Reparations Are For Descendants Of Black Slaves, Weber Says

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Reparations Are For Descendants Of Black Slaves, Weber Says

By Associated Press California's secretary of state said Thursday that reparations for African Americans should be limited to people whose forebears were kidnapped from their homeland, stripped of their ancestry and left with nothing after generations of forced labor. Shirley Weber, the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers who authored legislation creating the first-in-the-nation task force […]

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