Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg told members of the California task force on reparations that he wholeheartedly supports giving Black Californians compensation for being descendants of slaves.
Aisha Martin-Walton, of the California Department of Justice, center, and Michael Newman, Senior Assistant Attorney General of California, left, attend the California Reparations Task Force meeting to hear public input on reparations at the Californi"If government should stand for anything, it should stand for investing in communities and people who have been the victims of discrimination and disenfranchisement for far too long," he said, apologizing for the city of Sacramento's...
in 2020 in response to a national reckoning on race relations and the murder of George Floyd. The task force was assigned to study legacy of slavery in California and come up with recommendations to the legislature on "appropriate remedies of compensation, rehabilitation, and restitution for African Americans, with a special consideration for descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.
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