Commentary
When the California Reparations Task Force released its Full Interim Report in June, I wrote in The Epoch Times, “California Reparations Report Ignores What’s Really Going On.” The conclusion: “The report’s solutions are a mishmash of socialist utopian thinking, biased history, and a failure to take up the ideas of conservatives, libertarians, and even liberal reformers. The final report coming out next year promises to be even worse.”
The task force just met again Sept. 23-24 at the California Science Center in South Los Angeles to work on the specifics. Although the numbers still are preliminary, CalMatters reported, “The four economic consultants calculated that each Black Californian who lived in the state between 1933 and 1977 experienced a ‘housing wealth gap’ of $223,239, or $5,074 for each year in the period. The experts said that number—which is the difference between the average value of all homes in California and the value of Black-owned homes—could be considered for reparations.”…