California's first-in-the-nation task force on reparations could decide which Black Americans are eligible for compensation.
Yet, the eligibility question has dogged the group since its inaugural meeting in June, when viewers called in pleading with the nine-member group to devise targeted proposals and cash payments to make whole the descendants of people enslaved in the U.S.
Kamilah Moore, the committee's chair, said she expects robust discussion at Tuesday's meeting, which will include testimony from genealogists. She favors eligibility based on lineage, rather than race, saying it will have the best chance of surviving a legal challenge in a conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
A reparations plan based on race would attract"hyper-aggressive challenges that could have very negative implications for other states looking to do something similar, or even for the federal government," she said.California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, who authored the legislation creating the task force, had argued passionately in January for prioritizing descendants for generations of forced labor, broken family ties and police terrorism.
Opening up compensation to Black immigrants or even descendants of slaves from other countries would leave U.S. descendants with mere pennies, she said. But members at February's meeting - nearly all of whom can trace their families back to enslaved ancestors - questioned the need to rush on a pivotal question bound to shape reparations deliberations across the country.
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