Panderer-in-chief Governor Gavin Newsom recently spoke to a black audience and said, “I'm like you. I’m no better than you. I’m a 960 SAT guy...” Newsom then waxed about not being able to read a prepared speech. [A note to Mr. Newsom: if you can't read, you can't be president. And you shouldn't be a governor.]

In the 20th century, California was the go-to state for many. In the 21st century, under Newsom, it has become the must-leave state, replete with over-taxation, over-regulation, sidewalk encampments, high crime, crumbling cities, brownouts, burnouts, water problems, and a penchant for an impossible trillion-dollar shakedown. Among his endless erroneous notions, Newsom believes that California should pay reparations to black citizens.

In 2024, the Reparations Priority Bill Package was signed into law, following the conclusion of the reparations task force in 2023, which had been established by Newsom in 2020. Last October, Newsom approved a state slavery reparations agency.

At various intervals along this five-year journey to nowhere, heated debates on reparations for black Californians transpired. Initially, the task force suggested $220,000 per person, then upped it to $360,000 per person. Later, the task force recommended up to $1.2 million per person and presented more than 115 recommendations related to compensation for blacks. Thereafter, activists demanded $200 million for every African-American, which, by strained calculations, supposedly is the present day equivalence of 40 acres and mule!

Al Sharpton and the late Jesse Jackson, kings among shakedown artists, along with all the corrupt former BLM executives, must........

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