Cheryl Grills wondered how easy it would be to determine lineage, and whether the task force would be excluding people who can’t establish their lineage. “If you can’t trace your family ancestry to enslaved Africans, what does that mean, for example, for scores of Black children in the child welfare system who probably can’t trace anything back more than a generation?” said Grills, a task force member and Loyola Marymount University professor who focuses on racial stress and trauma, as well as implicit bias and community healing.
Source: KQED
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