 would provide grant money to combat violence in black communities, and another would do something simple but deeply symbolic, accept responsibility for California's role in upholding slavery. It also recognizes the state's role in perpetuating systemic discrimination that exists to this day. Another bill would create a California Freedmen's Bureau, named for the agency set up after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved people. The idea is that Bureau would help create the infrastructure for administering reparations.