Left-wing journalist, former professor publishes book 'White Bonus' to calculate earnings due to 'white supremacy'

Left-wing journalist and author Tracie McMillan has released a book called The White Bonus in which she calculates how much money she and five white families have earned because of racism.

McMillan estimates the amount of money earned due to white supremacy in the US to be around $371,934.30, per a a calculation done on her website. This is her 'White Bonus,' according to the book. 


On McMillan's website she defines White Bonus as "the money white people get, or save, because of white supremacy."

In a conversation with CNN, the journalist told the outlet why she wanted to write the book to calulcate the money allegedly earned through racism in the US. 

"I work as a journalist and have gotten pretty good at understanding — at least structurally — how racism hits people who aren’t white. I started to feel that just listening to people who aren’t white talk about racism, and how bad it was, was not sufficient to fix the problem," McMillan told the outlet. 

She said that if white people listened to black people about how bad racism is, "we would have fixed it by now."

The White Bonus, she said, is supposedly an "estimate of the money a white person gets or saves because of white supremacy, public policies or private practices," she added. 

"I calculate $146,000 from my family that probably they had because of racism. I calculate $225,000 of money that I have had access to or equity I’ve gained probably because I was [w]hite. That’s almost $400,000," McMillin speculated.

"I think it’s really easy to point at striving, middle class families and all the effort that they put into making sure their kids can go to college and this and that," she told a reporter. "But we’ve basically created the Hunger Games to get into the middle class, and it doesn’t have to be like that."

McMillan was also a professor of writing at New York University Steinhardt School of Education at the gradute level from 2017-2018, according to her resume. She taught a class called, "Food Writing: Intersectionality on Your Plate."