California’s reparations effort faced a substantial backlash

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 26 Quoted in Sonya Singh, “California Faces Backlash As It Weighs Historic Reparations for Black Residents,” Guardian, July 11, 2023. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1126

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Category: Factual Claims

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• A century elapsed before California returned property stolen from a black family (similarity 0.82)
• Reparations cannot be more divisive than the harms they would right (similarity 0.82)
• Black support for reparations is uniform across all demographics, unlike all other groups (similarity 0.81)
• Non-black precedent plus post-slavery history can win majority support (similarity 0.81)
• Every reparations program pays far less than the actual harm suffered (similarity 0.80)
• Black Americans support reparations across every demographic divide (similarity 0.79)
• The standard objections to reparations form a stable recurring set (similarity 0.79)
• Four states have made teaching black history illegal if it induces guilt or shame (similarity 0.79)
• Local reparations programs face equal-protection challenges and underfunding. (similarity 0.79)
• Reparations can be framed as accountability for intrusive government, winning conservative support. (similarity 0.78)