California is leading the way, looking into what restitution might look like for descendants of slaves.
The state’s appointed reparations task force met Wednesday in person for the first time since its inaugural meeting last year. The gathering at San Francisco’s historic Third Baptist Church concluded the first of two days of meetings with an emotional call to make reparations a reality.“Everybody in here is a part of history,” Chris Lodgson of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, a reparations advocacy group, said before the meeting.
But Josiah Williams, a member of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California in Oakland, said the vote validated African Americans who have striven throughout history to make society more equitable for everyone else, only to watch as some minority groups received compensation but not them.
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