A member of the California Reparations Task Force vowed the committee’s “recommendations will be breathtaking.”
Lisa Holder, a task force member and president of the far-left Equal Justice Society, published an opinion piece advocating for the reparations committee and writing that Californians “must be prepared for remedies on a scale approaching the Great Society programs of Medicare and Medicaid.”
“Reparations is a paradigm for understanding harm and repair as it relates to people who suffered a human rights injustice because of government action,” Holder wrote. “Harm and repair are the two sides of the spectrum.” She added that reparations will “likely” include “monetary compensation to Black people who are descendants of enslaved and persecuted Black Americans.”
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“Consistent with this paradigm, the task force is evaluating the severity and articulating the scope of the harm to Black people, including all of the atrocities the government committed against Black people in California,” she continued.
California was famously admitted to the union as a free state during the period leading up to the Civil War.
Holder wrote that the “task force will outline the method for repairing harm, including compensation for the harm that contemplates monetary redress, atonement and apology” and that for “an apology to be a meaningful act of repair and atonement, it must be concrete and tangible.”
“Making the apology tangible ensures that the harm will cease and desist for good because the government is being held patently accountable,” she wrote.
“This mandate comports with the United Nations international conventions for reparations, which consists of five components: compensation, restitution, satisfaction or apology, rehabilitation and guarantees of non-repetition,” Holder continued.
Holder wrote that reparations “to similarly situated groups are a good metric for…
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