Black reparations panel could decide who gets compensation | AP News

Black reparations panel could decide who gets compensation | AP News

"California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations is at a crossroads, with members divided on which Black Americans should be eligible for compensation as atonement for a slave system that officially ended with the Civil War but reverberates to this day.

• Some members want to limit financial and other compensation to descendants of enslaved people 
• while others say that all Black people in the U.S., regardless of lineage, suffer from systemic racism in housing, education and employment. 

...California Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, a member of the task force, said there is no question that descendants of slaves are the priority, but he said the task force also needs to stop ongoing harm and prevent future harm from racism...Read all.