My family (African Americans) were freed by white soldiers fighting and dying for our freedom. I think reparations should go to those families. Looks like California is in some serious trouble with this one. Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is in a political no-win situation when it comes to a proposal by his own reparations task force to pay up to $1.2 million in taxpayer money to every qualifying Black resident as a means to atone for slavery and discrimination.