NY GOPers rip into reparations ‘bigots’
Two appointees to a new state panel considering the payment of reparations to black New Yorkers should resign for making “disturbing antisemitic” and anti-police remarks, Republicans said Wednesday.
GOP members of the state Senate called for Ron Daniels and Lurie Daniel Favors to step down from the nine-member “commission to study reparations and racial justice,” to which they were appointed by state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx).
“The deeply offensive views of these members should completely disqualify them from serving in any government-appointed position, especially one supposedly intended to unify our state,” Minority Leader Robert Orr and others said in a joint statement.
‘Abhorent bias’
“The abhorrent bias of these commission members will no doubt cloud their decision-making and taint their recommendations.”
Daniels has claimed that white people are responsible for climate change and backed Hamas’ terrorist hostilities against Israel, while Favors pushed to defund the police, The Post
recently reported.
“When announcing the members of the newly created reparations commission, Governor Hochul referred to the appointees as an ‘extraordinary group of highly-qualified individuals.’ The announcement failed to acknowledge the disturbing antisemitic and anti-police rhetoric espoused by commission members Ron Daniels and Lurie Daniel Favors,” the GOP statement said.
“Regardless of any opinion on the necessity of this commission, there should
be no doubt these members have no business continuing to serve,” the pols said. “We strongly urge Governor Hochul and the Senate and Assembly Majorities to demand their resignations immediately.”
Post report
Calls for their resignations came just days after The Post’s report on Daniels and Favors’ comments.
“White Folks Messed Up the Weather = Black Folks Save the Planet,” Daniels, a longtime activist who ran
for president on the leftwing Peace and Freedom Party in 1992, said in an Oct. 25, 2021, post on the then-Twitter.
He also went after South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the Senate’s sole black Republican, calling him “Uncle Tim,” an offshoot of the derisive term “Uncle Tom” used to smear black people who are allegedly too accommodating to whites.
“With silence, comes complacency. No Homeland. No Peace. No Justice, No Peace in Israel,” Daniels,
founder and president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, said on Oct. 25 last year.
“I am not commenting,” Daniels, who served as administrator for the National African American Reparations Commission, told The Post on Wednesday.
Favors, executive director at the Center for Law and Social Justice at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College, posted July 7, 2019, “In the name of our ancestors who weep over our fractured communities; in the name of our families whose genealogy is at best a guess and a prayer; in the name of all that is holy & just: F--K YOU & YOUR RACE APOLOGETICS. WE WILL NOT BE SILENT. WE WILL NOT MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE.”
Another Twitter post from April 2021 by Favors said: “Police all across the country are literally proving *daily* why #DefundThePolice is necessary. I’m old enough to remember summa yall claiming activists were going too far.”
Favors and Heastie had no comment.
The Post also reached out to Hochul and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, who between them appointed six of the nine members to the panel. Heastie appointed the other three.