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San Francisco Considering Paying Black Residents $5 Million Each for Reparations
Trending Politics ^ | January 27th, 2023 | Chris

Posted on 02/27/2023 3:45:24 PM PST by shadowlands1960

The government-appointed panel responsible for determining the amount of reparations San Francisco should provide to its Black residents did not rely on a mathematical formula. Rather, the panel’s 15 members spent the last year and a half studying the city’s history to develop a proposal.

One idea being debated is to provide $5 million each to eligible Black residents. The report by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission’s Reparations Advisory Committee is a comprehensive document that provides a detailed analysis of the history of discrimination against Black residents in San Francisco. The committee studied various forms of discrimination, such as discriminatory housing policies, police brutality, and unequal access to education and employment opportunities.

The report also identified several proposals for reparations that aim to address the historical harm suffered by Black residents. One of the most significant proposals is to provide $5 million each to eligible Black residents. The eligibility criteria include being a current or former San Francisco resident who identifies as Black or African American, and who has experienced or been impacted by the city’s historical discrimination.

Other proposals include providing financial support for educational and job training programs, affordable housing, and healthcare. The report also suggests creating a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address the city’s history of racial injustice and to promote healing and reconciliation.

The document reads:

“Provide a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible person. Rationale: A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced, and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy.”

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To: shadowlands1960

How about giving that money back to taxpayers?


21 posted on 02/27/2023 4:10:33 PM PST by Kenny500c ( )
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To: Kenny500c

I can imagine some are already racking up debts figuring they will get the money soon. When no money comes there will be more riots.


22 posted on 02/27/2023 4:13:17 PM PST by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: shadowlands1960

They’ll waste it all on blow, rims, hair extensions and nails.


23 posted on 02/27/2023 4:15:46 PM PST by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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To: shadowlands1960

sounds discriminatory to me....


24 posted on 02/27/2023 4:16:14 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: shadowlands1960

Could they possibly pay for this?


25 posted on 02/27/2023 4:16:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: shadowlands1960

They have a program that has already started called GIFT - guaranteed income for transgenders.


26 posted on 02/27/2023 4:17:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: butlerweave
I give up....

everything that our lives were based on....truth, integrity, frugality, fairness, hard work and ethics....has been thrown out the window.....

because doing all those things in your life got us zilch....

27 posted on 02/27/2023 4:17:54 PM PST by cherry
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To: shadowlands1960

Do it San Fran! Just do it! You’ll see it won’t be enough. Maybe some eyes will open across the rest of the nation when they see.


28 posted on 02/27/2023 4:18:48 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: nickcarraway

I’d be surprised if that survives court challenges... you can’t segregate citizens for special treatment like that.


29 posted on 02/27/2023 4:18:55 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

I would say DO IT, SAN FRAN except if they do it will be somehow reimbursed by Sacramento and DC.


30 posted on 02/27/2023 4:20:51 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe i)
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To: shadowlands1960

I wasn’t aware if CA was ever a slave state to begin with?


31 posted on 02/27/2023 4:21:45 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: shadowlands1960

I haven’t heard of any court challenges.


32 posted on 02/27/2023 4:23:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: shadowlands1960

Would love to know what Redd Foxx would have thought of all this.


33 posted on 02/27/2023 4:24:28 PM PST by Fury
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To: nickcarraway

Hell no, but that doesn’t enter into the liberal progressive mindset.


34 posted on 02/27/2023 4:26:12 PM PST by Dave911
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To: shadowlands1960

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.”


35 posted on 02/27/2023 4:31:29 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: the OlLine Rebel

California was admitted in 1850 as a free state.


36 posted on 02/27/2023 4:32:00 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: nickcarraway

Neither have, I’m just presuming there must be.


37 posted on 02/27/2023 4:33:09 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Newsom is cutting Covid care to illegals but we have $5 million for every gibsmedat?


38 posted on 02/27/2023 4:38:03 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

39 posted on 02/27/2023 4:51:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: shadowlands1960

And then will come the squeals that $5 mil “isn’t enough.”


40 posted on 02/27/2023 4:52:16 PM PST by ScottinVA
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