One of the most pernicious manifestations of the critical race theory ideology of our liberal ruling class is the call for “reparations” — direct cash payments to blacks to reward them for the oppression of their ancestors 2 centuries ago. The main purpose is to further inflame racial tensions, which Democrats exploit to maintain power.

The injustice against every taxpayer who isn’t black is obvious. But reparations are a bad idea even for the supposed beneficiaries — i.e., blacks, who once again are encouraged to nurture poisonous resentment and to see themselves as entitled victims instead of independent agents deserving of respect rather than pity.

This young lady packs more sense into 1 minute than you will hear from the liberal establishment in a lifetime:

Just one caveat. She says that some blacks don’t have ancestors who were slaves. True enough, many American blacks don’t have ancestors who were slaves in this country. But it is likely that everyone on earth has ancestors who were slaves somewhere else.

On a tip from Bluto.

Assuming the dollar has not yet been inflated to Weimar Republic levels of worthlessness after the next installment of reparations to blacks (I refer to the impending “infrastructure” looting spree), why not pay reparations to illegal aliens too?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves the idea. Tucker Carlson, not so much:

We do have to care what AOC thinks, no matter how conspicuously stupid, crazy, and evil she may be. She is no longer the Future of the Democrat Party. Now, she is the Present of the Democrat Party, personifying its guiding force. Hers is the ruling party, and if HR1 passes, it may soon be the only party.

No matter how much favoritism and even direct cash payments are bestowed upon blacks to honor them for having increasingly distant ancestors who were oppressed, it will never be enough. Evanston, Illinois, home of Northwestern University, is actually handing people $25,000 of other people’s money on the basis of their revered skin color. The response, as predictable as the sun rising in the east, has been not thanks but a demand for more:

Rev Michael Nabors, who is the president of the Evanston NAACP, thinks $25,000 is a “drop in the bucket.”

“When it’s all said and done, however much money is raised for reparations… will only be a drop in the bucket for the suffering and the oppression that Black people experienced in this nation,” he told Newsweek.

If taxpayers don’t cough up more, another round of Black Lives Matter riots might be required to remind us how oppressed we are required to pretend blacks are.

This is not a recipe for racial harmony. But the black oppression charade was always about power and greed, not harmony.

Anything as counterproductive, wasteful, and morally abhorrent as reparations is likely to be imposed nationally by triumphant Democrats:

Biden supports the creation of a federal commission to study Black reparations called H.R. 40.

What’s a few more $trillion at this point? American currency will soon be worthless anyway.

On a tip from Bluto.

They say that as goes California, so goes the country. This means that racial division could soon be thrown into overdrive by the federal government imposing the transfer of wealth on an explicitly racial basis:

State senators in California overwhelmingly supported setting up a task force to study potential reparations for slavery in a bipartisan vote Saturday. …

The 33-3 Senate vote came … as protests against racial injustice continued across the country.

That’s one way to respond to vicious riots that have destroyed any number of lives, though certainly not a way that will discourage future violence.

States like Texas, New York and Vermont have done similar studies in the last two years, finding that along with cash, reparations could mean housing assistance, lower tuition, forgiving student loans, job training, community investments, etc.

Much of this is already provided disproportionately to blacks. But the racial favoritism is not yet explicit, except with programs like Affirmative Action. Democrats plan to make our racial caste system official.

Imagine a white cop working long dangerous shifts as he struggles to support his family, only to have part of his working class income confiscated to be bestowed upon zillionaires like Ice Cube and Will Smith on the basis of race. That would be what they call that racial “justice.”

Legitimate grievances have been fading into the past for decades. Yet the racial grievance crybulling only escalates. That’s because there is money in it, in addition to power and privilege.

On a tip from Chuck A.

When a church has been subverted by leftists, it no longer worships God. In stark contrast, it worships moonbattery. Rather than love, the clergy will preach hatred of disfavored groups like men and Caucasians. Consider the blasphemous abomination calling itself the Church of England. Archdeacon of Liverpool Miranda Threlfall-Holmes has had a revelation that she shared on X:

“I went to a conference on whiteness last autumn. It was very good, very interesting and made me realise: whiteness is to race as patriarchy is to gender.

“So yes, let’s have anti-whiteness, and let’s smash the patriarchy.”

She’s not an outlier:

Just weeks ago, the church announced it would be hiring a “deconstructing whiteness” officer as part of a new 11-person “racial justice unit” being set up by the Diocese of Birmingham.

Senior clergy have also faced criticism for calling for the church’s £100 million slavery reparations fund to be increased to £1 billion.

Imagine donating to the church in hopes of helping the poor, only to see the money showered upon black supremacist grifters nursing expired grievances. Better to throw your money in the garbage.

Some have suggested that Threlfall-Holmes practice what she preaches and stick it to white people by resigning, since she is white herself. But that’s not how liberal bigotry works. When a moonbat proclaims xir hatred of whites, xe means all whites except xirself, who gets a pass by hating other whites.

In any case, Threlfall-Holmes batted away her critics by sniffing that X is “perhaps not the best place for a nuanced argument.” That must be why the archdeacon’s tweets are currently hidden from the public.

A church that would put someone like Threlfall-Holmes in a position of authority may be rotted through to the point that it cannot be salvaged.

On a tip from Franco.

To utterly destroy society, you have to erode its most fundamental institution, namely, marriage. Leftist social engineers have attacked it by various means — feminism, the welfare state, the LGBT agenda, and now hatred of Caucasians:

“I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy,” Professor Bethany Letiecq wrote in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Like many vociferous antiwhite racists, the nutty professor is white herself. She makes a living spewing ideological toxins at George Mason University.

Theorizes Letiecq:

“Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family.”

Successful societies have always practiced “marriage fundamentalism.” But they were all benighted. Now we know better, because we have the Experts.

Despite Big Government having destroyed the black family via the welfare state, Letiecq screeches that it has coerced “its citizens to enter into an institution built upon White heteropatriarchal supremacy.”

If Caucasians are responsible for climate fluctuation, why not marriage?

How lucky we are to catch crumbs of Professor Letiecq’s wisdom for free. Students go into decades of debt for the privilege.

Any day now liberals will figure out how to tie marriage to their imaginary climate crisis.

On tips from R F and Mr. Freemarket.

Like I was saying, Democrats are pulling out all the stops. Look what the power-mad Party of Government is doing to RFK Jr.:

The Democratic National Committee has accused the super PAC backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign of committing additional campaign finance violations on Monday, a further escalation of Democrats’ efforts to diminish Kennedy’s independent White House bid.

A complaint has been filed with the Federal Election Commission regarding loans that were allegedly not properly disclosed.

This is the point of McCain/Feingold campaign finance tyranny and excessive regulation in general. Given enough rules, bureauweenies are empowered to persecute anyone they please. Meanwhile, #1 Democrat donor George Soros buys public offices with impunity.

The move comes after the DNC had filed a previous FEC complaint alleging illegal coordination between the super PAC and the Kennedy campaign over American Values 2024’s efforts to gather signatures to put Kennedy on the ballot in some states.

RFK Jr is a Democrat, a member of the sacred Kennedy clan, and a leftist kook. Yet because he could pull votes from Biden, he joins Trump under the cloud of investigation. His fellow Dems even denied him Secret Service protection, as if there weren’t enough dead Kennedys.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Here I was thinking the formerly apolitical Taylor Swift had been recruited by the Democrats. Turns out that liking her is racist:

“Why do I feel like it’s slightly racist to be a Taylor Swift fan?” Melina Abdullah posted to X on Super Bowl Sunday.

Abdullah is not just any barking moonbat but an impressively credentialled member of the Intelligentsia:

Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at Cal State University Los Angeles, is a self-described “#BlackLivesMatter organizer, Pan-Africanist, Hip Hop scholar, daughter of God, womanist, truth-teller, mama,” according to her post on X. She is also listed as a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles chapter and co-director of the activist wing of the advocacy organization, Black Lives Matter Grassroots.

In addition to her impressive credentials, there is the unassailable logic of her assertion. Taylor Swift is white. Failure to hate whites is racist. Therefore, Swifties are racists.

Abdullah confirms that liberalism is about feeling, not thinking — and entails bad feelings regarding America:

When one user asked her to elaborate on her opinion she replied: “I said FEEL, not think. Kind of like that feeling I get when there are too many American flags.”

More feelings from Professor Abdullah:

A few hours later, she followed up in another post on X after the Kansas City Chiefs had won the game: “Why do I feel like this was some right-wing, white-supremacist conspiracy?!?! Booooooo!!!! #SuperBowl.”

Is Melina Abdullah a malicious moron who was granted a position in academia solely for being a Left-Wing Woman of Color? Even to suggest it would be a microaggression. Therefore, we must take seriously the possibility that white privilege determines who wins football games.

She must have been rooting for the 49ers. No wonder she won’t let white people come to her cookouts:

“Attention white people… Please don’t ask if you can come to the cookout… #Juneteenth is freedom day for Black folks,” she posted to Twitter in June 2022. “It should be #Reparations day for white folks.”

Diversity/equity/inclusion doesn’t include those designated for exclusion.

Moonbats like this are brainwashing impressionable youth at taxpayer expense, causing the future to swirl down the drain.

On tips from Jack D and Varla.

Congresscritter Cori Bush (D-BLM) was specifically elected to represent criminals. She ran on a platform of defunding the police. You can see why:

The Justice Department is investigating “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., over the alleged misuse of government funds intended to pay for her security, two sources tell Fox News.

For a left-wing black woman to get investigated by Merrick Garland’s belligerently partisan DoJ, the criminality must be too conspicuous for even the most arrogant Democrats to ignore.

The congresswoman blamed “right-wing organizations” for the DOJ probe, as well as other investigations into the matter by the Federal Election Commission and the House Committee on Ethics.

Among these organizations we find the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT):

“In her own FEC filings the payments were initially characterized as being for ‘security.’ Among the many troubling facts involved that we strongly felt justified an investigation were her close personal relationship, her large payments to others for the same services at the same time, and that her husband reportedly didn’t have a license to provide those services,” FACT executive director Kendra Arnold said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital.

Just what a right-wing extremist would say.

Bush notably has spent more than $500,000 on her own private security while publicly advocating for the defund the police movement.

Even the fortune she has blown on “security” is a drop in the bucket compared to the looting the hate hoaxer Bush wants to inflict in the name of “reparations.” She demands $14 trillion.

Putting lowlifes in positions of authority does not improve their moral character.

On tips from Varla and Chuck A.

Those who are not cognitively challenged or pathologically gullible may find it hard to take leftist climate ideology seriously. However, the money involved is plenty serious.

Al Gore has milked the global warming hoax for a fortune:

His wild prediction at Davos that Earth faces ‘rain bombs’ and ‘boiling oceans’ is just his latest in decades of climate alarmism.

At the same time, the former VP has been at the forefront of green technology investment that has seen his wealth balloon to an estimated $330 million.

Four years after losing to George W Bush in 2000, Gore set up Generation Investment Management with former Goldman Sachs Managing Director and close friend David W. Blood.

The mission statement of the investment firm, where Gore collects $2 million in a monthly salary, is to back companies that are making strides towards going green. The firm is worth around $36 billion.

The Goracle’s take is chump change compared to what the left-wing globalist ruling class expects us to pay to indulge their self-serving doctrine that the weather is somehow a problem and they can control it:

As Daily Signal reported last summer,

Lawmakers grilled climate czar John Kerry on Capitol Hill…

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., said that through much of earth’s history there was more carbon in the atmosphere than today and questioned Kerry’s statements about the exact amount of carbon that’s appropriate.

“In December of 2022 you told The Washington Post we need to remove 1.6 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via direct air capture, the direct cost for that is about $1,000 per ton or $1.6 quadrillion,” Perry said. …

Kerry said he disagreed with the characterization of the issue and asked Perry why so many other countries would sign on to the reduction of carbon emissions.

“Because they are grifting like you are,” Perry said.

The global warming hoax may constitute the biggest grift in the history of the world. Under liberal rule, increasingly massive amounts of wealth created by Americans will be redistributed to other countries in the name of climate reparations.

But don’t worry about the expense. If taxes don’t cover it, Democrats can just print the money.

On tips from R F and WDS 2.0.

Elections have consequence. An inevitable consequence of electing a supporter of Black Lives Matter looters is more looting — this time not just enabled by the government, but committed by it. From Chicago:

Mayor Brandon Johnson believes reparations for descendants of slaves will help improve his city’s rising crime rate. …

Johnson’s 2024 budget includes $100 million for violence prevention, but also $500,000 to form a Commission on Restoration and Reparations.

If it costs $500,000 just to form a commission, wait until they start passing out other people’s money based on race.

“Violence prevention” means useless gestures, probably largely consisting of public service announcements to the effect that violence is bad. As a BLM supporter who openly sides with criminals against law enforcement, Johnson ran on a platform of defunding the police.

Chicago has well and truly succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral. Residents are advised to get out while it is still possible to sell their property.

Johnson on Wednesday claimed reparations would also help reduce violent crime, though he was yet to directly explain how.

Free money is not going to reverse the collapse of civilization in diverse hellholes like Chicago. On the contrary, that’s what caused it. The welfare state provided both the mentality and the manpower to fill the streets and now City Hall with mobs of looters.

On tips from Ed McAninch, WDS 2.0, Dr. Kufi Tutite, and ABC of the ANC.

The liberal establishment has effectively weaponized a segment of the population through its race hate ideology and selective prosecution. We’ve seen the results for school safety. Here is the effect on retail:

The looting scum are “oppressed” according to the ideology of our depraved and malevolent ruling class. When prices go up for the rest of us to pay for this, we should consider it “reparations.”

Soon all brick and mortar stores will resemble inner-city liquor stores, with merchandise and employees safe behind layers of bulletproof glass.

It didn’t used to be this way. It didn’t have to be this way. But liberal social engineers of the type who produced the Black Lives Matter spectacle want it this way, so that’s how it is.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Lawless black mobs were lavishly rewarded for demanding that we pretend career criminal George Floyd was murdered by police rather than dying of a fentanyl overdose. Reward behavior and you get more of it:

Philadelphia suffered its second night in a row of mass looting incidents and destructive social media-fueled mayhem on Wednesday…

Needy social justice warriors…

…ransacked more than a dozen state-run liquor stores so thoroughly that the state announced it was closing its Philly locations until further notice.

The pretext:

The flash mob-style looting spree started just after 8 p.m. Tuesday at dozens of stores, including Foot Locker, Lululemon and an Apple store, just hours after a judge ruled to dismiss a murder charge against a White Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed Black resident Eddie Irizarry.

Don’t call it looting. That would be racially insensitive. Call it “reparations,” like they do in Chicago:

As public order collapses, stores are becoming infeasible. The leftists running Target reap the consequences of their own ideology:

On Tuesday the big box retailer announced plans to close nine stores, effective Oct. 21.

“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” the company said in a statement.

Can you guess where the stores are? That’s right, ultraliberal cities:

The stores set to close include one in Harlem, N.Y; two in Seattle, Wash.; three near San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.; and three in Portland, Ore.

Target loves liberalism but has no choice:

Target expects to lose roughly $1.2 billion in profits from retail theft in 2022 and 2023.

No worries. The same Democratic politicians who encourage rioting will replace Target with government stores. The nice thing about communism is that you don’t have to worry about theft, since there is nothing on the shelves to steal.

Here’s how Americans look from overseas, now that we have succumbed to moonbattery:

The police could put an end to this with a single machine gun. But we don’t have the will to defend civilization from savages. So we are losing it.

On tips from Lyle, Wiggins, KirklesWorth, seaoh, and Ed McAninch.

Everyone knew when Robert E. Lee was canceled that it was only the beginning. George Washington was also a great man and a Virginian, and also lived back when people had owned slaves throughout the world since before recorded history; therefore, in New York:

The city’s Cultural Affairs Committee has demanded the eviction of George Washington and Christopher Columbus and others from public spaces because of links to slavery, along with the establishment of a reparations task force.

Meanwhile, the city is flat broke, having flushed away $12 billion on being a sanctuary for illegal aliens at the expense of the native population. Ten thousand grasping invaders pour into the declining city every month. No worries; federal taxpayers are sure to bail it out.

The Committee plans to remove any public statue or work of art that ‘depicts a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity’.

From the liberal viewpoint, that means anyone who lived at the time of the nation’s founding.

Dozens of prominent statues across the city are at risk including those depicting Thomas Jefferson and former governor Peter Stuyvesant.

By erasing our history, they erase our identity. Then they can create a new identity as a nation of farm animals content to stay in their pens so long as they are fed free slop until it is time for a trip to the slaughterhouse.

As Todd Starnes jokes,

There are multiple statues and monuments to Washington, including Washington Square Park and the George Washington Bridge. It’s unclear whether the park and bridge will be leveled or just simply renamed.

At this point, maybe they should level the whole city and start over.

After the Father of Our Country has had his hero status revoked, he will be defiled and demonized before he is frog-marched to the memory hole and forgotten. Maybe the authorities will decide he impregnated a slave. That is a favorite liberal calumny against the author of the Declaration of Independence, whose statue leftists have already removed from City Hall.

This is cultural genocide. If we fail to defeat liberalism, Americans will soon cease to exist in any meaningful sense.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.