![]() ![]() We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. “There’s no way in the world that many of these recommendations are going to get through because of the inflationary impact,” said Roy L Brooks, a professor and reparations scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law.ĭocuments outlining recommendations to the taskforce by economists previously showed the state could owe upwards of $800bn, or more than 2.5 times its annual budget, for overpolicing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination against black people. But the proposals are far from implementation by the state. Saturday’s meeting marks a crucial moment in a long fight for local, state and federal governments to offer recompense for policies that have driven overpolicing of black neighbourhoods, housing discrimination, health disparities and other harms. The statement would follow apologies by the state for placing Japanese Americans in internment camps during the second world war and perpetuating violence against and mistreatment of Native Americans. The acknowledgment could be informed by the descendants recounting injustices they have faced and include a promise that California will not repeat the same mistakes. The taskforce could vote for the state to apologise publicly and acknowledge responsibility for past wrongs in the presence of people whose ancestors were enslaved. “By participating in these horrors, California further perpetuated the harms African Americans faced, imbuing racial prejudice throughout society through segregation, public and private discrimination, and unequal disbursal of state and federal funding,” the draft states. The state supreme court enforced the federal Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people, until the official end of enslavement in 1865, according to the draft. Though California entered the union as a free state, it did not enact laws to enforce such freedom, the draft states. Such a list could include a censure of former California governor Peter Hardeman Burnett, the state’s first elected leader and a white supremacist who encouraged laws to exclude black people from California. The apology crafted by the legislature must “include a censure of the gravest barbarities” carried out on behalf of the state, according to the draft recommendation to be voted on. “An apology and an admission of wrongdoing just by itself is not going to be satisfactory for reparations,” said Chris Lodgson, an organiser with the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, a reparations advocacy group. It does not store any personal data.The recommendations range from the creation of an agency to provide services to descendants of enslaved people, to tailored calculations of what the state owes residents for decades of harms such as overpolicing and housing discrimination. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". ![]() The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]()
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