Marianne Williamson details $500 BILLION reparations plan including panel of slave descendants 

Marianne Williamson details her $500 BILLION reparations plan for slavery saying that she will set up panel of descendants of slaves to help spend cash

  • 2020 candidate Marianne Williamson rolled out a hefty reparations plan with no indication of how it would be paid for
  • The proposal would dish out $200-$500 billion to descendants of slaves over 20 years
  • Williamson also said there would be a panel of 30-50 slave descendants that would decide how the money would be distributed
  • Reparations have been a big focus of Williamson’s campaign 
  • The council would decide ‘how is the money disbursed’ as long as it’s ‘used for economic and educational renewal’
  • During the debates, Williamson said she ‘did the math of 40 acres and a mule,’ and that it would equal out to trillions in reparations today
  • She conceded the amount she proposed is more of a ‘politically feasible figure’

Marianne Williamson has finally unrolled a reparations plan, and it includes paying $500 billion to descendants of slaves.

The breakout star of the 2020 Democratic primary campaign said there would be a commission of African American leaders who would be appointed to decide how the billions would be distributed.

‘I want a reparations council made up of 30 to 50 people who themselves are descendants of American slaves,’ Williamson told CNN on Wednesday. ‘They are people who have a background of deep understanding and research on this topic.’

‘I have proposed $200 to $500 billion to be disbursed over a period of 20 years. It would be this reparations council that decides how is the money disbursed within the context of the stipulation on the part of the US government that the money is be used for economic and educational renewal,’ she continued.

Marianne Williamson unveiled a $500 billion reparations plan on Wednesday

The author said there would be a panel of 30-50 descendants of slaves that would be appointed to decide how the billions would be distributed

The author said there would be a panel of 30-50 descendants of slaves that would be appointed to decide how the billions would be distributed

Williamson has made reparations a focus of her campaign.

She told CNN that she feels strongly about reparations compared to other race-related issues because it addresses the fact that there was some sort of fault in why an economic gap exists between white people and African Americans.

‘With reparations, there’s an inherent mea culpa,’ she said. ‘It is an acknowledgment of a wrong that has been done, a debt owed and the willingness of a nation to pay it.’

During the CNN debates in Detroit last month, she was the only candidate of 20 to offer a specific financial proposal regarding reparations.

She said she ‘did the math of 40 acres and a mule,’ which was initially promised to slaves, and says that would equal out to trillions of dollars, but conceded somewhere between $200-$500 billion is a politically feasible figure.

Reparations has been a focus of Williamson's campaign, and during the Detroit debates she was the only one who mentioned specific financial compensation

Reparations has been a focus of Williamson’s campaign, and during the Detroit debates she was the only one who mentioned specific financial compensation

There was no mention of where the billions of dollars would come from to pay for reparations, but Williamson said she did the math on '40 acres and a mule' and it would actually equal out to trillions

There was no mention of where the billions of dollars would come from to pay for reparations, but Williamson said she did the math on ’40 acres and a mule’ and it would actually equal out to trillions 

‘People heal when there’s some deep truth-telling,’ Williamson said at the second night of the Detroit debates in late July. ‘We need to recognize, when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with. That great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed by another hundred years of domestic terrorism.’

An overview of her plan on the campaign website does not indicate how the billions in reparations for descendants of slaves would be funded.

Other 2020 contenders, including Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and John Delaney also said they support the creation of a congressional panel that would look into making reparations a reality.

Williamson, an author and spiritual advisor, emerged a winner at both the June debate, in Miami Florida, and Detroit debate.

Both events were held on two consecutive nights, and on the nights she appeared on stage alongside nine other candidates, she became the most Googled candidate in both debates.

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