Whites May Qualify for Reparations Via California’s Genealogy Office Proposal – By Evan Poellinger (CNS News) / April 18, 2024
The state of California is considering creating an office of genealogy that will be used to help determine eligibility for reparations, prompting concerns about the office’s qualification criteria.
The California Senate Judiciary Committee approved the creation of a new state agency that would oversee the implementation of reparations in California and setting qualifications for who can receive them.
The agency, the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency (CAFA), is to have cabinet-level status in putting into effect the recommendations of the state’s previous reparations task force, which include a potential $1.2 million of payments to eligible slave descendants.
Chief among the components of this agency will be an office of genealogy that will help to set applicant qualifications. The declared qualifications initially included “descendants of a free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century,” which was amended to include “descendants of an African American chattel enslaved person in the United States.”
