SF PASSES LAW TO PAY $5 MILLION TO EACH BLACK RESIDENT OF SF ... KINDA-SORTA

By Bob Walsh

 

 

In a classic piece of political bullshit the Alcalde de la pueblo de San Francisco signed a city ordinance into law that would (maybe) pay each "eligible" Black resident of the city and county of San Francisco $5 million.  If....

The money will be offered as reparations for (alleged) historic discrimination and displacement.  The bill was signed by mayor Daniel Lurie two days before Christmas after being passed by the Board of Supervisors.  It establishes a legal framework but does NOT allocate any funding.  In theory this will be funded by private money and not by taxpayer money.  In theory.  

The city is currently running a $1 billion budget deficit.  

The recipients would be "...individuals who are Black and/or descendents of chattel enslaved persons and have experienced proven harm in San Francisco..."  It should be noted that California was NOT a slave state.  Ever.  

There are about 46,000 Black people living currently in San Francisco would could conceivably benefit from this program.

The report of the city advisory committee, formally known as the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, also recommends a guaranteed annual income, housing interventions and rental assistance, and other freebies to Black people (and only Black people). 

It is estimated that this program, if it were to be enacted with public funding, would cost every non-Black taxpayer in the city about $600,000.