The chair of 's Reparations Task Force said black people needed to be at the forefront of the proposed compensations for slavery. Speaking with the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Kamilah Moore said her taskforce found that California's redlining housing practices targeting black Americans between 1933 and 1977 has had a direct effect on today's homeless community. Dubbing housing discrimination as one of the 'five state sanction atrocities' against black people, the panel recommended California pay up $223,200 to each black resident, with a total of about $1 million per person in reparations initially proposed.
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