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Title: How California Is Turning Into a State Governed by Identity Politics
Post by: rangerrebew on October 12, 2020, 05:59:33 pm
How California Is Turning Into a State Governed by Identity Politics

Kenny Xu / @kennymxu / October 09, 2020
 

If you thought racial identity politics were just a fleeting flirtation of the radical left, California’s new laws suggest otherwise.

On Sept. 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into state law a bill setting up a nine-member board to study the amount of reparations that should be owed to black people for slavery and Jim Crow.

The bill signing was followed by this tweet:

But that’s hardly the only racially divisive law California has passed this year, since the Legislature convened in a coronavirus-racked session in June.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/09/how-california-is-turning-into-a-state-governed-by-identity-politics/ (https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/09/how-california-is-turning-into-a-state-governed-by-identity-politics/)