Another local government in California is considering the absurd idea of reparations.
California entered the Union as a “free” state in 1850. There is no reason to pay reparations, to anyone, for anything. History matters. And the decision to enter the Union as a free state was a difficult moral choice, in a fraught time.
At the time, the North and the South were locked in a bitter political battle. Each new state triggered another round of fighting over whether it would be a free state, or a slave state. senators from the South protestedLater, hundreds of thousands of Americans would die on the battlefield, in a struggle to save the Union — and, ultimately, to deliver millions of Americans from slavery to freedom.
It has been 161 years since the end of the Civil War. And there are good arguments to be made that America could have done more to help the freed slaves and their descendants. Left-wing governments have led the push for reparations. They do it as a form of virtue-signaling, or to push the issue up the national agenda.
San Francisco and the State of California formed committees to study reparations, at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. Alameda County says its focus will be “criminal justice reform,” as well as more spending on housing and education. If we are serious about helping black Americans achieve their potential, the best way is to build a growing economy that creates jobs at a rapid pace.
That is what President Donald Trump achieved for black Americans in his first term, when their wages rose for the first time in a decade. Talk of reparations does the opposite. It signals to investors that Alameda County is not safe —that they will be abused by a county government that pursues extremist racial agendas rather than the public good. If reparations are ever paid, it will be at a national level.
Most Americans reject the idea. And pushing absurd local versions of reparations probably hurts the case. Our forebears in California made a choice. We should honor their legacy by building a free economy that brings prosperity to all.
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