Like redress provided to those interred during WWII, state bills would address legacy of racism for African Americans.
Legislators in the California State Capitol have proposed two bills offering an apology for the state’s legacy of slavery and compensation to African Americans who lost property due to discriminatory policies.The California State Assembly recently announced a set of bills that would offer African American residents reparations.
These bills offer our state an important opportunity to rectify past injustices and combat existing discrimination. They also provide our community a chance to heal and set an example for the rest of our nation. Although Californians remain divided on what reparations should look like, there is evidence that redress helps to address systemic racism.
Even when our country was faced with the question of offering compensation to Japanese Americans 40 years ago, our country was also divided. A San Jose Buddhist priest, Kyoshiro Tokunaga, offered a stirring message in support of redress: that there is an American karma for past injustices. One of the few positive moments during Tokunaga’s incarceration was when an African American porter revived him after he fainted during the train ride en route to another prison. When he was released from the Crystal City Internment Camp in Texas in July 1946 — almost a year after the war ended — he boarded a train bound for Denver. As the train was segregated, he chose to sit with the African American passengers out of solidarity.
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