California launches taskforce to study slavery reparation for African Americans
The US state of California has launched a first-in-the-nation task force to recommend reparations for African Americans over slavery and discrimination.
The task force, which consists of nine members appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, held its inaugural meeting. The committee includes the descendants of slaves who are now among the Unites States prominent figures.
“I’m so thankful to my ancestors, who survived so much trauma, so much pain, so much tragedy, so much brutality, so that I could live,” said Lisa Holder, a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. “And I am ready to fight to deliver them — our ancestors —justice.”
The first session of the reparation committee comes just over a year after George Floyd, a Black man, was murdered by a white police officer in Minnesota.
Floyd’s death unleashed protests against police brutality and for racial justice in the US and many world countries.
The protests, which came amid pent-up despair and anger inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic, deepened a political crisis for former US President Donald Trump as he threatened to deploy the military into the streets to put down the protests.
Protesters clamored for an end to police brutality, saying they were hopeful that Floyd's death would mark a turning point in race relations, police aggression and a lightning rod for change in the way police departments function across the US.
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