SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force meets in person Wednesday, the first time members have gathered face-to-face since their inaugural meeting nearly a year ago and mere weeks after the group voted to limit restitution to descendants of enslaved Black people.
The two-day event will be held at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore district, a neighborhood once thriving with African American night clubs and shops until government redevelopment forced out residents. Its pastor is Rev. Amos Brown, task force vice chair and president of the San Francisco chapter of the NAACP.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation creating the two-year reparations task force in 2020, making California the only state to move ahead with a mission to study the institution of slavery, educate the public about its findings and develop remedies. Reparations at the federal level has not gone anywhere, but cities and universities across the country are taking up the issue.
In a dramatic vote last month, California’s task force voted 5-4 to limit reparations to descendants of people who can show they are descended from enslaved or free Black people in the U.S. as of the 19th century. Those who favor broader eligibility says lineage-based reparations unfairly shuts out Black people who have also suffered systemic discrimination.
Since its inaugural meeting in June, the nine-member panel has dedicated much of its time to hearing from experts in weighty areas such as housing and homelessness, racism in banking and discrimination in technology.
Wednesday’s agenda includes testimony from experts in education, while on Thursday, the committee is scheduled to discuss a report to be made public in June that shows how the institution of slavery continues to reverberate throughout California, including in the form of disparities in household income, health, employment and incarceration.
Task force members were appointed by the governor and the leaders of the two legislative chambers. A plan for reparations is due to the Legislature in 2023.
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We should pay them tens of thousands to each family in reparations,,,,only if they agree to pay back every dime of the hundreds of thousands each family received in welfare since LBJ and his So-called ‘Great Society” that not only did not “Make America Great Again” but just made America poor and in debt up to our ears which apparently mattered not to the black lives who took the handouts, and complained all the way to their self-chosen lives of social dependency which more than made up for any reparations their ancestors may have been entitled to.
WHICH none of them would EVER do. SO WHY KEEP PAYING THEM!
Voltaire Once Said, ” Its Difficult To Free Fools From Chains They Revere . ” The B lack Lives Matter, ” Democrat Leftists Love The Free Stuff Reparations, Free Public Housing, Free Public School Meals , Free University Education, You Know, ” The Free Stuff.
***eyeroll***
First, there own people sold them into slavery. But since they won’t admit that but claim they were stolen. Then by laws must return africa stolen people. Let’s send them back. Andi want our money back plus 400 years of Interest
AND reparations for HUNDREDS of thousands of lives, wasted, in giving them their freedom.
The X-President Tinkerbell Barrack Obama said that anyone can be anything that they relate to.
Sooo…
I am a white male, but I think I will relate to being a unmarried black female with 12 children and a descendants of enslaved Black relatives.
Will I be able to get free welfare, free food stamps, free housing, free clothing, free phone, free cable TV, free medical and free reparation??
If they are limiting reparations to only decedents of slaves, how about exempting people from paying reparation if they had no ancestors in the United States at the end of the Civil War?
Exempt people who family fought to free the slaves.
IF anything, THEY ARE THE ONES who need to be paid repairations..
Reparations and civil war, one and inseparable.
Wasting more time to come up with more ways to waste more money.
AND won’t solve a damn thing.