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In 2021, the Equal Justice Institute celebrated a settlement with the University of California in which the system agreed to stop using SAT and ACT test scores, objective merit-based metrics, in college admissions, until 2025. The racialist lawsuit claimed that test scores violate the California Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause as “indicators” of race.
The “SAT is a barrier to equal opportunity”, Lisa Holder, a counsel with the Equal Opportunity Institute, claimed.
Like a lot of destructive leftist activists, Lisa Holder received a Soros Justice Fellowship from the radical billionaire’s Open Society Foundation. The similarity in the names of the Equal Justice Society and Soros’ Open Society Foundation is more than strictly coincidental as Soros was one of the EJS’ founding donors.
Beyond drawing six figures in compensation from the Equal Justice Society, Lisa Holder has her own law practice that focuses on racial issues and occasionally draws a check for teaching at UCLA.
Holder is also a member of California’s Reparations Task Force which has proposed to bankrupt the state and its taxpayers with as much as $800 billion in racial reparations in a state that was never a slave state. Among the various aging machine politicians (along with Kamala’s minister) who staff the task force, she may be the most important and effective racial campaigner on it.
Lisa Holder had fought to end California’s ban on racial discrimination through affirmative action in a proposition backed by $1 million from George Soros’ Open Society Policy Center, along with former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and major corporations and nonprofits. Despite all the billionaires and companies in her corner, Californians turned down the proposition to legalize racial discrimination.
What voters wouldn’t go for, California’s extremist one-party legislature did. Holder claims credit for drafting two bills, AB 241 and 242, which mandated indoctrination in racist woke ideologies for doctors, lawyers and judges. Implicit bias training has been linked to all sorts of racist ideas and discriminatory practices associated with critical race theory including ‘white privilege’. It has also been shown to encourage medical professionals to dispense treatment and prioritize triage based on race rather than medical need potentially using racial discrimination to kill people.
AB 242 claimed that “all persons possess implicit biases”, but that “most people have an implicit bias that disfavors African Americans and favors Caucasian Americans” and “other socially stigmatized groups, such as Native Americans, immigrants, women, people with disabilities, Muslims, and members of the LGBTQ community”.
Conveniently, Lisa Holder is also “recognized racial justice scholar and equity consultant”.
The reparations proposal is a whole lot bigger than legalizing racial discrimination through affirmative action or forcing doctors and lawyers to hear about their white privilege.
Racial reparations had also been a longtime Soros cause. In 2021, former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, since dispatched as Biden’s ambassador to India after an aide’s sexual misconduct scandal, revealed that the Soros network had offered funding for a racial reparations program in Los Angeles. The billionaire’s extremist network has also funded a variety of reparations activists including Nkechi Taifa, a senior policy analyst in the Soros network, described as a “principal player and catalyst in the reparations movement” and a “founding member of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America” (N’COBRA)
Taifa is also a commissioner with the National African-American Reparations Commission (NAARC). Another NAARC commissioner, Cheryl Grills, is also a member of the California Reparations Task Force. Jeremiah Wright, the bigoted Obama mentor who cheered 9/11, is an honorary member of NAARC.
While it was a foregone conclusion that the panel would vote themselves millions of dollars, the real controversy within the reparations movement and the dozens of organizations that have sprung up to lobby for free money was whether it would be limited to the descendants of slaves or would be given out to all black people or perhaps all Africans: which might include Elon Musk.
The California task force brought in members from both camps. The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America has vocally argued that all black people should get reparations. NAARC claims support for this position from BLM and other racist hate groups. That is also N’COBRA’s position. However groups like the National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants and the American Descendants of Slavery have forcefully made the argument that only the descendants of slaves should be eligible for a check. This is at least legally tenable.
In January, the split commission voted to limit reparations to descendants of slavery by 5 to 4. That is the position of the more established black community and it was championed by chairwoman Kamilah Moore, but opposed by Lisa Holder and Nkechi Taifa. And the debate is still going on with pro-race activists claiming that tracing genealogy is unworkable and that black immigrants should be eligible for reparations because America is so fundamentally racist.
With a $22.5 billion deficit in the state, the difference between limiting reparations to those who can prove that they descended from slaves and everyone with the right skin tone could be massive. The $800 billion estimate widely discussed is based on the state’s over 2 million black residents. Limiting reparations to the descendants of slaves would produce a smaller, but likely still wildly unworkable number.
Cheryl Grills of NAARC condemned the “preoccupation with a dollar figure”, but the dollar figure remains the best argument for those advocating for limiting reparations to those whose ancestors were enslaved along with their contention that purely race-based reparations would be shut down by the courts. The Soros network’s activists however remain committed to universal reparations and $800 billion in payouts.
While the debate has largely played out within the black community, the intervention of the Soros network on the side of the most destructive and impossible position is typical.
The Soros networks, like all leftists, seek destruction, not healing, and making reparations as universal and as unworkable as possible would stimulate the most outrage and anger.
And that would further divide the races and tear apart not only California, but America.
George Soros has dedicated his life to dividing people of all nations and backgrounds. With California’s racial reparations, the activists he has supported have turned black people against each other.
Oh gee golly gosh, it’s such a good thing that only Californians will pay these reparations. Oh wait …
A part of me shouts, “Do it! Do it you fools!” But then I can bank on the federal government bailing them out from every folly, until we all go down.
Soros needs to lose his American Citizenship and his Open Society group needs to be investigated there is Americans #1 Enemy Soros and his Billions he spends on ruining America time to retrn him to his home nation and face War Crime Trials
What can you expect from Soros a man who actively aided the Nazis in hunting down Jews in Hungary. I bet he loved putting them in the ovens. He probably dreams about repeating the experiences today.
Stop with your Neo Nazi lies! 14 yr old George Soros did no such thing.
Yes he did! He said in an interview that those were the happiest days of his life.
14 year old boys can point their fingers at their neighbours.
Soros IS Public Enemy #1. How this man amassed the fortune he did, started the Open Society Foundation as an umbrella organization to, I believe, at least a thousand groups, is truly incredible. Talk about a man who is focused on the goal of one world government and open borders. And the influence he has had on hundreds and hundreds of rich powerful people, like Hillary and Obama, is quite stunning.
All it would take is a retired Marine sniper with terminal cancer to take Soros and his children out. Lord knows, he’s been grooming them for years. But what we really need is A Night of the Long Knives to eliminate this Soros menace not only here but in Europe as well. Remember the Communist “menace” of the 50s? It’s baaaacck.
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In order to receive any form of ‘reparations’ the people seeking other people’s money for doing nothing should have to show certifiable proof of their former master’s ownership, the length of their bondage and their job titles.
Should a house boy who enjoyed the perks of being a personal servant be awarded the same amount as a field hand who picked cotton or oranges?
Many complicated issues to sift through here. CA. will need federal aid. and lots of it. This is why Joe Biden will have to create a department of slavery (DOS) to handle the disbursement and who better to oversee it than Kamala Harris who was the little girl Joe was trying to keep off the bus?
and whom Willie Brown’s Slick Willie put back ON the bus.
I have a better idea. Each person would get a reparations check with one caveat: that they have to leave this country immediately, with a one way ticket to Africa, and NEVER be allowed to return to this nation again. Now, that’s a reparations plan I could support.
George Soros wants to play god and watch the world burn.
And yet that evil prick is going to stand before God, and watch himself burn.
But before that time comes, the scheming filth needs to be prosecuted, yet that, for the time being, is reserved only for patriotic citizens like Daniel Penny.
One day he’ll burn in Hell
That day can’t come soon enough.
I’d rather he burn here first. And yes, I’d gladly man the flamethrower.
And doing a pretty good job of it unfortunately.
He is definitely a tool os satan.
He is definitely a tool of satan.
Wondering if Lisa Holder is a relative of Eric Holder. Here’s a novel idea. Shouldn’t Soros first give reparations to all the people whose finances and lives he ruined through his currency manipulations since he’s so keen on reparations? And in that case, there would be the advantage of the malefactor and victims both still being with us unlike the California giveaway.
Good question!
And neither of us would be surprised if she was indeed related to that other grifting scumbag.
It’s no surprise that the SAT & ACT tests were cast aside.
It’s a cultural thing among blacks to not read, as it’s deemed a “white thing”. (The ones that do read, are known as Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Herman Cain, Larry Elder, etc.)
Good call. All men whose writings and thoughts I have greatly enjoyed over many years.
Those illiterate black school students shold be “sentenced” to read all of the above. Particularly Thomas Sowell. His story and origins are amazing, and fly in the face of all this reparations insanity.
Reparations never made any person feel wholly compensated for the evils of the past and cannot serve as a salve for contemporary prioblems such as a high crime rate caused systemic gang violence, and the worship of rap amd athletics as the only means of success that are caused by the absence of a normal famiky structure.
Reparations can never repair the damages caused by the evil of the past nor remedy conditions such as crime and children raised nby one parent which lead to gang membership and crime caused by the absence of a strong family structure
You nailed it. Or maybe he wants to play Marx.
Or maybe he wants to play God.
fixed that for ya. You’re welcome.
Thankfully, Republicans, as the party of abolition, share in the proceeds. And, I’ll tell you upfront, as the descendent of a Civil War soldier I get a double share.
I just hope the Democrats can come up with our payments, so we don’t have to sell them off in Muslim slave markets to achieve full restitution.
No one is above the law.
Sure, reparations for the black people in California that was never a slave state nor did any slaves ever exist there. Better to pony up for the native Americans that were exterminated and removed. Or what about the descendants of 125,000 Japanese that were removed from their homes and put in internment camps by that great Democrat FDR during WWII. Or the descendants of indentured servants in all the thirteen colonies that were brought to America from Europe. Or what about the tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants to California that were horribly discriminated against. Or the Irish or the Italians that first came to NYC.
History (in every country) is full of injustices but the concept of reparations paid by people that didn’t even exist in those times is a fool’s errand and one of the most inane and idiotic ideas ever proposed by ignorant race baiting Democrats. What sets America apart from every other country in the world is that we have constantly evolved and made new laws to make us a freer and more equal Meritocracy where anyone can succeed based on their own effort and perseverance. That is, until now……..
Reparations aren’t a destination. Reparations are a journey.
The Indians were all about slavery, the Navajos even made slaves of the Spaniards they captured.
UNDERSTAINDING BARACK OBAMA’S GODFATHER, GEORGE SOROS:
The key word is divisionists. Obama has spent his political life dividing to conquer. His objective is a Muslim-style dictatorship that will serve billionaires for open borders and cheap labor.
We bemoan the deterioration and destruction of our country. But do you think Barack Obama and George Soros are sorrowful about the current trends in America? Of course not. MARK LEWIS
Image courtesy of Richard Terrell at TerrellAfterMath.
https://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/
Barack Obama
During a campaign stop in Missouri five days before Election Day 2008, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama famously said, to thunderous applause: “Now, Mizzou, I just have two words for you tonight: Five days. Five days…. [W]e are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/01/democrat-party-billionaires-for-open.html
Rachel Ehrenfeld is the Director of the American Center for Democracy and author of The Soros Agenda.
This reparations scam is ahistorical idiocy. If this focuses on a payout to blacks, how will those distributing the payouts determine which blacks were descendants of slaves or slaveholders? Not all blacks were slaves. There were many black slaveholders (especially among freemen). And what about whites who were held as slaves? No one ever mentions them.
So, we probably know how reparations will be distributed. A blue ribbon panal will be put in charge of a vast amount of money. A few people will recieve some of it with great media ado. We will never know what happens to the majority of the money.
THAT IS the plan.
We all will pay for this reparations folly. Directly or not,
My Nordic ancestors, 3/4 of them didn’t arrive until 1890; lived in Northern Wisconsin.
The other 1/4 mostly UK ancestry, arrived much earlier. Two fought for the Union. One died in Andersonville. The other returned to WI with disabling war injuries.
Reparations? Is my family entitled to any?
The time has arrived for a global black ops group to rid us of these cancerous tumors….
He is like the notorious Jay Gould who was one of the most notoius persons of the 1800’s he could get away with Murder but he could,nt cheat Death and died in 1892
As the commenting community concurs, assessing the penalty for abolishing human slavery requires resuscitation of six going on seven generations of the deceased.
Fortunately, unspent civic relief funds remain available as grant money to kick start the research project for death reversal. We can describe it as an enhanced form of transitioning.
As the commenting community concurs, assessing the penalty for abolishing human slavery requires resuscitation of six going on seven generations of the deceased.
Fortunately, unspent covid relief funds remain available as grant money to kick start the research project for death reversal. We can describe it as an enhanced form of transitioning.
The State of California paid nine people, for two years, to come up with a policy and a number so unrealistic that it will never be paid.
By the way: how is that high speed rail line coming along?
The State of California paid nine people, for two years, to come up with a policy and a number so unrealistic that it will never be paid.
By the way: How is that high speed railroad coming along?
All the wasted time that some Black people do complaining about not getting any reparations for something they didn’t suffer but some of their grandfathers who had been slaves had suffered. Come on to far too late for their grandparents to get reparations, they were the ones who deserved some money payback. Not their grandchildren.
What all those modern complainers need to do and should do is look to many of the modern Chinese Americans who also had their grandfathers terribly mistreated and abused by given the worse and most dangerous jobs with little pay in the construction of the Pacific Railroad.
Likewise, their grandfathers had been given the very worse difficult backbreaking dangerous jobs in the mines of the Western States. In the city of San, Francisco during much of the 1800’s the Chinese hand been limited to life, or exist, in the ghettos of that city.
The point is that no one hears the Chinese alive today complaining about the awful treatment of the grandparents. .One of the. Reasons for this is that they are too busy in working to establish or have now established a entrepreneurship of an business. For just complaining about long past wrongs is a complete waste of time and effort the can be put in and investment in a business.
The Black people may look to the Chinese of America and a role model for how to get ahead in life.
Many whites were brought to the Colonies as slaves, too. Read the real history of Jamestown, of Virginia, of the Carolinas.
Probably some gullible people have started spending their reparations checks before they arrive 🙂
A condition of reparations should be only Democrats will be taxed to make the payoff. After all, nearly 100% of slaves were owned by Democrats. Should this come to pass there would be a mass exodus from the Dem party. Good luck coming up with the $800 billion then.,
The “gimme free stuff” attitude and mindset only gets stronger if rewarded. To the point where there will be absolutely nobody left to steal from. And then the leeches turn on each other.
The slaves were originally captured by warring tribes in Africa, who then sold them for profit. 6% of the slaves were sent to America. They were “owned” by a small percentage of the US population. It lasted 89 years. The slaves have been free in the US for 158 years now.
Why the people who had nothing to do with any of it are forced to pay the people who were never slaves? The only correct answer is it’s just theft, one of the largest rip offs in all of history.
This article is getting some traction with commentators!
Newsom is now between a rock and a hard place of his own making. He empaneled the reparations committee. The committee–which shouldn’t exist–makes ludicrous historical complains and asks for silly amounts of money. Newsom reads the final tally: $800B and backs away from the number. As expected, there’s a backlash against Newsom and now Newsom backs away from his backing away. This is Newsoms’ Bud Light moment: he’s stuck with the tar baby of his own and Soros’ creation and it’ll either eat him alive politically or he’ll figure out a way of deflecting criticism by blaming Republicans. No doubt he’d be very happy if some court made it impossible for him to pay anything at all. In either case, he and Soros hung an albatross around his own neck; may it sink him.