Biden Taps Reparations Advocate
for Treasury Transition.
President-elect Joe Biden has
enlisted the help of Mehrsa Baradaran.
Baradaran is a professor at the University
of California, Irvine School of Law.
According to Fox News, she
also advocates reparations for
Black Americans as a means of
addressing the racial wealth
gap and "white supremacy.".
A reparations program could take many forms from simple cash payments or baby bonds to more complex schemes .., Mehrsa Baradaran, via 'The Color of Money:
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap'.
... such as subsidized college tuition, basic income, housing vouchers, or subsidized mortgage credit, Mehrsa Baradaran, via 'The Color of Money:
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap'.
As a member of Biden's Department of the Treasury agency review team, Baradaran will help to "hit the ground running on Day One.".
Both Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have dodged questions about reparations in the past, making their stances unclear