The reparations discussion is where the rubber meets the road for liberals who have expressed outrage over right-wing efforts to hide history. Enter California Gov. Gavin Newsom. (via The ReidOut Blog)
As Bunn reports, that's been the case:
Public hearings on the issue of reparations have not gotten into fisticuffs, but they have been highlighted by Black people stepping to the podium or calling in by phone to express the depths of their emotions about how slavery has impacted them generations later, how important reparations are, and in what form they should come.
Later in the article, Cheryl Grills, a member of the task force, explains what’s driven some of the meeting’s most impassioned exchanges.Author 'Zora Neale Hurston said, in essence, that there’s nothing more painful than having an untold story buried deep inside of you,' she added. 'That’s the situation for Black folks. This assault has been going against people of African ancestry, where for hundreds of years, they’ve been in a world that profoundly devalues them.
Much of this tension appears to stem from urgency. As someone who’s hosted reparations debates in the past, I’ve always sensed an urgency among pro-reparations folks to make elder Black people whole, while the opportunity still exists, for traumas they and their families suffered. But conservatives’ crusade against truthful teachings of American history has surely pressurized the debate and made things ever more urgent.
And the reparations discussion is where the rubber meets the road for self-identifying liberals who’ve expressed outrage over right-wing efforts to hide history.
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