Conservatives say the proposal to give qualified Black residents $5 million each would be financially ruinous for the city, and even some reparations advocates dismiss the figure as an unrealistic distraction.
. has announced a $10 million reparations program, but it doesn’t include any direct cash payments to Black residents — and White residents can also apply.Meanwhile, Darity, the economist, says Black Americans should receive at least $350,000 each in a federal reparations program, a figure based on his calculation of the country’s racial wealth gap.
The committee’s final report, which would take into account other forms of discrimination, is scheduled to be released in June. It’s separate from the local reparations efforts that have sprung up in Oakland, Los Angeles and Sacramento, which are developing their own approaches. But those negotiations are not a fair model for reparations for Black Americans, he said. “There’s no equivalent between four years in a concentration camp and centuries of enslavement and then years of racial terror and exclusion,” said Tamaki, who serves on California’s reparations task force.
that members of his office, even interns, had received “threatening messages and some are fearful for their own lives.”San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on the committee’s recommendations later this year after a final report is released in June. Despite the onslaught of criticism, some members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors say they stand behind the committee’s work.
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