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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Unity Begins with One Set of Rules
Description: In a stunning act of moral obtuseness, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently created a reparations fund for the city’s black community. Just for starters, racial reparations are illegal — barred by California’s Proposition 209 and the U.S. Constitution. Both forbid governmental discrimination based on race. But reparations are also morally wrong. It’s unjust to take from people who never owned slaves in order to give to those who were never enslaved — especially in a state that never had slavery. Supporters claim reparations will heal historic wounds. They actually deepen them. Once g...