No Irish Need Apply

California is moving ahead with its slavery reparations program. Deroy Murdock sums up the problems with this absurdity at the Daily Signal.

"White Californians in the tens of millions belong to families who held no slaves, spent the antebellum years in Europe, bled to death at Antietam battling the Confederacy, or were themselves victims of feudalism, indentured servitude, and even slave labor. 'Why are fingers being pointed at us?' they surely ask."

Indeed. There is a story in my family of an ancestor who came over from Ireland as an indentured servant, ending up in the household of a Boston patrician. The penalty for rules violations was reduced food. That's right, the punishment for a servant whose family fled famine was to withhold her food.

A disturbing story indeed, but it didn't happen to me. The perpetrators are long dead. It would be ridiculous to seek reparations from the English who drove the Irish out of their homeland, or from the family of the overlord who took advantage of my ancester when she got here. No point to moving to California either. Only blacks can apply for reparations; no Irish need apply.