Posted on 03/30/2024 7:24:11 PM PDT by Libloather
People are not satisfied with the San Francisco city government’s progress in providing reparations to descendants of African Americans who have suffered historical discrimination, according to a new report.
Although a city government panel proposed monetary reparations for eligible Black residents last year – with some potentially receiving $5 million, "So far, all they’ve received is an apology," The Washington Post reported.
The Post detailed how the city has had to cut funding for the project, and that people are growing frustrated over the lack of progress on reparations.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors put out an official apology last month – an eight-page resolution that stated, "The San Francisco Board of Supervisors offers its deepest apologies to all African Americans and their descendants who came to San Francisco and were victims of systemic and structural discrimination, institutionalize racism, targeted acts of violence, and atrocities."
As the paper noted, this is "the first step to addressing more than 100 recommendations outlined by the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee," though locals – including legal scholars, told The Post they don’t believe it is nearly enough.
University of San Diego Law professor Roy Brooks has been critical of the progress so far.
"Saying sorry or apologizing is not enough," he said. "You need a redemptive act to make the rhetoric of remorse believable."
Members of the board like Dean Preston have acknowledged that the apology cannot be "an end in and of itself," the board has run into "harsh economic realities" while pursuing further solutions, the piece stated.
The Post explained how the budget set aside for a government Office of Reparations, which the Reparations Advisory Committee advised be created, was gutted in Mayor London Breed’s $75 million "midyear budget cuts."
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Who gets reparations? Are there any descendants of San Francisco-held slaves, if there were really any to begin with. Seems like San Francisco has more to address with Chinese, maybe nearby south bay area can address reparations to Japanese who had their lands stolen in World War Two.
The reparations thing is just more Bait & Bitch.
It is not possible to do the reparations economically. So it makes the aggrieved crowd angry. Some of them didn’t even see any reason to be angry.
Entitlements are never enough. And the “war on poverty” has led to poverty and slavery for 10s of millions.
“Saying sorry or apologizing is not enough,”
You say your sorry and apologize for all the freaking crime, grief, and expense and you still won’t get jack. GFY.
Dey wants dey gibs dammit. Gibs!
*Experts? What experts?
**Top men. Top men.
“Unexpected”
Being the descendant of a slave is the best thing that could ever happen to a negro.
Sub Saharan Africa is a toilet. The only infrastructure they have is because of whites.
No medicine, no electricity, just savagery.
The problem with California is that they’re running out of white liberals and none of the Latinos and Asians who are replacing them are going to buy in to this crap.
Paying reparations is no problem. All SF has to do is stop all city services and fire all its municipal employees. Just leave the mayor with a skeleton staff (her and 5 other progressive women from HR) and a hundred or so people to screen applications and dole out reparation checks. Also, SF has to default on all its bonds.
Isn’t Elon Musk an African-American that lived in San Francisco? Are they going to pay him too?
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Ditto.
The United States did not invent slavery. Slavery has been part of human history since the beginning of human existence.
Slaves were brought into the colonies while still part of England.
The United States dd not exist until 1783 (end of the American Revolution) and at the time while slavery was legal most slaves were in the southern states. Almost immediately efforts were made to end slavery within the US and that issue was one (of several) that resulted in a Civil War between Northern and Southern states. Slavery was ended with the 14th Amendment in 1868.
So slavery existed in the United States for less then a generation before it was ended.
Since 1960 there have been strong Federal laws against discrimination and favorable treatment for minorities in everything from employment to schools.
Since there is no one alive today that was a slave during that generation slavery existed in the US there is no reparation owed.
“You need a redemptive act to make the rhetoric of remorse believable.”
Ok, how about a one-time $500 tax credit on your next San Francisco tax filing? Dems love tax credits.
If their great granddaddy hadn’t gotten onto that slave ship they probably wouldn’t exist today.🤔
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