San Francisco will discuss reparation proposals — March 18, 2023
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which meets at City Hall, accepted a draft plan of more than 100 recommendations for reparations to eligible Black residents. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have signaled they're ready to right racist wrongs of the past.
In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the 11 members accepted a draft plan of more than 100 reparations recommendations for the city's eligible Black residents. Those proposals include a whopping one-time payment of $5 million to each adult and a complete clearing of personal debt — including credit cards, taxes and student loans. Black residents would also be able to collect an annual income of at least $97,000 for 250 years and buy homes within the city limits for $1.
The move by the board was largely procedural – an intermediate step in a much longer process. It does not bind the city to any of the ideas presented in the 60-page proposal by the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which in 2020 was tasked with addressing "the institutional, City sanctioned harm that has been inflicted upon African American communities."
"We are not here today to say what recommendations we will be supporting or moving forward with. There is still much work that needs to be done," the bill's sponsor, Shamann Walton, stipulated before the vote during the 7 1/2-hour meeting.
A Meeting in San Francisco to discuss and Vote on the Slavery Reparations Plan, above.
Update: October 2024:
A final report that includes feedback from the Board of Supervisors was delivered in July. The board met again on the issue again, and adopted the Slavery Reparations Plan. The public documents are given, below for you to read!
African American Reparations Advisory Committee | San Francisco
The AARAC Reparations Final Report July 2023
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Resolution Accepting the Final Reparation Plan: r0460-23.pdf
Below see San Francisco Mayor London Breed and her Political Team and Supporters:
It is both disgusting and ridiculous for black americans to ask for a hand-out from the taxpayers simply because of the color of their skin or because they think they can trace their roots or ancestry to a slave. First of all, the original "slavers" were black africans - tribal chiefs, zulu kings, village chieftans, who had no regard for the lives of their own slaves. It was these black africans who "sold" their own human breathren and sisters to other black "traders", who then "sold" the unfortunate humans to white slavers. This is a fact. Secondly, black americans who can trace their ancestors to slaves are probably alive today only because of the better medical care and vastly increased longevity that slavery in the USA gave their ancestors, who would probably have died at a very early age in stone-age 16th, 17th and 18th century backwards africa, where most black men really were carrying around spears until the late 19th or very beginning of the 20th century (until circa 1880 to 1900). Thirdly, we good Americans already gave everything - our lives, our time, our money - to free our "slaves" in the Civil War. How disgusting to think that a million white Americans giving up their lives and tens of millions suffering the poverty that the Civil War brought isn't enough! Disgusting! Stop this evil fraud of "slavery reparations" - the idea of it is also unconstitutional. The Government cannot give hand-outs to people based on the color of their skin or their ethnicity, among other things. People of all colors and ethnicities should band together to stop this disgusting hand-out idea now, before it leads to another civil war.
I wonder what those people were smoking! Pot-heads dreaming hard-earned taxpayer dollars away ... when they should be cutting crime, drug use, overpopulation, overdevelopment and taxes!
I agree! Those folks are out of their minds! And I'm African American!