Category: reparations

Would California’s Reparation Achieve Its Goal? | Andrew Quinio

My guest is Andrew Quinio, attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation. He used to work with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of General Counsel, where he litigated employment discrimination and whistleblower cases. What’s in California’s controversial reparation plan? How many meaningful results could it provide to help relieve California’s housing crisis? * Click the…


Will California’s Reparation Plan Achieve Its Goal? | Andrew Quinio

My guest is Andrew Quinio, attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation. He used to work with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of General Counsel, where he litigated employment discrimination and whistleblower cases. What’s in California’s controversial reparation plan? How many meaningful results could it provide to help relieve California’s housing crisis? * Click the…


Georgetown U.’s Road to Slavery Reparations Was Paved With Good Intentions, Leading to a Can of Worms

In the annals of racial reckoning, Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted special attention and generous praise. Since the student newspaper jolted the campus with accounts of Jesuit priests engineering the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838 to stave off bankruptcy for the college, Georgetown has honored campus…


California Reparations Report Ignores What’s Really Going On

Commentary The Full Interim Report just released by the California Reparations Task Force is a naïve document that will do the opposite of its intention. The group’s full title front-loads its conclusion: the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. It was set up in 2020 by Assembly Bill 3121, by…


California Reparations Task Force Recommends 10 New State Offices in Report

SACRAMENTO—To repay African Americans in California for the “ongoing and compounding harms” of slavery, a state task force on June 1 recommended lawmakers create 10 new offices to oversee reparations. The interim report (pdf) by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans—about 500 pages long—describes the harms slavery inflicted…


Harvard Repatriations and the Responsibility of Guilt

Commentary Harvard University is the latest of America’s elite colleges to establish a fund to redress the burden of guilt it says it bears for the legacy of slavery. In doing so, it joins a consortium of 50 other colleges that pledged to address the stain of slavery and the role it played in the…


LA City Council Throws Support Behind Reparations for Black Americans

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a motion on April 12 to support Assembly Bill 3121, California state legislation that created a task force to study and develop reparation protocols for black Americans. AB 3121, known as the “Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” was passed in 2020…


Reparations Task Force Pushes Racial Division, Not Healing

Commentary As America grows more diverse—and California most diverse of all—the last thing needed is government programs pushing racial division. But that’s just what a recommendation released this week by the California task force on slavery reparations would do. Voting 5-4, it recommended reparations for black Californians, but only for those who can prove direct…


Dr. Jason Hill on Reparations, White Guilt, and the ‘Age of Post-Oppression’

“I’m going to be a little bit radical here and say there is no racial reckoning to be had … I don’t know what further reckonings would look like short of tearing this country apart,” says Dr. Jason Hill, a professor of philosophy at DePaul University and author of “What Do White Americans Owe Black…


Activist Groups in Favor of Reparations Dominate the Discussion in California

A number of activist groups in California are calling for more government involvement and community engagement in discussions regarding reparations, while those willing to publicly criticize the idea appear to be few and far between. Tiffany Quarles of the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants (NAASD) said the organization sent a letter to the state’s…