California tries to figure out reparations
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🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The brown gold |
| 0:03.5 | It's set his mill |
| 0:04.6 | What? |
| 0:06.9 | Gold? |
| 0:08.7 | Gold |
| 0:09.5 | Luffy! |
| 0:13.6 | Every school kid in California |
| 0:15.4 | learns about the gold rush. |
| 0:17.1 | You know, 49ers and Eureka |
| 0:19.1 | and old-timey miners named Gus with cute donkeys named Beatrice. |
| 0:26.8 | The event is wildly mythologized, of course. |
| 0:31.0 | Those miners murdered indigenous people, burned down Chinatowns, brought white supremacy to California. |
| 0:37.1 | But in this modern state of ours, |
| 0:39.1 | there's now a chance to tie that era to, of all things, social justice. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm Gustav Ariano. You're listening to The Times, Daily News from the L.A. Times. |
| 0:53.5 | It's Tuesday, March 29, 2022. |
| 0:56.7 | Today, my L.A. Times colleague Erica D. Smith tells us about two brothers fighting for compensation |
| 1:01.6 | for the land they say was taken from their formerly enslaved ancestors during the gold rush. |
| 1:07.0 | Their story got pulled into an even bigger debate happening right now in California. |
| 1:11.4 | A first of its kind task force is trying to decide, |
| 1:14.7 | will the state pay reparations to black people? |
| 1:17.6 | And if so, who should get it? Erica, welcome to the times. |
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