"I’m so tired of my people’s suffering," one member of the public said at the panel’s second-to-last meeting.
After a sometimes contentious day-long meeting Saturday, California’s reparations task force approved a sweeping set of recommendations — including potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in monetary reparations — for repair and restitution for harms experienced by African Americans as a result of slavery and the state’s subsequent policies and practices.
Among the most consequential recommendations the task force voted to finalize during its second-to-last meeting as a body at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., were the calculations of suggested monetary reparations by economic experts. There were no amounts recommended for unjust property takings and devaluation of African-American businesses, although the experts suggested possible formulas for them.
Other commenters were emotional and defiant about what they said has been a long road and a long wait for reparations. “I’m so tired of my people’s suffering,” one woman said. Others said Black people should make sure to vote for politicians who support reparations: “No reparations, no vote,” one person said.
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