Assembly approves task force to study reparations The Presbyterian Layman Volume 34, Number 5 Posted July 6, 2001 The General Assembly quickly approved creation of a task force to study the issue of reparations for African Americans, Native Americans, and Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and others who have experienced unjust treatment. The task force was budgeted to receive more than $53,000 of per capita funds over the next three years. Another proposal to create a task force to study “the disenfranchisement of people of color in the United State’s electoral system” was approved without discussion or objection. Included was a three-year voters task force budget of more than $36,000 from the denomination’s per capita funds.

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