California has won the race to be the first state in the nation to formally introduce legislation that would pay slavery reparations to black Americans with a series of bills — including one that claims to restore property that was seized in “race-based” eminent domain cases and one constitutionally problematic proposal for giving public funds to only to specific groups.
As Politico reports, the new legislative push comes on the heels of 111 pages of recommendations published last year by California’s state-sanctioned reparations task force. Based on these recommendations, the California Legislative Black Caucus in the state Legislature introduced 14 measures that tackle the issue, not with cash payments, but in a number of spheres that include criminal justice, civil rights, and education.
For example, one bill would restrict solitary confinement in the Golden State, a perpetual effort that was killed in the statehouse just last year.
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