Grab your coffee ☕️ and your water (let's stay hydrated!).
California's Task Force on #Reparations #AB3121 is starting!
Beginning with public comment followed by a panel on mental health.
Tips on how to participate can be found here:
kqed.org/news/11898258/…
California's Task Force on #Reparations #AB3121 is starting!
Beginning with public comment followed by a panel on mental health.
Tips on how to participate can be found here:
kqed.org/news/11898258/…
Here's the link to log in: primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event…
And here's today's agenda:
oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…
And here's today's agenda:
oag.ca.gov/system/files/m…
As per usual, we're beginning with public comment from now until 10:05
*If you want to participate in public comment login via BlueJeans and use the raise hand function.
*If you want to participate in public comment login via BlueJeans and use the raise hand function.
Kamm Howard (@kammh), who provided expert testimony at a previous meeting is providing public comment now on the importance of research and transgenerational healing.
Chad Brown:
“I submit humbly that Dr. Darity and Kirsten Mullen are the leading and foremost experts on black reparations in America.”
[they are the the authors of from 'Here to Equality' uncpress.org/book/978146965…]
“I submit humbly that Dr. Darity and Kirsten Mullen are the leading and foremost experts on black reparations in America.”
[they are the the authors of from 'Here to Equality' uncpress.org/book/978146965…]
One commenter said:
“Having access to Black women therapists has been invaluable ... but we are responsible for the costs that are associated with these traumas, both financial and otherwise, and also the traumas that other Black people around us, experience."
“Having access to Black women therapists has been invaluable ... but we are responsible for the costs that are associated with these traumas, both financial and otherwise, and also the traumas that other Black people around us, experience."
Cheryce Cryer said she sent a copy of 'From Here to Equality' [by @SandyDarity + A. Kirsten Mullen] to Chancellor Carol Christ at UC Berkeley:
“If anyone on the task force needs a copy, I'm happy to send one. Just please give me your mailing address and I will send you one.”
“If anyone on the task force needs a copy, I'm happy to send one. Just please give me your mailing address and I will send you one.”
Public Comment will be going a bit longer as we have roughly 5 more speakers before the panel.
(Each person has a max of 3 minutes.)
(Each person has a max of 3 minutes.)
Public comment is done for today.
Here's a quick wrap up from @CoreyARose who is assisting with coverage today:
Here's a quick wrap up from @CoreyARose who is assisting with coverage today:
https://twitter.com/CoreyARose/status/1487126456278732804
Thank you @CoreyARose ✨ 🙏🏽✨
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