{"id":2449943,"date":"2025-06-20T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-organization-spends-juneteenth-demanding-white-people-pay-reparations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:09:04","slug":"black-lives-matter-organization-spends-juneteenth-demanding-white-people-pay-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-organization-spends-juneteenth-demanding-white-people-pay-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Organization Spends Juneteenth Demanding White People &#8216;Pay Reparations&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-lives-matter-organization-spends-juneteenth-demanding-white-people-pay-reparations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2449943&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The excerpt discusses President Trump&#8217;s victory in the 2024 election, suggesting it reflects a preference among Americans for unity over racial segregation. The author criticizes the demands of the Black Lives Matter Grassroots group, notably their statements made during Juneteenth, which include calls for reparations from white individuals and a rejection of social inclusion for white people at events like cookouts. The piece argues that such demands promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-high-school-students-in-oregon-offered-black-student-graduation-ceremony-this-spring\/\" title=\"Black High School Students In Oregon Offered \u2018Black Student Graduation Ceremony\u2019 This Spring\">racial separatism<\/a> reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-university-hosts-white-caucus-meeting-to-unpack-systemic-oppression\/\" title=\"Elon University Hosts \u2018White Caucus\u2019 Meeting To \u2018Unpack\u2019 \u2018Systemic Oppression\u2019\">past racial injustices<\/a>, asserting that the emphasis on skin color diminishes the significance of individual character and wealth. The author concludes that calls for reparations and the actions advocated by groups like BLM Grassroots ultimately perpetuate divisive ideologies and overshadow meaningful discussions about equality and justice.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s victory in the 2024 election reminds us that the racial separatists on the left do not matter.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the vast majority of Americans prefer to follow Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in judging people by their character. Segregating human beings by skin color, in fact, seems like the kind of thing the Ku Klux Klan would have done.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the segregationists have returned with a vengeance in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/blmgrassroots.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter Grassroots<\/a>, which marked Thursday&rsquo;s Juneteenth holiday with a <a href=\"https:\/\/blmgrassroots.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Statement-on-Juneteenth-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> demanding that white people &ldquo;pay reparations&rdquo; and, for good measure, &ldquo;[d]o not ask to come to the cookout.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The statement featured a direct message and program of action for white people with misplaced guilt and no dignity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;White folks &hellip;&rdquo; the statement read, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s time to pay reparations. Commit yourselves to real reparations policies that hold accountable the government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-launches-christmas-campaign-against-white-supremacist-capitalism\/\" title=\"Black Lives ... Launches Christmas Campaign Against \u2018White-Supremacist Capitalism\u2019\">white-supremacist capitalism<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-j6-pardons-are-about-more-than-the-insurrection\/\" title=\"Trump&#039;s J6 Pardons Are About More Than The &#039;Insurrection&#039;\">white people &#038;mdash<\/a>; who continue to benefit from our generations of stolen labor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >reparations include race-based government policies<\/a>? They do, and that would be bad enough, but it got worse.<\/p>\n<p>To a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-5-seconds-flat-common-sense-judge-traps-woke-blm-1st-graders-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLM<\/a> racist, in fact, reparations require personal acts of contrition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Slide your Black friend some benjamins,&rdquo; the statement continued. &ldquo;Make a check out to Black liberation organizations, like BLM Grassroots. Don&rsquo;t have money? Wash your neighbor&rsquo;s car. Watch her kids. Give him a ride. Sweep their front stoop.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>OK. Having done all that, may I socialize with my black friends?&nbsp;Evidently not, according to the BLM Grassroots statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do not ask to come to the cookout,&rdquo; the program of action for &ldquo;white folks&rdquo; concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm &hellip; well, I suppose I&rsquo;m not allowed to have black friends. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chaos-erupts-outside-courthouse-daniel-penny-acquittal-blm-leader-calls-black-vigilantes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLM<\/a> Grassroots said so.<\/p>\n<p>Note, too, that to BLM Grassroots, only skin color matters, not wealth.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t have money?&rdquo; they ask. No problem. In your spare time, between jobs, do your racial penance by washing your black neighbor&rsquo;s car, watching their kids, or sweeping their front stoop.<\/p>\n<p>And THAT explains why racial separatism feels so dark and oppressive. No matter what you do, no matter when your ancestors arrived in the United States, you cannot escape it. Melanin dictates everything.<\/p>\n<p>Calls for reparations, of course, have come from many places, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-squad-member-pushes-whopping-14-trillion-slavery-reparations-plan-gaining-traction-need-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If reparations only involved &ldquo;atoning&rdquo; for slavery by taking money from people who have never held slaves and giving it to people who have never been slaves, it would be objectionable enough.<\/p>\n<p>The corresponding racial separatism, however, amounts to nothing more than what the KKK once demanded.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-juneteenth-comment-enrages-jimmy-kimmel-leftists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneteenth<\/a> holiday in general, however well-meaning some of its advocates may be, originated not in a collective memorialization of slavery&rsquo;s victims, but in a narcissistic orgy of virtue-signaling, which played out during the Black Lives Matter 2020 summer of madness.<\/p>\n<p>The holiday, therefore, naturally lends itself to these kinds of statements from groups composed of narcissists, such as BLM Grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>Mercifully, in the Age of Trump, one may safely ignore them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Most Americans align with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s principle of evaluating individuals based on their character rather than skin color, which is reminiscent of actions taken by the Ku Klux Klan. Unfortunately, segregationists have resurfaced aggressively through groups like Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which used the Juneteenth holiday to demand reparations from white individuals and stated they should not seek inclusion in social gatherings like cookouts. Their message urged white people to take responsibility for historical injustices and suggested personal acts of atonement, such as financially supporting Black organizations or performing services for Black neighbors. The statement emphasized that only race matters in this context, disregarding wealth or individual circumstances. Calls for reparations have emerged from various sources, including Congress; however, if these reparations involve compensating descendants of slaves with funds from those who never owned slaves, it raises significant ethical concerns. The Juneteenth holiday itself has become a platform for virtue signaling rather than genuine remembrance of slavery&#8217;s victims and often attracts self-serving rhetoric from groups like BLM Grassroots-though thankfully, during Trump&#8217;s era, such sentiments can be largely ignored<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2449944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Juneteenth.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35905,28972,46451,9128,36625],"class_list":["post-2449943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-juneteenth","tag-racial-equality","tag-reparations","tag-social-justice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Juneteenth.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449947,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449943\/revisions\/2449947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}