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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: fortes fortuna juvat
God you would be welcomed with open arms at DU. You are molded by their thinking. It astonishing how much you emulate the democrats.
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posted on
03/12/2023 8:18:45 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
You forgot the barf alert.
To: rigelkentaurus
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. You NAILED it! I've said for years, it's not the skin color, it's the culture that holds them back.
And I'll add: Many of these cultural failures are shared by poor whites as well. And don't forget language. Butchering the language is not limited to blacks. Ghetto language is a barrier, but so is the language of the uneducated whites. For example, saying, "Let me tell ya what I seen and what I done about it".
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posted on
03/12/2023 8:28:44 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
To: Bernard
And he comes from Evanston, Illinois; practically the birthplace of Illinois Nazis. Just a few goose-steps away from Skokie.
National SOCIALISTS like Bernie and the dems...
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posted on
03/12/2023 9:01:03 AM PDT
by
cuz1961
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To: cuz1961
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posted on
03/12/2023 9:02:42 AM PDT
by
cuz1961
(USCGR Veteran )
To: cuz1961
The Natzis loved to divide by race.
Nothing has changed.
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posted on
03/12/2023 9:03:39 AM PDT
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cuz1961
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posted on
03/12/2023 9:22:03 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Californians are weighing in publicly on the idea of reparations to Black Americans...”
But are they? Are they really? Where are they being allowed to denounce this insanity? The ‘Reparations Task Force’ is like the ‘Jan. 6 House Committee’ in that all its members are in agreement on the basic question, the only quibbles, if any, are in the details.
California is 39% Latino, 35% are non-Latino whites, and 15% Asian. Does anyone think the 39% Latinos and 15% Asians are going to willingly have their taxes raised to send checks to the 5% black population? And I seriously doubt if even a quarter of the whites are that ‘guilt ridden’.
When California blacks don’t even receive one thin dime of ‘reparations’, it will be yet another grievance for them to nurture and cherish.
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posted on
03/12/2023 9:29:06 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Kuzawa can stick that reparations business where the sun never casts a shadow. Have you noticed that these morons NEVER talk about getting reparations from the very people that enslaved them to start with? You know, the BLACK African tribes who lived close by in those days. Oh, and what to do about BLACK slaveowners here in America? Yes, they did exist. If one of this guys ancestors had murdered someone in cold blood, does that mean he has to hang for that crime so long ago? This is just another “free money” grift from the parasite class.
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:02:06 AM PDT
by
Kangarew
To: Kangarew
This is just another “free money” grift from the parasite class.
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Well, to be clear, it is from the parasite class but its also from the rodent politicians who are concerned that their black voting block may dissolve like a sugar cube in hot coffee if they don’t deliver on this disgraceful scam.
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:21:20 AM PDT
by
fortes fortuna juvat
(Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This racial wealth gap on its own makes a strong case for reparations. WRONG. This racial wealth gap illustrates the consequences of generational bad decision making.
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:24:24 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: chief lee runamok
Just another guilt ridden, lemon sucking, white idiot. Lemon sucking?
Pickle sucking seems more likely.
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:25:58 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: cuz1961
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:29:05 AM PDT
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cuz1961
(USCGR Veteran )
To: cuz1961
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:29:55 AM PDT
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cuz1961
(USCGR Veteran )
To: napscoordinator
It astonishing how much you emulate the democrats.
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I’m not “emulating”, I am a Democrat! Soon I may become a communist like you!
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:31:11 AM PDT
by
fortes fortuna juvat
(Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
To: fortes fortuna juvat
I agree that they are not all black in other places - like Europe. But here in America, it is blacks, with Hispanics doing their best to catch up.
Bringing jobs back to the country would help to some extent, but some places are too far gone for even jobs to help much. Like Baltimore. Can you imagine Nike putting a factory there? The poor blacks might get jobs as janitors, but there are entire schools full of little black monster kids, with not one proficient in math or English.
Too many blacks are good for nothing but physical labor, and they are too lazy for that.
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:45:49 AM PDT
by
Penelope Dreadful
(And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
More like black teens killing other black teens in the inner city while no one turns them into the evil, racist cops trying to protect the community.
Has an impact on “health”!
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:47:25 AM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
To: fortes fortuna juvat
I knew it. You can tell just by how nasty you are to your fellow posters and I’m not including me in this. You are just so miserable for no reason.
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posted on
03/12/2023 10:54:26 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“This racial health gap largely traces to stress-related diseases like heart attacks and strokes, and it is not related to genetic differences. In fact, racial groups do not map neatly onto our genes. Instead they are fluid categories that societies establish in response to cultural norms, defined and perpetuated by those in power to maintain social control.”
this man is a complete moron.
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posted on
03/12/2023 11:14:47 AM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: napscoordinator
You are just so miserable for no reason.
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Not for no reason but because there are so damned many morons in the world. And quite a few of them are haunting this forum trying to convert right-thinking people into left-wing lunatics, like YOU!
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posted on
03/12/2023 12:28:09 PM PDT
by
fortes fortuna juvat
(Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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