A number of activist groups in California are calling for more government involvement and community engagement in discussions regarding reparations, while those willing to publicly criticize the idea appear to be few and far between. Tiffany Quarles of the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants (NAASD) said the organization sent a letter to the state’s Reparations Task Force requesting it push for President Joe Biden to sign an executive order establishing a presidential reparations commission. “NAASD has already had the opportunity to sit down with the Biden administration to request this executive order and we would appreciate your assistance with calling on the president to move on this for the purpose of helping the African American community,” Quarles said at a recent hearing. The Reparations Task Force, which held its first meeting on June 1, has been given two years to draft an apology to the descendants of slaves and recommend …