Slavery reparations panel members blamed climate change on ‘White folk,’ called Tim Scott ‘Uncle Tim’

Two members of the newly appointed New York reparations panel have made past anti-Israel statements, claims that Whites were responsible for climate change and endorsements of the defund the police movement. Public social media posts by Ron Daniels and Lurie Daniel Favors, who were both appointed to New York’s commission on reparations and racial justice by state Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, have recently resurfaced, the New York Post first reported.  “White Folks Messed Up the Weather = Black Folks Save the Planet #BeBlackandGreen #MotherEarth #ClimateJustice #GlobalWarming,” Daniels posted to X in October 2021.  Lindi Bobb, 6, attends a slavery reparations protest outside New York Life Insurance Company offices August 9, 2002 in New York City.  (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) REPARATIONS MAKE INCREASINGLY LESS SENSE AS AMERICA GROWS MORE DIVERSE, THINK TANK REPORT ARGUES Daniels, a longtime activist who ran for president for the Peace and Freedom Party in 1992, has also referred to Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott as “Uncle Tim.” “‘Uncle Tim,’ Scott that is, Who Picked Cotton On the Plantation, Is ‘Still On the Plantation’ = Picked to Be the ‘Black Face’ To Suppress/Black Power/Black Freedom On Behalf of White Supremacy/White Power and That’s ‘The Cotton...