Chair of California Reparations Committee clarifies reports claiming $225K will be given to every Black person
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA: The head of California’s committee to study reparation proposals for African Americans recently responded to reports claiming that the organization intended to hand over $225,000 to each applicant for the program. In an interview on Tuesday, December 13, Kamilah V Moore reportedly said that an economic research team provided a figure to the committee, which presented the state of California's "maximum culpability" for housing discrimination.
Moore clarified that the program proposed by the task force applied to people who were impacted by housing discrimination between 1933 and 1977, and not just Black people. "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," Moore said, according to Daily Mail, adding, "When you really look at who was really impacted by housing discrimination during that particular time period it most likely won't be all Black folks."
