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San Francisco debates reparations: $5 million each for Black residents?
The Washington Post ^ | February 27, 2023 | Emmanuel Felton

Posted on 02/27/2023 2:49:50 PM PST by KingofZion

***In the 1960s, city leaders demolished part of the Fillmore District, a neighborhood once known as the Harlem of the West, displacing 883 businesses and 20,000 people, most of them Black. Decades later, thousands of people remain displaced and the neighborhood has turned into a predominantly White enclave of multimillion-dollar homes.

To compensate for that and other instances of racial discrimination, the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee recently recommended that qualifying Black residents receive $5 million each in reparations.

***The proposed reparations program is not a recompense for slavery, which was never legal in San Francisco, but instead, the committee’s report says, for “the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”

*** San Francisco’s $5 million proposal, magnitudes larger than amounts being discussed in other communities, has drawn intense backlash from conservatives who lambaste the idea as financially ruinous for a city with an annual budget of $14 billion that is still recovering economically from the pandemic. The proposal doesn’t explain who would qualify, but if even a fraction of the city’s 50,000 Black residents met the criteria, it would consume a huge amount of the city’s annual budget.

***But supporters of the proposal say it’s justified, noting that the city’s Black residents have a median income of about $44,000 compared with $85,000 for Latinos, $105,000 for Asians and $113,000 for White residents, according to 2021 census data.

The scale of the payment should be weighed against San Francisco’s history of racist policies, including enforcing housing and school segregation, said Sheryl Evans Davis, executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, which provided research support to the reparations committee.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: african; billittothegrandkids; descendant; hyperinflation; printingmoney; slave
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To: iontheball

If good people don’t battle against this, what won’t they allow?


21 posted on 02/27/2023 3:24:01 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: KingofZion

I am 1% black due to a somewhat shady ancestor post civil war or it could have been prior to the civil war. Do I get 1% of this largess? It would be a cool 50,000 dollars!

This insanity that divides us must stop. I am a mostly white American, my wife is 100% Mexican from Mexico but an American Citizen. She attended our universities. Her father a wise businessman insisted they learn English and go to our universities as did all her siblings. He paid out of country tuition for his children, which is a lot. She is retired now as I. She was a software engineer and her skills were paid for at a high level of compensation. She grabbed the American dream and ran with it. She is proud of her heritage. She is American first and Mexican second.

As mentioned, this insanity must stop.


22 posted on 02/27/2023 3:25:39 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-roughneck-oil field trash- drilling fluid tech-geologist-pilot- pharmacist)
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To: KingofZion

“San Francisco debates reparations: $5 million each for Black residents?”

after this is finally resolved, their SECOND agenda item is “How may Black Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Black Pin?” ...


23 posted on 02/27/2023 3:29:54 PM PST by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: KingofZion

Note to self: Research companies that make fancy rims and/or lift kits for old Chevys.


24 posted on 02/27/2023 3:34:43 PM PST by beef (Say NO to the WOE (War On Energy))
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To: KingofZion

I remember a Bonanza episode in which Ben Cartwright gets shanghaied in SF while looking for some of his men who were shanghaied. The slave trade was alive and well there, just not out in the open and under another name.


25 posted on 02/27/2023 3:34:54 PM PST by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: KingofZion

Timeline of sheist:
Council votes for reparations
City doles out monies.
City super broke.
Pelosi sneaks SF bailout in next “Crisis” bill.
All US taxpayers pay for reparations.
City off the hook!!


26 posted on 02/27/2023 3:36:36 PM PST by BigB60 (C. S. Lewis loves hobbits)
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To: KingofZion
"Bring me a bottle of scotch and a white woman." MLK
27 posted on 02/27/2023 3:39:07 PM PST by rexthecat
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To: skr

I be black.
Where’s mine?


28 posted on 02/27/2023 3:39:38 PM PST by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: KingofZion

“”for “the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.””

Translation, please!


29 posted on 02/27/2023 3:42:21 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: KingofZion

Come on, people. Time to snap out of it.
Silly Hour is long over.
If San Francisco has that much loose, liquid, surplus cash,
use some of it to create a ship made just for the so called Homeless. Use other loose cash to hire more cops, if you can find enough willing to step into this bubbling quagmire.
To shower money on one race and ignore others is only creating division and opportunity for fraud.


30 posted on 02/27/2023 3:42:25 PM PST by lee martell
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To: KingofZion

$250,000,000,000.00


31 posted on 02/27/2023 3:50:18 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: rbg81

I believe that you are onto something.


32 posted on 02/27/2023 3:53:53 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: KingofZion

The African American Reparations Advisory Committee going to have a long wait for the pay off the only way Frisco can pay they off is with parking meter money the city and state are broke.

Another carrot on a stick to make them think they care.

Fool the lot of them


33 posted on 02/27/2023 3:56:55 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: KingofZion

Liberals still think there is a money tree.


34 posted on 02/27/2023 3:58:15 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: The Louiswu
Pure theater to keep the masses entertained

Yep just like student loan forgiveness, the dems know its never going to happen. Unconstitutional as hell but their brain dead voters will stay in the que hoping beyond all hope they will get a payday.

And when they don't the dems will simply blame republicans for stopping "equity".

35 posted on 02/27/2023 3:59:40 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: KingofZion

SF’s black population is set to double and triple and its white population to be reduced to the direct ruling class who will maintain residences in the city in order to stay legit in office but won’ live in the city any more.


36 posted on 02/27/2023 4:26:39 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe ii)
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To: DarrellZero

It is a vote stratagem. White taxpayers who vote for this ruling class will keep voting even if they are impoverished thereby. Black voters will vote for their perceived benefactors.


37 posted on 02/27/2023 4:29:04 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe i.i)
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To: KingofZion

But supporters of the proposal say it’s justified, noting that the city’s Black residents have a median income of about $44,000 compared with $85,000 for Latinos, $105,000 for Asians and $113,000 for White residents, according to 2021 census data....

From according to their ability, to those according to their need. Full on Karl Marx. I hope they carry it out to it’s logical conclusion. I have a cousin that lives in SF. She is a flaming lib and she supports this. Hope she enjoys losing all her assets for the greater good.


38 posted on 02/27/2023 4:33:40 PM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: wjcsux

. . . people with money are leaving in droves, and they are talking about implementing crap like this.
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Don’t forget to mention that people without money will be arriving in droves. Heck, what’s another million or two of nonproductives?


39 posted on 02/27/2023 4:38:56 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: KingofZion

Do it, SFers!
Bankrupt the state, which had no slavery, you morons, fruitcakes and nutbags!


40 posted on 02/27/2023 4:39:33 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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