U-Haul is running out of moving trucks at locations across the U.S. Other truck rental companies are reporting similar shortages.
California’s reparations proposal has sparked a stampede of Black families moving to California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s task force on reparations will complete its final proposal in 2023 for $569 billion that would provide $223,000 in reparations per person in Black families to make up for past housing discrimination.
Gov. Newsom said Black families must be made whole by paying reparations for decades of discrimination. Only California residents who can prove they are direct ancestors of slaves are eligible for the $223,000.
That won’t be an easy task. Ancestors must prove they are related by blood (not marriage) to ancestors of slaves. Black Americans can use Ancestry.com to prove ancestry.
To be eligible, a Black person has to prove that they were impacted by housing discrimination or harmed by the lingering effects of slavery, such as mass incarceration.
“So we’re thinking about housing discrimination, we’re thinking about mass incarceration, we’re thinking about experiences that have impacted a particular community,” said Jovan Scott Lewis, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
California is also considering creating a bureau that would help determine lineage.
“We had various genealogists testify about how this process works,” said Lewis. “Many of them were supportive of the fact that this could actually be done with little to no costs.”
Question: Are you planning to move to California for a reparations check?
