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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is talking about ideas to bring racial reparations to the Bay Area.
The proposals discussed during a recent board hearing, if adopted, would come with a significant financial cost for taxpayers. More on that in a bit.
The entire reparations plan is predicated on the idea that black residents of San Francisco need to receive massive financial benefits from the city to make up for slavery and systemic racism.
Now, plenty of arguments can be made against reparations. As a matter of justice and improving “equity,” which the Left obsesses over, these proposals leave a lot to be desired.
“Legal or not, reparation plans are deeply flawed and often create new injustices in implementation,” I wrote in September. “In the end, they are based on the premise that the only way to get ahead in society is to claim victimhood and shake down your neighbors.”
The case for reparations in California for U.S. slavery is particularly tenuous. California famously entered the Union as a free state. The number of black slaves brought to California before its statehood was marginal.
If San Francisco’s plan passes, every non-oppressed resident will be busy handing over every last dollar they’ve earned to the government.
San Francisco’s reparations plan includes giving $5 million to every black adult resident of the city. But wait, there’s more. --->READ MORE HERE
Introduction: Over the past couple of years, the Reparations movement has gained tremendous momentum in California. The California Reparations Task Force, which was created by the state legislature in 2020, is considering a proposal to give just under $360,000 per person to approximately 1.8 million Black Californians who had an ancestor enslaved in the U.S. Of course California was admitted as a Free State in 1850 and never had slaves, which makes this seem more of a racial extortion racket than compensation.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing increased pressure to use his authority to unilaterally enact proposals that would distribute billions of dollars to Black residents in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery.
Over 22 years ago, David Horowitz wrote the following article here at FrontPage, “Ten Reasons why Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks – and Racist Too.” The Freedom Center placed hundreds of ads in college papers at the time and David followed up with a bestselling book, Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery, AVAILABLE HERE.
Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks – and Racit Too
By David Horowitz
Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too?
[1] There Is No Single Group Clearly Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery.
Black Africans and Arabs were responsible for enslaving the ancestors of African-Americans. There were 3,000 black slave-owners in the ante-bellum United States. Are reparations to be paid by their descendants too?
[2] There Is No One Group That Benefited Exclusively From Its Fruits.
The claim for reparations is premised on the false assumption that only whites have benefited from slavery. If slave labor created wealth for Americans, then obviously it has created wealth for black Americans as well, including the descendants of slaves. The GNP of black America is so large that it makes the African-American community the 10th most prosperous “nation” in the world. American blacks on average enjoy per capita incomes in the range of twenty to fifty times that of blacks living in any of the African nations from which they were kidnapped.
[3] Only A Tiny Minority Of White Americans Ever Owned Slaves, And Others Gave Their Lives To Free Them.
Only a tiny minority of Americans ever owned slaves. This is true even for those who lived in the ante-bellum South where only one white in five was a slaveholder. Why should their descendants owe a debt? What about the descendants of the 350,000 Union soldiers who died to free the slaves? They gave their lives. What possible moral principle would ask them to pay (through their descendants) again? --->READ THE OTHER 7 REASONS HERE
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