Special session on Reparations? Senator who had his bills blocked says Newsom should consider it

By Ashley Zavala | KCRA

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Following the fall out over two reparations proposals, State Senator Steven Bradford said this week the governor should consider calling a special legislative session on reparations. 

“I would like to have reparations added to the special session,” Bradford told KCRA 3 in an interview. He noted lawmakers are already heading back to the state capitol for the governor’s special session on gas prices and oil supply.

“Why not have a special session on reparations? I think that’s worthy of discussion,” Bradford said.

“Our ancestors have to be greatly disappointed in the fact that we’ve been waiting 160 years plus years for reparations, and it was right here in our hands, and we dropped the ball,” Bradford said.

Read more at: KCRA

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