Letters to the Editor: The grim facts of history demand reparations for Black Californians (via latimesopinion )
America’s indebtedness to Black people and the legitimate pursuit of reparations on behalf of African Americans
As stressed by the report issued by the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, “So thoroughly have the effects of slavery infected every aspect of American society over the last 400 years that it is nearly impossible to ... describe every harm done to African Americans.”
While Native Americans are also aggrieved, their plight is overlooked because their numbers are fewer due to “Indian” extermination. And Native Americans tend to live in remote places, farther from the halls of power. For example, the Tongva people, who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years, were first enslaved by the Spanish and Mexican governments and then further abused by our own government. Now, Tongva people have been waiting decades simply for the protection and benefits of federal tribal recognition. Will they ever get it?Reparations for historical wrongs are morally correct, but let us not exclude Native Americans from that justice.
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