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mystery-ak:
San Francisco reparations idea: $5 million per Black person
By JANIE HAR

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family.

These are just some of the recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with a thorny question: What would it take to atone for the centuries of U.S. slavery and generations of systemic racism that continue to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless populations?

A first hearing before the city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday could offer a glimpse of the board’s appetite for advancing a reparations plan that would be unmatched nationwide in specificity and breadth. Critics have slammed it as financially and politically impossible. One conservative analyst estimated that each non-Black family in the city would have to pay at least $600,000.

Some supervisors have said San Francisco can’t afford any major reparations payments right now, given the city’s deep deficit amid a tech industry downturn, but they still want to discuss the proposals and consider future solutions. The board can vote to change, adopt or reject any or all the recommendations.

But reparations committee members consider their results to be an accurate estimate of what it would take to begin to repair the enduring damage of slavery and discrimination, and they bristle at the idea that they should figure out how to pay for it.

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Kamaji:
If this stupid idea is actually put into practice, J.G. Wentworth will be rich as sin - as well plenty of drug dealers - the erstwhile recipients of this largesse will still be poor and stupid as sin, and the S.F. taxpayers will be left holding the bag to continue making payments to J.G. Wentworth.

240B:
It would be a death sentence to all involved. The Blacks would be attacking and killing the other Blacks to get their money. Blacks would be using insane amounts of Crack until they kill themselves. Any so called 'reparations' would only be massive chaos ... Statewide.

Cyber Liberty:
How about SF grants each black person $5.0 Million, then taxes them $5.1 Million for a "Finder's Fee?"

LMAO:
I actually want to see them implement this

They have no way to pay for it

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