Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - California Punches the Tar Baby
Aired: 2022-04-08
Duration: 08:45


=== Task Force's Turbulent Journey (08:41) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
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[00:00:19]  On September 30th, 2020...
[00:00:22]  California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 3121, which set up a task force to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.
[00:00:34]  As I will explain, this started a process that will plague the state for years.
[00:00:40]  The committee has until July 2023 to issue a report on who gets what and how much.
[00:00:47]  The question of whether has already been decided.
[00:00:51]  The law requires a task force of nine members who shall be drawn from diverse backgrounds.
[00:00:59]  Here are the nine.
[00:01:00]  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.
[00:01:11]  No white people need apply.
[00:01:13]  Apparently, no Hispanics either, even though the state is 35% Hispanic.
[00:01:19]  It has taken nearly a year and eight official meetings for the task force to decide who will cash in.
[00:01:27]  Just last month, it decided that only blacks in California who are descended from slaves will get anything.
[00:01:34]  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.
[00:01:46]  How come?
[00:01:48]  Task Force member Lisa Holder, who was a Soros Justice Fellow, explains, If you have black skin, you are catching hell in this country.
[00:01:59]  She doesn't want you to get hung up on slavery.
[00:02:02]  We must make sure we include present-day and future harms.
[00:02:07]  Yep, future harms.
[00:02:10]  When have you ever heard of compensation for things that haven't even happened yet?
[00:02:15]  This would surely be a first.
[00:02:18]  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.
[00:02:36]  Maybe you didn't realize that California has a big problem with white racists shooting black people from cruise ships.
[00:02:44]  And when Mr. Jones-Sawyer wants payments for every black without exception, he means it.
[00:02:50]  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.
[00:03:10]  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.
[00:03:19]  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.
[00:03:30]  Cheryl Grills, another task forcer, agrees.
[00:03:34]  Leaving out any black person would be divisive.
[00:03:38]  And another win for white supremacy.
[00:03:41]  When was the last win for white supremacy?
[00:03:45]  As for Mr. Obama himself, when he was president, he said he didn't think there should be reparations for blacks.
[00:03:52]  But now he says he was faking it.
[00:03:54]  He says he thought all along that white people should pay, but white resentment made reparations a non-starter during his presidency.
[00:04:04]  I guess white people have since wised up.
[00:04:07]  The task force considered two approaches on how much is owned.
[00:04:12]  The first was to calculate the cost of slavery, Jim Crow laws, lost wages, etc.
[00:04:18]  And that's what most people think reparations are all about.
[00:04:21]  But oops!
[00:04:23]  California joined the Union as a free state in 1850 and never had Jim Crow, never had segregated schools and drinking fountains.
[00:04:32]  There were hardly any blacks in the state until after the Second World War.
[00:04:36]  And so, the task force won't look back that far.
[00:04:40]  As this article notes, Reparations Task Force approves expert team to determine compensation.
[00:04:48]  This is from Black Media.
[00:04:50]  Note the illustration of money pouring out of a bank vault.
[00:04:55]  The five experts, all black, will consider only the horrors that blacks faced in California.
[00:05:02]  As expert Kasia Campbell explained, This approach will allow us to identify specific atrocities or harms for which California should compensate.
[00:05:14]  There are 13 categories of California harms and atrocities.
[00:05:19]  Again, all of which essentially date from no earlier than the 1940s.
[00:05:24]  These include such things as intellectual property deprivation.
[00:05:29]  You know, all those black inventors who were robbed of their royalties.
[00:05:34]  Property taking by eminent domain.
[00:05:37]  How common was that?
[00:05:39]  Denial of representation on estate commissions.
[00:05:43]  Whatever that is.
[00:05:45]  Environmental harm, which I suppose hurt only blacks.
[00:05:49]  Mass incarceration, which can only be the result of racism.
[00:05:55]  And transgenerational effects.
[00:05:58]  Now, there's a real atrocity for you.
[00:06:01]  The five wise black people say they may think up yet more atrocities and then calculate how much each black Californian should get.
[00:06:10]  Well, this is crazy.
[00:06:12]  How many blacks had their intellectual property stolen by the state of California or were kept off an estate commission?
[00:06:20]  Any? Ten?
[00:06:22]  Twenty-five?
[00:06:23]  And if that even happened, why does it mean every black living in the state deserves a check?
[00:06:29]  William Darity, an economics professor at Duke University, is on the committee that's supposed to figure all this out.
[00:06:36]  But even before the committee was set up, he had already decided that about 2 million California blacks deserve $300,000 each.
[00:06:46]  That is as much money as the median white household makes in four years.
[00:06:53]  That's also $600 billion.
[00:06:56]  And it's also three times the annual budget of the entire state of California.
[00:07:02]  With all due respect, this is nuts.
[00:07:05]  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.
[00:07:18]  They're just making it up as they go along.
[00:07:21]  Aside from this being a psychotic idea, There are practical problems.
[00:07:26]  How are blacks supposed to prove they are descended from slaves?
[00:07:30]  Most Americans can't name all four grandparents.
[00:07:35]  Only 4% can name all the great-grandparents.
[00:07:39]  And I'm sorry, but a lot of blacks aren't even sure who their father is.
[00:07:44]  And there are going to be some white people who have a slave or two in the family tree.
[00:07:48]  Soros fellow Lisa Holder is going to be mighty, mighty unhappy when they cash in.
[00:07:54]  And no matter how this works, the state legislature will have to appropriate the money.
[00:08:00]  The vote to set up the task force passed overwhelmingly, 58 to 12 in the House and 33 to 3 in the Senate.
[00:08:09]  So when the task force sends in the final bill, the state will pay with a smile, right?
[00:08:15]  No. Are either Hispanic or Asian.
[00:08:21]  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.
[00:08:33]  You know the expression, ideas have consequences.
[00:08:37]  Well, crazy ideas have crazy consequences.
[00:08:40]  We have the ingredients for a taxpayer revolt like you have never seen.