If you’re black and live in San Francisco, you just hit the jackpot.
The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), which was established by the city’s board of supervisors during the racial tensions in 2020, recommended giving eligible black residents 18 and older $5 million.
That’s right.
$5 million!
But that’s not it. The committee also recommends “a comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears all educational, personal, credit card, payday loans, etc.” and “a welfare program that targets a $97,000 annual income for low-income blacks for the next 250 years.” They should also be given business, payroll, and property tax credits.
“Centuries of harm and destruction of black lives, black bodies and black communities should be met with centuries of repair,” said AARAC chair Eric McDonnell in a statement.
But here is the kicker from the committee:
“While neither San Francisco, nor California, formally adopted the institution of chattel slavery, the values of segregation, white supremacy and systematic repression and exclusion of Black people were legally codified and enforced.”
Considering how nuts San Francisco is, it is not entirely out of the realm of possibility that this policy proposal will pass.
How many people in San Francisco will be the next Rachel Dolezal? Can’t skin color be fluid like gender?
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