San Francisco, one of the worst-run cities in the entire United States, has hatched a plan to improve the quality of life for some residents while tearing open centuries-old wounds of racial animosity: free money!
A one-time payment of $5 million to each eligible Black resident is among recommendations unanimously accepted by San Francisco's Board of Supervisors as part of a draft plan by a panel proposing reparations.
The move Tuesday was an intermediate step, with a final report that includes board feedback due in June, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee said, and the board set to meet again on the issue in September.
"Can any of you think of a reason not to hand out $5 million in free money to people based on race? No? Meeting adjourned."
A city with massive debt and one of the worst homelessness crises in the world is going to be giving away free money to people who were never slaves on behalf of people who never held slaves, because of equity or something like that.
Members of the public who addressed city lawmakers Tuesday supported dozens of the reparations advisory committee's recommendations related to financial reparations, housing, job creation, education, the school-to-prison pipeline, health and other local policies.
"Reparations is about justice," said Mo McNelly, artist and "generational San Franciscan," adding, "We cannot have justice for some and not for all."
"The system is not broken," resident Darnesha Carlos said. "It is working exactly the way it was intended to, and I think we need to acknowledge that, understand that and as the supervisors have chimed in and said they support this, that they want to see reparations.
CRT ladies and gentlemen. Don't let it rot your brain like this.
Taking money from one group of people who never did anything to harm the other group of people is not fair or just. But I guess it is "equity."
This is only a recommendation at this point, they have no authority to collect and distribute the money in this Marxist scheme, but they are making progress and it might very well be policy in San Francisco by the end of the summer.
