Dr. Mike Adams notes that the NAACP in North Carolina is demanding that the state offer reparations for a race riot/coup in Wilmington in 1898. Indeed, there is the threat of litigation.

The N.C. NAACP is giving the state two options related to telling the story of the 1898 Race Riot and compensating descendants of riot victims.

"You can do it through the General Assembly or we're going to build a case," state NAACP President William Barber said Friday during a national symposium focused on the coup d'etat.

In other words, this is a race-based shake-down of the taxpayers of North Carolina for events that occurred before any current North Carolinian was alive.

I find it interesting who is not facing demands – the descendants of the actual perpetrators of the events in Wilmington, and the organizations and businesses that actively encouraged/benefited from the coup.

You know – the Democrat Party and the leading Democrats who were responsible for the coup, and who perpetrated the violence and murder.

Oh, and the News & Observer newspaper and other newspapers still publishing today that actively advocated for the removal of blacks from political power in Wilmington.

Why are these organizations not included in the demands? Why are the descendants of Josephus Daniels (later the Secretary of the Navy under Democrat Woodrow Wilson) and other participants not facing threats of litigation if they don’t pay up? Could it be that the NAACP knows that the political party and media outlets that instigated this rebellion and overthrow of lawful authority are today reliable allies – as are many of the individuals who would be impacted by the attempt to make them pay for events that occurred long before their birth?

Besides – the state has deeper pockets, since it can always tax the citizens more. And the NAACP loves higher taxes, more government spending and additional social programs which are what this lawsuit is really about. Otherwise

Reparations by those not responsible to those not personally wronged – like belated apologies for slavery – are misguided and dishonest efforts to assuage guilt of those who have done nothing wrong on behalf of those who believe themselves to be perpetual victims of the past.

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