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Reparations programs that aim to benefit entire groups of people on the basis of long-ago injustices along racial or ethnic lines simply exacerbate racial thinking and racial resentment on all sides. We suspect that the exorbitant price tag will make it easy for even San Francisco to reject this proposal at a time when the city faces many more immediate and concrete challenges to the safety and quality of life of its population. It should also stand as a warning against the madness of reparations.

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