The 1,100-page report details California’s role in perpetuating discrimination against Black residents. The panel narrowly voted to limit any financial redress to residents who can document lineage from Black people who were in the U.S. Task force members said their suggestions will pass legal muster because the proposed benefits would only go to descendants of enslaved people, not to all Black residents. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in higher education, programs that have disproportionately helped Black students. The mood was buoyant, but tinged with frustration and anger that hours earlier, the U.S. “Anyone who says that we are colorblind, that we have solved the problem of anti-Black animus and racism, I challenge you to read this document.” “This book of truth will be a legacy, will be a testament to the full story,” said Lisa Holder, a civil rights attorney and task force member. Gavin Newsom must agree for any money to be paid or for any policy changes to be adopted. panel of its kind met one last time Thursday, urging supporters to press lawmakers into action on more than 100 recommendations. (AP) - Members of California’s Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery.
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