Pro-Palestinian Protestor Is Another 'Stealth Reparations' Recipient
Remember America's Stealth Reparations?
In a post earlier this year ("America's Stealth Reparations"), we shared a remarkable thread by "Confirmed Miscer" on X about the COVID-era Payroll Protection Program:
Reparations Already Happened
As we enter Black History Month, we can expect further calls for reparations by the U.S. government to African Americans, but as an extraordinary thread on X this week detailed, we already had reparations for enterprising African Americans during COVID. Many created seemingly fake businesses to get payroll protection loans, nearly all of which apparently were subsequently forgiven.
You can pick any name that you think might fit the profile and find hundreds of businesses with a single employee pic.twitter.com/M1x9Ouc7wN
— Confirmed Miscer ⚔️🍁🔫 (@ManDaveJobGood) January 31, 2024
A Reparations Recipient At The Ole Miss Gaza Protest
It turns out that the adoption of this stealth reparations program must have been even bigger than we thought. Consider the viral confrontation at the University of Mississippi last week, in which graduate student Jaylin Smith walked in front of the barriers separating the pro-Palestinian protestors and the counter protestors.
This video from Ole Miss is beautiful, but guys, please put away the phones. Be in the moment when you’re mocking the Hamas loving fat girl. pic.twitter.com/0ESdQ6a99Q
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) May 3, 2024
After the fellow on the right making monkey noises at her was doxxed and kicked out of his fraternity, internet sleuths doxxed Ms. Smith--not that she's a very private person.
It turns out she recently did a TEDx talk.
And before that, she was a recipient of a forgiven PPP loan.
Interesting develoPPPment here out of the Ole Miss PPProtests: https://t.co/zrxVEInFXZ pic.twitter.com/TQoxmBMHVf
— Confirmed Miscer ⚔️🍁🔫 (@ManDaveJobGood) May 5, 2024
When someone suggested it was unfair of Confirmed Miscer to highlight African American recipients of these forgiven PPP loans, he pointed out the nature of the loans to companies with names such as "Got Money -N- Da Hood Entertainment", "Free Money", and "New Wakanda".
"Requested a 13K loan"
— Confirmed Miscer ⚔️🍁🔫 (@ManDaveJobGood) May 6, 2024
The types of loans in question: https://t.co/CvB8ZusyXT pic.twitter.com/36UO7vOW4N
What are the odds Ms. Smith turned out to be another recipient?
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