California ruled that blacks who can prove direct descent from slaves are eligible for reparations.

If our rulers impose a reparations program that expands beyond ADOS, blacks will guard the swag just as ferociously as Indian tribes that don’t want outsiders claiming free stuff — and who use Certificates of Degree of Indian Blood to keep them out. The surge in young whites claiming to be trans or some newly invented sexual variant may be their way of dodging the social and economic penalties of being heterosexual whites.

How should whites respond? First, malicious compliance. If there is a gap in these programs that allow anyone to apply for minority status, do so. Even a token one percent of non-white blood is enough. Be white in your heart, body and soul — and be whatever pays the most when you fill out paperwork. It makes more sense than Lia Thomas.

Do this in the most cynical and public way possible. Treat this racial blackmail with the scorn it deserves.

Second, recognize that the “racial reckoning” will only intensify as America becomes less white. Colorblindness is a vain hope; it’s already “racist.” It’s doubtful many civil rights protesters ever believed in it. Martin Luther King Jr. certainly didn’t.

Finally, it’s time to build a case for white reparations. Unlike ADOS, we are living with the collective harm being done to white people right now. We don’t need a mystical, arduous quest to go looking for harm. We can look out the car window at our cities. Black crime has ruined them and destroyed billions in capital. Whites spend millions every year to live far away from work. They waste their lives commuting to escape dangerous neighborhoods. Assemblyman Sawyer, we are the ones being disproportionately shot. Let us hear no complaints from America’s most coddled people who are entirely dependent on those they hate.