BERKELEY — A task force is recommending Berkeley schools consider providing financial payments to students who are descendants of slavery in the U.S. as part of a larger reparations program that could be funded by corporations, philanthropic foundations or a new city parcel tax.
The task force compiled 15 types of possible reparations and identified 12 possible funding sources, although only three ideas in each category are recommended. The country has a history of paying out reparations to mistreated groups, task force co-chair Adena Ishii said. Her family received financial compensation after being among the roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans placed in internment camps during World War II.
The report received strong support from those in attendance at Wednesday’s board meeting, with some holding up signs reading “Berkeley supports reparations” and cheering whenever the work was mentioned. In the audience was Kamilah Moore, chair of the state’s Reparations Task Force and a reparations legal scholar who was among the many experts tapped to contribute to BUSD’s task force work.
Board Vice President Ka’Dijah Brown said the report was timely given that next Wednesday is Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates when the last group of slaves in Confederate territory were informed of their freedom.
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