WA state never had slaves and in fact passed laws prohibiting...
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Oct 08, 2026
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WA state never had slaves and in fact passed laws prohibiting slavery. So, the dems are looking for victims of slavery that occurred years ago in places far away so they can give them our wealth. How does this make sense? Where does this end?
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No U.S. state is currently paying cash reparations to descendants of enslaved people.
Several states have funded studies or set up agencies, but none has authorized or distributed individual payments tied to slavery lineage.
What states have done
California created the first state reparations task force (2020). Its 2023 report estimated large potential liabilities (figures in the hundreds of billions were discussed), but the legislature never approved direct cash payments. In 2024 the state issued a formal apology. In October 2025 Governor Newsom signed a law creating a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery to certify lineage and build administrative capacity, plus about $6 million for genealogical research. He vetoed bills that would have provided concrete benefits such as home-loan priority or eminent-domain compensation, citing legal and budget risks. The California Department of Justice has stated that no claims process for monetary reparations exists and that reports of existing payments are false.
New York created a Community Commission on Reparations Remedies in late 2023. Its report deadline has been pushed to 2029. Activists involved say they do not expect payments.
Illinois has a statewide African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission that released a harms report in February 2026 and is still in the recommendation stage. No state payments have been authorized.
Maryland overrode a veto by Governor Wes Moore in late 2025 to create a study commission. Possible remedies listed in the bill include cash, but nothing has been paid.
Washington budgeted about $300,000 in 2025 for a study of possible reparations frameworks, with reports due in 2026. No payments.
Federal H.R. 40, the long-standing bill to study reparations, has never passed.
The only place actually writing checks
The clearest operational program is municipal, not state: Evanston, Illinois. Since 2021 it has given $25,000 housing grants or cash equivalents to Black residents who lived in the city between 1919 and 1969, or their direct descendants. By 2026 it had paid several million dollars to a few hundred people, funded mainly by local cannabis and real-estate transfer taxes. Eligibility is based on race plus local residency during the redlining era, not documented descent from enslaved people. The program is in federal court; the Justice Department moved in 2026 to intervene against it on equal-protection grounds.
Other cities (Asheville, Providence, parts of the Bay Area, etc.) have commissions, apologies, or small community funds. None is a statewide payment program for slave descendants, and several have stalled or been dissolved.
So the accurate picture is study commissions and one local housing-reparations program aimed at 20th-century discrimination—not state checks going to families of slaves.
Several states have funded studies or set up agencies, but none has authorized or distributed individual payments tied to slavery lineage.
What states have done
California created the first state reparations task force (2020). Its 2023 report estimated large potential liabilities (figures in the hundreds of billions were discussed), but the legislature never approved direct cash payments. In 2024 the state issued a formal apology. In October 2025 Governor Newsom signed a law creating a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery to certify lineage and build administrative capacity, plus about $6 million for genealogical research. He vetoed bills that would have provided concrete benefits such as home-loan priority or eminent-domain compensation, citing legal and budget risks. The California Department of Justice has stated that no claims process for monetary reparations exists and that reports of existing payments are false.
New York created a Community Commission on Reparations Remedies in late 2023. Its report deadline has been pushed to 2029. Activists involved say they do not expect payments.
Illinois has a statewide African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission that released a harms report in February 2026 and is still in the recommendation stage. No state payments have been authorized.
Maryland overrode a veto by Governor Wes Moore in late 2025 to create a study commission. Possible remedies listed in the bill include cash, but nothing has been paid.
Washington budgeted about $300,000 in 2025 for a study of possible reparations frameworks, with reports due in 2026. No payments.
Federal H.R. 40, the long-standing bill to study reparations, has never passed.
The only place actually writing checks
The clearest operational program is municipal, not state: Evanston, Illinois. Since 2021 it has given $25,000 housing grants or cash equivalents to Black residents who lived in the city between 1919 and 1969, or their direct descendants. By 2026 it had paid several million dollars to a few hundred people, funded mainly by local cannabis and real-estate transfer taxes. Eligibility is based on race plus local residency during the redlining era, not documented descent from enslaved people. The program is in federal court; the Justice Department moved in 2026 to intervene against it on equal-protection grounds.
Other cities (Asheville, Providence, parts of the Bay Area, etc.) have commissions, apologies, or small community funds. None is a statewide payment program for slave descendants, and several have stalled or been dissolved.
So the accurate picture is study commissions and one local housing-reparations program aimed at 20th-century discrimination—not state checks going to families of slaves.
