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Reparations Task Force Pushes Racial Division, Not Healing

Reparations Task Force Pushes Racial Division, Not Healing
In this file photo, people attend the Leimert Park Rising Juneteenth celebration to mark the end of slavery, in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 19, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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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 descent from slaves in the American states.

John Seiler
John Seiler
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John Seiler is a veteran California opinion writer. Mr. Seiler has written editorials for The Orange County Register for almost 30 years. He is a U.S. Army veteran and former press secretary for California state Sen. John Moorlach. He blogs at JohnSeiler.Substack.com and his email is [email protected]
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