North Carolina city spends $300,000 on reparations expert DESPITE her posts ... trends now

A North Carolina city has approved $300,000 for a reparations consultant with a record in online posts about 'White accommodation' and how her neighbors 'celebrate and romanticize segregation.'

High Point City Council on Tuesday greenlighted $292,460 for Lea Henry and her team at the National Institute of Minority Economic Development, to lead its reparations efforts.

At least two councillors have queried the large sum — but there are few signs that members are aware of the hard-line views that Henry, a Harvard University graduate, posts on social media.

On Facebook, Henry has slammed her North Carolina neighbors for 'celebrating segregation' and railed against 'White accommodation', a term critical race theory (CRT) advocates use to describe a type of black oppression.

Whether taxes should fund cash payouts and other schemes for the descendants of slaves is a hot-button issue in America's culture wars. For critics of them, reparations consultants are a drain on much-needed resources.

Henry's posts raise questions about whether she's the right woman for the job.

In one, she refers to an online group for former and current residents of her own North Carolina city, Rocky Mount, to share nostalgic photos of yesteryear.

'People comment about how wonderful those times and those places were and everyone in the pictures is white,' she posted in September.

'Do they not see that they are celebrating and romanticizing segregation?'

Those who commented positively on the photos were delivering a 'gut punch' to the blacks who were 'legally excluded' at the time, she said.

The comments were a 'reminder about Jim

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