Posted on 02/14/2026 4:44:35 PM PST by Libloather
Richie Greenberg, one of the plaintiffs suing San Francisco over its reparations fund, claimed the measure is divisive because it solely favors Black residents.
"It is dividing the city rather than trying to unite. So, what we really need is to be focusing on how to uplift everybody rather than focusing on one group giving everything to that one group. And then everyone else is then responsible for paying for that one group," Greenberg told Fox News Digital.
Greenberg formerly identified as a Republican and currently identifies as a centrist-conservative Democrat.
The city was sued over its reparations fund on grounds its taxpayer money is being "unlawfully" used for a policy that allegedly violates the equal protection clause.
According to the Pacific Legal Foundation, several San Francisco residents and Californians for Equal Rights Foundation sued San Francisco Thursday, challenging an ordinance that establishes a fund for Black residents.
The lawsuit alleges that the ordinance is discriminating on the basis of race because it allows taxpayer money to be funneled into the fund. The plaintiffs said a win would protect taxpayers from supporting a government-based racially motivated program and establish boundaries for other cities implementing similar policies.
"Acknowledging past injustice does not give the government license to spend public resources on programs that sort people by race and ancestry today," said Andrew Quinio, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
"The Constitution requires the city to address proven harm directly, not through sweeping racial and ancestral classifications. This lawsuit is about ensuring that all Americans are treated as individuals under the law and not forced to subsidize government policies that collectively bind them to history that they did not experience or inflict."
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What about ancestors who died fighting to free the slaves? My ancestor was one of those
Reparations bills are unconstitutional because:
<><>they distribute benefits on the basis of race and unverifiable ancestry
<><>and profits those who were never themselves victims of slavery
<><>the burdens are unfairly carried by a distinct class of the citizenry
<><>solely by innocent individuals that were not perpetrators of slavery.
<><>This amounts to unequal treatment by the state, and is unacceptable.
This whole reparations BS is nothing but wealth transfer to minorities.
It’s racist and apparently illegal.
No one today is or was a slave or a slave owner....it was generations ago. Reparations were paid in full by the blood and treasure of those that fought and died in the Civil War.
What about people who paid for slaves and had them taken from them by the government? Slaves were very expensive, one web site described an auction where the cost of a slave was as much as $60,000 in today’s money. The people buying slaves were not breaking the laws of the time. And I’ve never heard of a slave buyback program by the government.
“Greenberg formerly identified as a Republican and currently identifies as a centrist-conservative Democrat”. He doesn’t need to sex it all up, he’s still a democrat.
SF needs to put that money into cleaning up the streets-repoorations!
The only slaves that I thought were ever in SF were Chinese. Is that the problem here?
If wealthy liberals feel so strongly about reparations, they’re free to use every penny of their own money for that purpose. But they can’t have any of my money.
No such animal, he's a unicorn.
Mayne stop voting dem every election.
The democrats owe my family big time.
“This whole reparations BS is nothing but wealth transfer to minorities.”
Reparations is vote buying which is illegal.
There is a way I’d be for reparations. We will pay you $1,000,000 but you have to leave the country and give up your American citizenship. I wonder how many blacks would take that offer?
What are they paying for in the first place?
My Ancestors were Quakers, but did serve as well (Revolution on up) . Where does that make my family responsible for any of this nonsense?
reparations scam
Bills of Attainder retroactively abrogated are illegal.
Good points.
“a centrist-conservative Democrat”
About as much existing as a unicorn.
Money for things done against people who died many decades ago paid to people who were not alive then by people who weren’t born then.
Makes no sense.
It is the trip wire for me more than the evil judges blocking everything and the censorship and discrimination against me.
It must be stopped and the people who promoted it must be stopped.
“May God have mercy on my enemies,
because I won’t.”
—General George S. Patton.
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