Rep. Burgess Owens is slamming a reparations proposal in San Francisco, saying it 'conveys a racist narrative that Black Americans are a hopeless.'
Fox News contributor Leo Terrell and ‘The Five’ co-host Geraldo Rivera react to San Francisco's proposed $5 million reparations plan and the Washington D.C. crime code overhaul., R-Utah, is criticizing a proposal from a San Francisco committee on reparations after it proposed that the city pay $5 million to each longtime Black resident.
While California wasn't technically a slave state, the draft proposal contends that reparations would"address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery." One of the committee's recommendations includes a $5 million one-time payment to eligible residents in San Francisco."A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for the decades of harms that they have experienced, and will redress the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as the result of both intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by City policy," the draft proposal states.
Included in the proposal is also a plan to"finance a comprehensive debt forgiveness program that clears all educational, personal, credit card, payday loans." In order to be eligible for the reparations program, applicants should be 18-years-old and have identified as Black or African American on public documents, as well as proving two out of eight criteria items, including"Born in San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and has proof of residency in San Francisco for at least 13 years," and/or,"Personally, or the direct descendant of someone, incarcerated by the failed War on Drugs.
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