{"id":8084,"date":"2022-01-31T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8084"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T21:09:24","slug":"california-secretary-of-state-pushes-for-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=8084","title":{"rendered":"California Secretary of State Pushes for Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Sasha Reva<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Thursday, California\u2019s Secretary of State said that reparations for African Americans should be limited to people whose forebears were kidnapped, stripped of their ancestry and left with nothing. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shirley Weber, the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, said while Black immigrants have suffered from racism, they always had a country to return to.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weber previously served in the Assembly in the 79th district. She was elevated to Secretary of State after the position was vacated by Alex Padilla who became Senator. Weber says that slavery was more than a physical condition, but has had a massive psychological impact, \u201cThe fear my grandfather felt, I remember as a child, was palpable, and it crippled him and his family\u2019s ability to dream beyond the cotton fields,\u201d Weber said . <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She believes that Barack Obama likely never wanted to become president if he wasn\u2019t descended from enslaved people. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obama, was the first country\u2019s Black president, who had a white mother and a Black father from Kenya. \u201cObama did not have limitations and fears drilled in his psyche, and thus aspired to become the president of the United States,\u201d Weber said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">California currently has a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-race-and-ethnicity-government-and-politics-19c5c68059a6dd821296ac5fcc24043a\">nine-member task force<\/a> to discuss and address the damages of slavery. The task force began in July and has a two-year timeline on a report. Critics have said that California did not have slaves as in other states and that we shouldn\u2019t pay for the issue. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African Americans are just 6% of California\u2019s population yet were 30% of an estimated 250,000 people experiencing homelessness in 2020.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/california-los-angeles-race-and-ethnicity-gavin-newsom-janice-hahn-7e39975f723a768b63a8a2a5a0995a4c\">signed legislation<\/a> returning beachfront property to descendants of a Black couple who had the land taken away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weber\u2019s great-grandfather was born into slavery, running from the Ku Klux Klan. She said she would not have written the legislation if she had known the pool of recipients would be expanded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Cred: Rich Pedroncelli \/ Associated Pres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Sasha Reva Last Thursday, California\u2019s Secretary of State said that reparations for African Americans should be limited to people whose forebears were kidnapped, stripped of their ancestry and left with nothing. 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