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San Fran’s reparations committee proposes $5 million to each Black longtime resident, total debt forgiveness

San Francisco’s reparations committee has proposed paying each Black longtime resident $5 million and granting total debt forgiveness due to the decades of “systematic repression” faced by the local Black community.

The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a plan for reparations for Black residents, released its draft report last month to address reparations – not for slavery, since California was not technically a slave state, but “to address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”

“While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the tenets of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were codified through legal and extralegal actions, social codes, and judicial enforcement,” the draft states.

The draft plan includes a long list of financial recommendations for Black San Francisco residents, including a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.

To be eligible for the program, the applicant must be 18 years old and have identified as Black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years. They must also prove at least two of eight additional criteria, choosing from a list that includes, “Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and has proof of residency in San Francisco for at least 13 years,” and/or, “Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.”

The plan also calls on the city to supplement lower-income recipients’ income to reflect the Area Median Income (AMI), about $97,000, annually for at least 250 years.

So, someone who was jailed for, say, dealing dangerous drugs like meth, or a relative was, they can possibly get $5 million? Really? Per the 2020 census, there are almost 45,000 blacks living in San Fran. Let’s cut that in half for payment purposes. That is $112,500,000,000. SF’s last yearly budget was $13.1 billion. Where’s the rest coming from? Even if we cut that in half, that’s still $56 billion. And what of the supplement payments? Where is all this money coming from?

The plan also seeks to establish “a comprehensive debt forgiveness program” that clears each eligible person’s student and housing loans, credit card debt, etc.

Where’s it coming from? That seems to be missing from the plan. But, hey, I’m all for this reparations give away. Yep, make the tax payers in San Fran pay all the repressed, just because they voted for those politicians who want to give away taxpayer dollars.