Denver City Council member Candi CdeBaca, who is reportedly running for re-election, has suggested that white-owned businesses should be taxed at a higher rate than black-owned businesses, and that this revenue should then be given directly to black-owned businesses.

Her apparent justification for this is that white people have built what they have on “stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen resources.”

In a recent video posted to TikTok, CdeBaca suggested that a one-time check in the form of reparations would not be enough to sufficiently address the three areas that white people have exploited to their advantage. She instead suggests that “there are structures that we have that could be flipped to begin to” address the issue of expoitation.