SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family.
These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with the thorny question of how to atone for centuries of slavery and systemic racism. And the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing the report for the first time Tuesday voiced enthusiastic support for the ideas listed, with some saying money should not stop the city from doing the right thing.
Several supervisors said they were surprised to hear pushback from politically liberal San Franciscans apparently unaware that the legacy of slavery and racist policies continues to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless populations…
The committee hasn’t done an analysis of the cost of the proposals, but critics have slammed the plan as financially and politically impossible. An estimate from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which leans conservative, has said it would cost each non-Black family in the city at least $600,000…
Some supervisors have said previously that the city can’t afford any major reparations payments right now given its deep deficit amid a tech industry downturn.
Tinisch Hollins, vice-chair of the African American Reparations Advisory Committee, alluded to those comments, and several people who lined up to speak reminded the board they would be watching closely what the supervisors do next.
“I don’t need to impress upon you the fact that we are setting a national precedent here in San Francisco,” Hollins said. “What we are asking for and what we’re demanding for is a real commitment to what we need to move things forward.”
The idea of paying compensation for slavery has gained traction across cities and universities. In 2020, California became the first state to form a reparations task force and is still struggling to put a price tag on what is owed.
Did they even have slavery in San Francisco?
I sure hope this trend doesn’t spread beyond San Fransicko. I don’t know about all of you but my tax money has all been spent ethnically cleansing Russians out of the Ukraine.
Uh, we’re broke as a country. Its Monopoly money now. If we did disburse reparations it would be worthless other than for making a fire.
31 trillion in debt. Trillion dollar deficits despite yearly record revenues. 50 trillion in unfunded liability for Social Security. We are beyond broke. ANd as the rest of the world establishes a new trading organization, BRICS, and the dollar is slowly being replaced, we are going to be Venezuela or worse in no time.
And that is by design. In order for the NWO to work, the US, it’s people, have to die.
It would be electronic, so not even good for kindling.