Nearly two years into the California reparations task force's work, the group still has yet to make key decisions that will be at the heart of its final report.
Sacramento resident Tariq Alami, who has been following along with the task force's work since its early stages, said it is clear the government should have passed reparations for Black Americans a long time ago.
After the task force releases its final report, the fate of its recommendations would then lie with state legislators, two of whom are members of the task force - Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer and state Sen. Steven Bradford, both Democrats representing parts of Los Angeles County. Lawmakers would also decide where funding for any reparations legislation may come from.
The task force previously proposed the following time frames for the five harms, which begin either when the state was founded or when certain discriminatory policies were implemented: 1933 to 1977 for housing discrimination and homelessness, 1970 to 2020 for over-policing and mass incarceration, 1850 to 2020 for unjust property takings, 1900 to 2020 for health harms, and 1850 to 2020 for devaluation of Black-owned businesses.
Elsewhere in the country, reparations proposals for African Americans have had varying results. A bill that would allow the federal government to study reparations hasn't come close to a vote in Congress since it was first introduced in 1989.
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