San Francisco to Apologize to Black Residents for Discrimination

Breitbart ^ | 02/16/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[ChicagoConservative27]

The City of San Francisco is poised to issue a formal apology to black residents for decades of racial discrimination against them throughout its history, according to a resolution introduced Tuesday that the Board of Supervisors is likely to approve.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

Dozens of people packed the San Francisco Board of Supervisors chamber Thursday to hear for the first time a resolution apologizing for the forced removal of Black communities from historic neighborhoods, ongoing tensions with the Police Department and underinvestment in key public services.

A task force set up by the city released recommendations last summer suggesting reparations to the city’s Black community, including potential $5 million payments meant to rectify some of the harm caused by generations of systemic racism. The task force also recommended issuing the apology.

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The seven-page draft resolution says San Francisco has a long history of creating laws, policies and institutions that have “perpetuated racial inequity in our city, much of which is difficult to document due to historical erasure.”

[nwrep]

The apologies are for the time before the Dems took over, when the racist Republicans were in control.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "The apologies are for the time before the Dems took over, when the racist Republicans were in control."

Those wacky Democrats are awfully slow. Took only about 70 years for them to get around to it. I can hardly wait for the apologies to the Japanese-Americans "sequestered" during WWII. California.... And then they can apologize for taking land from the Mexicans. In another 70 years or so. :)

[rightwingcrazy]

It’s fun to apologize on behalf of people that aren’t there to defend themselves.

I’m truly sorry that San Francisco has turned into a hopeless, septic vortex. Glad to get that off my chest.

[frank ballenger]

I think the leaders delivering the abject apology should be on bended knee as in the US Capitol Rotunda when Pelosi, Schumer, Schift, et al honored George Floyd’s death, their heads bowed.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/jun/08/george-floyd-tribute-democrats-take-a-knee-for-almost-9-minutes-video

Different take on “Every knee shall bend.” Philippians 2:10-11.

[frank ballenger]

Proper white response as a form of apology would be:
Well, excuse me for living.

From Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArHhMabjWwg&t=5s

[fwdude]

When are the SF fags going to apologize to straight society for all the tainted blood transfusions that killed thousands?

[fwdude]

Extorted “apologies” are the antithesis of the real thing. They are used as leverage, as a book of signed blank checks, as a perpetual liability that can never be relieved by any means.

[Wuli]

You’d think the’d apologize to the Chinese-Americans first. At least “Blacks” were citizens and could vote, while California supported laws that prevented Chinese immigrants from reaching citizenship; laws which the politicians of San Francisco and Sacramento were very much in favor of. They wanted the Chinese for their cheap labor (which likely hurt other citizen “minorities” and which helped build the continental railraod), but they did not want them becoming citizens.