California’s reparations proposal is still several steps away from being realized, but it didn’t get this far by accident, _Jahan writes.
a mix of scholars, activists and elected officials. Their report, released Thursday, outlines recommendations for ways to compensate African Americans who live in California and can demonstrate their families have been affected by slavery and its lingering harms, which are “innumerable and have snowballed over generations,” the report says.
“The African American story in the United States,” the authors write, “is marked by repeated failed promises to right the wrongs of the past — both distant and recent — and failure to acknowledge and take responsibility for the structural racism that perpetuated these harms.” The report, which totals more than 1,000 pages, notes that its findings are undergirded by thorough research, including “substantive analysis regarding international standards; local, state, federal and international examples of reparations; methods for educating the public regarding the critical issues addressed herein; and a catalogue of the racist laws and policies that cumulatively created this nation.
California has issued apologies in the compensation programs enacted for the human rights abuses in its eugenics sterilization program, violence and destruction of tribal communities, and incarceration of Japanese Americans. That line about previous “compensation programs” is important to understand when thinking about this task force’s proposal. Officials
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