From free college for Black high-school graduates to voting rights for prisoners, California’s landmark 492-page reparations blueprint charts a path to racial equity.
“The foundation of America’s wealth was built upon trafficked African peoples and their descendants—built by their forced labor and their bodies as they were bought and sold as commodities,” the landmark report says. “American government at all levels allowed or participated in exploiting, abusing, terrorizing, and murdering people of African descent so that mostly white Americans could profit from their enslavement.
With white supremacy influencing so many facets of life, the task force provided a long list of groundbreaking recommendationsSeveral recommendations are born out of what the task force called modern “slavery in California,” or the penal system. Those who have been incarcerated should not lose their status as citizens, should be paid a “fair market rate” for labor, given mental health support, and allowed to maintain trauma-free relationships with visiting family members, it says.
free college tuition for every Black high-school graduate, and legislating mandatory classes from kindergarten through high school on African American history, and mandatory cultural training for teachers.
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