SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Passionate voices filled a downtown auditorium on Friday during an intense discussion over whether Blacks and other historically disenfranchised Americans should receive reparations from the state.
Among the more than 100 people who turned out for California’s Reparations Task Force meeting was Gloria Pierrot-Dyer. She’s a Roseville resident with roots going back to Allensworth — a Central Valley town founded in the early 20th century by Blacks who were ex-slaves.
Pierrot-Dyer, 71, who comes from a farming family, shared that her father had to travel miles to the next nearest well for 11 years to obtain water for their home and their animals.
