The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously in favor of reparations for black Americans due to the abolished institution of slavery in the 19th century. California was not a slave state.
The recommendations of the African American Reparations Advisory Committee included cash payments of $5 million to each black adult citizen, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years, and housing in San Francisco for just $1 per family, according to the Associated Press.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors that heard the report Tuesday “expressed enthusiastic support for the ideas listed, and some said money shouldn’t get in the way of the city doing the right thing,” noted the AP.
The Associated Press, which markets itself as “non-partisan” journalism, expressed its defense of the far-left agenda in explicit terms.
“Several supervisors said they were surprised to hear pushback from politically liberal San Franciscans who seem unaware that the legacy of slavery and racist policies continue to keep black Americans at the bottom of the health ladder, the education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prison and homeless populations,” the AP said.
“Those of my constituents who lost their minds with this proposal, it is not something we are doing or would do for other people. It’s something we would do for our future, for everyone’s collective future,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. The AP adds that Mandelman comes from the “very LGBTQ” Castro neighborhood.
The AP did mention that there was criticism of the plan as “economically and politically impossible.” Citing an estimate from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which “is more conservative,” he said it would cost every non-black family in the city at least $600,000.
“Tuesday’s unanimous expressions of support for the board’s repairs do not mean that all of the recommendations are finally adopted,” the AP added, “as the body can vote to approve, reject or change any or all of them. . The commission’s final report is due in June.”
The San Francisco Board’s expression of support may be “symbolic” and empty “virtue signaling.” But it should bother city residents that the board is not bound by reality and supports policies that are merely fantasy. It is indicative of the once glittering golden city that has become a decaying, trash-filled, drug-infested, excrement-laden, homeless and decaying vestige.
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