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1:36Now PlayingCalifornia reparations task force limits eligibility for reparations | USA TODAY
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1:36Now PlayingCalifornia’s first-of-its-kind task force created to study and make recommendations on reparations voted to limit those eligible to receive them.
RELATEDMayors across America discuss reparations for Black Americans
The committee is not even a year into its two-year process and there is no compensation plan of any kind on the table. But there is broad agreement among advocates of the need for multi-faceted remedies for related yet separate harms, such as slavery, Jim Crow laws, mass incarceration and redevelopment that resulted in displacement of Black communities.
A reparations plan based on race would attract “hyper-aggressive challenges that could have very negative implications for other states looking to do something similar, or even for the federal government,” she said. “Everyone’s looking to what we’re going to do,” she said. California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, who authored the legislation creating the task force, had argued passionately in January for prioritizing descendants for generations of forced labor, broken family ties and police terrorism.
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