It’s uncertain what California lawmakers will do with the reparations task force’s proposals, which include payments to descendants of enslaved people and a formal apology from the state.
SACRAMENTO — 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.
Black Californians have watched closely as the state’s reparations task force forged ahead in a two-year study, finally signing off this month on a hefty list of recommendations that will be submitted to lawmakers. It’s uncertain what lawmakers will do with the proposals, which include payments to descendants of enslaved people and a formal apology from the state.
Damien Posey is photographed in the Us 4 Us office in San Francisco, Friday, May 12, 2023. Posey, 44, grew up in historically Black neighborhoods in San Francisco, where he heard gunshots at night and was bussed to schools in neighborhoods that weren’t so welcoming to Black children. He spent a decade in prison on a weapons charge and later started the nonprofit called Us 4 Us Bay Area to mentor youth and reduce gun violence.
Pastor Les Robinson waits to deliver his sermon at The Sanctuary Church Sunday, May 14, 2023, in Santa Clarita, Calif. For Black Californians who have watched for nearly two years as the state has come further than any other in its consideration of reparations for African Americans, the approval of restitution proposals by a historic task force marks a moment some never thought would come and one others say is a long time coming.
Pastor Les Robinson jokes with fellow pastor Julie Sandeen at The Sanctuary Church Sunday, May 14, 2023, in Santa Clarita, Calif.
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