[Red State] California is a step closer to paying reparations to black residents. The state’s reparations task force approved a raft of recommendations for putting a dollar amount on just how sorry California is for what NBC called "generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies."
(Spoiler alert: the state is really, really sorry.)
This is terrific news for several important reasons. For one thing, "recommendations on the table ranged from the creation of a new agency to provide services to descendants of enslaved people to calculations on what the state owes them in compensation."
A new Federal agency? How innovative!
You need infrastructure to shove that cash around, and qualified professionals to run it. (Cal State should offer a BS in Reparations Accounting.) How often do you get to be there at the birth of an industry?
Of course, the task force itself has been around for a couple of years, and so have, er, imaginative California reparations schemes. And there are nay-sayers, of course. Prof. Roy L. Brooks, a reparations scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law said "There’s no way in the world that many of these recommendations are going to get through because of the inflationary impact."
What inflationary impact?
Once the first check is issued it will never end. |