Eric Adams supports ‘spirit’ of NYC black reparations bill

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Eric Adams supports ‘spirit’ of NYC black reparations bill

The Adams administration says it conceptually supports a controversial bill weighing whether black New Yorkers deserve reparations for slavery, roiling critics who ripped the measure as one of the …

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Eric Adams supports ‘spirit’ of NYC black reparations bill​

By
Rich Calder



Published Oct. 7, 2023, 1:01 p.m. ET

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The Adams administration says it conceptually supports a controversial bill weighing whether black New Yorkers deserve reparations for slavery, roiling critics who ripped the measure as one of the most “divisive” to ever emerge from the City Council.


Sideya Sherman, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Equity, told a City Council hearing on Sept. 19 that a bill by Councilwoman Farah Louis (D-Brooklyn) to create a task force to study the effects of slavery and racial discrimination on the city — and potentially award payments — should be reworked to address “overlap” with both a comparable state bill awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature and another by Councilwoman Crystal Hudson (D-Brooklyn).


Hudson’s legislation would mandate the city’s Commission of Racial Equity create a “Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation” process to establish “historical facts” about the city’s past use of slavery and then recommend changes for local government and institutions to “prevent recurrence.”


Sherman said any reparations task force should spend more time before issuing findings than the one-year maximum outlined in Louis’ bill — considering it took a first-of-its-kind reparations task force in California two years to deliver a proposal on how to compensate black residents.


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Reps for Mayor Eric Adams recently told members of the City Council that his administration backs the “spirit” of legislation that could ultimately lead to black New Yorkers being paid reparations for slavery.Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
It’s unclear how much a reparations plan would cost New York, but some economists estimate California’s plan could cost that state more than $800 billion to pay black residents — more than 2.5 times its annual budget.


“This would instantly be the most divisive thing City Hall has ever implemented and, I guarantee, there will be many New Yorkers like me who simply refuse to pay a dime in taxes in retribution for a crime that hasn’t been committed in this state” since it abolished slavery in 1827, fumed Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R-Staten Island).


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The City Council’s reparations bill would create a nine-member task force that would be required to deliver a report one year after being appointed. Getty Images
Councilwoman Joann Ariola, a Queens Republican, said the entire legislative package is yet another example of the radical left pushing its “own versions of revisionist history — promoting some groups while cancelling others.”


“During a time when we as Americans and New Yorkers really should be coming together to move forward, legislation like this – which pits one group against another – only serves to further the racial divides that we are seeing across the country,” Ariola said.


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New Yorkers protestors were seen demanding that black residents receive reparations for slavery. Corbis via Getty Images
New York sent more men to fight against slavery during the Civil War than any other state — 465,000-plus – and lost more than 50,000 soldiers in the process.


Louis did not return messages.


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It’s unclear how much a reparations plan would cost New York, but some economists estimate California’s plan could cost that state more than $800 billion to pay black residents.Rashid Umar Abbasi
The measure and Hudson’s were part of an eight-bill package of controversial City Council legislation introduced in June seeking to remedy so-called “racial injustices.”


Sherman said some of the bills need to address technical glitches, government overlaps, and overzealous timelines that could drive up costs.


But Mayor Adams and her office still “support the spirit and intent of these bills” – including another aimed at removing monuments and other artwork honoring controversial historical public figures from public property, she added.


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Mayor Adams and Sideya Sherman’s office still “support the spirit and intent of these bills.Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
Sherman also said the administration supports the “intent” of a bill requiring the city’s Public Design Commission to release a “plan” to remove monuments and other art on city land it believes pays tribute to ex-slave owners or people who profited from slavery as well as anyone who committed “systemic” crimes against indigenous peoples or “against humanity.”


Critics fear the legislation will lead to unwarranted history-scrubbing and the yanking of artworks dedicated to George Washington, Peter Stuyvesant, and Christopher Columbus.

 

[Arheel's Uncle]

I've had fun with this paper, bringing up one or more arguments against reparations does twist a few gizzards.
Some blacks who get $ will be robbed by those who did not get any. Crime would skyrocket amongst blacks.
Popcorn time.


My favorite:

Some blacks had black relatives who fought voluntarily for the south in the Civil War.
Should they be forced to pay reparations, since their ancestors fought for the south?

Only about 2 percent of those who lived in the south in 1860 owned slaves. It would be
inherently unfair to force the descendants of the other 98 percent to pay reparations, since
they didn’t own slaves.

The idea of paying reparations to former slaves and their descendants has been around
since the 1860s. Proposals have been made both in and out of Congress, and several, perhaps most,
Democratic presidential candidates have expressed an interest in discussing the idea.
A number of proposals have been offered. One commentator has suggested making the
present-day Democratic party pay the reparations, since it was the Republican party of 1860 that
indirectly put an end to slavery, while the Democratic party supported it, and was responsible for
passing the Jim Crow laws in the post-Civil War era. It is an interesting idea, but one that is unlikely
to be implemented.
The present paper does not analyze all the pros and cons of paying reparations, but merely
lists some reasons why reparations should not be paid. I will leave it to others to add to this list,
and to challenge the arguments put forth in this paper. This paper is intended to be a conversation
starter

Twenty-Nine Reasons Why Paying Reparations for Slavery Is a Bad Idea

This paper identifies 29 reasons why paying reparations for slavery is a bad idea.

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Eric Adams accused of sexually assaulting woman in 1993 in bombshell legal filing; accuser wants $5M

Mayor Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague in 1993 in a lawsuit seeking at least $5 million filed just before the deadline for the Adult Survivors Act, The Post learned …

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Eric Adams accused of sexually assaulting woman in 1993 in bombshell legal filing; accuser wants $5M​

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Published Nov. 23, 2023

Updated Nov. 23, 2023, 8:49 a.m. ET










Mayor Adams has been accused of sexually assaulting a former colleague in 1993 in a lawsuit seeking at least $5 million filed just before the deadline for the Adult Survivors Act, The Post learned Thursday.
The accuser, whom The Post is not identifying because of the nature of the allegation, named the former cop as a defendant along with the NYPD’s transit bureau and Guardian Association in a lawsuit filed late Wednesday.
“Plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Defendant Eric Adams in New York, New York in 1993 while they both worked for the City of New York,” claims the 3-page summons, which does not give more detail on the alleged assault.

Eric Adams has been accused of sexual assault.Luiz Rampelotto/ZUMA Press Wire / SplashNews.com Eric Adams seen in a 1993 photo.ASSOCIATED PRESS
The filing alleges “sexual assault, battery and employment discrimination on the basis of the Plaintiff’s gender and sex, retaliation, hostile work environment and intentional infliction of emotional distress” — and seeks damages no less than $5 million along with attorneys’ fees.


City Hall was quick to deny the allegations, which were first revealed by The Messenger







“The mayor does not know who this person is,” a spokesperson said. “If they ever met, he doesn’t recall it.


“But he would never do anything to physically harm another person and vigorously denies any such claim.”


Attempts to reach the accuser were not immediately successful Thursday, and her attorney did not respond to messages.


The Adult Survivors Act, signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul in May last year, removed the usual time constraints to sue over alleged sexual assaults for a one-year period, opening the floodgates for a torrent of civil lawsuits against powerful men, including former President Donald Trump and Bill Cosby.


At least 2,600 claims have been filed in state courts under the ASA, including several lawsuits brought this week against such high-profile defendants as Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose, Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and celebrity photographer Terry Richardson.


Adams, 63, has never been married but has a 27-year-old son, rapper Jordan Coleman, with his ex-girlfriend, Chrisena Coleman.


Coleman, 59, and Adams split up when their son was still a toddler.


Adams is currently in a relationship with Tracy Collins, the senior youth development director of the NYC Department of Education, who is considered the de facto first lady of the Big Apple.

 

[Arheel's Uncle]

One commentator has suggested making the
present-day Democratic party pay the reparations, since it was the Republican party of 1860 that
indirectly put an end to slavery, while the Democratic party supported it, and was responsible for
passing the Jim Crow laws in the post-Civil War era. It is an interesting idea, but one that is unlikely
to be implemented.

Dems, Jews and blacks are scamming and biding their time.
Aside from the DeWolf family #1 slave breeders up in Rhode Island, we have the Ansley Davis problem.

The Uncomfortable Truths of Jewish Life in the U.S. South

The MSJE New Orleans that opened last month sheds light on surprising aspects of Jewish life in the 13 Southern states since the mid-1700s

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The Uncomfortable Truths of Jewish Life in the U.S. South​

Posted on June 22, 2021

A New Orleans museum that opened last month sheds light on surprising aspects of Jewish life in the 13 Southern states since the mid-1700s
An advertisement in North Carolina’s Wilmington Journal in 1847 reveals a stain on local Jewish history. Ansley Davis, who came from Petersburg, Virginia, published the ad under the heading “Negroes Wanted.” The text stated: “I wish to purchase a large number of Negroes of both sexes, from the age of 14 to 30, for which I will pay the highest cash market price.” Davis, whose family owned one of the largest Jewish-run slave-trading companies in the entire South, would tour the region every summer seeking new slaves, which he later sold.

A newspaper ad published by a Jewish man in the 19th century, seeking African American slaves, ‘from age 14 to 30.’Credit: MSJE​

Davis was not the only Southern Jew who made a living in the slave trade prior to the Civil War. David Wise of New Orleans also put up slaves for sale at the time, working out of a depot on the city’s Baronne Street. “Has always on hand a large number of slaves, which will be sold for cash,” according to an ad that he placed in a paper. “A fine lot of young, likely, able-bodied negroes – girls and men – excellent field hands.” By the time the war broke out, New Orleans was the largest slave-trading city in the South.
The stories of Wise and Davis are presented on the website of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, which opened in May in New Orleans. MSJE, as it is called, showcases the culture and heritage of the Jews who lived in the 13 southern states over a period spanning some three centuries: from colonial America through the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement and up to this day. Some 4,000 exhibits have been collected from Jewish communities and families in small towns, before they disappeared from the map.
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