look at the incarceration rate of african americans, look at the dropout rate of african americans. look at the graduation rate of african americans. laura: but even renowned supporters of reparations are scratching their heads with how the san francisco fruitcakes arrived at that $5 million per person number. i don t believe there has been any serious explanation as to how the san francisco task force came up with that number. people here that figure and it sounds extraordinarily large, it s not consistent with the ways in which kirsten mullen and i have attempted to calculate it. laura: he has rights, and by the way, gavin newsom, he might be wrong on most issues, but he is not a complete. he knows this issue would be a political nightmare, and it could be the straw that breaks the donkeys back in california. and by the way, plenty of rich suburban whites liberals have no
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of a reparations bill should be, that we have a very careful foundation for calculating that some. and i don t believe that there has been a serious explanation as to how the san francisco task force came up with that number, that figure. and of course, what people here that figure, it sounds extraordinarily large. it might be a legitimate figure, if there was a legitimate basis for calculating it. it s not consistent with the ways in which kirsten mullen and i have attempted to calculate it in the work that we ve done. i want to talk about that in just a minute, just to point out in the washington post story, it does make a point of saying that the final recommendations and reports of all come out until we ll consul june. as you say that 5 million dollar figure has caught a lot of people s attention. let s talk about your work, particularly the book that you
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