John Lehman So, I don’t think anybody believes there’s a silver bullet, but if there’s one thing that would give you, empower you in some way, it would be to have the wealth to afford college tuition, to cover unexpected health dilemmas. Now, there were things happening before this, N’COBRA, one of the leading sort of contemporary organizations for reparations was formed in 1987, etc., but we see a whole host of things coming after the Conyers Bill is introduced, which was, as I said, inspired by the Civil Liberties Act of ’88. This is from James Baldwin: “People who imagine that history flatters them (as it does indeed, since they wrote it) are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves or the world. We have the Black Muslims, which become popular and the Black Muslims incidentally have connections to the Garvey Organization as well through Elijah Muhammad, who had been associated with the Garvey movement, but they become popular with Malcolm X becoming the lead minister, and of course they have a 10-point program, a major plank of that program asks for land in the South that will be developed as a Black nation in the South. Case counts only reflect lab-confirmed cases, not the total number of people in Berkeley who have been infected with COVID-19. What guidance would you give for groups who are working in that space? - 2021 Council Schedule, 380 West South Street I think that’s a kind of necessary conversation to get to the point where you’re talking about any kind of redress, because as long as we’re arguing different histories and not coming together as a community and seeing this as part of our whole history, then we’re not going to reach a point where we can actually have any meaningful redress. By the time Fannie’s husband, James, arrived back home from his job of oiling machinery at the Sawmill, county sheriff Rob Walker was already there and a posse was forming. I was struck at the time, by the fact that this was a Utopian work that took many of the characteristics or tropes of the counter culture of the 60s and turned that into a future vision where we had a society in which Oregon and Washington and Northern California had seceded from the Union and established essentially Ecotopia. That paycheck stops and they’re on the street, they’re homeless and we see that in a disproportionate number of Blacks in the homeless population. Veterans Day is an official United States Federal holiday that honors people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, also known as veterans.. Sandra Bass: Good morning, everyone. Revenue collected from the additional 1% sales tax must be used for property tax relief. By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley| February 12, 2021February 12, 2021. Do you think national reparations is a pathway? I’m the Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Public Service Center at UC Berkeley, and welcome to the latest offering of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute series on America’s Unfinished Work with Professor Emeritus Charles Henry. A very significant factor in this is that the sheriff in Tulsa deputizes 500 whites to serve as his sort of posse and they go into the Black community. Yeah, but we’ve been doing it at the national level for 30 years, and California legislature is more liberal than the state legislature at this point because we don’t have a Senate like we do in Washington, and so maybe California can be a model for how this can be done, so let’s not put all our eggs in one basket. Berkeley County’s sales tax is 8% effective May 1, 2009. But I see this in cycles that sort of cover generations and reparations doesn’t mean the same thing, or isn’t the things emphasized in certain periods as in other periods. Now, this was a rather famous case started in 2015 that actually made it to the UN and was discussed at the UN. In Berkeley County, the voters approved the local option sales tax (LOST). So, that’s an obstacle that we see repeatedly, standing as an obstacle and what we mean by standing is the court will say, “Have you been harmed? Poor people can’t get out of jail, stay in jail, can’t pay bail bonds, those with assets get out. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I’m going to have to start moving faster than usual. So, we see people talking about then some sort of fund that would be used to help Blacks gain assets to close this wealth gap and I could talk further on that, but there are other questions. Clementine Hopkins Charles Henry: Well, I mean we can talk both about elected officials and non-elected officials and, of course, the elected officials, most of the efforts behind H.R. Please note: The charts below are interactive; untick Alameda County data in the legend to expand the Berkeley COVID-19 statistics. The clerk called the police and claimed that Roland had attempted to rape Paige, although there is no record of what Paige said to the police. This has been wonderful, it’s so appreciative of Professor Henry for sharing his time with us today, and thank you for joining us for this latest offering in the America’s Unfinished Work series with OLLI. Georgetown students recently voted to assess student fees to provide reparations to the descendants of the over 200 slaves that were sold to keep that university afloat during a financial crisis. So, let’s have a Marshall plan for the Negro.”. The United States had provided pensions for Civil War veterans, actually on very generous terms. However, an attorney cannot guarantee success of an H-1B application nor can an attorney obtain an H-1B for an unqualified person. In all honesty, I’ve often doubted that we as a country would get to the point where reparations to African Americans could be part of our mainstream conversation. Charles Henry: I’m going to read a paragraph and that’s the best I can do. West Virginia State Police John Hope Franklin was raised around Tulsa, the Dean of Black historians, and only very late in his career discussed Tulsa at all, so there’s this kind of erasure of history that Baldwin is hinting at. An update from Chancellor Christ on two UC... Dacher Keltner on the science of awe and... Binary stars are all around us, new map of solar... COVID-19 and the media: The role of journalism in a global pandemic, Subscribe to The Berkeleyan, our weekly email newsletter, The latest information on how UC Berkeley is responding to coronavirus. So obviously I’m going to cut out a lot that I would normally want to talk about if this were a full-length course or a long lecture. Sandra Bass: Oh, I’m sorry, I just want to do a quick time check. I’m the Associate Dean of Students and Director of the Public Service Center at UC Berkeley, and welcome to the latest offering of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute series on America’s Unfinished Work with Professor Emeritus Charles Henry. So, there’s a kind of domino effect flowing from the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 and we have action on the local level, as well. One of the people that grew up in the Marcus Garvey Organization was a woman called Audley Moore and she would later develop one of the mid-20th-century Black reparations groups that would take the claim for reparations to the UN among others in 1950. The county is part of the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 104,169, making it the second-most populous of West Virginia's 55 counties, behind Kanawha. The Black Panther party, which adopts a 10-point program also, in some ways mirroring what the Black Muslim said, but in a secular way in what they consider a more progressive way, in that it’s not calling for separate land from whites, but it’s calling for land, housing, jobs, food, but land is a part of the Panther demands. There was no sophisticated lobby in the case of Tulsa, there was in the case of Rosewood, in that they were successful in getting a white lawyer who was a lobbyist, who agreed to take on the Rosewood case and was skillful in taking it through the state legislature, and there was a dispute mechanism to handle a claim like this in the case of the Florida legislature. COVID-19 datasets on the Alameda County Open Data Portal: Eight datasets available for direct download or API integration. The basic point is that this shift in public opinion to the left then has prepared more favorable ground for reparations claims, and we see that reflected in some recent successes in reparations. There was in the Florida legislature and the claimants in Florida were able to frame their argument as a case of being just your land being dispossessed from you and taken away from you unlawfully. That doesn’t help you buy a home, for example. In addition, our Berkeley Heights Health Department officials – who are also with Union County – may still need to talk to you. An African American descendant of slaves myself, this talk is particularly close to my heart for a couple of reasons. I hope I got you curious enough that you’ll want to look at something in more depth, and each of these works looks at different aspects of reparation, so they’re not totally repetitive. Sandra Bass: Absolutely. Word spreads and people start coming in from outside that there’s a race riot going on and it simply spins out of control from there. A number of people who had been working on reparations, and the number of people who weren’t working on reparations, say “Aha! Listed here are fellowship programs reviewed by Career Center counselors. Sheriff Walker believed the likely culprit was a Black convict, Jesse Hunter, who had escaped from a county road gang the day before.”. The claims of death range from 39 official to over 300, including aerial bombs. Listen to Berkeley Talks episode #107: “Charles Henry on the case for reparations.” Sandra Bass: Good morning, everyone. One is sovereign immunity and that it’s difficult to sue public entities, it’s difficult to sue the police department, it’s difficult to sue the fire department, it’s difficult to pursue emergency workers. We see upward mobility in the white community, but we see downward mobility in the Black community. The sheriff said he didn’t need them and they leave, and then whites sort of descend on the jail and Blacks come back to the jail and offer their assistance again, it’s refused. Both sides have to be sort of a part of this, it can’t be forced on something. So, she’s a kind of link between this generation of Callie House and Reverend Dickerson and the people that we’ll talk about in the 1960s, in the mid-20th century. The Rosewood survivors were not as closely united as… I mean the Tulsa survivors, which was a larger group, was not as closely united as the Rosewood survivors and because there were more survivors in Tulsa and the dollar figure was considerably larger, there was more white opposition to reparations in Tulsa. Christopher T. Engle, of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 41 months of incarceration for wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced. Oxford and Glasgow universities have paid reparations to people in the Caribbean for their role in the slave trade and offered scholarships and research money on reparations, as have a number, as Dr. Bass has mentioned, of American universities. For important information regarding current U.S. immigration policy, Executive Orders, and travel advisories, please see our Immigration Policy Updates page and COVID-19 FAQ page. Sandra Bass: Absolutely. He had to go to a colored restroom, it was in this building. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities for a six-year term. Charles Henry: Yeah. It was assumed to be taken care of, or other things would solve that problem. So, we find that the legislative route, in terms of both the local and state level, has been more favorable than the legal route in most cases. Charles Henry: Well, thank you, Sandra, for that very generous introduction, and thank all of you who have managed to join us today for the discussion of what has historically been a very controversial topic. The similarities include, one: the time that they occurred. Notes & limitations Overall limitations. We got a couple of questions about the truth and reconciliation process. Phone: 304-264-1971 This legislation was passed and signed by Ronald Reagan and benefited about 120,000 Japanese Americans. The Gwinnett County Clerk of Superior Court Richard T. Alexander, Jr., is asking all veterans of all military branches of service to make sure their DD-214 is recorded at the courthouse. And no one in my generation knew anything about them. We found that in the case of the Japanese American operations, for example. If you could just very briefly speak to that? The public demands come from Black nationalists. Sandra Bass: Great. So we’ve only got a couple of minutes left. Related Links. So, let me move then to a comparison of Rosewood and Tulsa because what I find interesting, particularly from the political standpoint, is looking at movements that are successful versus those that are not successful and what are the factors that contribute to that the success or the failure. So when you say, “Well, if I give you a $5,000 check,” I think this was something on the Colbert Show once or something, “If I give you a $5,000 check…” Actually, it was, I think, Charles Krauthammer said at one point a few years ago, the late conservative columnist, “Let’s just write a check for $5,000 to give it to people and I don’t want to hear any more complaints from you.” That sort of doesn’t make up for intergenerational wealth. Copyright 짤 2021 UC Regents; all rights reserved. At the beginning of the Obama administration, for example, in 2008, things were pretty hopeful. So, we’d seemed to have solved lots of the problems that affected us during that period, including climate change, gender inequality, et cetera. The American National Election surveys for those of you who are more social science oriented has asked questions about race, race and racial relations, and if you read the New York Times, you know that Thomas Edsall often quotes a lot of recent research on race in the columns that he does. www.martinsburgpd.org Go to the Public Index search page by clicking on the county link. When the pension associations closed down as World War One came along and they were not successful, and actually Callie House was harassed by the federal government and jailed, they went into Marcus Garvey’s, many of them went into Marcus Garvey’s organization. According to background information shared by the county, Mauck is a retired educator, who was first elected to the Berkeley County Council in 2010 and then reelected to six-year terms in 2012 and 2018. As a crowd of neighbors gathered around her, the weeping and hysterical white housewife claimed that a “Nigger” had attacked her. Haley Pacheco • The Courthouse will be closed to all unscheduled public entry. As we know, the most famous one being in South Africa, but there’s been local ones here in the U.S. and others around the world. Online Payments - Traffic Tickets and Fines NOTE: Use of a web browser that supports Cookies and Javascript, and enabling such features, is a requirement for searching public case records. These white women were attacked by these vicious Black men and they were rightly defended by these posses and yes, some people were lynched, but it was justice that was meted out. The ground has shifted some since this last period. There is no public policy issue that has separated Blacks and whites more in terms of opinion than reparations, and candidates for office have avoided that like the plague up until very recently, including Barack Obama. So, you’re not actually giving redress to the person who is harmed, which means that with regards to national reparations, we’re beholden to a political context. Charles Henry: Yeah. It is imperative that parents and older students return calls from the County health officials to ensure they can do adequate contact tracing and case investigation to stop the spread in our community. But to start, we can talk about the fact that no mainstream white political leader has given us a vision of an integrated future in which Blacks and whites live together in equality. And we saw, in the last several months, presidential candidate support for reparations, from Marianne Williams saying, “I’ll pay the money now,” to Joe Biden saying, “Oh, well, I think this is something that we could study.” So, the consequence of that is, and I won’t talk about it and you’ve probably seen it, is the California Commission Bill that’s just been signed by the governor. Suite 1100 Then, we get to the contemporary period. And then, the situation evolves from there, the posse goes out, any Black they stop, they question about where this escaped convict is, they shoot Blacks along the way, they torture people to try to get information, they go to the house of Sylvester Carrier, Army war veteran. But you see this shift in public opinion and just to cite a few things, the Kaiser CNN poll, a recent Kaiser CNN poll, a few years ago, found that racial tensions were worse today than there were 20 years ago. Incidentally, there’s a large number of victims of forced sterilizations in California, as well. In fact, Professor Henry mentions in his book that a somewhat flippant remark about the futility of pursuing reparations from a prominent African American political insider, was one of the reasons he wrote his book. There was one exception to that, there were enclaves of Blacks living in city states and they were actually, one proposal that was being considered was a sort of separate city state around Salinas and the Monterey Bay for Blacks. Berkeley Courthouse NOTICE: Effective April 10, 2017, the Probate Examiners' phone hours have been suspended until further notice. If you have one thing that you wanted people to gather from our time together today and really thinking about the possibilities of reparations in the U.S., what would you share? Let me read you a quote from my favorite author first, in regard to the erasure for history, and then I’ll briefly talk about the cases. The Circuit Clerk of Berkeley County is responsible for recording and maintaining all Circuit Court records concerning the following: Civil Cases Magistrate Appeals; ... Public terminals are available for searching some case types that are open to the public. Now, this is significant because Tony Hall, a congressman from Dayton in the 1990s, introduced a resolution for an apology for slavery and received more hate mail, he said, than any other piece of legislation he’d ever been associated with. So, this is a turnaround in public opinion. An attorney can help you and the employer present the best case for approval of the H-1B status application to the USCIS. Fax: 304-263-6092, Prosecuting Attorney Would that be something helpful for us in this country? There were congressional hearings, finally after 30 years, in the summer 2019 on H.R, 40, the original bill that Congress had submitted. Well, it’s talked about as a process and the first is apology or acknowledgement that harm has been done. 40, a bill to create a study commission that would issue recommendations in terms of African American reparations. Cheryl Saville I have to stop there, as I will keep going, but you get a general flavor of that because you have a kind of similar thing in Tulsa. I could point to a number of other actions, but things slowed down after the Durban conference in 2001, the UN’s Conference on Race, where reparations was a central issue. I really appreciate, I mean, such a rich history that I don’t think everyone was aware of, this conversation has been going on for a long time. Linda Robinson So, one of the things you’ve noted is just how poorly the legal system is equipped to collective redress, and particularly we’re talking about historical harms. They wanted to be able to work independently and make a living, and consequently, we get the figure of 40 acres. Berkeley Police Department located John Fizer, a previously missing person at risk, safe in Berkeley on Thursday, according to an update to a previous Nixle alert. So, that’s sort of the name of the game at the electoral level, although a question I got when we passed it in California was somebody said, “Well, isn’t it kind of superfluous to do this in California because we’re doing it on the national level?”. They found it more difficult to get these pensions, in part because they required a birth certificate and many Blacks didn’t have birth certificates in 1860 when they mustered in. Professor Henry was Distinguished Fulbright Chair in American History and Politics at the University of Bologna in Italy and also was one of the first two Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chairs in France teaching at the University of Tours, I hope I pronounced that correctly, and Chancellor Birgeneau also presented Henry with the Chancellors Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence in April 2008. He was called a special master that would handle these cases and so, it came through that “neutral” sort of mechanism. 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