@marwilliamson explains what they mean very well. You’re stomping hard for Bernie when he has adequate access to scholars and orgs to know what reparations mean. youtube.com/szL84l9kd4I

She wants to give a $10 billion to "economic projects and educational projects for renewal." That is not a reparations plan. Honestly I would hope you'd want more than to fall for more lip service.

Can you please give a source or where she said that. Just for reference please. I need a link. Please and Thank you.

ebony.com/news/dem-president… Note that it's very difficult to figure out what she wants. Her website says a lot of nice stuff about the history of discrimination and what we're owed, but is short on specifics.

I’m quite specific. marianne2020.com/issues/raci…

I respect your efforts to normalize the issue. I think that’s important. But this is not a plan. It’s a huge number range with no details about distribution or how this “council” would be selected — much less how it would be distributed.

It’s not white America’s role to say how the money is disbursed. That’s why selection of the reparations counsel is so important. The legal stipulation is “projects for economic & educational renewal.” If you owe people $, you don’t get to tell them how to spend it.

So you acknowledge that you don’t have a plan to do more than hand a crazy large amount of money to a bunch of black “leaders” who will be selected though some as-yet figured out but assuredly undemocratic process?

Where’s the research into what types of investments would do the most to help the black community? Are the “leaders” required to use said metrics before they distribute funds? How are the benefits going to be directed to ADOS as opposed to blacks generally or the broader pop?

I’m not saying this to be discouraging. I think these things could be worked out. But these people are looking to your “plan” as a gold standard when they should be asking for much more.