Children’s YouTube and Netflix personality Ms. Rachel is adding reparations to her expanding catalogue of left wing causes.
The creator presented her latest political message through an Instagram post shared with more than five million followers.
Ms. Rachel, also known as Rachel Accurso, used an excerpt from Coates’ 2014 essay The Case for Reparations.
The passage was offered to support the argument that the United States must “reckon” with its history of slavery and the policies that followed it.
The excerpt listed successive periods of slavery, Jim Crow, separate but equal treatment, and racist housing policy.
Its central message was that America cannot become whole until it confronts what the passage described as compounding moral debts.
Coates is identified as an American author, journalist, and activist.
His essay argued that American prosperity was improperly obtained and that reconciliation with the country’s past requires something broader than simply handing out money.
However, the post did not acknowledge the Democratic Party’s historical connection to slavery and Jim Crow Laws.
That omission is central to the criticism surrounding Ms. Rachel’s decision to promote the reparations argument to her enormous Instagram audience.
Neither Coates nor Ms. Rachel appears interested in addressing the Democratic Party’s role in creating slavery and Jim Crow Laws.
Instead, the Instagram message focused entirely on America’s accumulated moral obligations.
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Breitbart News writer Jerome Hudson has previously addressed that political history while discussing Democratic support for reparations.
Hudson framed the issue as a glaring contradiction for a party with historical roots in slavery.
“The Democratic Party is the party of slavery. Thanks to the Democrats’ cartoonish clown car of presidential candidates, the party of slavery is now the party of reparations for slavery.”
Hudson supported his argument by citing former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who spoke to author Angela McGlown about the Democratic Party and the Confederacy.
Jackson said the Confederate flag historically belonged to his party.
Jackson also pointed to Jefferson Davis as a Democrat and said Stonewall Jackson strongly identified with the Democratic Party.
He further said Southern secessionists considered themselves Democrats and that much of the party’s history has roots in slavery.
For Ms. Rachel, the reparations post is not her first public effort to display leftist credentials.
The children’s content creator has repeatedly used her large social media presence to promote political candidates and positions beyond her YouTube and Netflix programming.
Last month, she encouraged her millions of Instagram followers to vote for Denver Congressional candidate Melat Kiros.
Breitbart News previously reported that Kiros had said 9/11 was “inevitable.”
That endorsement placed Ms. Rachel directly in the political conversation by urging followers to support a specific Congressional candidate.
Her new post continues that pattern, this time by elevating Coates’ reparations argument and his call for a national reckoning.
Ms. Rachel has also appeared with journalist Mehdi Hasan to defend her repeated use of Hamas talking points against Israel.
Hasan is known as a notorious anti-Israel radical, and Ms. Rachel’s statements are constantly echoing those talking points.
Taken together, the Instagram post, the endorsement of Melat Kiros, and the appearance with Mehdi Hasan show Ms. Rachel continuing to publicly push leftist causes.
Her latest move brings reparations for slavery and Jim Crow Laws before an audience of more than five million Instagram followers.
The newest message relies on Coates’ 2014 essay to frame the United States as burdened by unresolved moral debts.
Yet it leaves unaddressed the Democratic Party history emphasized by Hudson and acknowledged in the comments Jesse Jackson Jr. gave to Angela McGlown.
