Commentary
The recently released Full Final Report of the California Reparations Task Force has revealed nothing new, considering what I have reported previously in The Epoch Times. The basic problem all along remains: Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature cynically launched this initiative even though: a) the state of California never had slavery; b) there’s no money for reparations; c) no one could agree on who should get what.
However, let’s move beyond that and look at eight real reparations the state could give black Californians. In this increasingly diverse state, we need to stop obsessing resentfully at the past and instead look to build a prosperous common future. Reparations should be seen not in a direct monetary sense, but that of “repairing” policies to produce positive future results….