The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hosted an African Descent-Citizens Reparations Commission during which two of its professors and one of its researchers championed reparations, Fox News reported Tuesday.

Details and videos of the October meeting were including in the article, during which history Professor Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua said: “The first problem, an analysis of Black workers’ lived experiences in Illinois, reveals two dominant relationships. They shared with white workers labor exploitation. That is the hallmark of capitalism: theft.”

The reparations commission was established by the Illinois’ state legislature to provide advise lawmakers on the “preservation of African American neighborhoods and communities,” according to its website.

During the meeting, Professor Cha-Jua also said “the most frequent lived experience of the African American people has been as enslaved persons, sharecroppers, farm laborers, domestic servants, washerwomen, wageworkers, non-industrial or industrial workers, menial laborers in the public sector and as contemporary sub-proletarians laboring in part-time, temporary, low-wage un-unionized and benefit-less jobs.”

Anthropology Professor LaKisha Davis said during the meeting that black Americans “have the right to respond to trauma and things like that as if we are traumatized. That is a human condition.”

She touted the Illinois Family Roots Pilot Program, which offers free DNA testing to help African American families trace their ancestry, “to help to build a more cohesive family narrative,” which she said is in itself a form of reparations, Fox News reported.

Meanwhile, philosophy doctoral student Naomi Simmons-Thorne said during the meeting that reparations is a form of “rectificatory justice.”

“It is this type of justice that is at the heart of the reparations movement, but it is also the type of justice that has been least thought about in the history of philosophy,” she said.

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