“We need to hear from every African American if we can.” “We need to not just hear from the American descendants of slavery,” he told me. Meanwhile, Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) has introduced a bill that would give the task force, of which he is a member, another year to do more research and finish its work. They postponed a vote until their next meeting later this month. That’s probably why, even after two hours of heated debate, the task force couldn’t come to an agreement last month. If California does decide to pay reparations, who should get it? All Black people? Or only Black people who can trace their lineage to chattel slavery?Ī lot is riding on the answer. And now the Burgess brothers’ case has been pulled into the most important policy question that the task force has tackled to date - the question of eligibility. Since then, though, the brothers have gotten bogged down in the bureaucratic realities of reparations, as the governor has moved on and the task force has taken the lead on the issue.
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