A reparations activist with a grassroots organization called the U.S.Freedmen Project told Fox News Digital that their group expects no financial compensation from New York state officials after lawmakers quietly delayed a high-profile study into historic remedies."What the mainstream reparations movement is really about ...
is spinning your wheels until [those] to whom the debt is owed tire out, give up, and give in," U.S.Freedmen Project President Devine Prince told Fox News Digital.
"That's the only reason why you would pursue race-based policies within a system and within a country that has the 14th Amendment, which bans and prohibits race-based policies."The U.S.Freedmen Project — a group of self-identified "Foundational Black Americans" — aims to educate the public on the legal and historical distinctions between African Americans who are direct descendants of enslaved people in the U.S.
and immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean who arrived voluntarily in recent decades.CHAOS ERUPTS AT NY REPARATIONS HEARING AS ‘FOUNDATIONAL’ BLACK AMERICANS CLASH WITH LEFT-LEANING GROUPSThe U.S.Freedmen Project called out delays from New York's reparations commission. (Getty Images)Prince’s comments follow sharp backlash after state leaders extended the timeline for the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies to issue its final report.
A provision embedded in the recently passed state budget pushed the commission's deadline back two years — from 2027 to 2029 — nearly four years beyond its original 2025 deadline.The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) publicly criticized the delay in June."The state’s decision to spend an additional three years before it takes any action to address these harms raises a lot of questions about when Black New Yorkers will receive reparations," said Chantelle Williams, assistant director of the NYCLU’s Racial Justice Center."Meanwhile, the impact of discrimination continues to harm Black individuals...