If you had been wondering why Democrats and their big-box media enablers are suddenly zealously pushing for reparations for black farmers, a heretofore invisible subcategory in the ever-growing identity politics ranks, Jon Ossoff shed some light on the matter in Georgia.

Jon Ossoff

The Democratic is going up against Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in one of two Jan. 5 Peach State runoff elections that will decide control of the Senate. He became the focus of some attention for using the term “campesino” in a Dec. 13 campaign speech. The Spanish word can be translated as farmworker, but its far greater significance is as “peasant,” with all the highly charged social justice connotations that come with that label.

The sight of Ossoff, the product of a wealthy and entitled upbringing, referring to migrant farm laborers as serfs has drawn deserved criticism of pampered progressive elites w...