A task force working on proposals to the legislature for a sweeping package of reparations to Black state residents finished two days of hearings in San Diego, which showed the scope of the work the task force is undertaking.
By nearly any measure — be it the 485-page interim report issued in June, the dozens of meetings, the hours of testimony — the work of the state Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans is sweeping and detailed.
By the end of June the task force must deliver a final report to the state legislature with recommendations on what a reparations package would entail. Those will just be recommendations; it will be up to legislators to adopt some or all of them in the future and then state agencies to carry them out.
That also means the work has to be done right. “If we err here it will allow all the naysayers to say we should not be doing this nationally,” he said. The question of monetary compensation has attracted the most attention. In March the committee decided that eligibility for any future payments would be limited to Black state residents who are descendants of enslaved people, or of a free Black person living in the U.S. by the end of the 19th century. That standard would exclude some individuals, such as Black people who came to the U.S. in the 1900s.
These include requiring the state to formally apologize to Black Californians for past wrong and an explicit censure of Peter Hardeman Burnett, the first elected governor of the state. A former slaveholder from Tennessee, as governor he advocated passing laws banning Blacks from the state.
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