KQED-FM: Cheryl Grills, director of the Psychology Applied Research Center at Loyola Marymount University and a task force member, voted against lineage-based reparations because of the trauma associated with searching for enslaved ancestors. “Not every Black person wants to do this genealogy thing. It could be triggering,” Grills said. “It could be retraumatizing because [of] what the family had to go through, what the family suffered and endured.”
Source: KQED-FM
Proving Lineage for Reparations? Concerns Loom Over Feasibility, Emotional Toll for Black Californians
