Posted on 10/11/2020 6:28:49 AM PDT by karpov
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Michael Ramirez suggests that California should pay reparations—not for slavery, but for subjecting everyone in the state to a lousy political class. He has a point.
As the Golden State’s landscape burned, power grid faltered, and social fabric frayed, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill empaneling a nine-member task force to “study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans,” with “special consideration for African Americans who are descendants of persons enslaved in the United States.”
California became the 31st member of the union 170 years ago, in the Compromise of 1850. It entered as a free state and supported the North with blood and treasure in the Civil War. Why on earth would Sacramento even consider paying reparations? As Pacific Research Institute’s Rowena Itchon wrote about the bill, “America’s not perfect, but reparations could cause even more division in this country.”
That point is crucial. We live in a time when people who are neither racist nor bigoted but are merely insufficiently woke can find themselves harassed, and even threatened, if they don’t raise a fist in solidarity with a movement that seeks to segregate, cancel, disrupt, and destroy. Our tinder is dry.
From the legislative analysis of Assembly Bill 3121, we learn that the task force will consist “of both legislators and non-legislators with special interest or expertise in reparations proposals.” Is this a clue that its recommendations are predetermined? One strains to imagine that anyone considered an “expert” in the field of reparations would have reservations about paying out large sums of other people’s money.
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As someone here mentioned yesterday...California entered the union as a “free state”.
They’ll spend millions just on the “task force” itself.
What I’m really worried about...
If California offers reparations to POC, POC will migrate to California in droves...possibly all 13% of the US population. Under the massive increase in human weight, California could very well break-off and tumble into the sea (hat tip Steely Dan).
Did I say I was worried about that?
Never mind.
Think I’m gonna take one of those genealogy tests. Being of Greek extraction on my fathers side; surely with ancient Greeks such as Phillip the Great and Alexander the Great invading countries as far away as India and North Africa surely my ancestors had a trist or two with a beautiful neubian maiden along the way.
***California could very well break-off and tumble into the sea***
Been waiting for that for the last 55 years.
Toilets full and overflowing
Tried to warn you
About Chino and Daddy Gee
But I can’t seem to get to you through the U.S. Mail
Same BS over and over... read and barf.
U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers Claim Discrimination
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/us/farm-loan-bias-claims-often-unsupported-cost-us-millions.html
..., the government faced just 91 plaintiffs. Those cases, the government lawyers figured, could be dispatched at limited cost...
the Obama administration’s political appointees at the Justice and Agriculture Departments engineered a stunning turnabout: they committed $1.33 billion to compensate not just the 91 plaintiffs but thousands of Hispanic and female farmers who had never claimed bias in court....
In all, more than 90,000 people have filed claims. The total cost could top $4.4 billion....
Classic...just classic.
I can virtually guarantee that - even if reparations were to be approved - DNA tests would nevertheless not be required. (If they were required, most of the putatively Black applicants would be positively livid when they got their results back - since the results would invariably indicate a considerable proportion of White ancestry.)
Regards,
Packing the commission will be an exercise in affirmative action, and auditing the budget and payroll won’t be an exercise in transparency.
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