San Francisco’s Reparations Committee Really Is Just Making It Up As It Goes Along | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Tim Meads.

    Typically the question "Did you pull that number out of thin air?" is rhetorical and doesn't warrant a serious response. In the case of the San Francisco panel tasked with creating a dollar amount for potential reparations to be paid to the city's black citizens, the answer is actually, "Yes, we did."

    The 15-member panel - which was put together in 2021 - really did pull the $5 million-apiece recommendation for reparations out of thin air without doing any sort of mathematical equation, according to a new report.

    In January, The Daily Wire reported that the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee concluded that the city should redistribute millions in order to rectify injustices allegedly caused by systemic racism. The committee's chair Eric McDonnell revealed how the group came to that conclusion.

    "There wasn't a math formula," McDonnell told The Washington Post. "It was a journey for the committee towards what could represent a significant enough investment in families to put them on this path to economic well-being, growth and vitality that chattel slavery and all the policies that flowed from it destroyed."

    As pointed out by the paper, the reparations aren't intended to act as compensation for the blight of slavery - rather the money would make up for "the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery."

    The suggested figure has critics and supporters perplexed.

    "This is just a bunch of like-minded people who got in the room and came up with a number," John Dennis, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, said. "You'll notice in that report, there was no justification for the number, no analysis provided. This was an opportunity to do some serious work and they blew it."

    William A. Darity Jr., an economist at Duke University who supports reparations, told the Post, "Calling for $5 million payout by a local government undercuts the credibility of the reparations effort."

    In order to qualify, applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time the city enacts the committee's proposal, have identified as black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years, and prove they were born in the city between 1940 and 1996.

    These residents must also be able to prove that they lived in the city for at least 13 years or had personally been incarcerated - or the direct descendant of someone imprisoned - during the War on Drugs since 1971.

    San Francisco's Board of Supervisors will vote to approve the economic program later this year after the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee releases its final report in June.

    As a conservative, you often look at the insanities of the Left and wonder if they are just making it up as they go along. In the case of San Franciso's potential reparations program, that is exactly what is happening.

    The views expressed in this piece are the author's own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

poll#164
It has been far too many years since the Woke theology interlaced its canons within the fabric of the Indoctrination Realm, so it is nigh time to ask: Does this Representative Republic continue, as a functioning society of a self-governed people, by contending with the unusual, self absorbed dictates of the Woke, and their vast array of Victimhood scenarios?
  Yes, the Religion of Woke must continue; there are so many groups of underprivileged, underserved, a direct result of unrelenting Inequity; they deserve everything.
  No; the Woke fools must be toppled from their self-anointed pedestal; a functioning society of a good Constitutional people cannot withstand this level of "existential" favoritism as it exists now.
  I just observe; with this thoughtful observation: What will happen "when the Vikings are breeching our walls;" how do the Woke react?
844 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

Go Back

HbAD0

Latest Op-Ed & Politics

amnesty would just encourage more illegal aliens to storm our borders
The Christmas candy was barely off the shelves when the Valentine’s candy appeared. Red and pink hearts with caramel and nut-filled chocolate goodness caught our eye. We are reminded of how we love love. Young love, especially.
far left sugar daddy has also funded anti-Israel groups and politicians in US
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it
America needs to wake up and get its priorities right
Former President Donald Trump suggested this week that if he becomes president again, he might allow Prince Harry to be deported.

HbAD1

It's a New Year, which means it's time to make resolutions — even for prominent evangelical leaders. The Babylon Bee asked the following well-known figures in the faith what they hope to accomplish in 2024:
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit a Minnesota Planned Parenthood clinic, reportedly the first time a president or vice president has visited an abortion facility.
An eight-mile stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville has been temporarily closed due to a string of “human and bear interactions,” the National Parks Service announced.
University of Wisconsin tried to punish conservatives for the fact that liberals regularly commit crimes to silence opposition
most voters think EU officials not doing a good job on illegal immigration
Come from behind by GOP candidate is a blueprint to 2024

HbAD2


HbAD3

 
Back to Top