Black Californians hope state reparations don’t become another broken promise

Posted on AllSides May 17th, 2023
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Jeff Chiu / AP
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San Francisco resident Pia Harris hopes for reparations in her lifetime. But the nonprofit program director is not confident that California lawmakers will turn the recommendations of a first-in-the-nation task force into concrete legislation given pushback from opponents who say slavery was a thing of the past.

It frustrates Ms. Harris that reparations opponents won’t acknowledge that life for Black people did not improve with the abolition of chattel slavery in 1865. Black families have been unable to accumulate wealth through property ownership and higher education. Black boys and teenagers...

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https://apnews.com/article/reparations-california-payments-slavery-racism-discrimination-a7d4abb30e8395c805a9f2cc0586bf91

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