Speaker 1: On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: I never thought I would say this, but I don't
Speaker 1: think twenty million dollars is enough. I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1: In nineteen twelve, Willow and Charles Bruce bought some land
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the Hill in California and built
Speaker 1: a resort run four and Bob Black residents. Now this
Speaker 1: nineteen twelve, so of course they got harassed violence from
Speaker 1: the white neighbors and the KKK, but they endured and
Speaker 1: provided rare California beach access for African Americans. About thirteen
Speaker 1: years later, in nineteen the land got seized by the
Speaker 1: Manhattan Beach Board of Trustees under imminent domain, with the
Speaker 1: claims that it would be turned into a park, But
Speaker 1: just five years later the property was condemned, resort demolished,
Speaker 1: and then the land was transferred to the States. When
Speaker 1: it was and transferred to the county, which used it
Speaker 1: for lifeguard operations, but Low and Behold in southern California,
Speaker 1: officials agreed to return the property to the living descendants
Speaker 1: of Willa and Charles Bruce, their two great grandsons, Marcus
Speaker 1: and Derek Bruce reparations if you will. And here's the
Speaker 1: deal they gave. Marcus and Derek will give you a
Speaker 1: twenty four month lease agreement where the county will pay
Speaker 1: you four hundred and thirteen thousand dollars annually for its
Speaker 1: continued use because again they use it for lifeguard operations,
Speaker 1: and the county will pay operation and maintenance costs. The
Speaker 1: county said the least agreement will allow the Bruce family
Speaker 1: to realize the generational wealth previously denied them, while allowing
Speaker 1: the county's lifeguard operations to continue for the foreseeable future
Speaker 1: without interruption. Well, an update on that story this February
Speaker 1: three is that the Bruce family has decided to sell
Speaker 1: the Bruce's Beach property back to the county for twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars. They said, his fight has always been about
Speaker 1: what is best for the family, and they feel what
Speaker 1: is best for them is selling this property and finally
Speaker 1: rebuilding the generational wealth they were denied for nearly a century.
Speaker 1: This is what reparations look like, and it's a model
Speaker 1: that I hope governments across the country will follow. I
Speaker 1: don't know, many just don't seem like enough. Seems to
Speaker 1: me you should get twenty million dollars and the four
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen thousand dollars annually. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: turning my nose down at twenty million dollars, but it
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem like accurate reparations for a thriving business
Speaker 1: in nineteen twelve that was racially taken by the city
Speaker 1: and then giving back with a twenty million dollar price
Speaker 1: tag a hundred years later. Nah. But if the Bruce
Speaker 1: family likes it, I love it because I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't either,