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In contrast, the task force on reparations for the state of California has proposed a sliding scale with a limit of $1.2 million for elderly Black individuals. The cash amount received a lot of attention, but it is mostly viewed as unachievable in a city with mounting fiscal challenges and a lack of political agreement on the subject.
According to the Brookings Institution, in 1860, over $3 billion (~$83 billion in 2023) was the value assigned to the physical bodies of enslaved Black Americans to be used as free labor and production. [citation needed] This was more money than was invested in factories and railroads combined. In 1861, the value placed on cotton produced by ...
The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5 times California's $300 billion annual budget, and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have ...
The stated mission of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is: ...to win full Reparations for Black African Descendants residing in the United States and its territories for the genocidal war against Africans that created the TransAtlantic Slave "Trade" Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and Chattel Slavery’s continuing vestiges (the Maafa).
Former residents and their descendants say the city of Palm Springs owes them up to $2 billion in damages for the forcible removal in the 1950s and '60s of cooks, chauffeurs and builders who ...
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Blacks in California are more prone to obesity. [104] Homicide rates are higher for African Americans in California. [105] Blacks in California are more likely to experience depression, psychological distress and other mental health conditions. [106] [107] [108] The suicide rate is higher for Black Californians than white Californians. [109 ...
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