Day: January 17, 2023

San Francisco Reparations Committee Proposes Paying $5M to Black Residents, Loan Forgiveness, Report

On By Geri UngureanIn Uncategorized8 Comments

From justthenews.com

city of San Francisco advisory committee is reportedly proposing paying every black longtime resident $5 million.

The proposal released last month by the African American Reparations Advisory Committee calls for a “one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible person” and creates “legal structures to protect those who receive reparations from financial speculators or predators including court block accounts/trust accounts,”  according to The Daily Mail.

The proposal, if adopted, also would supplement lower-income black households to “reflect the Area Median Income annually for at least 250 years,” which would have brought such incomes up to $97,000 in 2022.

The plan additionally calls for financing “a comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears all educational, personal, credit card, payday loans, etc.”

The proposal would cost the city at least $50 billion.

To be eligible for reparations payments, an individual must be 18 years or older and have identified as “Black/African American” on public documents for at least 10 years.

Additionally, they must meet at least two of eight additional requirements from a list of criteria that includes being “personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs” or having been born in or migrated to the city between 1940 and 1996 with proof of residency for at least 13 years.

Although California was not a slave state, the reparations would be made to “address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery,” the draft states.

About 5.7% of San Francisco’s population in 2020 was black while black people make up 40% of the homeless population, the committee said. Source

Brethren, I don’t want to get into a big political discussion about reparations for Blacks. But I will point out that this is simply a ploy by gruesome Newsom to secure the Black vote in CA. I do have a lot more to say on this topic, but I am not feeling up to addressing arguments.

HOW CAN I BE SAVED?

MARANATHA!

LGBT Organization to Give Gift Cards to Kids Who Attend ‘Advocacy Workshop’

On By Geri UngureanIn LBGT Bribing Kids to join3 Comments

Dispicable and EXACTLY what we expect from these people

From breitbart.com

A pro-LGBT organization in Oregon will provide gift cards to 8th through 12th grade students who attend an LGBT advocacy training workshop. 

Southern Oregon Coast Pride advertised their upcoming Curry County Youth Leadership and Advocacy Workshop in a Facebook post. “The workshop is open to all youth in Curry County who are in 8th-12th grade,” the post explained. 

The training, which is set to take place at a public library later this month, will feature “conversations about what leadership and advocacy mean” as well as “what cultural humility is” before then discussing bullying. 

The post reads, “Participants will receive gift cards for attending!” It also notes that “throughout the day there will be many opportunities for youth to define terms for themselves and explore ways in which we can advocate and be allies to each other.”

Meanwhile, the registration survey asks participants to list their racial or ethnic background, whether or not they identify as “LGBTQIA2S+,” what school they go to, and what grade they are in.  

Southern Oregon Coast Pride explains that it seeks to “create safe spaces and build a multi-generational community of support for LGBTQ+ youth and their allies.”

The organization runs a number of different programs, including a “gender affirmation closet,” where kids who are attempting to change their sex can receive breast binders, “breast forms,” and “packers,” which are used to create the appearance of male genitalia. The program is open to those between the ages of 13 and 24.

The organization also offers assistance to those who want to change their legal name or undergo vocal coaching as part of their sex change attempt.

Southern Oregon Coast Pride also runs weekly meetups where they “often support local and state-wide efforts to establish LGBTQ+ safe spaces in schools.” Source

Creating “safe spaces” is a crock! They are simply recruiting and capturing the minds of young people. Having to ‘bribe’ the kids with gift cards shows the depth of depravity of these people.

This is devilish!

COME LORD JESUS!!

Idaho School Board Shuts Down Parents Over Transgender Policy

On By Geri UngureanIn School Shuts down parents over Transgender3 Comments

From thenewamerican.com

Parents seeking to share their concerns over a proposed school policy on “Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation,” which would allow biological boys to use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms, were shut down during a recent school district meeting in Caldwell, Idaho.  

Retired Marine and newly elected Idaho State Senator Chris Trakel (R), whose children attend school in the district, spoke during the comment period at the Caldwell School District’s Board of Education meeting last Tuesday. He told the school board that they should scrap the proposed policy, warning that the district risks a lawsuit if a young girl feels uncomfortable by the presence of a transgender “female” in the bathroom. 

The Daily Mail shared that “Trakel began his comments by noting that he had previously spoken before the board as a parent — but was speaking this time in his official capacity as a state senator”:

“You under Idaho law are required to maintain the morals and health of all the students,” he told the school board. “You allow a male to use a female bathroom, you’re gonna put them all of their moral health and safety at risk.” 

Trakel stated that the school district could be sued, noting: “It’s already happened in several states and there’s already been rulings on it. So before you waste taxpayer money, before you put a kid in harm’s way, you better throw this policy out and not even consider…” 

While he was speaking, however, he noticed that School Board President Marisela Pesina had turned her head toward another board member. He said, “I’ve got the floor, Ms. Pesina, will you please listen to me?” 

From there the conversation digressed into a brief dispute over meeting protocol rules, which caused Pesina to declare a 15-minute recess to help ease the tension in the room. Another board member asked for a motion to adjourn the meeting, which was then seconded.  

This led Trakel to bring up the state law regarding open meetings, stating, “Section 74-201: The people of the state of Idaho, in creating the instruments of government that serve them, do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies so created….” Pesina called on whoever was controlling the sound system to shut off his mic, which immediately went dead. The meeting was over. 

The Caldwell School District’s board shared a notice with the public after the meeting defending their actions. 

This was just one of many recent such meetings across the nation where parents have rightfully challenged school districts over transgender policies that are eroding parents’ rights.  

The American Enterprise Institute’s Conservative Education Reform Network (CERN) report on public schools and transgender policies found that “in the past few years, school districts nationwide have quietly adopted policies requiring staff to facilitate and ‘affirm’ gender identity transitions at school without parental notice or consent — and even in secret from parents.” 

The CERN report added, “Certain groups are telling school boards and administrators that excluding parents from the decision about whether staff will treat their child as the opposite sex is not only best practice but required by law. Neither is true. Such policies fly in the face of how schools treat every other decision of similar significance. From a legal perspective, these policies violate parents’ constitutional rights to raise their children.” 

According to an Education Week article, 1.3 million adults identify as transgender based on survey results from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System. That only accounts for 0.5 percent of the adult U.S. population. And of teenagers ages 13-17, 300,000 identify as transgender, or 1.4 percent of the nation’s population within that age group. 

You would think that with not even 2 out of 100 teenagers identifying as transgender, there wouldn’t be a discussion about sexual-orientation policies in schools. But the transgender movement has been successful in pushing their ideology to the forefront of education policies and into mainstream America, with groups like the National Center for Transgender Equality leading the way. 

Thankfully, there are thousands of parents like Trakel across the nation who are taking a stand and fighting leftist transgender identity policies from being introduced in their schools. It is a fight that must be won to save young minds from the poison and falsehoods brought about by transgenderism’s tyranny over a moral society. 

Parents still have choices in their children’s education. They can choose to homeschool, or select other educational opportunities where they have a voice and control over their children and the curriculum.  Parents who choose to keep their kids in public education must lobby local lawmakers to prohibit the schools from taking major decisions, such as sexual-orientation policies, out of parents’ hands.  Source

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).

And this well get worse and worse. We must expect it but understand that God is in full control. Speak up against evil – always! But discern the times in which we live.

MARANATHA!