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?

Once again, that is for members of #ADOS to determine. It is reasonable to assume some level of govt. agreement that the plans do support economic and educational renewal, but that is all.

Well, I’m ADOS, and as a community member, the idea that some random community members would be in charge of reparations without any accountability to citizens or social science troubles me a great deal.

These community members would so not be “random.” There are scholars and leaders who have been doing profound work on this issue for years.

Like who???