There are many ways in which the House of Representatives is feeling the effects of the absence of former Congresswoman Cori Bush. You might remember that Cori Bush was the only member of Congress in the history of this country who claimed to have performed a bona fide miracle while in office. Specifically, in a televised interview, Bush said that she once cured a woman’s cancer simply by placing her hands on the woman’s body. As she put it: “This [homeless] lady came to us, and she had these tumors, and she wanted us to like, feel them. … I laid hands on her and prayed, and then I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body. … And the lumps that were there were no longer there. She was so happy, and she went on about her day.”
It’s too bad that this homeless woman disappeared, because this kind of interaction seems like the thing that cancer researchers might have been interested in following up on. But in any event, Bush didn’t stop there, because as we all know, you need *two* miracles in order to qualify for sainthood. Normally, these miraculous events occur after the saint has died. But Bush doesn’t have time for that. Therefore, she claimed that she also once helped a toddler take her first steps in St. Louis, even though the child was gravely ill. “I carried the child from the prayer room in the back of the church out into the sanctuary . . . ‘Walk,’ I said gently to the three-year-old girl, ‘You will walk.’ And this girl took her first step,” Bush wrote.
Because Bush was voted out of office in the last election, unfortunately, we don’t hear stories like this anymore. Therefore, until Jesus himself returns, we can assume that countless hobos in St. Louis will continue to suffer needlessly from cancer and all kinds of other horrible afflictions. But despite that sad reality, it’s not all bad news. Consider the fact that, without Cori Bush’s voice to amplify them, a lot of fraudulent BLM narratives will die before they get started. We also won’t have to listen to her tributes to Michael Brown and George Floyd every year. So that’s something, at least. Yes, we’ve lost a miracle worker. But we’ve gained some peace and quiet.
Or at least, we thought we gained some peace and quiet. At the moment, there is a concerted effort underway among House Democrats to revive the “legacy” of Cori Bush, such as it is. But they’re not revising the whole “bid for sainthood” routine. Instead, they’re doubling down on Cori Bush’s true passion in life, which is whipping up a race war. And to that end, Democrats are revitalizing one of Bush’s dumbest ideas, which is her plan to enact trillions of dollars in reparations.
Quoting from The Hill: “A coalition of Democratic lawmakers and advocates on Thursday reintroduced a resolution to offer reparations to descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent. Representative Summer Lee led the reintroduction of the Reparations Now resolution, which was first introduced in 2023 by former Representative Cori Bush. The resolution calls for the federal government to allocate trillions of dollars in reparations to Black Americans.”
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Keep in mind, the entire federal budget for the last fiscal year was around $7 trillion. So we’re talking about spending a very significant chunk of the federal budget on handouts to black people, essentially. And on top of these trillions of dollars in reparations, Cory Booker and Jasmine Crockett are planning to introduce the “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Commission Act,” which would supposedly “acknowledge and memorialize the arrival of the first slave ship in the United States and the injustices suffered by people of color throughout history.”
Here are Ayanna Pressley and Summer Lee to explain. And I promise these clips aren’t sped up in any way, at least as far as I know. They’re simply talking really, really fast for some reason. Watch:
Now, before we go any further with the specifics of this legislation, I have to provide something of a disclosure at this point. We’ve talked about the issue of reparations many times on this show, to be sure. But now I have a very personal stake in the issue. And that’s because recently, and somewhat unexpectedly — and I say this with nothing but modesty in my heart — I have become something of a pioneer when it comes to the issue of reparations in the United States. In fact, according to all available information, I am the only person in America who has actually paid reparations, along with the famed author Robin DiAngelo.
Now, you might point out that I was undercover doing a movie when I paid my reparations. And you might point out that I took my reparations back immediately after the cameras were off. And you might point out that my reparations were like $20. And all of that’s true. But it’s not the important thing to keep in mind here. The important thing is that I’m an expert in this issue, and therefore, I have no choice but to chime in and provide my analysis.
And with that in mind, the first thing that needs to be said is that, if we really want “reparations” for the descendants of slaves, then we’re going to spend a lot more than a few trillion dollars. That’s because every single person who’s alive right now on the planet, if you go back far enough, has ancestors who were slaves. Period, no exceptions. The Romans alone enslaved millions of people from all over the world. So did Egypt, Greece, China, the Persians, the Russians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and Ottomans, and so on.
And that’s not even getting into indentured servitude. Take a look at what happened to Irish Catholics in the 17th century in places like Barbados, for example. Technically, many of these Irishmen became “indentured servants,” not slaves. But in many cases, that meant that they were treated even worse than slaves, since they weren’t expected to work for their entire lives. Roughly half of them died within four years, by some estimates. As the researcher Michael Mahoney pointed out: “John Scott, an English adventurer who travelled in the West Indies during the Commonwealth, saw Irish servants working in field gangs with slaves, ‘without stockings under the scorching sun’. The Irish, he wrote, were ‘derided by the negroes, and branded with the Epithet of ‘white slaves.” … Once in the Caribbean, many plantation owners considered servants and freemen from Ireland as a potentially subversive lot who had to be controlled and kept in a labouring status. Punishments for attempted escapes included branding the letters ‘FT’ (Fugitive Traitor) on the servant’s forehead. One assembly member in Barbados is quoted in 1667 as stating, ‘We have more than a good many Irish amongst us, therefore I am for the downright Scott, who I am certain will fight without a crucifix about his neck.'”
In other words, there’s obvious anti-Catholic bigotry at work here, and in many cases, these Irish servants were treated far worse than slaves as they worked alongside them. And this is just one of dozens more examples. Here’s another. Did you know that, in 1797, 20% of the U.S. federal budget — a total of one million dollars at the time — went to paying tribute to Muslim nations in North Africa, so that they’d stop enslaving white people? This was a big business for them; in total, they enslaved more than a million whites from both Europe and the United States. This was during the Barbary Wars. For context, today, we don’t spend anywhere near 20% of the U.S. budget on defense spending. But in 1797, we spent 20% of the budget on ransom payments to Algiers. And as we did so, the Africans made sure to mock Americans at every opportunity. The tribute was ultimately ferried to Constantinople by the frigate USS George Washington, and along the way, the Africans forced the American warship to fly an Ottoman flag. This was sadistic brutality at every level. They only stopped enslaving white people when they were forced to do so.
These are chapters from American history that you don’t hear much about. Certainly, smooth-brained race hustlers like Ayanna Pressley won’t mention any of this. That’s because, as always, their goal isn’t actually to have a serious discussion about reparations — to the extent it’s even possible to do so. They know that this resolution has no chance of passing in either chamber of Congress, much less being signed into law. They know that this is a purely performative piece of legislation that’s intended to stoke racial conflict, and enrage as many people as possible so that they’ll feel entitled and envious. And then they might finally start rioting, as Democrats desperately want them to do.
Of course, indirect, inexplicit reparations have already been paid — in the form of DEI policies, affirmative action, the welfare state, and every other policy put in place in the name of white guilt. Most of the federal government is a kind of make-work program for certain demographics, to funnel them taxpayer money without any accountability. And we see what good all of that has done for the black community. But explicit reparations — the kind where black Americans get money simply for being black Americans — will almost certainly never happen. From a political perspective, it’s not feasible. This is yet another failed idea from the Cori Bush playbook, one among many.
At the same time, it’s interesting to note that this legislation comes at the very moment that white South Africans are fleeing their homeland, seeking refuge in the United States. They’re being forcibly evicted from their own homes solely because of their skin color, as we’ve discussed several times this week. And you know what that means: There’s about to be a lot more room in Africa for any supposedly oppressed group in the United States, including congresswomen like Ayanna Pressley. So maybe there’s an opportunity here for a kind of “reparation through repatriation.” Maybe we can offer some of these Democrats a taxpayer-funded, all-expenses-paid trip to whatever lands their ancestors came from. Since we’re judging everyone by their ancestors, it seems more than appropriate. Plus, they’ll gain access to plenty of fertile farmland in South Africa, as Don Lemon often reminds us. The opportunity for untold riches, in a land totally devoid of white people, is right there for the taking.
Will Ayanna Pressley and Summer Lee and all of these other Democrats seize that opportunity? Of course not. That’s because they know that, when given the opportunity, they can’t govern. They can’t improve anyone’s lives. They certainly can’t manage a farm. All they’re capable of doing is demonizing white people and looting the treasury. And without white people to demonize, there won’t be any money to loot. That’s why “reparations” is a losing issue for Democrats. It’s also why South Africa is about to collapse entirely. And it’s why, as more Americans wake up to the reality of what’s happening, politicians like Ayanna Pressley and Summer Lee and Ilhan Omar will go the way of Cori Bush. They’ll be removed from Congress by the voters. That is the outcome these anti-white politicians are apparently clamoring for. And now that they’ve introduced this reparations bill once again, and made it clear they have no interest in representing all Americans regardless of race, we should give it to them.
