With the SF Reparations Committee report running some 20 pages, the article must, of necessity, limit itself to the most outrageous “recommendations.”
But omitted details do matter. For example, other articles note the conditions for the $5 million payment require the black applicant to be able to prove continuous residence in SF for the last 13 years. That article went on to state committee analysts estimated there were 90k persons living in SF that might meet the criteria.
Frankly, the “recommendations” read more like the opening position of the injured party in a civil lawsuit: demand the Sun, the Moon , and the stars. You know you won’t get it but even a fraction of it will still be a lot.
The only way to stop this abuse is to take political power away from the elected officials and their appointees who are enabling it and to constrain their successors in their power to appropriate taxes to fund such schemes.
Do the qualification requirements seem to include “being on the reparations committee”