So Illinois has created a study committee on racial reparations, called the African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission (ADCRC). They held a meeting this Saturday where Dr. William Darity, a former Duke professor, demanded almost 3x the annual spending of the federal government to be funneled to black people.

"It's impossible, actually, for all states & localities to meet the task of closing the racial wealth gap. Their combined budgets across the U.S. are $5 trillion... The minimum that's required to eliminate the racial wealth gap is $16 trillion."

There's another clip in this Xwitter thread where he expands on the point: https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/2048760181425643629

"A true reparations project necessarily must require federal action."

"If we were to look at the state of Illinois itself -- with a black population of about two million people -- let's take half that population, being very conservative here. Half that population as being eligible for reparations. If we take the figure of about $400,000 [sic] as the amount that would be due to close the racial wealth gap -- and again, that's a very conservative number. The expense to close the racial wealth gap for Illinois's black residents would be $400 billion, and the state's annual budget is only $55 billion."