The five woke economists who will decide how much Californians pay in reparations | Daily Mail Online
The five economists who will determine just how much the state will pay black Californians for historic injustices include a professor who has called for nationwide reparations of up to $14trillion.
Other members of the expert panel advising California’s Reparations Task Force on what they believe would be a fair amount repaid to the descendants of racial discrimination have said there is no such thing as a black middle class and argued the plight of Native Americans is ‘irrelevant.’
Woke professors William Spriggs, Thomas Craemer, Kaycea Campbell, William A ‘Sandy’ Darity Jr and his wife, lecturer Kirstin Mullen, are charged with quantifying the past economic injustices African Americans faced and determining how much compensation black Californians should receive for those crimes.
The controversial task force now has until the end of June to submit its final report outlining just how much black Californians are owed and how many residents would be entitled to the funds.
As an Atlantic Islander-American, I am dubious of these proposed reparations. If money is taken from the descendants of former slave owners, that is one thing. But my ancestors were closer to being the (wage-)slaves at least of that particular slave-owning class, than they were owners of anybody. The Irish side of my family were plenty discriminated against, while the English probably fought on the Union side in the civil war, being from places like Pennsylvania and Quakers for heaven’s sake. So, it would be odd to seek reparations from me. On the other hand, I met some of the truly OG Southern ruling class sorts in the Reagan administration, and you can take all of their money, as far as I’m concerned. They were not attractive people. Of course, none of this makes any sense from the point of view of good government. If reparations happen, it will be a naked money grab, from the most vulnerable to taxation to the most favored classes. These observations are thus merely theoretical.