Commentary
If America is going to survive—and, yes, its existence is not certain—we’re going to have to start uniting our people instead of dividing them. As I have written in previous Epoch Times articles, the California Reparations Task Force is doing the opposite. My articles are here, here, here, and here.
That deleterious pattern was continued Monday, when the Task Force released voluminous documents and studies in preparation for its next meeting Saturday in Oakland. It is jogging toward a July 1 deadline for recommendations to the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The main problem is this Task Force is only going to increase expectations among black Californians that they’ll get payments of some kind. Yet the state now faces a budget deficit of at least $22.5 billion for fiscal year 2023-24, which begins on July 1. When no reparations are forthcoming, resentment only is going to rise, increasing the division in our already splintering body politic….