CALIFORNIA REPARATIONS TASK FORCE MEETS IN SAN DIEGO

By Voice & Viewpoint Newswire

For the first time, on Jan 27th and 28th, between the long hours of 9am - 5pm, the community of San Diego was welcomed at the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center in San Diego State University to take part in the broad conversation of reparations for African American descendants of slaves.

Written by Secretary of State Shirly Weber, and signed into legislation by Governor Gavin Newsom, AB 3121 was enacted on September 30, 2020. It establishes a Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans and is also known as (The Reparations Task Force)

These proposals are complex in nature as they seek to quantify the ongoing and compounding harms experienced by African Americans as a result of systematic oppression since slavery.

The move to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations would formally restructure the federal coronavirus response to treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health that can be managed through agencies’ normal authorities.

It comes as lawmakers have already ended elements of the emergencies that kept millions of Americans insured during the pandemic. Combined with the drawdown of most federal COVID-19 relief money, it would also shift the development of vaccines and treatments away from the direct management of the federal government.

Biden’s announcement comes in a statement opposing resolutions being brought to the floor this week by House Republicans to

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