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"The debate about reparations to descendants of enslaved people rages on.
In California, the state’s reparations task force has estimated that the
descendants of former enslaved people living in California should receive a
payment of $1.2 million per person.
While the issue of reparations is nothing new, California Governor Gavin
Newsome created the task force in 2020 and called for it to offer solutions to
the “structural racism and bias built into and permeating throughout our
democratic and economic institutions.”
So far, Newsome has remained quiet on his task force’s recommendations and is
awaiting its final report, expected on July 1, 2023.
Several scholars of U.S. slavery and the history of reparations have written
articles explaining what the ongoing debate has been about since the idea first
emerged after the Civil War. Here we spotlight four examples of those scholars’
work."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
