I’m a grassroots advocate for https://thefreedmensbureau.org/. I want to Thank You for the work that you have done thus far regarding state reparations for the group generally known as African/Black American Freedmen, descendants of survivors, of U.S chattel slavery, the U.S emancipation, and/or freed Black persons in the U.S prior to the 19th century. American Freedmen are Indigenous to what is now the United States, an ethno-genesis that was Made in America with lineage traceable to at least the 1600’s. Black American Freedmen are collectively an amalgamation of African (descent), Indigenous American, and European ancestry. Our claim for repair is lineage based and it’s against the United States, state, and local govt’s for the crimes of genocide, chattel slavery, entrapment, ongoing intent to cause harm, stalking, etc., etc. 

State task force, the harm that Black CA residents are dealing with is ongoing and I want to express that 5 MILLION dollars is the minimum that is owed to each American Freedmen descendant at the state level.  

At the local, state, and federal levels of govt, Black American residents in CA are currently dealing with; 

• gentrification + displacement in real time across cities in CA.
• Last year in Los Angeles, we heard on audio a then LA City council president (A White Latina Democrat state agent and descendant of an immigrant) admitting to conspiring against LA residents while specifically mentioning her animosity towards Black Americans. 
• In cities like Santa Monica we’ve heard rumors about affordable housing that is paid for by American taxpayers, we heard that it was being utilized (prior to 2020) ONLY for White Eastern European Immigrants. Reminder that Santa Monica city used eminent domain to displace Black American Freedmen families in the 1900’s. We are talking about beach front property that was stolen and worth millions by itself today.
• Predominantly Black neighborhoods that are usually intentionally underfunded are taking on large portions of lower income immigrant populations that other localities such as Beverly Hills and other affluent neighborhoods are not taking on, even though they utilize much of the lower income immigrant workforce that is usually brought into localities to help suppress the wages of American workers. 
• Predominantly Black neighborhoods have been intentionally polluted with pollutants that are linked to issues such as violent crime, heart disease, hearing loss, dementia, cancer, & other serious health issues. On a daily basis, LAPD helicopter pilots are intentionally dumping fuel over Black American Freedmen & other supposed marginalized communities, leaking the harmful pollutants that were mentioned earlier. Pollutants that caused my own mother who once resided in Pasadena, CA to need surgery as a child.
• The govt is accused of planting drugs + guns in Black American neighborhoods, neighborhoods like South LA that were thriving prior to the strategic disruption. That change in the material conditions of Black neighborhoods due to the failed war on drugs/police violence is alone worth at least 1-3 million dollars in cash repair for each descendant & really even that is still too low. 
• The state of CA is accused of partnering with White terror groups to strategically steal land from Black American Freedmen.” 

Read the full letter @ https://htwws.org/letter-ca-reparations-task-force/

Task force report; https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/reports

“California Reparations Calculator: How much does a state panel say I’m owed?” https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/05/california-payment-calculator-reparations/

If you support this position, copy this letter and send your own email to the state task force @ “ReparationsTaskForce @ doj DOT ca DOT gov”   CA State Task force Letter-T.Ryder-5.11.23