She never claimed she started the reparations movement and has acknowledged many times the people that came before her and Antonio.
My comment was responding to someone who did suggest she got it started.
She has always stated that while Coates did a great piece on reparations he purposefully stopped short in pushing for it beyond his writing. He didn't even offer any pushback when Obama tried to explain why he didn't support it (a critical moment in my view).
That doesn't even make any sense because Coates spoke out extremely forcefully on his disappointment with Obama. To complain about Coates not pushing back against Obama fast enough when Yvette was pushing for fukking RON PAUL at that moment is the height of hypocrisy.
My largest issue with Yvette isn't just that she changed her position over and over. It's that she keeps changing her position while shytting on everyone else, claiming that she has the one true way and everyone else is wrong.....then 3 years later she argues the exact same thing they did.
* In 2012, Yvette was pushing for the far-right racist Ron Paul who didn't want to give Black people fukking anything, race-specific or not, and who openly cavorted with White Supremacists and pushed racist troupes in his newsletters and social media. At the same time, she joins forces with the open White Supremacist John Tanton and co-heads one of his anti-immigrant organizations. This is a guy who was openly corresponding with and getting funding from White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis across the world, publishing White Supremacist literature, and stating that his goal was to maintain a "European-American majority". She was running hype for THOSE people during the Obama years, then 5 years later she's bytching that Coates wasn't far enough left of Obama.
* In 2016, Yvette is criticizing Coates for being too much of a hardliner on reparations, saying that he needs to stop focusing on identity politics and support someone more like Bernie Sanders, who is proposing dozens of big programs who will help Black folk. The same person who was promoting a libertarian 4 years earlier is now pushing a socialist.
* In 2019, Yvette starts shytting on Coates for endorsing Bernie, saying that Bernie isn't good enough on reparations. The SAME person who hit on Coates for not supporting Bernie enough in 2016 is now shytting on him for reluctantly supporting Bernie in 2019. And she does this with zero acknowledgment of how much her stance as changed. She just acts like she knows everything and is 100% right.....despite being on the exact opposite side 3 years earlier.
it's all just disingenuous to me. She doesn't have the data and research background to prove her points, they primarily go off of her personal authority.....but how can that authority be taken seriously when she changes on a whim every 3-4 years? Zero humility, zero admittance that she doesn't have all the hours, zero apologies when she's wrong. I can't take her seriously.