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Opinion: The overlooked reason reparations make sense in California and elsewhere
The Los Angeles Times ^ | March 12, 2023 | By Christopher Kuzawa

Posted on 03/12/2023 5:02:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Californians are weighing in publicly on the idea of reparations to Black Americans, with the state’s Reparations Task Force set to report their recommendations by July 1. This initiative builds on smaller-scale efforts, such as in my hometown of Evanston, Ill., which in 2021 became the first U.S. city to promise limited financial reparations for slavery and city-sanctioned discriminatory housing policies.

This racial wealth gap on its own makes a strong case for reparations. But it should be joined by an equally egregious and often less acknowledged health gap: In the U.S., Black lives are years shorter on average than white lives. And as with the wealth gap, racism is a key culprit.

Genetics don’t explain the huge racial health gap in America. However, the experience of being Black in America does. Specifically, decades of public health research shows that racism is a crucial factor. Racism makes day-to-day interactions more stressful and influences many other factors that affect disease, including healthcare quality and access, educational opportunities and neighborhood traits such as air quality, industrial pollutant exposure and access to healthy food.

Economists can tally the wealth gap between Black and white families created by centuries of racist policies in the U.S. The stark health inequities caused by systemic racism are harder to put a dollar value on, but they are another historic injustice that merits reparations. Material resources offered by reparations programs will help close the health gap, too. And the years lost from Black lives matter.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; marxism; reparations
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To: Penelope Dreadful

But here in America, it is blacks, with Hispanics doing their best to catch up.
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If only it were so, but sadly it’s not. Haven’t you watched any video of the protestors and rioters and witnessed the MANY white men and women in those mobs? Even so, there are an increasing number of blacks, and they’re being programmed and financed by white left-wing radicals, Socialists, Communists and Fascists whose mission is to destroy our Constitutional Republic!


101 posted on 03/12/2023 12:49:55 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This racial wealth gap on its own makes a strong case for reparations.

BULLCRAP!

102 posted on 03/12/2023 1:15:30 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Reparations .
Or people could get jobs.


103 posted on 03/12/2023 1:16:40 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Have they produced an all-black Survivor show yet?


104 posted on 03/12/2023 1:19:10 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

You have nerve coming on here so late in the game. Get back to us when you have some time away from the bottle newb. So sick of newbies coming in to destroy free republic.


105 posted on 03/12/2023 1:30:24 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: A_perfect_lady

This racial wealth gap on its own makes a strong case for reparations. Just look at what happened when a man or women of color wins the lottery for millions, this is what will happen 9 times out of ten


106 posted on 03/12/2023 1:40:49 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Black lives are years shorter on average than white lives.

How does black on black homicide affect that average?

107 posted on 03/12/2023 1:55:35 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We conservatives are missing a golden opportunity here.

We should be advertising that Kalifornia is FreeMoneyLand.

Let's say Kalifornia is successful in their reparations quest to give one-drop-of-Amish a one-time $300,000 or $750,000 or $5 million or $11eleventy billion lofl.

We conservatives MUST frame it endlessly as a "positive development", advertise it from sophisticated targeted text/email messaging, all the way down to billboard advertising in every single red state ghetto.

The New California Gold Rush!
Move to California today to establish your place in line!
Were your ancestors slaves? You will receive $300,000 FREE MONEY before the end of 2023!
Limited-time offer so MOVE NOW!

108 posted on 03/12/2023 2:22:06 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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109 posted on 03/12/2023 2:23:55 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: napscoordinator

You have nerve coming on here so late in the game.
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Dummkopf! I’ve been posting on FR for 10 years! Have you been mentally retarded since birth, or have you recently suffered brain damage?


110 posted on 03/12/2023 3:19:29 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

And what is your point in being snarky?


111 posted on 03/12/2023 5:11:18 PM PDT by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Liar!!!!!!!!!!!! Go look at your page. You can’t fool the internet.


112 posted on 03/12/2023 7:06:15 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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