San Fran Proposal Seeks Reparations of $5 Million per Black Person

Yes!  From the Land of Insanity, CA, comes some great ideas to atone for the guilt and wrong of slavery.  How can a nation make things right for black people today after making sure that those blacks stay on the bottom of the economic ladder for all these years?  Maybe $5 million up front?  Maybe $100k per year for 250 years?  Maybe forgive all their debts?  Maybe make all the white people slaves of black people for some amount of years?  All great ideas given by idiots.  CA is already imploding.  They have natural disasters happening pretty much non stop.  Businesses and citizens are leaving in record numbers.  Homelessness is a huge problem...but one City by the Bay wonders how they can bankrupt themselves further by handing out money?  

America should be given a World Freedom Award for being one of the first nations to outlaw slavery.  Is America now good for black people?  Check out how many immigrants from black nations want to come here?  On the flip side do we see any blacks from America begging to get back to the land where their great, great grandparents came from?  Google it and see.  Millions of Africans still live in mud huts and have no running water or electricity.  I’m not saying they aren’t happy, but their great, great grandchildren should be thankful for where they are in America.

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 SAN FRANCISCO — 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 are just some of the recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with a thorny question: What would it take to atone for the centuries of U.S. slavery and generations of systemic racism that continue to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless populations?

A first hearing underway before the city's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday could offer a glimpse of the board's appetite for advancing a reparations plan that would be unmatched nationwide in specificity and breadth. Critics have slammed it as financially and politically impossible. One conservative analyst estimated that each non-Black family in the city would have to pay at least $600,000.

Supervisor Shamann Walton, who is Black, opened the hearing by stating the board would not say Tuesday "what recommendations we will be supporting or moving forward with." He also expressed thanks the committee and the board for delving into an issue that has made him and other reparations supporters the target of racist comments and threats.

"It is not a matter of whether or not there is a case for reparations for Black people here in San Francisco. It is a matter of what reparations will and should look like yet," Walton said, "and still we have to remind everyone why this is so important.

Some supervisors have said San Francisco can't afford any major reparations payments right now, given the city's deep deficit amid a tech industry downturn, but they still want to discuss the proposals and consider future solutions. The board can vote to change, adopt or reject any or all the recommendations.

But reparations committee members consider their results to be an accurate estimate of what it would take to begin to repair the enduring damage of slavery and discrimination, and they bristle at the idea that they should figure out how to pay for it.

"We are the harmed," said Eric McDonnell, chair of San Francisco's African American Reparations Advisory Committee. "If the judge ruled in our favor, the judge would not turn to us and say, 'Help them figure out how to make this work.'"

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.

https://www.abc10.com/article/money/san-francisco-reparations/103-e41fa24c-9811-4297-88f0-a925fc24db3c