MAGA firebrand’s plan for ‘ungrateful’ people who demand reparations

By James Reinl, Social Affairs Correspondent, For Dailymail.Com Published: 10:50 EDT, 21 June 2024 | Updated: 11:37 EDT, 21 June 2024 A firebrand Republican candidate has delivered a crude critique of slavery reparations in her campaign to become Missouri‘s secretary of state. Valentina Gomez, a 25-year-old property investor, in a video tweet slammed Juneteenth, Black Lives Matter (BLM), and plans to compensate the descendants of victims of slavery. The gun-toting MAGA candidate, who in a stunt last month told voters to not be ‘weak and gay,’ is on the ballot in the August 6 GOP primary to choose the candidate for secretary of state. Her comments come in a divisive election season, in which politics around race, gender and sexual identities have become front-burner issues — and for some candidates, a vote-winner. ‘Reparations from slavery and black victimization is about to be shoved down our throats for the most wretched holiday in America,’ Gomez said in this week’s viral X video. ‘BLM raised millions. And what did they do for black lives?’ Gomez, a native of Colombia who vocally supports former president Donald Trump, slammed those seeking payouts for the historic sins of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow. Poll Do...