re: California Governor beginning the process of reparations to African Americans

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In classic fashion, this board is getting its melts in

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You support reparations?

Why would anyone with a logical brain support such a thing in today's time?

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At first blush, it comes across as a great political move: firm up your progressive cred, get a photo op with a civil rights leader, appear to be a real champion of civil rights, label other primary candidates as racists who don’t go along, likely lock up a big chunk of African American voters. So far, so good.

But, as with all complex federal programming, the devil is in the details and a few inconvenient truths.

An initial problem is that, since the 1960s, America has spent well over $1 trillion on “social justice” (you could call it “reparations”), targeting to a large extent African Americans, providing cash payments, housing, food, day care, education assistance, inner-city development, transportation support, business start-up assistance, job training assistance, preference on government contract awards, affirmative action, legal aid, and a host of other programs to overcome disadvantages related to poverty and race.

For over half a century, most Americans have recognized their obligations to fellow Americans historically disadvantaged by racism, and have tried to provide assistance to correct the problem. No other country would dream of this level of social responsibility, fairness and generosity. All Americans should be really proud of their country.

Because of these programs, tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of Americans have been moved out of poverty into the middle class, and some to higher levels of American society including CEOs and the American presidency. Are the Democratic candidates or progressive activists even aware of that?

This raises some interesting questions.

First, of course, who would receive the reparations? The answer “descendants of slaves” is problematic. As Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) amply proves, genetic testing can yield complicated results. In any case, genetic testing would be mandatory for the program to work, to make sure that each recipient is a slave descendant, and the money might be doled out based upon the percentage of the genetic makeup that is a slave ancestor. That means the big winners in the program will be Silicon Valley and law enforcement databases that would get a treasure trove of genetic data on all Americans who apply for the program.

Second, of course, is the question of who pays? We could, of course, do some serious testing to determine who are the descendants of slave owners, or just send the whole bill to white Americans. The problem, of course, as Sen. Warren again demonstrates, is that “white” is complicated. And research has shown that others besides whites owned slaves in America. As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pointed out, both he and President Obama are descendants of slave owners.

The bottom line is that reparations would need to be paid out of the federal budget. Since social justice programs have lifted many people out of poverty, and some of them now are well off, the program could wind up with many African American taxpayers paying reparations to African American recipients.

Now, some might say “tax the rich,” but of course there are rich African Americans. Others might say “make business pay,” but why penalize business? African Americans own businesses, and black employment levels are at all-time highs. Also, some of the biggest “owners” of businesses are union pension plans with African Americans among the members looking forward to a secure retirement.

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NOT shipping slaves back to Africa when they were freed WAS reparations for Generations of black people that followed.

Insert famous Muhammad Ali quote " here ".

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African Americans don't have to pay income tax for 10 years. Any money they make, they get to keep it for a decade.

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Agreed, Incentivize work. If the average working non-AA makes 20% more than the Average working AA, then simply allowing them not to be taxed on the first 50K would be like making what "everyone else" makes.

Then we do the same for women, and then we just remove all income tax to the median income as on ongoing "boost" to help poor people.


In 2017, the top 50% of income earners paid 97% of income tax.

So it's not really a loss at all, even though regardless of what anyone does for someone, if they can't live in a way that makes them an employable asset to someone else....they will forever be a completely hopeless burden.

What a frickin shite show state.

There are so many logistical issues that this will never become a reality beyond the advisory committee is going to get paid as a slush fund

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California was a free state though...

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Shhh....

No matter how much they give it will never be enough to some. This is just going to open up Pandora's Box and make things a nightmare.

Cuckifornia