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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; marxism; reparations
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Christopher Kuzawa is a professor of anthropology and Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1 posted on 03/12/2023 5:02:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And he comes from Evanston, Illinois; practically the birthplace of Illinois Nazis. Just a few goose-steps away from Skokie.


2 posted on 03/12/2023 5:06:22 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What Christopher doesn’t understand is that no amount of money will satisfy those blacks who demand it. Yearly millions would not be enough, never enough, the payments once started must never end.


3 posted on 03/12/2023 5:07:25 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, I guess if you can identify the specific family lines that were victims in California, maybe. But why turn that into a racist handout to everyone?


4 posted on 03/12/2023 5:08:00 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What explains all of the differences is not racism, that is an excuse. What explains the differences is a horrible subculture that creates incredible peer pressure to make horrible life choices that hold everyone back in that culture. Thereby education is shunned, crime embraced, drugs and alcohol abuse embraced, single parent households with no fathers ever present, etc, etc. That is why there is a wealth and health gap. Racism has nothing whatsoever to do with it. If is solely major, destructive, life choices people in those groups choose.


5 posted on 03/12/2023 5:09:49 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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Black lives are years shorter on average than white lives. And as with the wealth gap, racism is a key culprit.

Yep. It's those racists who keep making obese women shovel all those Twinkies and tater chips down their gullets. And if we racists didn't supply all their free weed and crack, people would be a lot healthier.

And then there are the anger issues that lead to high blood pressure. We racists shouldn't make them so angry.

6 posted on 03/12/2023 5:10:01 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Keep drinking that Marxist Koolaid and expect better results.


7 posted on 03/12/2023 5:20:50 AM PDT by kp2hot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Black lives are years shorter, on average? Maybe they should stop shooting each other as yutes.
8 posted on 03/12/2023 5:22:34 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Bernard

   

Just another guilt ridden, lemon sucking, white idiot.

9 posted on 03/12/2023 5:23:07 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Opinions are like you know what, everybody has one. Some are just more stupid than others.


10 posted on 03/12/2023 5:27:22 AM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ah, journalism is there for folks too stupid to go into eddikashun or politics.


11 posted on 03/12/2023 5:28:47 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: rigelkentaurus

It sorta was stupid for people to refuse to let them eat at a lunch booth or sit where the hell they wanted or drink from any water fountain. What were you people in the 1960’s thinking? I mean that is really stupid to play that game and now those of us not born then are living with those actions.


12 posted on 03/12/2023 5:29:24 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

1) California was not a slave state, and 2) only Democrats should pay reparations.


13 posted on 03/12/2023 5:29:57 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Asians are a complete repudiation to the idea that starting behind means staying behind. Asians have the highest incomes and net worths of everybody and they were around were blacks were, income wise, in the 1900.


14 posted on 03/12/2023 5:30:57 AM PDT by Jonty30 (It is not how many that go into Mexico that counts. It is how many that return from Mexico.)
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To: RoosterRedux

1) Leftists disintegrated the black family, and 2) leftists kill black unborn babies at an alarming rate, and.


15 posted on 03/12/2023 5:33:21 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
this guy is an example that you cant fix stupid...
16 posted on 03/12/2023 5:34:16 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Way too many of these idiots are infected with “white savior” disease. They believe non white people are so weak and stupid they can’t survive without the help of the white guy. They do everything in their power to impede non-whites from succeeding. They pollute the school so generations are uneducated to the point there is no chance of success. Then they put on their white savior cape and swoop in to save them.


17 posted on 03/12/2023 5:37:27 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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Black lives are years shorter on average than white lives. And as with the wealth gap, racism is a key culprit.

It has nothing to do with diet. No, it’s racism! What an eff’n idiot. The author is a typical low-IQ academic.

Eat more watermelon and less fried chicken.

So a racist

would say!


18 posted on 03/12/2023 5:38:37 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: rigelkentaurus

A lot of black folk in our area are the nicest people. There are a few that have a huge chip on their shoulders. But I think that is being taught to them by their elders and by the example of some of their peers.


19 posted on 03/12/2023 5:41:04 AM PDT by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: A_perfect_lady

If they want reparations so badly, they should just go to Africa or the Middle East and demand those countries pay up.


20 posted on 03/12/2023 5:41:09 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as.)
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