“Reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address long standing racial disparities and inequalities.”
The nine-member committee gave final approval at a meeting in Oakland to a“Reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address long standing racial disparities and inequalities,” Rep. Barbara Lee said during the meeting.
The panel’s first vote approved a detailed account of historical discrimination against Black Californians in areas such as voting, housing, education, disproportionate policing and incarceration and others. The group recommended that the state create a new agency that could provide services to descendants of enslaved people to calculate what the state owes them.
Though the task force didn’t specify what compensation would look like, it approved a section of the draft report stating reparations should include “cash or its equivalent.” Bishop Henry C. Williams, of Oakland, testifies during the Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento, California on March 29, 2023.
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