A former assistant director with the NAACP is calling out Democrat candidates in the 2020 presidential election for pandering to black voters with promises of slavery reparations.

Former NAACP Assistant Director Michael Meyers took aim at several Democrats who are promising billions in payments to descendants of slaves who helped build early America.

Meyers, a renowned expert on race relations who founded the New York Civil Rights Coalition, got straight to the point when questioned by Fox News about the recent push for reparations among Democrat candidates ahead of the 2020 election.

“My position is this reparations debate is old. It’s passe. It’s a scam. It’s a hustle. It was brought up in the 1960s by people who wanted reparations from the churches. And then again from political leaders who wanted reparations from government. It’s just fake,” Meyers said. “I remember in the 1990s, there was a ‘million youth’ march in Harlem. There weren’t a million people there. Their call was reparations – the racial firebrands, the militants, the crazies – they call for reparations. They have maybe 20, 25 people there.

“This is not an issue that is indigenously black. People reject the notion of a reparations pot. There ain’t enough money to bring back people who were enslaved. There is not enough money to compensate people who were enslaved,” he continued. “Moreover … they’re gone, they’re dead.”

Meyers was clearly agitated by the reparations fantasy and mocked supporters and the droves of folks who would undoubtedly demand payment for the sins of the past.

“With respect to the present generation, what are they talking about? If you had a reparations pot, whatever the size – it’s fake, everybody would be lined up, ‘I want my reparations, I want my check,’” said Meyers, who has focused his more than 50-year career on racial and justice issues.

Meyers served as assistant director of the NAACP for nine years as a strong advocate for civil rights, racial integration and racial reconciliation. He’s columns in numerous scholarly journals and large publications, including a regular column for The New York Post.

Fox News host Dana Perino asked Meyers whether reparations is now a mainstream issue with dozen Democrats in the 2020 presidential race now pushing for payments.

“Those Democrats are not mainstream,” Meyers said with a laugh. “They pandering to black voters.”

Data seems to support that claim, with polling from Gallop highlighted earlier in the program that showed only 29 percent of all Americans support reparations, compared to 73 percent of black Americans.

Perino suggested New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is “mainstream.”

“No!” Meyers shot back. “He’s pandering to black voters. He’s trying to get the percentage of people who are voting for (former vice president Joe) Biden, who doesn’t believe in reparations.”