FOX45: Baltimore reparations committee appointee won’t celebrate Thanksgiving, once blamed white women for perpetuating white supremacy

A reparations official appointed by Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has a history of making politically and racially charged comments, an analysis by FOX45 found. Ray Winbush is a research professor and the director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. His scholarship focuses on “developmental stages in Black males, public policy and its connection to compensatory justice,” among other topics. Winbush was one of several individuals appointed to the new Baltimore Community Reinvestment and Reparations Commission last week. The commission will be responsible for making recommendations about how to spend tax revenue acquired through the sale of legalized cannabis with a focus on “communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of the cannabis prohibition.” “Our Community Reinvestment and Reparations Commission is tasked with two things: determining for which purposes these funds can be used, and directing the expenditure of funding to community-based organizations for services and programs intended to benefit our hardest hit communities in accordance with state law,” Mayor Scott told AFRO last week. Winbush’s Facebook page includes several uses of coded references to white people, including “weyet.” “Weyet women are the oil that keeps the machinery of white supremacy running smoothly,” he wrote...