California voters oppose making cash payments to Black descendants of slavery by a two-to-one margin, a daunting finding for the Democrat-controlled Legislature as it prepares to take up the state reparations task force’s landmark recommendations.
A University of California Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll of 6,030 registered state votersthat 59% are against paying monetary reparations to Black residents descended from slaves, while 28% support the plan and 13% have no opinion.
The only racial group to support the plan for cash reparations was Black voters, who favored them by 76% to 16%. Only 25% of Whites, 24% of Latinos, and 23% of Asian-Pacific Islanders supported cash payments for Black descendants of slaves. California became the first state to create a reparations task force in 2020, but the poll’s findings show the public has yet to embrace the concept of cash payments for slavery descendants, placing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators in a political quandary.June 29 in its 1,100-page report would cost the state hundreds of millions by providing benefits to eligible slavery descendants such as universal health care, free tuition, and “forgivable” interest-free business loans.
The staunch opposition to cash reparations reflected in the poll comes even though 60% of those surveyed said the legacy of slavery affects Black descendants “a great deal,” “some” or “a little.” Just 31% said “not at all.”
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