California’s Reparations Hearings Are Going Exactly As You’d Expect

After a meeting of California’s Reparations Task Force On December 14, at Oakland’s City Hall, an activist threatened the committee with a lawsuit if they refused to comply with his demand for $800,000. This money must be given to black residents. “going to be a serious backlash.”

Deon Jenkins was the spokesperson for the task force. Governor Newsom in 2020, to compensate black Californians for discriminatory housing practices, that reparation payments should be in line with today’s average cost of owning a home in the state, which is estimated to be around $800,000, the Daily Mail reports.

Jenkins, self-described “hip hop organizer,” In an interview after the public hearing, the task force stated that “Either they’re going to comply or it’s going to be a serious backlash.” 
 

According to Daily Mail Jenkins ran for president in 2016 & 2020 and for US Senate in California 2022. None of these campaigns were successful.

“$200,000 is nothing for what my family has contributed to this country,” He spoke to the committee earlier in today. “We built this country, we serve this country, honorably. We need reparations.”

Gov. Newsom launched a $569 billion reparations Based on the recommendation of the task force panel, $223,000.00 be delivered to each black descendant in American slavery who is a California resident at the end. 

Jenkins spoke before the meetings of the task force and stated that:”Defense, money, land, grants. Four elements of every society, every nation – a defensive structure, economy, land and having access to that economy.”

“If that is not being addressed reparations will not hold,” He added. “Reparations – repair is the root word, we cannot have repair if those elements are not addressed.”

The chair of the task force, Kamilah V. Moore, gave a series of interviews the day before the public hearings began to clarify some of the misconceptions surrounding the reparations, such as that everyone who applies for the program will receive the full recommended amount.

She confirmed that the maximum amount could only be applied for by those who were affected by discrimination in housing in California between 1933-1977.

“In reality, that number would be minimized when you take into account the fact that the task force decided in March that the community of eligibility would be lineage-based rather than race-based,” She spoke.

The group has until July 1, 20,23 to decide on the amount of reparations that will be paid.