New York is the second state to pass a law establishing a reparations commission that will research the state’s role in perpetuating slavery.
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Sanders explained that reparation has been a personal passion project for him for the last 30 years, along with colleagues like former Brooklyn Assemblymember Charles Barron. Sanders comes from a military family, was a Marine himself, and is a descendant of American slaves. “That’s the biggest weapon,” said Jackson of the importance of passing down stories. “How do you fight a multinational corporation without financial resources? How do you fight a political system where the mayor of your city has business interests on the opposite side of the environmental fight?”
“It was decided that for reparations, the people of Greenbelt would have to vote on whether or not there would be a commission. I personally did not expect it to pass and I was really surprised when it did,” said Brooklyn native After months of listening sessions statewide and engaging experts, the nine-member task force produced a final report of more than 1,000 pages, referred to as t.
The California report estimated that up to 1,500 enslaved African Americans lived in California in 1852, but the task force decided thatwould be “based on lineage, determined by an individual being a Black descendant of a chattel enslaved person or a descendant of a free Black person living in the U.S. prior to the end of the 19th Century.” Several commissioners were opposed to the exclusion of Caribbean people and their descendants born in America, said Martin.
“When we launched this council, we were thinking about answering a fundamental question: What does it take to make Black people free in New Jersey?” saidcampaign as a grassroots way of de-stigmatizing language about the issue. Brutus found that many electeds and members of the public were uncomfortable with even saying the term. “The idea is that we can’t get away from the solution,” said Brutus. “We want to help normalize the phrase so that it’s not scary.
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