BREAKING: Biden Admin Considering Slavery Reparations With New Proposal

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Biden administration is considering asking black Americans if they descended from slaves on federal forms.

The move would allow the Biden administration to differentiate between black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved and those who more recently immigrated to the United States from Africa or the Caribbean, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The Journal reports that supporters of the move want to see how many Americans would be eligible for reparations “should the government ever agree to pay them.”

The outlet went on to cite a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Duke University that found that black Americans who descended from slaves tend to “lag behind” black Americans who immigrated more recently.

The administration is currently considering the proposal that would ask black Americans an additional question on federal forms and the U.S. Census. The question would ask if they identified as “American Descendants of Slavery” or “American Freedmen” with some even suggesting that “Foundational Black Americans” would be an option.

This isn’t the first time that progressives have pushed for reparations, however, this would be the first instance on the federal level that such a push has been made.

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As previously reported by the DC Enquirer, a committee to study the redistribution of taxpayer wealth to every black resident of San Francisco as ‘reparations’ concluded in January that each should receive $5 million. The decision came despite the historical fact that chattel slavery was never legal in California after it joined the United States in 1850.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Board of Supervisors committee, also known as the AARAC or African American Reparations Advisory Committee came to the following determination.

“AARAC calls for one-time, lump-sum reparations payments of $5 million to each eligible recipient,” the committee wrote, adding that the amount could cover “the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy.”

The local outlet added, “To qualify for the payments, residents must be 18 at the time the committee’s proposal is enacted, and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years. They may also have to prove they were born in the city between 1940 and 1996, have resided in San Francisco for at least 13 years, and be someone, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated during the war on drugs.”

Overall, the move by the federal government was foreshadowed by San Francisco’s efforts and shows that the most radical progressive proposals eventually made it to President Biden’s administration.

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