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Task Force's Turbulent Journey
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
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| On September 30th, 2020... | |
| California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 3121, which set up a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans. | |
| As I will explain, this started a process that will plague the state for years. | |
| The committee has until July 2023 to issue a report on who gets what and how much. | |
| The question of whether has already been decided. | |
| The law requires a task force of nine members who shall be drawn from diverse backgrounds. | |
| Here are the nine. | |
| Eight blacks, and down in the lower right corner, one Asian, who worked very hard to get compensation for Japanese relocated during the Second World War. | |
| No white people need apply. | |
| Apparently, no Hispanics either, even though the state is 35% Hispanic. | |
| It has taken nearly a year and eight official meetings for the task force to decide who will cash in. | |
| Just last month, it decided that only blacks in California who are descended from slaves will get anything. | |
| It was a hard-fought five-to-four squabble because, believe it or not, the rest wanted to include all blacks, including African immigrants who showed up yesterday. | |
| How come? | |
| Task Force member Lisa Holder, who was a Soros Justice Fellow, explains, If you have black skin, you are catching hell in this country. | |
| She doesn't want you to get hung up on slavery. | |
| We must make sure we include present-day and future harms. | |
| Yep, future harms. | |
| When have you ever heard of compensation for things that haven't even happened yet? | |
| This would surely be a first. | |
| Task Force member Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who also wants all blacks covered, explained that when a white racist shoots and kills a black person in the back because they're black, they don't care if you came in from a slave ship or a cruise ship. | |
| Maybe you didn't realize that California has a big problem with white racists shooting black people from cruise ships. | |
| And when Mr. Jones-Sawyer wants payments for every black without exception, he means it. | |
| For example, he would include the guy who owns this nine-bedroom pad in the ritziest part of D.C., as well as 29 acres on Martha's Vineyard, and who's building a mansion on the beach in Hawaii with two swimming pools on land that costs $9 million. | |
| Who is not descended from slaves because his mother was white and his father was Kenyan, and who was, of course, President of the United States. | |
| Right here in the New York Times article, task force member Reggie Jones-Sawyer says Barack Obama deserves reparations for all the racism he has suffered. | |
| Cheryl Grills, another task forcer, agrees. | |
| Leaving out any black person would be divisive. | |
| And another win for white supremacy. | |
| When was the last win for white supremacy? | |
| As for Mr. Obama himself, when he was president, he said he didn't think there should be reparations for blacks. | |
| But now he says he was faking it. | |
| He says he thought all along that white people should pay, but white resentment made reparations a non-starter during his presidency. | |
| I guess white people have since wised up. | |
| The task force considered two approaches on how much is owned. | |
| The first was to calculate the cost of slavery, Jim Crow laws, lost wages, etc. | |
| And that's what most people think reparations are all about. | |
| But oops! | |
| California joined the Union as a free state in 1850 and never had Jim Crow, never had segregated schools and drinking fountains. | |
| There were hardly any blacks in the state until after the Second World War. | |
| And so, the task force won't look back that far. | |
| As this article notes, Reparations Task Force approves expert team to determine compensation. | |
| This is from Black Media. | |
| Note the illustration of money pouring out of a bank vault. | |
| The five experts, all black, will consider only the horrors that blacks faced in California. | |
| As expert Kasia Campbell explained, This approach will allow us to identify specific atrocities or harms for which California should compensate. | |
| There are 13 categories of California harms and atrocities. | |
| Again, all of which essentially date from no earlier than the 1940s. | |
| These include such things as intellectual property deprivation. | |
| You know, all those black inventors who were robbed of their royalties. | |
| Property taking by eminent domain. | |
| How common was that? | |
| Denial of representation on estate commissions. | |
| Whatever that is. | |
| Environmental harm, which I suppose hurt only blacks. | |
| Mass incarceration, which can only be the result of racism. | |
| And transgenerational effects. | |
| Now, there's a real atrocity for you. | |
| The five wise black people say they may think up yet more atrocities and then calculate how much each black Californian should get. | |
| Well, this is crazy. | |
| How many blacks had their intellectual property stolen by the state of California or were kept off an estate commission? | |
| Any? Ten? | |
| Twenty-five? | |
| And if that even happened, why does it mean every black living in the state deserves a check? | |
| William Darity, an economics professor at Duke University, is on the committee that's supposed to figure all this out. | |
| But even before the committee was set up, he had already decided that about 2 million California blacks deserve $300,000 each. | |
| That is as much money as the median white household makes in four years. | |
| That's also $600 billion. | |
| And it's also three times the annual budget of the entire state of California. | |
| With all due respect, this is nuts. | |
| But this is what happens when you ask a bunch of blacks and one crazy Asian to come up with reparations for blacks in a state that never had slaves, and hardly any blacks until the 1950s. | |
| They're just making it up as they go along. | |
| Aside from this being a psychotic idea, There are practical problems. | |
| How are blacks supposed to prove they are descended from slaves? | |
| Most Americans can't name all four grandparents. | |
| Only 4% can name all the great-grandparents. | |
| And I'm sorry, but a lot of blacks aren't even sure who their father is. | |
| And there are going to be some white people who have a slave or two in the family tree. | |
| Soros fellow Lisa Holder is going to be mighty, mighty unhappy when they cash in. | |
| And no matter how this works, the state legislature will have to appropriate the money. | |
| The vote to set up the task force passed overwhelmingly, 58 to 12 in the House and 33 to 3 in the Senate. | |
| So when the task force sends in the final bill, the state will pay with a smile, right? | |
| No. Are either Hispanic or Asian. | |
| When you tell them that they're being taxed to pay for handouts for blacks as reparations for slavery that never even happened in California, they will be livid. | |
| You know the expression, ideas have consequences. | |
| Well, crazy ideas have crazy consequences. | |
| We have the ingredients for a taxpayer revolt like you have never seen. | |