Stu Bykofsky
Happy 7th to me
I am a centrist, sometimes leaning left, sometimes leaning right. I believe in the rule of law as protection against anarchy and chaos. I also believe facts matter.
Reparations
Guest essay: A path to recovery from slavery
“One of my concerns with much of the reparation movement and with frameworks such as critical race theory is that they often place people into permanent categories: victim and victimizer, oppressed and oppressor.”
Reparations
Trump asks King Charles for reparations
Look — when a decision you make is based entirely or mostly on race, it is racist. It’s in the definition.
Race Relations
Guest essay: Applying legal test, reparations might be zero
By Prof. John Banzhaf WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Several members of Congress have introduced a "Reparations NOW" resolution calling for $14 trillion in reparations for Black Americans, claiming that "The United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its
Race Relations
I lost my brain in San Francisco
I lost my brain in San Francisco Amidst the homeless and debris To be where Lincoln now is banned And reparations are in demand The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care The Woke waits there in San Francisco To hand out lots of cash for
Racism
Let’s discuss reparations
California may have created a template for a conversation about reparations, which we are bound to have. Repeat — may have. It is part of the “racial reckoning” ignited by the murder of ex-con George Floyd we are now experiencing. The idea of somehow “making whole” African-Americans who experienced