New York City is about to squander at least $260,000 of hard-earned taxpayer dollars to pay 13 activist outfits up to $20,000 each to “talk reparations” more than 160 years after slavery’s abolition.
It’s an insult to every New Yorker who knows that New York outlawed slavery in 1827 and sent over 50,000 of its sons to die in the Civil War to end bondage.
The city’s Commission on Racial Equity (CORE) will hand out these grants to groups tasked with gathering “truth testimony” and drafting “recommendations for repair.”
Translation: We’re funding activists to lecture you on your alleged sins while diverting resources from real public needs.
NYC Council Minority Leader David Carr blasted the plan as a “taxpayer-funded boondoggle” that insults citizens who have zero connection to slavery.
Queens Councilwoman Joann Ariola demands to know the eligibility criteria. Are we tracing family trees to 1827? Medieval Sicily? The whole spectacle reeks of political theater.
CORE operates on a $4.8 million budget, independently appointed by the mayor, City Council, comptroller and public advocate. Now it’s adding this reparations slush fund on top of everything else.
Mayor Adonis Mamdani, a vocal proponent of reparations, insists New York must “reconcile and repair” its alleged slave-trade legacy. Yet the real legacy here is government waste and ideological posturing.
While schools and subways crumble, activists pocket thousands to draft reports nobody asked for. This is not healing—it’s a distraction from tackling crime, poverty and failing infrastructure.
Republicans in the City Council must refuse to rubber-stamp any more money for grievance studies. Taxpayers deserve leadership that delivers results, not virtue-signaling handouts.
Reparations rage is a leftist distraction. New Yorkers want safer streets, better schools and lower taxes—not another council-backed grant cycle for self-appointed arbiters of racial guilt.
It’s time to shut down this reparations racket and focus on real solutions. Any politician who votes for this $260,000 giveaway shows contempt for working families and common sense.
