Two representatives appointed to the commission to consider reparations have blamed white people for climate change, blamed Israel and called for defunding the police.
Ron Daniels and Lurie Daniel Favors were both appointed to New York State’s Commission on Reparations and Racial Justice by State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, but Daniels was appointed to the New York State Commission on Reparations and Racial Justice by state Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black. He made some fiery remarks, including calling the congressman “Uncle Tim.” public statement.
“White people mess up the weather = black people save the earth.” danielsthe longtime activist who ran for president in 1992 for the small Peace and Freedom Party, said in an October 25, 2021 post to X.
He also went after Scott, a Republican, under the name “Uncle Tim.”
“Uncle Tim, the Scott who picked cotton on the plantation, was chosen to represent “still on the plantation” = white supremacy/white power and to be the “black face” to suppress black power/black freedom. “That’s the truth about cotton picking. #Beware of Uncle Tim.” he wrote on May 3, 2021.
Daniels is the founder and president of the 21st Century Black World Institute and served as administrator of the National African American Reparations Commission, a leading organization in the reparations movement in the United States and around the world.
He has also made several anti-Israel statements.
“Silence comes with complacency. There is no homeland. There is no peace. No justice for Israel, no peace,” Daniels said last October 25.
“There will never be peace in Israel until the Palestinians have a home. Military force will quench the Palestinian people’s thirst for justice. No homeland, no peace!”
Daniel FavorsExecutive Director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College in New York stated on July 7, 2019: In the name of our families whose family tree is at best a guess and a prayer. In the name of all that is holy and just:
F—K Apologies for you and your race. We will not be silent. We won’t make you comfortable. ”
Faber also said“Police across the country are proving literally *every day* why we need to #DefundThePolice. I’m old enough to remember activists claiming they went too far.”
Nine people, including Governor Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers), and Heastie (D-Bronx), were recently appointed to a committee to consider reparations. They each appointed three members.
State Conservative Party Chairman Gerald Cassar slammed what he viewed as bigoted comments by the two members.
“The reparations commission was ridiculous from the beginning. This proves it,” Kassar said.
“They sound like people who have preconceived notions of what they consider to be white privilege. Unbelievable. Given their comments, these appointees should serve on the committee. There is no,” he added.
Reparations research has already sparked heated debates in black communities about who should receive reparations and benefits to compensate for the remnants of slavery and systemic racism and discrimination.
The reparations commission alone would cost millions of dollars to staff and operate.
The state Senate proposed a $10 million budget for the commission, while the Assembly proposed $5 million.
The final numbers will be finalized in the final budget agreement with Hochul.
“Slavery reparations were paid with the blood and lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought to abolish slavery during the Civil War. This commission will further divide New York State. , will waste millions of taxpayer dollars that could have been spent educating the public about our history and improving our communities,” said state Senate Republican Minority Leader Robert Ortt. Stated.
