Reckless Reparations Reckoning

Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness

If there has been any lesson, it is massive infusions of federal money are more apt to ensure

social disruption and dislocation than alleviate them. In sum, it would be hard to imagine a more volatile idea than racial reparations in our current multiracial society. But if the goal of the architects of reparations is to accelerate our rendezvous with the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda, then it certainly may get us there far sooner than we think.