New York joins the farcical ‘reparations’ rush to poisonous posturingBy NY Post Editorial Board
June 7, 2023
It looks like the Legislature will pass the bill from Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages (D-Nassau) and state Sen. James Sanders (D-Queens), to create a commission to study just how much taxpayers allegedly owe descendants of slaves in the Empire State.
It’d be pure pointless posturing if it weren’t so poisonous.
Ever since Ta-Nehisi Coates revived talk of reparations a decade ago, it’s been about an open-ended focus on grievances, not healing or justice.
Thus this bill’s backers are already saying it will be about far more than slavery. As in California, it’s to also take up alleged discrimination in housing and incarceration rates.
That is, the standard newest-left litany: All social disparities are racism, end of discussion.
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