Actor Faizon Love has lashed out at the notion that black people in California will be given $223,000 in reparations, saying that the money will only be used to purchase luxury cars. 

Love, 54, made the eye-opening response in an interview with YouTube channel Vlad TV as the debate over reparations for slavery in the Golden State continues. 

The Meteor Man star said: 'F*** that. That's another trick man, because that money's gonna go right back to Cadillac and right back to [Mercedes] Benz.' 

The chair of the task force handling the reparations issue, Kamilah V. Moore, said in an interview Tuesday that the $223,000 figure being reported was not simply the amount of money that would be handed out but represented the state of California's 'maximum culpability' per person.

She also criticized the fact that reparations only apply to any persons who faced housing discrimination between 1933-1972 and not just black people. 

In his interview, Love went on to offer an alternative to monetary reparations - suggesting that black people should be tax exempt for life. 

The Cuban-born actor referred to slaves being treated as 'tax write-offs' during the Civil War. 

He also brought up the fact that the federal income tax was initiated by the US government in order to pay for the Civil War. 

The financial requirements of the war saw Congress place a flat three percent tax on all incomes over $800. Following the end of the war, the original law was repealed and not formally replaced until the 1913 Federal Income Tax act.