Apparently, the United Nations has created something called the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD – the acronym is awful unless you pronounce it “PuffPad.”) It’s probably another one of those U.N. bodies that surface every couple of years, makes an appallingly stupid and immoral announcement, then runs back to its hole to act busy and spend more of those sweet Turtle Bay Bucks^TM.

Anyway last week, Joe Biden’s appointee to PuffPad, Howard University Professor Justin Hansford, “called on the United Nations to set up a reparations tribunal and explore options to offer some type of ‘justice’ to Black Americans for slavery.”

Hansford said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech lays out the argument for reparations, but the speech has been “distorted, sanitized and drained of its true radical vision.”

“Despite that, I believe we can now safely say that Dr. King’s assertion that the U.S. Constitution was a promissory note, which came back marked insufficient funds for its Negro citizens, was both accurate and ominous.”

Hmm. Here I thought King was a great writer and orator, capable of crafting an exquisite metaphor like the “promissory note.” My bad. I guess he should now be remembered as an unimaginative materialist.

On the other hand, Justin Hansford is a mystic, a seer:

“It’s now clear, more clear now than ever before that reparations is what justice looks like in the 21st century.”

Then he spread wide his arms and thundered, “Can you dig it?!”

Okay, maybe he didn’t do that last bit but, tonally, it wouldn’t have been out of place.

He also said that “white scholars and lawyers have controlled the narrative of determining what type of reparations should be given to black people.”

Hansford wants PuffPad a to create “new community of legal thinkers that’s not limited to lawyers but includes anyone who is passionate about justice.” Or free money.

“And we come together and demand that many of the states in this room that have benefited from the legacy of our oppression start the process of apology and reparation, but not on their terms, but on our terms,” he concluded.

Can you dig it?!

Supposedly, his students did research and found that “90 reparations committees have been created in the U.S. since the death of George Floyd in 2020.” Yes, 90 American jurisdictions are run by dingbat white leftists who felt really virtuous establishing a committee, or by cynics trying to buy off the mob.

“Hansford argued reparations should be framed as a type of ‘justice’ or ‘repair’ for Black Americans rather than as a ‘gift’ or ‘charity.’” And don’t call it a “grift” or an “extortion,” either.

I have to say, PuffPad and the reparation demand are good tactics for everybody involved. The reparations crowd gets in the ear of all sorts of anti-American pests, and it knows if it could just push things far enough, it could get censure votes (or whatever) from China, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, and, depending on how French it’s feeling, France.

Big Reparations also knows that nobody in America gives a fig about the squeaks of UN substructures of standing committees of permanent forums except Democrat politicians – exactly the people they want to pressure. And with good reason: Dems have shown themselves willing to tilt at all kinds of windmills, unless those windmills are federally subsidized, actively killing birds and ruining flyover landscapes.

It’s good tactics for Biden. He knows that he’ll be long dead and Hunter will be up for parole by the time reparations get anywhere near passage through Congress. It’s a great way to keep at least some of the reparationists out of his plugs. “Justin, old buddy, we’re creating a PuffPad. What’s a PuffPad … I’m not sure, but I don’t think it has to do with hemorrhoids. Anyway, how’d you like to go badmouth your country and get them to get us to give out reparations?“

It’s good the reparations scam is going international, because the sooner it does, the sooner the illogic and base greed of the thing become apparent. As I wrote here a while ago:

I want to pay my fair share, just as soon as Great Britain pays reparations for what it did to my ancestors in Ireland. Catholic Laws, Penal Laws, Corn Laws, famine, land dispossession, violent crackdowns – Cornwallis was far more brutal in Connacht than he ever was in Virginia. And while I don’t know exactly how my family forbearers were impacted by all that, I would welcome a grant from reparations scholars to take a research trip to the old country, there to scour parish records and land deeds and ask around at quaint village pubs and seaside golf links.

But I doubt the Brits are going to fork the pounds over until they get reparations from the Normans, and the Danes, and, heck, even the Romans. But Roman descendants in Italy really can’t afford to pay reparations unless the Gauls, the Visigoths, and the Vandals pay for sacking the Eternal City. Maybe the Eastern Roman Empire could … nope. The Turks would have to pay reparations — if they could get theirs from the Arabs …