California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said that reconciling with descendants of slaves in the United States is about “more than cash payments” after his Reparations Task Force recommended millions of dollars in compensation to black residents of the state.
In a statement to Fox News Digital on May 9, Newsom said that the nine-member task force’s independent findings and recommendations “are a milestone in our bipartisan effort to advance justice and promote healing,” calling the work that has been done so far “an important process,” but he stopped short of endorsing the plan to pay black California residents as much as $1.2 million per person.
