Santa Monica’s first African American residents settled near the railroad tracks on the edge of Santa Monica’s original townsite, which is adjacent to the freeway in downtown today, and established their own church in Santa Monica at Fourth and Bay Streets in 1908, leading to a migration south as far as Strand Street and including the area known as the Belmar Triangle, where the Santa Monica Civic Center and parts of Santa Monica High School are today. The City of Santa Monica acknowledges over a century of racial injustice and discrimination against African Americans that have resulted in systemically racist policies that continue to exclude and discriminate against African Americans:īeginning in the 1880s, African Americans migrated from the southern United States to Santa Monica to escape Jim Crow racial restrictions lured by advertisements promoting the benefits of Southern California, which included employment, good climate, health, beautiful landscapes, and a more liberated lifestyle. Statement apologizing to Santa Monica’s African American residents and their descendants (adopted December 2022) The Committee for Racial Justice, Black Santa Monica Advocates, Universal Human Rights Initiative We demand of the City Council – REPAIR THE DAMAGE. To conclude, we can therefore only hope that reason, and a sense of honor to one’s commitment(s) be taken more seriously. It was never imagined that the apology would be a collection of words, with no action attached to them.Ī number of community residents feel that there is an insensitivity to, or an apathy towards, or a lack of leadership concerning the needs of the Black American community, and the harms done specifically to us.įurthermore, in times where hatred, intolerance, and bigotry are on the rise in this nation, the good citizens of this city not only deserve better, but should feel aggrieved because people who we entrust to positions of representation not only lack careful planning skills, but also a commitment to things promised. Kinew said the Manitoba government supports the federal government’s commitment to providing humanitarian aid, adding that giving refuge would be a measure to provide that help.One year ago this month, Santa Monica’s Mayor Sue Himmelrich, along with the entire City Council, issued a formal apology to its Black American residents for past injustices caused by the City.Īfter a year’s time there has been nothing either in furtherance of, a follow up to, or even a communication about the above said apology in terms of actions to be taken. Manitoba is willing to take in those seeking refuge from the ongoing conflict in Gaza and provide them with the sanctuary’s and support they require.” “Canada should bring refugees in from the region. “However, there is still more work to be done,” Kinew said in the letter. In Premier Wab Kinew’s Friday letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he said the provincial New Democratic government was “pleased to see” Canada vote in favour of a non-binding United Nations resolution on Tuesday that called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the war that is now in its third month. Manitoba’s premier has penned a letter to Canada’s prime minister over his concerns about the “dire humanitarian situation” in Gaza for children and civilians amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, telling the federal leader the country should take in refugees. Manitoba willing to take in refugees from ‘dire humanitarian situation’ in Gaza, Kinew tells PM in letter Free Press staff 2 minute read Yesterday at 2:26 PM CST Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.
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