: Reparations task force told harms total at least $800 billion, but experts insist ‘we’re not suggesting reparations’ of that amount

Economic experts on Wednesday told the California reparations task force that their calculations of the harms to descendants of enslaved people, which total at least $800 billion, do not constitute an estimate for planned reparations in the state.

Speaking in Sacramento, Calif., during the first day of a two-day meeting — during which some members of the public called to push back against the very idea of reparations — Thomas Craemer called media coverage of the economic team’s calculations “premature,” although those calculations…