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Manhattan Beach's Apology to the Bruce Family

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Stewart Fournier
8 months ago

Please see my local editorial at stewarfournier.com under the heading "priorities". There is a letter about my thoughts with regard to Bruce's Beach.

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Eric Grow
4 years ago

Restitution frees one’s soul

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Karen Cooley Boysen
4 years ago Featured

Seth, thank you for initiating this. An apology is unquestionably necessary here; coupled with the recent property restoration to the Bruce family, these steps are just the beginning of a long journey towards creating racial equality. Suzanne Hadley branded our City with a deep, scarring shame. We must be better, show with actions that we want to progress to being more compassionate humans than those who (temporarily) represent Manhattan Beach.

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Liz Glozman
4 years ago

Please reconsider an apology, it does no harm and allows us to move forward

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Margaret Norton
4 years ago

The least we can do is apologize to the Bruce family for the generations of racism & financial harm the City of Manhattan Beach subjected them to. Be decent human beings and apologize. If the city of MB doesn’t apologize we will forever be known as “the racist beach city.”

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Jane Guthrie
4 years ago Featured

I am glad to apologize for what was done to the Bruce's in the 20's. The beaches are for everyone to share.

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Madeline Kaplan
4 years ago

Thanks for organizing ❤️

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Michelle Osborne
4 years ago

Glad to have some justice served !

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Johanna Kraus
4 years ago Featured

The reaction of some in our city to the Bruce apology and plaque language proposal this past spring was an embarrassment that will not soon be righted.

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Kim Müller
4 years ago

This apology to the ruce family is much overdue. We respectfully ask Mayor Hadley to reintroduce a motion for an apology.

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Greg Danco
4 years ago

They better apologize or risk being framed as racist!

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Elise Johnson
4 years ago

MORE than overdue.

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Jen Jenkins Dohner
4 years ago Featured

My grandmother's family used to freely come to 24th street in MB when she was just a kid in the 20's and 30's from Glendale, a city who later apologized for its redlining policies. Its so unfortunate that MB could not be that welcoming to all visitors, and that it still is not today. I hope some day some MB City Council can see its way clear to apologize for the racist action its predecessors took against the Bruce Family. 100 years is a long time to go without that. I hope we never reach that century mark. For now, its on us residents to do it. I apologize for MB's racism. May we all rid ourselves of it someday.

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Alison Coffey Chavez
4 years ago Featured

The city of Manhattan Beach is responsible for a purely racist act. Admit, accept responsibility, apologize, make amends.

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Leanne Meyers
4 years ago

Equality, respect and most definitely JUSTICE for ALL!

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Ali Sabet
4 years ago

My apologies that MB had a group of racist City council. I hope that the KKK members have moved out to Texas or out of the country

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Denise X Lavell
4 years ago

Nothing but love and blessings

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Mary Mullenhoff
4 years ago

Our apologies for the racist acts of the past. To the future! #BLM

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Julie Birkel
4 years ago

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Antonia Carpenter
4 years ago

I am so proud of our city for getting this petition signed!