California's nine-member reparations task force panel approved recommendations on Saturday to pay black state residents up to $1.2 million as a formal reparative monetary apology.
Not much has changed. This is STILL mind-numbingly insane!
"Apologies alone are inadequate to provide justice to victims or redress wrongs," the draft of the reparations plan reads. "But when combined with material forms of reparations, apologies provide an opportunity for communal reckoning with the past and repair for moral, physical, and dignitary harms."
More than 2.5 million Californians could be eligible for receiving reparations for alleged injustices, Daily Wire reports:
According to the final report, black communities impacted by mass incarceration and over-policing aligning with the national War on Drugs could receive about $115,260 per person, or $2,352 each year they lived in California from 1971-2020.
Panel members said black residents impacted by lending and zoning redlining by banks between 1933 and 1977 could receive $3,366 each year they resided in California, capping at $148,099. Another method created by the panel calculated gaps between black and white "housing wealth" at $145,847 per person.
Other alleged injustices and discriminations in health estimated $13,619 per person for each year lived in California.
This California reparations saga truly is a sight to behold...
In March, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors said $5 million in reparations to each black citizen sounded good to them. Soon after that, activists said $5 million wasn't enough.
I guess this reparations task force was able to talk these folks down from the ledge, knocking it down to a measly $1.2 million per person.
You don't have to be an economist to know this plan is trash.
But, just in case you were wondering what actual economists think, some of them said this woke reparations LARP could cost California $800 BILLION (under the $5 million per person plan), nearly tripling the annual state budget. And that's beside the point of the morality of whether the reparations should be paid in the first place.
"Reparations are not only morally justifiable, but they have the potential to address long-standing racial disparities and inequalities," said U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, who is co-sponsoring a bill to study reparations proposals for black Americans.
If you still live in California, then I think it's time for you to get the HECK out of there!
And don't look back, lest you get turned into a pillar of salt.
