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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And yet I am supposed to pay taxes so reparations can be paid to African Americans who live in SF?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not with my tax dollars.
It’s all funny money now anyway.
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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???
I now self-identify as black and plan to ride the reparations gravy train.
Dude.
Good time to be sneakers and sports cars sellers
Will it be in installments over 20years? Might be better than the lotto drawing.
Pure theater to keep the masses entertained
Whitey will get all the money back anyway.
“...displacing 883 businesses and 20,000 people, most of them Black. Decades later, thousands of people 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?
No, I think you are supposed to fight hard. My opinion.
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.
Whitey will get all the money back anyway.
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