Young black man DESTROYS woke leftist in CRT debate on Jubilee
A young man who goes by the alias “Mat Nuclear” went viral this week for destroying actress Amanda Seales on the popular debate show “Surrounded” by Jubilee Media.
The 18-year-old went face-to-face with the critical race theorist, who regurgitates the idea that if you have white skin, you have inherently benefited from racism. And even if you’ve never held a racist thought or made a racist comment — your white skin makes you inherently racist.
“You can give everyone here, like, $50,000 — especially people that are in the streets who are committing violent crimes consistently — a $50,000 check. It’s not going to fix anything. It’s not going to increase the median household income in the next 10 years by 10% or 20%,” Nuclear told Seales, who was arguing in favor of reparations.
Nuclear then referred to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which prevented the Chinese from getting citizenship and entering the country.
“We discriminated against them and basically put them under apartheid even here in the United States. Yet they have the highest median household income. How is that possible? How come they don’t complain and feel entitled consistently to beg for reparations and beg for this when they are killing each other 90% of the time, which is the rate that black people kill each other according to the FBI,” Nuclear explained to a shocked Seales.
“Oh, young Mat. I’m not sure where your education came from, but they lied to you,” Seales responded weakly.
Nuclear then went on to attack “systemic racism,” telling Seales that the only racism he’s witnessed is “the application of systemic racism against white people.”
“The University of Western Washington, for example, has been trying to segregate dormitories, using black-only dormitories because black people feel safer amongst each other. But they’re more likely to kill each other than white people are ever to kill them. That’s just the truth,” he explained.
As the argument went on, Seales called Nuclear’s beliefs “scary” and scolded him for debating her.
“You need to think about me as your mama. Do not talk to me in that fashion. So let’s check that now,” she said.
BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler is thoroughly impressed with Nuclear and unsurprised that his opponent was no match for his intellect.
“He did an outstanding job, right? She had zero response,” Wheeler says.
“‘Statistics lie,’ she says, yet she didn’t name one false statistic that he listed,” she continues. “‘Your education failed you,’ she claimed, but she could not debunk any of the history that he referenced. ‘Think of me as your mama; don’t speak to me in that tone,’ she said as he was entirely respectful — and I imagine his mother was extremely proud.”
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In the shadow of legends, ordinary lives tell a bigger truth
I take a weekly walk in Sleepy Hollow, New York, through its historic cemetery, where many captains of industry rest. William Rockefeller lies in a grand mausoleum. So do Walter Chrysler, Leona Helmsley, and Elizabeth Arden. Andrew Carnegie’s grave is marked only by a simple Celtic cross.
Washington Irving is buried there, too, in a sprawling family plot on a hill just behind the Old Dutch Church he made famous in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
In the present, our responsibility is to live with honor, blessing and serving those we know and influence today.
But among the monuments to those who built billion-dollar corporations or wrote legendary tales, you’ll also find the graves of “ordinary folks” — men and women of humble means and obscure backgrounds. Walking among these modest headstones, you begin to see the nobility in even a simple life well lived.
One headstone I saw recently brought that home — and made me think about the left’s ongoing push for “reparations.”
Repayment for injustice
On the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, I came across the grave of a man who died in 1912. That August morning in 1945, an estimated 70,000 people perished when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city — a calculated gamble to end World War II quickly.
In the years before the bombing, Japanese Americans — U.S. citizens — were herded into internment camps. Many likely had close relatives and friends who died in Hiroshima that day. In 1988, the federal government agreed to pay monetary reparations to surviving internees.
The Conversation, a website that claims to blend “academic rigor” with “journalistic flair,” offers a comparison between reparations for Japanese Americans and those sought for African Americans. One logistical distinction, the site notes, is that the injustice against the Japanese occurred over a defined period — from 1942, when internment began, to 1945, when the war ended.
The tombstone that started the gears turning in my head along that cemetery walk had an interesting dedication carved into it. A man named John C.L. Hamilton shared the gravesite with his wife, who died a few years after he did, but for his part, the inscription read:
Photo by Albin Sadar
JOHN C.L. HAMILTON
1842–1912
Soldier and Patriot
He Served His Country with Valor
and Distinction During the
Tragic Years of Our Civil War
Many other Civil War veterans reside in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and, standing prominently among them, is a fitting monument:
Photo by Albin Sadar
PATRIA CARIOR QUAM VITA.
[Country Dearer Than Life]
OUR
UNION SOLDIERS.
While Freedom's name
is understood,
They shall delight the
wise and good;
They dared to set their
country free,
And gave her laws
equality.
Another notable person who has found her final resting place in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is Amanda Foster, who passed away at the age of 97. She used her freedom helping others through the Underground Railroad:
Photo by Albin Sadar
(By the way, if you would like to watch a short but fun 2-1/2-minute “video tour” of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, I made one about eight years ago.)
Moving on and moving up
Many men and women — black and white — pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to rid the young nation of slavery. If the United States ever pursued true reparations based on an honest review of historical records, the line of claimants who lost family and treasure — black and white — would stretch long.
Punishment for those who engaged in the slave trade or owned slaves ended long ago. The best way to close that dark chapter is not to blame or “correct” the past, but to leave those people and events where they belong — in history.
In the present, our responsibility is to live with honor, blessing and serving those we know and influence today.
Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally at American Thinker.
Trump reparations would be Dems’ biggest loss since the GOP took their slaves away
Donald Trump has a rare chance this Juneteenth to deliver Democrats their most painful political blow in 160 years.
The man hailed by supporters as a master dealmaker could throw the American system into upheaval by proposing a “MAGA-vellian” reparations plan — a bold mix of populist theater and strategic ruthlessness.
If Trump launched the MAGA Fund, he wouldn’t just rewrite political norms — he’d cement his place as the most disruptive figure in modern American history.
Call it the MAGA Democrat Slavery Compensation Fund.
This plan wouldn’t just shake up Washington. It would redraw the partisan map and deal a death blow to the race-peddling civil rights industry by exposing the fraud at the core of progressive politics. And coming from a president who has vowed to restore Confederate base names, the MAGA Fund would remind voters which party fought to keep slavery alive.
Timing is everything.
Trump acknowledged Juneteenth in his first term and pledged to make it a federal holiday during the 2020 campaign. Biden signed it into law in 2021, but the effort quickly became partisan theater. Critics said Democrats only embraced the holiday after the George Floyd riots, hoping to appease Black Lives Matter activists.
Candace Owens called Juneteenth “sooo lame” and “ghetto.” Charlie Kirk dismissed it as a “CRT-inspired federal holiday” meant to compete with Independence Day.
But now that Trump’s back in the White House — more popular among black voters than any Republican since the 1960s — he’s well-positioned to pull off a maneuver that could rattle his ideological base and neutralize his fiercest critics.
The MAGA Fund would benefit only the descendants of American slaves — not black immigrants, not “people of color,” and not members of the ever-expanding LGBTQIA+ rainbow coalition. It would expose the cynical way Democrats — whose party symbol is a donkey — have used black Americans as political mules for every new “civil rights” cause since the 1960s.
Duke economist Sandy Darity estimates full reparations would cost $10 trillion. The MAGA Fund? Just $855 billion. It would draw from corporate donations — a logical move, since more than 1,000 companies pledged more than $200 billion to “racial justice” causes in 2020.
The MAGA Fund would also weaponize the left’s favorite buzzword: equity.
Progressives insist policies must favor the disadvantaged. Why not apply that within the black community? Under this plan, Oprah Winfrey and LeBron James wouldn’t get the same payout as a Mississippi man working three jobs or a single mom raising four kids in the inner city.
Here’s how it would work:
- Black households earning over $100,000 (about 25% of the total) would receive a symbolic $345, referencing the 345 years between the arrival of African slaves in 1619 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Households earning $50,000 to $100,000 (roughly 30%) would receive $34,500.
- Families under $50,000 (about 45%) would receive $103,500.
The MAGA Fund would channel the populist energy dominating the right. It would highlight how Democrats, backed by elite institutions, claim to represent the oppressed while serving the powerful. It would force them to either support Trump’s plan or explain why the party of “equity” opposes targeted aid to poor black Americans.
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Even critics like Ann Coulter might back the idea. She’s blasted Democrats for extending black reparations programs to every new “oppressed” group. She’s also listed the conditions under which she’d support reparations.
Of course, Republicans would need to manage their white working-class base. Conservative pundits would rage. But behind closed doors, they could frame the plan as a final settlement — a way to declare the race debate closed. The race hustlers would need a new line of work after Trump stamped the national debt to black Americans “Paid in Full.”
And it wouldn’t just be symbolic.
Put nearly a trillion dollars into circulation and watch what happens. Dave Chappelle joked in a 2003 sketch that reparations would send gold prices soaring, phone bills plummeting, and “8,000 new record labels” starting within an hour. The skit played off stereotypes — but behind the comedy was economic truth.
Studies of universal basic income show recipients typically spend on essentials like food and transportation. A Washington, D.C., program gave low-income moms $10,800. One woman used $6,000 to take her kids and their father to Miami. You don’t need a PhD to know that pumping money into poor communities stimulates demand.
If Trump launched the MAGA Fund, he wouldn’t just rewrite political norms — he’d cement his place as the most disruptive figure in modern American history. Who else but a twice-divorced real estate mogul and ex-Democrat could overturn Roe, win over evangelicals, survive two impeachments and an assassin’s bullet — and then sign big, beautiful reparations checks with a smile?
Will it happen? Probably not.
Politics is too polarized. Corporations would recoil at helping Trump. Professional race merchants would denounce the plan as pandering. The left would lose its mind. The right might lose its nerve.
Still, if the last decade taught voters anything, it’s this: Never bet against the Teflon Don.
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NPR CEO, Who Called Trump 'Deranged Racist Sociopath,' Tells Congress There's No 'Political Bias' at Taxpayer-Funded Broadcaster
NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who once called President Donald Trump a "deranged racist sociopath," testified Wednesday to Congress that she's "never seen … political bias" at the taxpayer-funded outlet, a comment that provoked laughter.
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DC Council Alters Progressive Bill Titles To Evade Scrutiny From Trump, Congress
The D.C. Council quietly altered the titles of progressive bills in hopes of evading scrutiny from President-elect Donald Trump and the incoming Republican-controlled Congress, the Washington Post reported.
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Sue Altman Spent Months Distancing Herself From Her Progressive Past. Then a Far-Left Group Spent $735,000 on Her Election Bid.
Democratic New Jersey congressional candidate Sue Altman claimed in September that she had "broken" with the Working Families Party on a range of issues—part of her effort to distance herself from her progressive past as a state chapter leader. But two weeks later, the far-left group began dumping more than $735,000 into the swing-district candidate's election bid.
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Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Gets Reparations Payments From White Friends
Isra Hirsi, the daughter of "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), has received "reparations" payments from her white friends on Juneteenth most years since 2019, the Washington Free Beacon has found.
Both of Hirsi’s parents are Somali immigrants. Reparations advocates, meanwhile, typically push for payments to descendants of African Americans enslaved in the U.S., while Juneteenth commemorates the nation’s 1865 end of slavery.
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