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Daily Signal Podcast: Victor Davis Hanson: California Was Never a Slave State—So Why Reparations?

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Politics, News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

California entered the union in 1850 as a free state—yet black Californians are about to cash out big on reparations, thanks to Gov. Gavin Newsom. So, who exactly is owed and for what? And what is Newsom’s angle here, considering his state is already facing massive deficits? Victor Davis Hanson breaks down California’s newly approved […]

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Claims.

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Gavin Newsom has now approved a formal commission to administer reparations to black Californians. Remember, when California was admitted to the

0:40.8

union, it came in as a free state. It had no prior record of being a slave state. It has never been

0:48.2

a slave state. So there's no argument that people who happen to be in California or owed anything. How do we know who is white,

0:56.4

who is Hispanic, who is black? It's very hard to adjudicate that. Do we really believe that most

1:02.5

of the African Americans in California who came after World War I and during World War II

1:08.8

have descendants that were suffering the fallout from slavery in California.

1:13.6

It's really absurd.

1:15.6

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Here in California, which might be a model for other states as well,

1:34.5

Governor Gavin Newsom has now approved a formal commission to administer reparations to black Californians.

1:47.2

And they're trying not to use the word reparations

1:49.9

since it has such a bad connotation.

1:52.7

But it's a bad idea in so many ways.

1:55.5

Remember, when California was admitted to the union,

1:58.7

it came in as a free state.

2:01.4

It had no prior record of being a slave state.

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