A North Carolina city has approved $300,000 for a reparations consultant with a record in online posts about ‘White accommodation’ and how her neighbors ‘celebrate and romanticize segregation.’
High Point City Council on Tuesday greenlighted $292,460 for Lea Henry and her team at the National Institute of Minority Economic Development, to lead its reparations efforts.
At least two councillors have queried the large sum — but there are few signs that members are aware of the hard-line views that Henry, a Harvard University graduate, posts on social media.
On Facebook, Henry has slammed her North Carolina neighbors for ‘celebrating segregation’ and railed against ‘White accommodation’, a term critical race theory (CRT) advocates use to describe a type of black oppression.
Whether taxes should fund cash payouts and other schemes for the descendants of slaves is a hot-button issue in America’s culture wars. For critics of them, reparations consultants are a drain on much-needed resources.
Henry’s posts raise questions about whether she’s the right woman for the job.
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