Although California legislators recently passed ambitious legislation aimed at addressing the state’s legacy of racist treatment of its Black citizens, the package left out two key components of previous proposals of a California reparations package.
According to the Associated Press, along with a lack of a central fund and an agency to carry out the recommended measures, both considered cornerstones of the state’s efforts to atone for reparations, another missing component of the bills is direct payments to Black Americans. Read more at www.blackenterprise.com.
