The Reparations Quagmire
Slavery is evil and like so many evils in this world it has been a stain on humanity for a very very long time. But does the mere existence of the abomination require it be redressed through the imposition of...
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A Desperate Measure Cloaked in Science: The Left’s Latest Attempt to Overturn Proposition 209
The opponents of Proposition 209 — the proposition that amended the California constitution to ban racial preferences — are at it again. After losing their campaign to defeat Prop 209 in 1996, the proponents of race-based affirmative action spent the next two...
Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling a Win for America But not for California Progressives
Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanagh and Barrett have delivered the American people a wonderful Independence Day gift with their majority opinion in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard College and the University of North Carolina. The ruling overturns...
California Reparations Task Force Releases Final Reparations Report
The California Reparations Task Force released their final report Thursday, outlining more than 100 recommendations on how descendants of slaves in California could receive some form of compensation. Since the Task Force was first put together in late 2020, the Task...
Reparations Task Force To Have Final Meeting On Thursday
The California Reparations Task Force entered their final week of meetings to make last minute tweaks to their final reparations recommendations report Monday, with the final report due to the state legislature on Friday. Since the Task Force was first...
New PPIC Poll Finds Only 39% of California Voters Support Reparations Task Force Task Force
A new Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) poll released this week found that only 39% of voters in California support the idea of a Reparations Task Force, showing a huge lack of support for the group only weeks before...
California Reparations for Slavery Defies Fact, Logic, Fairness, and Law
If one seeks a state that should pay reparations for slavery, California is not that state. In fact, California gold paid the most of any state to finance the Civil War to a successful conclusion that ended slavery in the...