Decoding the recent California reparations proposal

[mystery-ak]

December 5, 2022
Decoding the recent California reparations proposal
By Rajan Laad

Recently Fox News reported the following:

“The California Reparations Task Force’s five-member economic consultant team reported that under the initiative, qualifying Black residents in the state could qualify for $223,200 per person.”

The Reparations Task Force was formed by legislation signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2020.

The panel comprised primarily of African-American members voted 5-4 to limit reparations to descendants of enslaved African Americans or of a “free Black person living in the United States prior to the end of the 19th century.”

It would be up to the California legislature to act upon the recommendations.

California was a state that fought with the Union during the Civil War and never engaged in widespread slavery, but that's irrelevant to Newsom. It also isn’t the only state attempting the exercise.

Back in 2021, officials in Evanston, Ill., a Chicago suburb, approved $10 million in reparations in the form of housing grants.

Also in 2021, officials in Asheville, N.C., committed $2.1 million to reparations.

So let’s dig deeper.

The panel says that only Black residents will qualify to receive reparations.

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[Kamaji]

Now's the time to start coming up with cheap "reparations merch" that can be unloaded on these chumps and a wicked premium.  That cash will be out of their hands and into others' hands faster than one can say "reparations".

[The_Reader_David]

Pure pandering and virtue signalling is how I read it.  I suspect both the panel and any members of the legislature who vote to adopt their recommendations will know that it will be thrown out in court as a violation of the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment. 

If they had a program that paid damages to people who could prove that they or a particular ancestor to whom they are heir were prevented by red-lining from buying homes they would have qualified to buy in the absence of red-lining in areas that appreciated faster than where they were able to buy, or who could prove that they or a particular ancestor to whom they are heir, who served in the U.S. military, were denied VHA loans they should have qualified for by racist loan administrators, that would fly, since it would be compensatory damages to a person who has shown actual harm.  Blanket race-based payments manifestly violate the Constitution.

[goatprairie]

The problem with rewarding people who were never discriminated against but were ancestors of people who might have been is that black Americans are most likely not the only ethnic group who were discriminated against.
You've got Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and a number of religious and white ethnicities who were probably heavily discriminated against by the people who had the power and money going back more than one hundred years. For instance Catholic Irish Americans were heavily discriminated against for many decades by white Protestants. If modern black Americans can get money because their ancestors were discriminated against, Irish and other non-WASP Americans should be able claim reparations for discrimination. I'm guessing most Irish Americans would have too much integrity to attempt that. I'm part Irish and was raised a Catholic. Nobody owes me anything because of something that happened to one of my ancestors more than one hundred years ago.
In short, unless they can prove a real case of discrimination against themselves and not their ancestors, modern blacks don't deserve any dough.
Moreover, promising moolah to people with no strings attached is bad for many reasons. Why should they attempt to get and job and work for a living when they've been promised a pile of money?
Just totally screwy liberal bullsh*t.
 If they think this will help blacks or make average non-wealthy whites not despise them, they're dead wrong.