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Slavery reparations are dead. How dead are they? Dead enough that not even black governors want them.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore vetoed a measure that would have created a commission to study reparations in the former slave state.
Moore vetoed the bill on Friday but said he will propose other methods to address the effects of slavery, Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination against blacks in Maryland.
The proposed commission would have explored options for addressing the state’s past and subsequent laws deemed discriminatory toward blacks from 1865 to 1965.
The options would have included a formal apology, cash payments or enacting laws that would make amends for past wrongs.
Why did Moore veto it? California’s experiment with racial reparations was probably an influence. After authorizing commissions to study reparations, they did nothing except stir up controversy. California let the process go far enough that it produced massive potential payments that could never be authorized, raising hopes in the black community of huge checks while touching off outrage among white residents.
And then there’s the whole awkward problem of whether reparations would be limited to actual descendants of slaves or anyone who is black which created its own divisions in the black community.
As David Horowitz had exposed in his book ‘Uncivil Wars’, racial reparations were a tool of division. Gov. Moore decided they’re an inconvenient tool after California’s reparations efforts turned everyone against everyone else.
Now racial reparations are dead.
He vetoed it because he plans on running for President, an effort that would require the votes of many none lack voters. “Reparations” are deeply unpopular with such voters. It wasn’t principle; it was politics.
Like Barack Obama before him, Gov. Wes Moore is a race-hustler who will say or do any darned thing for political advantage, including writing a book– “The Other Wes Moore” (2010)– lying about his origins in gritty Baltimore. It became a gubernatorial campaign issue when there was no evidence to support the claim that Wes Moore grew up in Baltimore. But the “woke” never let a good racial narrative go to waist. Gov. Wes Moore has his sights on the White House. That’s why he vetoed the putrid racial reparations gambit that most every Democ-rat actually from Baltimore applauds. Gov. Wes Moore’s great accomplishment in political life is to be a lesser version of The Kenyan. Tell us again, Gov. Moore, what are your pronouns?
This is disappointing I was so looking forward to getting paid the reparations owed to me — and my fellow Jews — by the blacks who have plagued us for the past 60 years.