California's reparations task force is calling on the Golden State to issue a formal apology for former Gov. Ronald Reagan coining the term 'welfare queen.'
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"The legislature must apologize on behalf of the state of California and the people of California for the perpetration of gross human rights violations and genocide of Africans who were enslaved and their descendants through public apology, requests for forgiveness, censure of state perpetrators, and tributes to victims," the task force writes in its proposal.
"In issuing its apology, the legislature must formally apologize on its own behalf, and on behalf of the state of California, for all of the harms delineated in the [task force's final] report, and for the atrocities committed by California state actors who promoted, facilitated, enforced, and permitted the institution of chattel slavery and its legacy of ongoing badges and incidents of slavery that form the systemic structures of discrimination," the.
Then-Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan joins hands with civil right leader Ralph Abernathy following his surprise endorsement of the former film star and California governor in 1980.The so-called"welfare queen" referred to a mixed-race woman named Linda Taylor, according to a 2019 biography that portrayed her as a con artist and criminal.
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