Poor people—including poor black people—have it hard in California.
An honest assessment of the causes would require the Golden State’s political establishment to admit that its attempts to address enduring poverty have been catastrophic for low-income Californians.
Instead, Californians got a state reparations commission that time-traveled to the 19th century and discovered that slavery is the real reason for enduring black poverty.
To settle accounts, the commission has determined that California taxpayers owe each of their black neighbors $223,000.
The state Legislature, which created the task force, will take up that proposal in a few weeks.