California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations agreed residents should qualify for compensation. But who's eligible? ⬇️
Task Force Chairperson Kamilah Moore indicated she may support allowing for compensation to certain people who have been harmed while in California but have moved out of state.
A full list of the task force’s several dozen “preliminary recommendations for future deliberation” wasWe want to be as inclusive as possible, because the harm is everywhere. It’s omnipresent and it touches all Black folks.Other recommendations include allowing incarcerated prisoners to vote and receive a fair market wage for work, making zero-interest loans available to Black-owned businesses and homebuyers, and providing college scholarships to Black high school graduates.
“It’s like a baby; if you don’t get it out, it’s not going to live,” Weber said. “Make sure your recommendations will really change the experience and life for African Americans. We don’t need token things … Make sure your recommendations are going to have a lasting impact.”federal reparations legislation that would establish a commission to consider proposals for reparations for African American descendants of slavery.
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