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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

A California committee votes to recommend that the state make hundreds of billions in cash payments in racial reparations.

We'll go through just how wild this idea is, but how it may be a new democratic norm.

Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Kim Strassel, joined today by my two fabulous colleagues, Alicia Finley and Kate Batchelder O'Dell.

Let's start with reparations. Even a few years ago, people would just have categorized as outrageous and unworkable.

Yet it is slowly being mainstreamed by the progressive left, and here we are on the weekend a nine-member panel created by California Governor Gavin Newsom,

and the state's democratic legislature voted to redistribute as much as $800 billion in payments to any black American, presumably those in the state,

who claimed to be descendants of slave. Now, interestingly, California's Constitution abolished slavery in 1849.

But this panel claims that the state bears responsibility for slavery that happened in other southern states,

also that the lingering effects of slavery, including basically up to present day, should also entitle black Americans to some categories of compensation based on types of discrimination.

Alicia, I know you went through this recommendation. Can you lay out a bit better the idea behind this?

Also, the specific payouts that they are proposing here, because it's interesting they are quite specific.

It's a concrete example of you get down to a big idea like this, and you have to get through the policy, nitty-gritty, you kind of realize how insane some of this becomes.

Right, so as you mentioned, California's 1849 Constitution banned slavery. So ostensibly, from a legal standpoint, there should be actually no justification for these kinds of payments.

But the committee members, this is a nine-member committee that was appointed by the governor and state legislature to examine this issue.

In 2021, they claimed that the state will legislate your and government was dominated by pro-slavery forces, and therefore they were complicit in southern slavery at the time.

And then they make this kind of circuitous argument that, well, the effects of slavery continued to linger in terms of discrimination, which of course there was.

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