Reparations Proposals OK’d by California Senate, Advance to California State Assembly 

By Kayla Garcia-Pebdani  SACRAMENTO, CA—The California State Senate last week approved several reparation proposals for Black Californians, which have now advanced to the California State Assembly. As reported by CapRadio, the several proposed pieces of legislation pushed forward by the California Senate include the eligibility for future restitution, aid for Black families to research their family lineage, a fund for reparation programs, and compensation to Black families for property the government had “unjustly seized from them using eminent domain.” State Senator Steven Bradford (D-Los Angeles), stated Californian “bears great responsibility” in addressing the grievances made by Black Californians, adding, “If you can inherit generational wealth, you can inherit generational debt. Reparations is a debt that’s owed to descendants of slavery,” said CapRadio. The proposals are included in a slate of bills promoted by the recommendations made by California’s Black Reparations Task Force, which conducted a two-year study on how the state could address its history of racism and discrimination against the African-American community, the article asserts. As stated in the CapRadio article, the U.S. Congress has a history of addressing reparations for African Americans–in the 1980s a bill was introduced to study reparations; however, it was stalled. Illinois and New...