Posted on 02/27/2023 2:49:50 PM PST by KingofZion
***In the 1960s, city leaders demolished part of the Fillmore District, a neighborhood once known as the Harlem of the West, displacing 883 businesses and 20,000 people, most of them Black. Decades later, thousands of people remain displaced and the neighborhood has turned into a predominantly White enclave of multimillion-dollar homes.
To compensate for that and other instances of racial discrimination, the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee recently recommended that qualifying Black residents receive $5 million each in reparations.
***The proposed reparations program is not a recompense for slavery, which was never legal in San Francisco, but instead, the committee’s report says, for “the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”
*** San Francisco’s $5 million proposal, magnitudes larger than amounts being discussed in other communities, has drawn intense backlash from conservatives who lambaste the idea as financially ruinous for a city with an annual budget of $14 billion that is still recovering economically from the pandemic. The proposal doesn’t explain who would qualify, but if even a fraction of the city’s 50,000 Black residents met the criteria, it would consume a huge amount of the city’s annual budget.
***But supporters of the proposal say it’s justified, noting that the city’s Black residents have a median income of about $44,000 compared with $85,000 for Latinos, $105,000 for Asians and $113,000 for White residents, according to 2021 census data.
The scale of the payment should be weighed against San Francisco’s history of racist policies, including enforcing housing and school segregation, said Sheryl Evans Davis, executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, which provided research support to the reparations committee.
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How about RIMS & WIGS??
I NEVER grossed more than $63,000 a year in my entire life.
I never got paid more than $20 am hour.
I OWN all my property free & clear—all my vehicles—horses,etc.
That so-called Harlem of the West, is a lie. Blacks were short-term residents, taking over housing that was formerly owned by Japanese-Americans displaced by forced moves to concentration camps during WWII.
Blacks were brought to San Francisco during WWII to work in the local shipyards, and placed in the homes vacated by Japanese-Americans. Shipyards such as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, and other shipyards from Alameda to Richmond nearby. The Hunters Point/Bayview neighborhood was one result of the influx of blacks from the south.
After WWII and the release of incarcerated Japanese-Americans, many of them returned to the Fillmore area only to find their housing filled with blacks. The Japantown neighborhood, with assistance from Japanese companies, redeveloped the neighborhood by creating a redevelopment zone that replaced dilapidated homes along Geary Blvd and Post St, with a mall, hotel and restaurants. It provided a dividing line between blacks to the south, and Japanese to the north up to Fillmore St to the west.
I remember the clearing of these buildings, and the subsequent build of the mall buildings. My mother worked in several businesses in the mall after it opened. The blacks were not displaced, they moved elsewhere across Geary Blvd to subsidized housing.
Let all of white America self identify and bring a lawsuit against these actions if they pass
GOOD!
That giant sucking sound will be caused by blacks from every other city and state rushing to San Fran-Stupido to make their claim for the $5,000 handout.
Support is growing for the black reparations proposal.
110% of San Francisco’s dope dealers support the idea of handing $5,000 to every black.
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“There was no slavery in San Francisco”
And isn’t it true that the blacks brought to America were already slaves in Africa? Therefore we didn’t enslave them since they were already slaves and furthermore their lives as slaves in America were undoubtedly better than their lives as slaves in Africa.
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