The College Board, which develops college-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses for high school students, has admitted to making some mistakes in its rollout of a new high school course on African American Studies that has invited controversy. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposed an early iteration of the course after the state’s Department of Education…
College Board Says It Made Mistakes in AP African American Course Rollout
February 14, 2023
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Everyone Gets $5 Million? California’s Reparation Plan Explained | Will Swaim
“This reparations payment will not do what its adherents say. What it will do is spark ethnic rivalry and racial conflict. That’s what it’ll do.” Siyamak sits down with Will Swaim, president of the California Policy Center, to talk about California’s reparation plan. California Insider show is sponsored by Birch Gold Group. Protect your IRA…
Black Reparations Inspiring a Multicolored Pandora’s Box of Intersectional Demands
Until a few years ago, the idea of paying financial reparations to descendants of African slaves was dismissed as a fringe idea. Now a notion that President Barack Obama once rejected as impractical is becoming public policy. California offers a dramatic example as officials there review a proposal that could pay in excess of $1 million each…
San Francisco Committee Proposes $5 Million Payouts, Debt Forgiveness as Reparations for African Americans
January 17, 2023
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Total debt forgiveness and $5 million payouts are among the reparations the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee is proposing that the city grant to longtime Black residents who have been a victim of the city’s “systematic repression and exclusion” of the Black community. The committee, tasked with developing a reparations plan for the…
San Francisco Committee Proposes Payouts of $5 Million Each, Debt Forgiveness as Reparations for African Americans
January 17, 2023
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Total debt forgiveness and $5 million payouts are among the reparations the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee is proposing that the city grant to longtime Black residents who have been a victim of the city’s “systematic repression and exclusion” of the Black community. The committee, tasked with developing a reparations plan for the…
Reparations Task Force Tantalizes Black Californians
Commentary In ancient Greek Mythology, Tantalus was punished by being hungry and thirsty, but forever having water and fruit held just out of his reach. Hence, tantalize. That’s what reparations for slavery and Jim Crow are for black people—something held before them by politicians, professors, political writers, and others, but which they will never get….
No, America Does Not Owe the World Climate ‘Reparations’
Commentary I’ve made the case in previous columns that the climate change movement is mostly a climate change hustle. Let’s be real. None of this is about changing the temperature of the Earth. Even the most naïve environmental activist can’t really believe that building windmills and driving Teslas is going to cool the planet. This…
Biden Administration Pledges to Pay ‘Climate Reparations’
Commentary On Nov. 20, officials at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) agreed to form an international fund to promote “climate justice” by implementing “climate reparations.” According to Simon Stiell, the UN climate change executive secretary, “We have determined a way forward on a decades-long…
California Task Force Pushes Envy Instead of Harmony
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…
In Discussing Reparations, Honest History of Slavery Makes the Left Uncomfortable
Commentary The Left loves to promote “reparations”—but only up until the point where history and truth run counter to its simplistic narratives about the past. British royals expert Hilary Fordwich threw CNN host Don Lemon for a loop on Tuesday when he asked her if the British monarchy should pay reparations for colonialism and slavery….
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