
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn, middle, factors to an indication displaying the historical past of what occurred to the property of the Bruce household on April 9, 2021.
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Los Angeles County ought to serve for example for the remainder of America when it comes to returning lands stolen from African-People and other people of coloration, native supervisor Janice Hahn stated.
Hahn solely “wakened” to the fact of previous and current racial prejudice when she realized of a strip of beachfront land in Manhattan Seashore, Calif. that was stolen from its black house owners more than 100 years in the past, she advised TMZ Friday.
Hahn helped spearhead a profitable campaign to return the land — as soon as generally known as Bruce’s Seashore and operated by Charles and Willa Bruce — to Bruce household descendants.
The Bruces started operating the resort in 1912 and it served as a spot the place black households might benefit from the seashore once they have been typically not welcome elsewhere. After enduring racist harassment and bullying for years, the Bruces’ land was seized by the federal government by eminent area in 1924, ostensibly for a personal park that was not constructed for a long time.
The land is now value about $72 million.
“I feel that is the primary time in our nation {that a} authorities has given land again to an African American household to make amends for previous discrimination and atrocities and insurance policies that have been enacted, that actually restricted African People’ means to personal companies, to personal property, to even purchase houses in sure neighborhoods,” Hahn advised TMZ.
“It is a very small step in direction of what I feel this complete nation needs to be doing — and that’s working to restore and to make amends with the African People on this nation.”
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