California task force votes to approve recommendations on how the US state may pay and apologise to Black residents whom economists estimate may be owed more than $800 billion for slavery and discrimination
Some estimates from economists have projected the state could owe upwards of $800 billion, or more than 2.5 times its annual budget, in reparations to Black people. / Photo: AP
The panel's first vote approved a detailed account of historical discrimination against Black Californians in areas such as voting, housing, education, disproportionate policing and incarceration and others. "Reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address longstanding racial disparities and inequalities," Lee said.
Those would include a condemnation of former governor Peter Hardeman Burnett, the state's first elected governor and a white supremacist who encouraged laws to exclude Black people from California. Saturday's task force meeting marked a crucial moment in the long fight for local, state and federal governments to atone for discriminatory polices against African Americans.
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