Sunday, June 5, 2022

‘Atrocities in every sector’: California’s reparations panel details discrimination | California | The Guardian

The 500-page report, issued by the first-in-the-nation reparations committee, extensively describes "segregation, racial terror, harmful racist neglect" inflicted on Black people nationally, and in California – recounting mistreatment since the state's founding in 1850. The report concludes that "atrocities in nearly every sector of civil society have inflicted harms, which cascade over a lifetime and compound over generations, resulting in the current wealth gap between Black and white Americans".


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