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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | This work has been relentless. It has been meticulous. It is unassailable. |
0:09.0 | What do we want? |
0:10.0 | We need to do this. We need to get the money. Where's the money? |
0:19.0 | We have developed an entitlement mentality and never has it been put on display more than with this disgraceful |
0:24.0 | reparation board. |
0:25.0 | What do we want? |
0:26.0 | We have only half the story has ever been told. Here is a document that tells us the full story. |
0:36.0 | We are not post-racial. |
0:41.0 | A moment two years in the making, California's official task force on reparations |
0:47.0 | has delivered its final report to the state legislature. |
0:50.0 | Anyone who says that we are color blind, that we have solved the problem, I challenge you to read this document |
0:58.0 | and try and come out with that position. |
1:02.0 | The state legislature created the task force in the wake of George Floyd's murder |
1:07.0 | and the group took a look at four major issues impacting black Americans, health disparities, |
1:13.0 | mass incarceration, housing discrimination, and unjust land seizure and devaluation of black businesses. |
1:21.0 | And as the findings were released just ahead of July 4th, the section that's gotten the most attention |
1:28.0 | is the recommendation for financial compensation, direct financial reparations to total at least $1 million per person. |
1:38.0 | There are also more than a hundred other recommendations in the report from establishing universal health care |
1:45.0 | to implementing ring caps in historically red line neighborhoods to making election day a paid holiday. |
1:53.0 | But beyond the policy proposals, the report spends a lot of time explaining why reparations are necessary |
2:00.0 | for the descendants of enslaved black Americans and why the government is responsible for paying them. |
2:07.0 | Three years ago, I talked about this case for reparations on into America with the co-handsome. |
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