LOS ANGELES — For Angela Mooney D’Arcy and other Indigenous Californians, a spirit of racial trauma hangs over some of the richest and most storied stretches of the Golden State. That’s why she feels satisfaction but also sorrow as California moves closer to making history by giving reparations to Black Californians. Her organization helped stop a luxury housing development at Genga, a 400-acre Acjachemen and Tongva archaeological site in Newport Beach. She sat in on hearings in the mid-1990s of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa and was horrified by the suffering that Indigenous Black South Africans experienced under the white minority. Past payments and land allotments to Indigenous Californians were considered by many to be insulting in their meagerness.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 14, 2023 18:28 UTC