Black Reparations Inspiring a Multicolored Pandora’s Box of Intersectional Demands

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Until a few years ago, the idea of paying financial reparations to descendants of African slaves was dismissed as a fringe idea.

Now a notion that President Barack Obama once rejected as impractical is becoming public policy. California offers a dramatic example as officials there review a proposal that could pay in excess of $1 million each to some black residents, while more than a dozen U.S. municipalities are moving ahead with their own race-based programs to redress the legacies of slavery.