Opinion: Blame Gov. Newsom for reparations plan’s blowback
Gavin Newsom has found himself in an awkward spot this past week, as news reports suggest he is lowering expectations about providing reparations payments to the state’s African American population. The news media played up the key line in his statement after the task force issued its report: “Dealing with that legacy is about much more than cash payments.”
Newsom clearly is trying to placate progressive activists who are championing a broad and ideologically charged reparations program and voters, who are strongly opposed to reparations. Yet Newsom signed into law the measure that created this task force. His political dilemma is of his own making. This approach leads to myriad practical problems, too. These include measuring a person’s race, determining residency requirements and assessing specific harms from difficult-to-assess standards involving housing discrimination, mass incarceration, healthcare inequities and the “devaluation” of African American businesses.
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