February is Black History Month. Director of the Oregon Department of Education, Dr. Charlene Williams says, “This month offers us a valuable opportunity to celebrate and deepen our understanding of the rich contributions of Black Americans throughout our history…to honor the achievements and legacies of Black leaders, artists, educators, and community members.”

It is said that repeating what you want eventually wears down the opposition to get what you want. This is not the first time Senator James Manning, Jr. (D-Eugene) has sponsored a reparation bill. HB 2995 sets up a task force to study and develop proposals for financial and nonfinancial reparations for Oregonians of African-American descent.

This is not just reparation to correct history, it is aimed at centuries including the present. Among the task force duties, they are to develop methods for educating the public, and to identify governmental actions that have resulted in harm to Oregonians of African-American descent from systemic discrimination in areas such as enslavement, racial terror, political disenfranchisement, housing segregation, separate and unequal education, racism related to the environment and infrastructure, pathologizing the Black family, control over creative cultural and intellectual life, stolen labor and hindered opportunity, an unjust legal system, mental and physical harm and neglect, the wealth gap and racial bias in employment and advancement. The bill applies it to the present: “especially for Oregonians of African-American descent who seek public employment or promotion to higher paying positions in government… Identify methods for eliminating anti-Black discrimination policies in artistic, cultural, creative, athletic and intellectual life.” One might think Oregon has no discrimination laws. However Oregon's discrimination laws are considered among the more progressive in the United States even including discrimination against hairstyles.

Reparation is the worst type of segregation adhering to socialism. African-Americans are not the only people that endured slavery. It was African nations that allowed capturing their own and putting them on ships to be marketed. Why not sue the African government for wrongfully enslaving them? America was not the instigators, and some say they rescued them, gave them jobs and housing and kept them from starving.

Former Oregon Senator Chuck Riley said slavery was right in the day, but then he apologized for being caught on video. However, he said the same thing on the Senate floor a few days later. Upon being asked, he said it is true "slavery was right at the time".

Paying a class of people that didn’t experience slavery by taxpayers that had nothing to do with slavery is another form of slavery. How will enslaving the descendants of the enslavers correct anything but widen the gap of disunity between the races.

Mark Cosby, frequently seen around the capitol asks: “should todays citizens pay for a study casting blame on their family without a trial? Should they be forced to pay reparations without the right of trial? It seems very flawed. And who would the witnesses be at this late point? Don’t we need living victims and witnesses?”

Manning must have seen Cosby coming, so he added the present-day victims to the prior bill. The current application of reparations is a form of penalty on everyone to benefit one race – redistribution of wealth. Receiving distribution in a discriminatory fashion is a “color of law” move that degrades the very people it is aimed at helping. The 2024 Measure 118 to redistribute wealth was voted down by 77% of voters.

Cosby adds, “The only victims that meet the true criteria just might be coming here labeled 'illegals'. People are coming from 170 countries at the hands of cartels. Cartels who have been aided and abetted by Sanctuary States like Oregon. Many are being held in slave camps today in Oregon.”

Cosby expresses his anger, “it infuriates me that we do not fund sheriffs to eradicate these slave camps. Camps that the Oregon Legislature calls "illegal grows". In 2021 Oregon legislature funded a $21 million grant to clear out slave camps, which closed eight camps in two years. Now that money is gone and it should have been replenished in 2023. Instead, the cartels moved back in greater numbers. Why not free these slaves? Does the Democrat super-majority endorse slavery when it’s to their benefit?”

In 1987 Oregon Legislature passed a bill prohibiting profiling for police to justify stopping a vehicle. Later it was referred to as a Sanctuary State Act and amended in 2017 doubling down on sanctuary type legislation. Cosby says, “by 2019 it was common knowledge there were slave camps in Oregon. K-D Ranch in Kerby, Oregon, was raided by 200 officers from 11 agencies and rescued 250 slaves. It took two years for the legislature to fund $21 million. That next year (2022), the legislature passed SB 1510, crippling police to effectively deal with riots and slave camps.”

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

In Cosby research, he discovered that in 2023, "many elected Democrats in Oregon were found to have taken brown bags of money from LaMota. Former Secretary of State Shamia Fagan was forced from her office and landed in a Federal Court Room, later followed by Val Hoyle. It is my understanding that Governor Kotek took some $67,000, and Sen Wagner admitted he got money he didn't report to OrStar along with 20 others. This is willful misconduct for career politicians who certainly know reporting laws.”

Since 2021, Oregon has given billions of tax dollars to NGO's, and the homelessness has increased. Oregon is one of three states with the highest homeless population. DOGE has uncovered billions going to NGO's that fund "illegals" to be trafficked over our borders. The Trump administration has drastically slowed the number of missing children that was at 320,000 in 2024.

“But, Fentanyl is the main money maker for cartels,” says Cosby, “and in 2024 Democrat Legislators attempted a backwards fix to Measure 110. These drugs are destroying lives, creating a environment of human abuse while cartels profit.”

Oregon’s majority leadership and caucus want to reward past and current performance with reparations, while committing the same but more serious crimes against humanity by defending the Sanctuary State status, refusing to stop slavery and trafficking, defrauding taxpayers, and crippling police.

Cosby concludes, “until the Oregon Legislature can clean house, it appears we have to rely on Federal Laws regarding illegal border crossings. Is not Oregon's 1987 Sanctuary Law in direct conflict of Federal law? Is not the using of tax dollars to fund illegals to be held in slavery a total abuse of the taxpayer funds?” To make his connection, Cosby asks, “If HB 2995 is to then be funded by taxpayers, would that not in its self be slavery of our citizens, also?”


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2025-02-15 17:01:10

Last Update: 2025-02-16 19:04:00