{"id":102014,"date":"2025-07-29T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102014\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:12:09","slug":"reparations-disguised-or-not-cant-be-justified-in-california-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102014\/","title":{"rendered":"Reparations, disguised or not, can\u2019t be justified in California \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cCalifornia measure aims to avoid racial bias ban\u201d (Jully 15): In 2020, the liberal state Legislature exploited the societal panic over George Floyd\u2019s death by manipulating the skyrocketing emotions to try to institute racial reparations. Now, five years later, this agenda looks especially wrong and unwise, but everyone seems afraid to call it out as such. Well, the emperor has no clothes!<\/p>\n<p>That modern-day descendants of slaves seven generations removed from the Civil War \u2014 in a state that never instituted slavery \u2014 should not receive cash payments or special treatment is obvious and common sense. Our federal government already instituted reparations: It\u2019s called affirmative action, and it ran for too long (60 years). The Supreme Court and the Trump administration are ending affirmative action and all related DEI programs now. Let\u2019s hope that they can stop this cynical attempt by the Legislature to reinstitute affirmative action in California under the guise of reparations for descendants of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeffrey Ridgway, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cCalifornia measure aims to avoid racial bias ban\u201d (Jully 15): In 2020, the liberal state Legislature exploited&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-102014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114936463065136668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}