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Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240201053834/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/31/california-black-reparations-bills-00138854
SACRAMENTO, California — California state lawmakers introduced a slate of reparations bills on Wednesday, including a proposal to restore property taken by “race-based” cases of eminent domain and a potentially unconstitutional measure to provide state funding for “specific groups.”
The package marks a first-in-the-nation effort to give restitution to Black Americans who have been harmed by centuries of racist policies and practices. California’s legislative push is the culmination of years of research and debate, including 111-pages of recommendations issued last year by a task force.
Other states like Colorado, New York, and Massachusetts have commissioned reparations studies or task forces, but California is the first to attempt to turn those ideas into law.
The 14 measures introduced by the Legislative Black Caucus touch on education, civil rights and criminal justice, including reviving a years-old effort to restrict solitary confinement that failed to make it out of the statehouse as recently as last year.
Not included is any type of financial compensation to descendants of Black slaves, a polarizing proposal that has received a cool response from many state Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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I agree with the sentiment of this, but it seems morally inconsistent to do this for Black Americans and not Native Americans.
Considering, this is just one city in one state…
Naw Son! This is a good first step. Don’t stop progress for one group because another deserve similar restitution.
Just be happy about this, because native Americans would be
They’re never going to return them one square inch of their land
This is silly. It’s going to open a Pandora’s Box…what about all the white soldiers in the Civil War that died trying to free slaves? What about their families? What about the African tribes that captured and sold their own people to the slave trade, shouldn’t they be held accountable? What about the Chinese, Irish, Italians…should they get something too?
