About a year ago, I noted that California Governor Gavin Newsom was less than enthusiastic about writing massive reparations checks recommended by the racialist panel he was responsible for forming.
The governor’s feelings toward the massive reparation numbers being put forth by that panel are readily explained by an ever-expanding state budget deficit, estimated at $31.5 billion at that time but which has since ballooned to nearly $47 billion (and is likely to be worse because high-tech and fossil fuel firms are exiting the state).
California reparations proponents have called on Newsom to issue an executive order on reparations and made other ludicrous demands, threatening to withhold their vote for Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris. On the other hand, reparations is extremely unpopular with American people as a whole, so signing any reparation measures would doom any likely success for Newsom should he throw his hat in the 2028 ring.
Therefore, Newsom did what he does best and politicked his what through a spate of racialist bills that recently hit his desk. He signed a bill that includes a formal apology for California’s role in slavery and its discrimination against black people, as well as several other related measures in the name of “racial healing” do