Chair of California’s reparations task force demands black homeless are compensated for slavery

The five economists who will determine how much the state will pay black Californians for historical injustices include a professor who has called for nationwide reparations of up to $14 billion.

Other members of the expert panel advising the California Reparations Task Force on what they believe would be a fair amount reimbursed to the descendants of racial profiling have said there is no such thing as a black middle class and argued that the situation of Native Americans Americans is “irrelevant”. ‘

Woke professors William Spriggs, Thomas Craemer, Kaycea Campbell, William A ‘Sandy’ Darity Jr, and his wife, Professor Kirstin Mullen, are charged with quantifying past economic injustices faced by African Americans 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 how much black Californians are owed and how many residents would be entitled to the funds.

The five members of the so-called expert panel previously submitted a report outlining the “five harms or atrocities” the state of California has committed against black people and made “guesstimates” of how much their descendants should be rewarded.

Using historical data, the panel of experts calculated that black Californians who lived in the state between 1933 and 1977 experienced a housing wealth gap of $223,239, or $5,074 per year. ABC 10 reports.

They also determined that the potential income lost by black Californians incarcerated since 1971, the start of then-President Nixon’s War on Drugs, to the present is a total of $124,678, or $2,494 per year.

And, argues the five-member panel of experts, because Black Californians face disproportionate health outcomes with shorter life expectancies than white Californians, and Black mothers are four times more likely to die in childbirth than other groups. , are entitled to $127,226 each year.

But these are just ‘guesstimates,’ Campbell said at a recent meeting, and the total amount paid to black Californians could be even higher. Ultimately, it will be up to California state legislators to approve the payments.

DailyMail.com has now taken a closer look at the so-called experts who have arrived at these figures.

William Spriggs: He argues that ‘the economy is racist’

William Spriggs, a professor and former head of Howard University’s Department of Economics, has said that economic models inherently include racist ideals.

speaking to CNBC at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, he said that basic economic principles perpetuate inequality.

“We ignore the constructions that our society has created,” he argued. “The purpose of these constructions is to create inequality.”

More recently, Spriggs He suggested people applying for unemployment insurance should not have to prove they are looking for a job, as he said any reduction in unemployment insurance would increase the income disparity between blacks and whites.

Despite his views on the field, Spriggs has made a name for himself in the field of economics.

He was appointed by then-President Barack Obama in 2009 to serve as deputy secretary of the Department of Labor’s Office of Policy and was president of the National Economic Association, an organization of black economists.

Spriggs now works as the chief economist for the AFL-CIO and is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Thomas Craemer: US Reparations Estimated at $14 BILLION

Thomas Craemer, a German expat who teaches public policy at the University of Connecticut, made a name for himself in 2015 when he published his formula that black Americans are owed $14 trillion in reparations.

He arrived at that figure, he said, by tabulating how many hours all slaves in the US worked from when the country was officially established in 1776 until slavery was abolished and multiplying that by average wages at the time.

“For me, the calculations of the model help us to understand the magnitude of the injustice,” he told the uconn magazine in 2019, noting that the amount owed has risen from $19 to $20 trillion.

He continued arguing with Connecticut Mirror that even though it’s a lot of money, ‘America has never shied away from a big project.

Craemer later put his words into action by partnership with Georgetown University to pay the descendants of 272 slaves.

William Darity Jr and Kirstin Mullen: They argue that the difficulties of other races do not matter

William Darity Jr and his wife, Professor Kirstin Mullen, literally wrote the book on repairs, arguing cash payments are the only way to advance in American society.

They have said that the costs of slavery run too deep into American society, with Darity once suggestion that there is no such thing as a black middle class, just slightly wealthier people from a marginalized group.

And, together, they have argued that the injustices committed against blacks outweigh all the injustices committed against other racial groups.

Them recognize in his book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century, that while Native Americans ‘could make a much more costly claim to the American government than black Americans’, potentially including all of the United States , their claims are ‘irrelevant’ to the urgency of the claims made by black people.

Darity now works as the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and a professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics.

Her focus, according to her online bio, is on racial inequality; economics of class and ethnic stratification, education, and the racial achievement gap; North-South theories of trade and development; skin color and labor market outcomes; the economics of repairs; the Atlantic slave trade and the industrial revolution; the history of economics and the social and psychological effects of exposure to unemployment.

Mullen, meanwhile, is a speaker who travels across the country to speak about the need for reparations for black people.

Kaycea Williams: Economist studying Jamaica

Not much is known about Kaycea Williams’ views, but much of her work appears to be focused on economic issues in her home country of Jamaica, according to her LinkedIn.

He has previously written about public corruption and its effects on economies.

Williams now works as a professor of economics at Chapman University and Pierce University in Los Angeles and runs a company called Strategic Economic Analysis.