Basically any reparations campaign launched by Kamala or Booker or the Democratic Party will end up with the worst of all worlds: it will be reheated "black capitalism" (that old Nixonian wheeze) that disproportionately benefits the black middle class, who (in economic terms) are at virtual parity with white middle class people (look up: “Closing the Race Gap: Alleviating Young African American Unemployment Through Education”) and do zilch for the poor AAs, just lumbered with a massively unpalatable name that will destroy the Democratic coalition (and I'm not doing the "muh white West Virginia miners" routine). It will be about as successful in the long run as France's demand for WW1 reparations.
I mean, if you really wanted to be consistent here, you probably should call for the US to provide reparations for Vietnam etc.
Pretty much this. Any sort of reparations scheme done by middle class liberals will inevitably be botched. Cash payments, education programs, job training, greater access to credit, will do little (if anything) to poor and working class black folk trying to survive in a market society. It's a rehashing of the same old, same old. The Democratic Party's vision for reparations is one constrained within the tepid limits of technocratic market liberalism- away from talking about labor rights, the plundering of surplus value, and the de-commodifying housing, healthcare, and other human needs.
To solve the reparations issue, one needs to look at class and race together. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that those in charge of the Democratic Party are willing to do that. So, what you'll get in the end is an ineffective reparations scheme that will fail at solving the racial wealth gap and one that alienates a huge chunk of the white population. But at least woke Twitter will get to pat themselves on the back despite engendering the Democratic Party's political suicide.
