Sacramento inches closer to implementing reparations

Any sensible American should adopt an unambiguous moral judgment against slavery. Chattel slavery was a sinful impediment to human progress and a stain upon our nation. Almost two centuries after the institution of race-based slavery was abolished, Americans’ justified urge to right past wrongs of slavery is now weaponized by radical politicians to create race-preferential policies under the banner of “reparations.”  Once again, California leads the nation in instituting reparation-themed programs and initiatives, even though the Golden State entered the Union in 1850 as a free state. On April 23, the California Senate Committee on Governmental Organization approved SB 1403 on a strictly partisan, 11-to-2 vote. Authored by Senator Steven Bradford of Gardena, who is also a member of the State Reparations Task Force,  SB 1403 seeks to establish the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency to implement recommendations from the task force’s sweeping, 40-chapters-long reparations report.  Chief among the recommendations and central to the bill is the creation of a Genealogy Office to provide “expert genealogical research” and “confirm reparations eligibility.” Alas, a state-sanctioned agency, bearing shades of Nuremberg, will be entrusted to oversee a wide array of reparation schemes, including: property claims, educational access, environmental justice, criminal justice reforms,...