African Americans in California have been telling the state’s reparations task force that a one-time payout would mean little if they don’t have equal access to education, employment, health care or housing.
Better educational opportunities, major reform to the criminal justice system, and policies to address political disenfranchisement, housing inequities and health disparities are among the systemic changes the task force expects to recommend.
California’s Constitution, like many states, outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude “except as a punishment for crime.” In 2022, the California Legislative Black Caucus tried to remove this language butOne of the task force’s draft proposals calls for closing 10 prisons in the state and using the savings to support a new state agency, a Freedmen’s Bureau, which would oversee and monitor any future reparations legislation as well as process reparations claims.
A check, Muttaqee said later in an interview, isn’t “going to change the overpolicing of people who get reparations.”“These issues are ecospheric in nature,” said Task Force Chair Kamilah Moore in an interview. “If you lived in an environment that was overpoliced, what did that do to your mental health? To your economic position?”
But amid all the talk of ending mass incarceration and reforming the criminal justice system, African Americans incarcerated in California’s prisons are largely cut off from the task force’s work. Khansa Jones-Muhammed, co-chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants and a member of Los Angeles’ Reparations Advisory Commission, said that needed to change.
“I’m currently thinking through how to do that,” Moore said. “Hopefully we’re able to get a critical mass of engagement from incarcerated people.”moment,” Jones-Sawyer said. He noted that he had an upcoming visit to Donovan State Prison related to his work as a legislator and would ask about reparations while there.The state’s task force was created by 2020 legislation authored by now-Secretary of State Shirley Weber.
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