San Francisco Reparations Idea: Five-Million Dollars Per Black Person
(San Francisco, CA) — San Francisco could become the first major U.S. city to fund reparations for slavery and systemic racism. One analyst estimated that each non-Black family in the city would have to pay at least $600,000. Payments of five million dollars to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least ninety-seven-thousand dollars for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just one-dollar a family are just part of what’s being considered by a city appointed task force. Critics have slammed it as being financially impossible, with one analyst estimated that each non-Black family in the city would have to pay at least 600-thousand dollars. But reparations committee members consider their results to be an accurate estimate of what it would take to begin to repair the enduring damage of slavery and discrimination, and they bristle at the idea that they should figure out how to pay for it.