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California’s Race-Based Reparations Proposals Criticized by Public, Slave Descendant

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California’s Race-Based Reparations Proposals Criticized by Public, Slave Descendant
(L-R) California state Sen. Steven Bradford, Secretary of State Shirley Weber, task force member Lisa Holder, and Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer hold up a final report of the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans during a hearing in Sacramento, Calif., on June 29, 2023. Haven Daley/AP Photo
Wenyuan Wu
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On May 21, the California Senate passed SB 1403, a state bill to establish the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency, which would address and implement recommendations from California’s sweeping, 40-chapter Reparations Task Force Report.
Wenyuan Wu
Wenyuan Wu
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Wenyuan Wu holds a doctorate in international studies from the University of Miami and is the executive director of Californians for Equal Rights Foundation. Wu’s recent advocacy has focused on combatting critical race theory in American public life. She has given expert testimony in various state legislature hearings on the topic and helped launched the website RejectCRT.org. She writes for Minding the Campus of the National Association of Scholars and sits on the board of Parents Defending Education Action.