Breitbart Reports: Legislators in California have introduced a first-in-the-nation package of reparations bills that aims to redress the legacy of racism in America. There is only one small catch: the reparations being offered do not include any actual cash payments.

The move is the culmination of a process that began in 2020, after the Black Lives Matter riots, when Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill to create a committee to study reparations and make recommendations. The committee had no white members.

California — which entered the Union as a “free” state in 1850 — had no history of legal slavery in the state. But proponents said that slavery continues to affect black Americans in general, and pointed to other racially discriminatory policies in the state.

The committee deliberated for months, and produced increasingly outrageous estimates of the value of reparations — $1.2 million for each black resident, for instance, or (later) $800 billion overall, some two and-a-half times the annual California state budget.

Other proposals were nearly just as controversial, such as separate schools for black children (which would, ironically, create a new Jim Crow system in California).

Newsom began to take a more cautious and skeptical approach to the committee’s work.



Now, the legislature will consider several bills to implement some of the committee’s recommendations — and it will not include any cash payments, according to Politico, except for cases of restitution of property seized under eminent domain.