California Scheming: Reparations Too Gruesome, Says Governor Newsom

By Selwyn Duke

Some may call it having created a monster. Others may say he’s being hoist with his own petard. What’s for sure is that after helping create his state’s “Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,” California Governor Gavin Newsom is stuck between a rock and a very, very expensive place:

His task force just recommended an $800 billion reparations scheme — and Newsom, realizing he doesn’t actually have a money tree and that 27 more California gold rushes aren’t nigh, is balking at the bill.

In fact, now, says he, dealing with the Legacy of Slavery™ “is about much more than cash payments.”

Apparently, Hair Gel Gavin forgot to ensure that his task force appointees shared his primary concern: posturing. And as Obama’s erstwhile pastor Jeremiah Wright might say, “The chickens have come home to roost.”

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