Wed Jun 21, 2023 – 9:08 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 jumpstarted the global trend toward repairing historical injustices by providing a national apology and $20,000 to each of the 82,000 surviving Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
Most of the 120,000 ethnic Japanese forced to leave the west coast were from California and two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Descendants of internees were excluded from the redress law, the product of a national commission process involving public hearings, expert testimony, and a final report calling for monetary reparations.
California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans is following the same playbook, but for a much less compelling redress claim. The task force first met in June 2021 and issued a 500-page interim report last June. The final report will go to the state legislature by July 1.
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Last month the reparations task force approved recommendations for cash payments to black citizens of up to $1.2 million apiece, depending on the harms linked to slavery that an individual suffered and how long they have lived
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