Lisa Holder – Page 2 – California Globe

California’s Ludicrous Slave Reparations Bill

December 15, 2022 9:26 amDecember 17, 2022 8:06 am

If you think the country, politics and society in general is going stark raving mad, it’s worse in California. California is home to one-third of the nations’ welfare recipients and has the highest poverty. Our failing schools now rank 48th...

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Reparations Task Force Releases First Report, Calls For Reparations To Be Given for Past Oppression

June 2, 2022 2:36 amJune 1, 2022 8:45 pm

The California Reparations Task Force released their first report on Wednesday, both documenting the harm made against African-Americans in California since 1850, and calling for reparations to given given to all slave-descendent blacks in the state. In the 500-page Reparations...

CA Reparations Panel Votes 5-4 to Limit Payouts Only to Descendants of Slaves

March 30, 2022 12:49 pmMarch 30, 2022 2:55 pm

The Reparations Task Force voted 5-4 on Tuesday to limit proposed state reparations to only those descended from free and enslaved black Americans in the 19th century, rejecting broader limits of all black residents regardless of ancestry and finally ending...

Calif. Reparations Task Force Split on Eligibility; Decision Delayed

February 25, 2022 12:01 pm

The Reparations Task Force voted Thursday 5-4 to delay a vote on the matter of who will be eligible for reparations, surprising many who believed that they would come a definite decision on the issue. The Reparations Task Force was...

CA Legislative Slavery Reparations Task Force Convenes For First Time

June 2, 2021 2:20 amJune 1, 2021 9:14 pm

The first California legislative Slavery Reparations Task Force meeting convened on Tuesday, beginning a two year process in which they will come up with what reparations would be to descendants of former slaves will be and who exactly would be...