A proposed tweak in the way that the federal government tracks certain demographic characteristics could lead some to suspect that the Biden regime is laying the groundwork for reparations, the controversial confiscation of property from people who never owned slaves to redistribute to those who never actually suffered the horrors of human bondage.
The administration is reportedly mulling altering the questions on federal government forms including the U.S. Census to allow an additional category on race and ethnicity that would allow respondents to classify themselves as being descended from Africans who were brought to the country as slaves, differentiating themselves from those who more recently immigrated from places including sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, a development that comes as California is making serious progress toward the paying of reparations as official state policy.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “The Biden administration has proposed combining existing race and ethnicity questions so that ‘Hispanic or Latino’ would no longer be a separate question, but instead would be one of several choices on the race question. It has also proposed creating a new race question category for Americans of Middle Eastern or North African heritage. Unlike for those changes, the administration didn’t include a formal recommendation about identifying Black Americans’ ancestry, but rather solicited comments from the public on how it might do so.”
“Supporters of the change want an additional question should a respondent select ‘Black or African American’ on a government form where they could indicate that their ancestors were slaves. In its proposed rule on those broader changes, the administration asked whether the term ‘American Descendants of Slavery’ or ‘American Freedmen’ would be the best terms to describe the group. Some have suggested the term ‘Foundational Black Americans,’” the paper reported.
The U.S. govt is considering asking Black Americans on federal forms including the census whether their ancestors were enslaved. The move would differentiate them from more recent Black immigrants+their children, who now make up approx 1/5 of the Black pop https://t.co/jwKeJPJjFn
— Michelle Hackman (@MHackman) March 30, 2023
“Supporters of the change say one reason they are pushing it is to quantify who would be eligible to receive reparations for slavery should the government ever agree to pay them. An effort to make such payments has stalled in Congress, though local efforts have gained some steam,” according to the WSJ. “In San Francisco, the city’s Board of Supervisors is debating a proposal to award eligible Black residents up to $5 million per person in restitution, one of a menu of preliminary recommendations that include free homes, guaranteed incomes and debt and tax relief.”
Last week, activists spoke up during the latest meeting of the California Reparations Task Force with one putting a number on the amount that should be forcibly extracted from non-slave owners to give to “foundational black Americans” who according to him, are deserving of at leaset $7.6 million as well as a boatload of benefits that white folks need not apply for.
Black activists want MORE that $5 million in reparationshttps://t.co/XhRbx0o2N0
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) March 30, 2023
“I believe that five million in reparations is too little for the work that foundational black Americans have done for this country and as well for other countries. I believe that 7.6 million is a number that can be used very wisely in our foundational black American communities,” said the unnamed activist during his rant.
Additionally, one San Francisco supervisor called for $50 million to establish an “Office of Reparations” which would ostensibly be tasked with overseeing the coming shakedown.
(Video: The Daily Mail)
“Government shouldn’t be in the business of separating people by immutable characteristics,” said Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez who told the WSJ that “subdividing the Black population in the U.S. is a harmful step that would further divide American society.”
“The White House’s Office of Management and Budget, which is spearheading the race-category overhaul, declined to comment on the idea,” the outlet reported.
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