Shirley Weber’s great-grandfather was born into slavery and her family fled Arkansas in summer 1951, running from the Ku Klux Klan in the dead of night, she said. She said she would not have written the legislation if she had known the pool of recipients would be expanded, leaving mere pennies for the descendants of slaves.
California’s secretary of state said Thursday that reparations for African Americans should be limited to people whose forbears were kidnapped from their homeland, stripped of their ancestry and left with nothing after generations of forced labor.
"The fear my grandfather felt, I remember as a child, was palpable, and it crippled him and his family’s ability to dream beyond the cotton fields," Weber said at Thursday’s meeting of the task force to study and develop reparations for African Americans. The meeting continues Friday. But expert testimony being heard by the task force overwhelmingly points to large racial disparities in wealth, health and education in California.
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