New York's City Council voted Thursday to launch a reparations task force, which could lead to calls for billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded payouts to compensate for the impact of slavery and past injustices.

Gotham joins dozens of municipalities, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Evanston, Illinois, as well as three states -- California, Illinois and most recently New York state -- in considering race-based reparations.

The Democratic Party is pushing the idea. At one time, so did Vice President Kamala Harris.

As a candidate in the Democratic primary for president in 2019, she endorsed "some form of reparations," cosponsored a federal bill to study race-based reparations, and promised Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network that as president she would sign a reparations study bill into law.

That was then. Now Harris' campaign declines to say where she stands.

Does she want us to be "unburdened by what has been"?

Americans agree that slavery and Jim Crow were abhorrent parts of our nation's past.

But this steamrolling movement for race-based reparations locally, statewide and nationally is bad news.

Instead of healing racial tensions, it........

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