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Former Nuclear Scientist for US Dept of Energy | Ex-Photographer for @apple, @united, and @hyatt

Sep 6, 8 tweets

🚨#BREAKING: It has been revealed that new 2025 recommendations by the Asheville NC Racial Reparations Committee released 2 days ago contain even more shocking recommendations.

You are not going to believe what's in here...

Hang on, this is gonna be rough... 🧵

First up, they want to give FREE early childhood education... or just "childcare" in general... to ALL Black children.

Hispanics, asians, white people... no free childcare for you, even if you're poor and struggling.

But guess what?

You have to pay the taxes for it.

You thought that was nuts?

Don't worry, it gets crazier.

They want to establish a "Black Joy Fund," "Black Healing and Birthing Centers" for (get this...) "Black birthing people"

Oh and while you're at it, throw in a black-only mental health network too.

...it gets crazier

As if that wasn't already enough...

They want to create a private fund specifically for reparations and just HAND PEOPLE CASH for those "harmed by racial discrimination..."

No work requirements, of course... to promote "racial and gender equality..."

The recommendation also includes a policy to grant access to "40 acres of land tax-free without cost" so make up for "historic land theft and exclusion from property ownership."

Next up, they want Black teachers ONLY to get "Reparations Compensation"... which also involves "stipends for all Black staff currently employed"

Includes an annual housing allowance, downpayment assistance, and a "reparations bonus"

...based only on the color of your skin

Finally, we get to the Black Housing Plan...

The housing plan “returns land to the Black community” by creating $1 lots only for eligible Black residents.

That’s public assets allocated by skin color ALONE, which is unequal by design.

This is clearly racist.

Carving up aid, land, and jobs by skin color is purely racism with new empathy-laced branding.

This is insanity and has to be stopped.

Fix harm by need and place, not race.

One law.
One standard.
One city that moves forward, not backwards.

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