Political Malpractice: Reparations Were Designed to Keep Black Voters Loyal to a Party

Political Malpractice: Reparations Were Designed to Keep Black Voters Loyal to a Party

Tom Steyer didn’t see it coming. In the late stages of the primary election campaign, the erstwhile billionaire candidate for governor was cornered outside his SUV in a Los Angeles parking lot by a protestor, demanding to know where he stood on direct payments to descendants of enslaved Americans. It looked like an ambush. It wasn’t. It was an attempted debt collection. During his 2020 presidential campaign, Steyer made reparations his calling c…