After a debate over who will be eligible for reparations extended beyond the initially allotted time, it was clear the task force understood the gravity of the vote, and they decided to delay making a decision.
CA's first-in-the-nation Reparations Task Force met for the fourth time to discuss several important topics including the racial wealth gap.
The task force disagreed on the timing of the vote and if sufficient expert testimony was heard and weighed. In January's meeting, California Secretary of State Shirley Webber suggested reparations for African Americans should be limited to people whose ancestors were kidnapped from their homeland, stripped of their ancestry and sold into slavery in America.
Over the last two days, the task force also grappled with if reparations should be extended to a broader group: Black people living in the state who may not draw their lineage to the enslaved in America, but are still inflicted by historic and present systemic racism."Some of us have just had a harsher experience with this thing of racism, oppression, and enslavement," said vice-chair Dr. Amos Brown.
"It was recognized that they are not finished with their process, that there might be other types of information that would help them to make that decision. Which, again, will have a tremendous impact on this extremely historic issue," said Nkechi Taifa, director of the Reparations Education Project.
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