During the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee’s widely criticized hearing on reparations Wednesday, two sensible speakers espoused their educated opinion on why the idea of handing out reparations to black Americans is a bad idea. Both individuals were black.
One of the two speakers, Quillette columnist and Columbia University student Coleman Hughes, delivered a particularly intelligent lecture on how reparations would only turn today’s black Americans into “victims.”
“Reparations by definition are only given to victims, so the moment you give me reparations, you’ve made me into a victim without my consent,” he said. “Not just that, you’ve made 1/3 of black Americans who poll against reparations into victims without their consent, and black Americans have fought too long for the right to define themselves to be spoken for in such a condescending manner.”
In response to Hughes’ thoughtful argument — keep in mind the quote above amounts to just a sliver of his entire statement — a shocking number of his own peers in the black community rushed to their keyboards to disparage him as nothing but a “coon” and “Uncle Tom.”
Leading the pack was Rae Sanni, an obscure comedian who writes content for HBO’s “A Black Lady Sketch Show”:
It’s okay, just for today, to call Coleman Hughes a coon. He’s arguing against reparations on Juneteenth. He’s Cooneman Hughes til midnight Pacific Standard time
— Rae Sanni (@raesanni) June 19, 2019
She wasn’t alone in spouting such ignorant, hateful rhetoric (*LANGUAGE WARNING*).
Look:
Coleman Hughes can get these hands. Raggedy ass coon. RAGGEDY ASS.
— Government Stan. (@_ashuhhleyy) June 19, 2019
@coldxman is a coon and a puppet. Your lost dawg. Every black born American need a check from this government for our ancestors pain and suffering and the financial gains of this country because of it! #ThursdayThoughts
— DaddyyyWarBucks (@ButterTrillion) June 20, 2019
@coldxman fuckin coon
— J bizness (@Jbizness1) June 20, 2019
How do you say Coon in Spanish? pic.twitter.com/mMaGXXc6mt
— Black Army Veteran A.D.O.S ?? (@33Knicks) June 20, 2019
Hope they kept them butter biscuits warm for u coon
— Bigg (@BIGG_973) June 19, 2019
He has to do that to get paid, since he’s a coon.
— Picolo Martin (@Apestatic) February 7, 2019
@coldxman are you a house negro????
— Mase (@rekoakadawizard) June 20, 2019
He’s an underqualified Uncle Tom,the fact that he has written for a racist white supremacist rag like Quillette, which unsurprisingly posted his article on stale grievances which is nothing but a bunch of numbers put together shows a lot
— Rohan S (@rohanswelt) June 20, 2019
Despite what Rohan, who’s clearly not even black, asserted in the stunningly ignorant tweet above, Quillette is not a “racist white supremacist rag.” It’s an online magazine that’s read by some of the most prolific intellectuals and scientists of the modern age, including but not limited to Dr. Jordan Peterson, award-winning biologist Jerry Coyne and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
Meanwhile, prior to the hearing Wednesday, a black columnist for The New York Times accused Hughes of being a know-nothing ingrate with no relevant qualifications.
Observe:
so will the republican members of the subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights, and civil liberties have anyone serious speaking against reparations or will they just invite candace owens again to do her thing?
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 19, 2019
according to @emarvelous it looks like they’ll have this guy who wrote an op-ed and a college sophomore up against [checks notes] economists, experts, a US senator, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, who brought this all into the mainstream. https://t.co/Vh5bhUVcHj
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 19, 2019
it is indicative of the fundamental contempt republicans have for this conversation that their speakers have no apparent qualifications other than being black.
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 19, 2019
The tweets were posted by Jamelle Bouie, a virulently far-left activist and race-baiter who’s been celebrated by the media as a voice of reason and intelligence, despite his history of ignorant remarks.
Former NFL star Burgess Owens, the other anti-reparations speaker at the hearing Wednesday, has faced similar taunts and jeers for his belief that it’s Democrats who owe blacks reparations.
“I do believe in restitution. Let’s point to the party that was part of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, that has killed over 40 percent of our black babies, 20 million of them. State of California, 75 percent of our black boys can’t past standard reading and writing test, a Democratic state,” he said.
“Let’s pay reparation. Let’s pay restitution. How about a Democratic Party pay for all the misery brought to my race.”
Listen:
Just like Hughes, Burgess is now being disparaged on social media as a a “coon,” an “Uncle Tom,” a “tap dancing fool” and a “house negro.”
Look:
@BurgessOwens How did a coon make a reparations panel??
— J bizness (@Jbizness1) June 20, 2019
@BurgessOwens What in the old negro spiritual are you talking about?
Like fam, do you read books and shit? Like did you read AFAM history before you started to diarrhea out the mouth?
— Ta-Nehisi Coates is my Tolstoy (@CEJDaddyD) June 19, 2019
@BurgessOwens How shameful to watch you go full Uncle Tom at the reparations hearing. When will Black folk like you learn that no matter how much ass kissing you do, racist white ppl will still hate you. Fox and friends are not your friends.
— Patrick Riley, Sr (@PatrickRileySr2) June 19, 2019
@BurgessOwens this is what koon look like. #uncletom #DickGregory
— MemphisOrNuthin (@OrNuthin) June 19, 2019
@BurgessOwens you are a tap dancing fool. Your feet has to still be hurting. @IngrahamAngle told James to shut up and dibble but bring an X football player on the show to talk politics. That makes absolutely no sense coon. But you couldn’t wait put on those tap dancing ? shoes pic.twitter.com/BdcRDNiFoQ
— highly melanated (@mikejenkinsreal) February 20, 2018
Malcom specifically addressed his kinds.
The House Negro theory. #Juneteenth #HR40 #reparations pic.twitter.com/qz31oCF44V— Abel (@Abelbc81) June 20, 2019
For clarification, a “house negro” was a black slave who’d earned entry into a plantation master’s inner clique and would therefore look down upon the “field negros” who were still collecting cotton.
And as a final reminder, remember that the Democrat party is the party of slavery, as noted by Owens, and note that it’s folks like Bouie, Rohan and Sanni who’ve been looking down their noses at Owens and Hughes for allegedly not being good or black enough to speak at a reparations hearing …
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