black Americans amidst President Donald Trump’s federal purge of DEI policies.
Democrat lawmakers reintroduced legislation on Wednesday aiming to deliver slavery reparations to Black Americans amidst President Donald Trump’s federal purge of DEI policies.
2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump announced on Thursday that along with his campaign’s proposed economic policies, he plans to create a government efficiency commission led by X owner and ally Elon Musk, should he win the upcoming November 5th election.
A Democrat congresswoman is proposing that Black Americans be exempt from paying taxes in an effort to pay them back as a form of slavery reparations, but she also said that the plan may not be successful since poorer Black people “aren’t really paying taxes in the first place.”
San Francisco has formally apologized to its Black residents and their ancestors for their decades of systematic discrimination.
Governor Gavin Newsom has declined to support the monetary payments that his reparations task committee suggested, which would have totaled up to $1.2 million for a single recipient.
Economists warned a legislative commission studying reparations that paying Black residents for decades of disproportionate policing, incarceration, and housing discrimination could end up costing California more than $800 billion in state revenue.
An extensive reparations plan put up by a committee in San Francisco calls for a $5 million lump-sum payment to each qualified Black resident.