Of course it is, but paying with your life is not cash, so of course it will never fly.
Regarding reparations for slavery, New York state gave at the office.
Or, more precisely, on the battlefields of the most lethal war in American history — fought fundamentally, and successfully, to end slavery.
So it’s just bizarre that seven-plus generations after the Empire State itself abolished slavery — in 1827! — New Yorkers who never owned slaves are to be asked to pony up to “compensate” New Yorkers who never were slaves.
That last bit is by now a cliché, of course — but this says more about the reparations movement’s growing ubiquity than it does about its moral or intellectual integrity.
Now New York is to get a full ration of reparations bushwa: Albany intends to establish a commission to “study” the matter — though if California’s recent experience is a fair measure, the only real question will be the size of the proposed payout.
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