Besides recommending monetary compensation potentially worth billions of dollars for descendants of enslaved people, a task force has proposed an array of policy changes that would benefit Black Californians.
A couple of hundred people chanted “Reparations now!” in a packed auditorium at the California Secretary of State headquarters in Sacramento on Thursday as the first-in-the-nation state-level reparations task force unveiled its final report and recommendations.
She urged the public to read the report in preparation for that fight, alluding to the backlash that the reparations effort has already received. “The document answers every question,” she said. Besides recommending monetary compensation potentially worth billions of dollars for descendants of enslaved people, the task force has proposed an array of policy changes that would benefit Black Californians, including allowing incarcerated people to vote and repealing Prop. 209, which outlawed affirmative action in the state.
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