Father Amos Brown, senior pastor of Third Baptist Church, San Francisco, California, speaking in 2012. California’s First Domestic Compensation Task Force met in person for the first time on Wednesday since from the inaugural meeting almost a year ago.
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Father Amos Brown, senior pastor of Third Baptist Church, San Francisco, California, speaking in 2012. California’s First Domestic Compensation Task Force met in person for the first time on Wednesday since from the inaugural meeting almost a year ago.
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SAN FRANCISCO — California’s first compensation task force met in person Wednesday, its members meeting face-to-face for the first time since its inaugural meeting nearly a year ago and just weeks after the group voted to limit surrogacy for the descendants of enslaved Negroes.
The two-day event will be held at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco’s historic Fillmore district, a neighborhood that once thrived with African-American nightclubs and boutiques until its official release. government redevelopment forced people out there. Its pastor is Father Amos Brown, task force vice president and president of the San Francisco division of the NAACP.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation creating a two-year restitution task force in 2020, making California the only state to go ahead with a mission to study the institution of slavery, educating the public about its findings. it and develop remedies. The federal compensation movement has yet to get anywhere, but cities and universities around the country are addressing the issue.
In a dramatic vote last month, California’s task force voted 5-4 to limit compensation to descendants of people who could show they were descendants of enslaved Blacks. customary or liberal in 19th-century America. Supporters of broader eligibility say that race-based restitutions eliminated Blacks who were also systematically discriminated against. unjust.
Since its inaugural meeting in June, the nine-member panel has spent much of its time listening to experts in key areas such as housing and homelessness, segregation, etc. Racism in banking and discrimination in technology.
Wednesday’s agenda includes testimony from experts in the education sector, while on Thursday the committee is expected to discuss a report to be released in June that shows how Slavery continued to resonate throughout California, including disparities in household income, health, employment, and incarceration.
The task force members are appointed by the governor and the leaders of the two legislative houses. The Legislature will plan the fix by 2023.
