🚨#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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Asheville NC has finally ended a race-based selection process to its human relations commission.
They sidelined 30-year city employee John Miall from the Human Relations Commission.
Two years later, a federal judge has finally ended it.
This is the story of John Miall...🧵
In early 2023, John Miall, a long-time Asheville resident who worked 30 years for the City Asheville, including as the Director of Risk Management...
...applied to the Human Relations Commission (HRCA) and was not selected.
He believed that violated equal protection, but why?
When the HRCA was created, materials reflected explicit seat counts by identity and race (e.g., six African Americans, twoLatinx, two LGBTQ, two–three youth, two–three disabled, etc.).
The county is about to spend $2.9 million in taxpayer funds on racial reparations.
I took a deep dive into the 170 page report, and what I found is terrifying.
Buckle up, because you're not gonna believe this. 🧵
First up is a "race-targeted housing policy"
The plan explicitly calls to “sustain and expand rates of Black homeownership” with “targeted funding” ONLY for the Black populations over three years.
Literally a program that allocate benefits by race-ALONE! A clear violation of the 14th amendment, in writing.
If you're a poor white, latino, asian... or any other race, but black...
Tough luck. You don't get the money.
You thought that was bad?
Just wait... look at what they want to do for healthcare.
One of the recommendations includes a free transportation service ONLY for “expectant Black mothers."
I was reading carefully crafted, completely fictional stories.
They choose the heroes.
They scripted the villains.
..and I bought it.
Let me show you the playbook that tricked me for years... 🧵
Step 1: The Casting Call
This is perhaps the most insidious of all the steps... where editors decide which story is even WORTH telling you.
It’s how “the story” starts before a word is written or a show is filmed. A story is picked because it's a “stand in” for a larger point.
It’s the case that can be elevated into a SYMBOL, a parable, a shorthand for a much larger narrative they want to reinforce.
...and here we are, thinking it was news, just a single story representative of a larger trend
It's not.
The “casting” comes BEFORE the script, and once the casting is done, the rest of the story almost writes itself.
Step 2: Framing the Character
Once the media decides WHICH story to tell, the next move is deciding how to frame the CHARACTERS inside it.
This is where the adjectives, labels, and identifiers and HEADLINES do the heavy lifting.
A white criminal? The headline screams the race.
A black criminal? Suddenly the race vanishes.
A trans shooter? Pronouns become sacred.
A conservative shooter? Politics are bolded in line 1.
They’re NOT neutral words.
Every single word in the headline is a brushstroke on the script they are trying to get you to believe.
...and bit by bit, they color in who you’re supposed to cheer for and who you’re supposed to hate
It's DESIGNED to be subtle.
You're supposed to miss its intentionality.
Even when the entire time, it's slowly changing your beliefs.
I've been wanting to write this for a long time, I think now is the time.
Empathy is a virtue... and it is being weaponized against those of us who truly and honestly care.
It's insidious. By design.
Here's how it works on so many... including me, for so long. 🧵
The pattern is always the same:
➡️ Present an emotional story.
➡️ Frame any opposition as cruel and harmful.
➡️ Rebrand neutrality as complicity.
➡️ Make the policy solution an empathy test.
A trans person just shot up a school.
Notice how fast the narrative shifted:
a) Not about the victims.
b) Not about parents who will never see their kids again.
But about “protecting the trans community from backlash.”