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San Francisco debates reparations: $5 million each for Black residents?
The Washington Post ^ | February 27, 2023 | Emmanuel Felton

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.

***MORE

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: african; billittothegrandkids; descendant; hyperinflation; printingmoney; slave
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- There was no slavery in San Francisco - My ancestors arrived in 1870s (after slavery was abolished) - Nobody in my family ever owned slaves or confiscated property from anyone (they bought their houses in a regular transaction). - None of my ancestors ever purchased property in the Fillmore district

And yet I am supposed to pay taxes so reparations can be paid to African Americans who live in SF?

1 posted on 02/27/2023 2:49:50 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

And yet I am supposed to pay taxes so reparations can be paid to African Americans who live in SF?
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Yep! You sure are! That is...if you choose to stay there.


2 posted on 02/27/2023 2:52:18 PM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: KingofZion

3 posted on 02/27/2023 2:52:36 PM PST by Bobalu (Unrepentant communists, NAZI’s and totalitarians of all stripe are bowing toward Davos)
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So take big piles of $ from people who never owned slaves and give it to people who never were slaves?

Seems well thought out. I foresee no problems whatsoever.


4 posted on 02/27/2023 2:55:16 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: KingofZion
San Francisco debates reparations: $5 million each for Black residents?

This is one way to finally get SF's population growing again - I'm tempted to pull a Rachel Dolezal, declare myself black and move back to the SF (my family lived there when I was under 10 years old).
5 posted on 02/27/2023 2:55:26 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: KingofZion

As a consequence, “non-qualifying” black residents will find themselves taxed to pay out to “qualifying” black residents. I’m sure they’ll be happy about that.


6 posted on 02/27/2023 2:57:05 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: KingofZion

You can’t underestimate the stupidity of libtards. CA is up to their ass in debt, people with money are leaving in droves, and they are talking about implementing crap like this.


7 posted on 02/27/2023 2:58:30 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: KingofZion

Not with my tax dollars.


8 posted on 02/27/2023 3:00:33 PM PST by iontheball
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To: KingofZion

It’s all funny money now anyway.


9 posted on 02/27/2023 3:04:26 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: DarrellZero
"... I foresee no problems whatsoever. ..."

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So you are obviously disregarding the resulting gun play and other violence?
Not significant or important enough to worry about, eh?

/Sarc???

10 posted on 02/27/2023 3:04:33 PM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: KingofZion

I now self-identify as black and plan to ride the reparations gravy train.


11 posted on 02/27/2023 3:05:06 PM PST by Drango (1776 = 2022 = 1984)
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To: GaltAdonis

Dude.


12 posted on 02/27/2023 3:05:57 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: KingofZion

Good time to be sneakers and sports cars sellers


13 posted on 02/27/2023 3:09:26 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: KingofZion

Will it be in installments over 20years? Might be better than the lotto drawing.


14 posted on 02/27/2023 3:10:55 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: KingofZion

Pure theater to keep the masses entertained


15 posted on 02/27/2023 3:14:09 PM PST by The Louiswu (Michael Ries)
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To: The Louiswu

Whitey will get all the money back anyway.


16 posted on 02/27/2023 3:14:38 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“...displacing 883 businesses and 20,000 people, most of them Black. Decades later, thousands of people remain displaced”


Hmm, appears blacks (no capital b) in San Francisco are not unlike the Arabs who were ‘displaced’ a the creation of Israel. Decades and generations pass, but they remain ‘displaced’.

Are there many Germans who were forced to move out of what became western Poland, the old East Prussia, and western Czechoslovakia after WWII still ‘displaced’? Or did they move, suck it up and try to get on with their lives as best they could?


17 posted on 02/27/2023 3:17:01 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: KingofZion

No, I think you are supposed to fight hard. My opinion.


18 posted on 02/27/2023 3:19:47 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: wjcsux

I can’t imagine how giving $5M to every eligible AA in SF will go over with the rest of the people living there.

The Libs are probably praying (a first for many of them) hat a conservative court will strike it down as unconstitutional. Then they will cynically crow at how racist the Courts and Constitution are.


19 posted on 02/27/2023 3:21:24 PM PST by rbg81
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Whitey will get all the money back anyway.


Eventually. But some people will get lots of unearned luxury goods and houses for absolutely nothing. Some of them will OD on drugs too.


20 posted on 02/27/2023 3:23:09 PM PST by rbg81
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