Nearly 50 percent of Americans do not support taxpayer-funded reparations for Black residents, a new DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll found.
A number of blue cities across the country have proposed paying money to descendants of slaves in recent years.
California was the first U.S. state to establish a reparations task force in 2023 to provide recommendations.
Other Democratic areas, such as New York City and Boston, are also considering offering reparations to their affected populations.
Despite this, the DailyMail.com poll found that a majority of Americans do not support the idea of doling out millions of dollars to slaves’ ancestors: 37 percent strongly oppose and 11 percent oppose something.
Only nine percent strongly support reparations, while 11 percent somewhat support the proposal, the poll found.
More than 30 percent said they did not know or did not support or oppose reparations.
Nearly 50 percent of Americans do not support reparations for slavery, even though several blue cities are considering bills, a shocking DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll revealed.
Several reparations working groups have proposed offering millions of government dollars to slaves’ ancestors as a form of apology.
But in September, California Governor Gavin Newsom dealt a blow to the state’s repair efforts by vetoing a key property bill.
The defeated Senate Bill 1050 would have helped Black families reclaim or be compensated for property that was unfairly seized by the government through racially motivated eminent domain.
“I thank the author for his commitment to redressing the racial injustices of the past,” Newsom said in a statement, referring to state Sen. Steven Bradford. “However, this bill tasks a non-existent state agency with carrying out its various provisions and requirements, making its implementation impossible.”
The legislation was part of a package of reparations bills introduced this year that seek to provide redress for decades of policies that discriminated against African Americans.
New York City also revealed plans to consider offering reparations to descendants of slaves in September, but the proposals are has not yet been signed into law by Mayor Eric Adams.
According to the City Council, New York City had one of the highest rates of slave ownership in the country during the 18th century, before abolishing it in 1872.
However, businesses throughout the city, including the predecessors of some modern banks, continued to benefit financially from the slave trade until 1866; Lawmakers behind the proposals noted that the harms caused by the institution are still felt by African Americans today.
More than two votes to one among American voters oppose slavery reparations, which propose giving families derived from slavery a monetary reward to compensate for the US government’s past actions.
One proposal would require the city to install a sign on Wall Street in Manhattan to mark the site of New York’s first slave market, which operated from 1711 to 1762.
In Boston, the Boston Reparations Commission has demanded the city invest $15 billion in slavery reparations.
They demanded that the sum be invested “monetarily and through public policies that will be in place for Black Bostonians for generations.”
The head of the Commission, the Rev. Kevin Peterson, said WCVB that although the group asks for 15 billion dollars, “it is not enough” since “each life is incalculable.”
In addition to the money requested from the city, the Commission is in talks with Boston’s white churches about a possible payment of $50 million.
Only nine percent of respondents strongly support reparations, and 11 percent partially support them, the survey found.
Another widely debated issue before the November elections is immigration.
The DailyMail.com/JL Partners survey found that Fifty percent of respondents strongly supported significantly reducing the number of immigrants entering the country illegally, and 18 percent supported it to some extent.
Nearly 50 percent also strongly and partially supported reducing the arrival of legal immigrants to the United States.