California Democrats' Misguided Reparations Push

Recently, a Globe article addressed several grave issues California Democrats are supporting, securing their position on the wrong side of history. This article aims to clarify some of these misconceptions and highlight the real history behind reparations.

Blocking Protection for Minors

The Globe has been saying for several years now that the stupid people are in charge of everything in California, and Democrats proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt this past week. They also proved that they will say and do anything for money, because no actual human with a soul could advocate for policies that harm children the way purchasing sex from teenagers does.

• One of the issues is the blockage of a bill to make purchasing sex from 16-17-year-olds a felony.

Racial Reconciliation or Racial Preferences?

The reparations bill proposes to give at least 10% of funds from California Housing Finance Agency’s home purchase assistance program to qualified individuals who are descendants of formerly enslaved people.

California wasn’t a slave state, by the way. However, proponents claim this is about “its push for justice and equality.”

“Racial wealth gap” and “race-based traumatic stress” are catch-all phrases that justify anything the committees want.  No one can deny that slavery has existed on every inhabited continent for at least 4,000 years of recorded history.

The Damages Argument is Most Irrational

Nearly all ethnic groups that migrated to America including Chinese, the Irish, and European Jews were subjected to harsh discrimination. However, with every passing generation, they developed occupational skills, knowledge, and cultural norms necessary to fully assimilate and rise to higher socioeconomic levels within the mainstream American culture.  The idea of achieving justice by taking money from one group to pay another for an act that was neither committed nor suffered by the parties is a collectivist affront to the American ideal of individualism.

A Different Narrative Needed in California Schools

Every kid in California should be taught this rather than the steady stream of “reparations activism.”

Let us strive for a true understanding and reconciliation.