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San Fran mayor signs bill to create reparations fund that could pay $5M to qualifiers

January 2, 2026 | | Print Article

San Francisco’s Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie signed a bill creating a reparations fund that could someday be used to pay $5 million each to qualified blacks for alleged injustices suffered as a result of slavery.

Lurie used the cover of the holiday to sneakily sign off on the bill, which was unanimously passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last month, approving the controversial and potentially unconstitutional measure two days before Christmas. And while it won’t immediately be used for doling out freebies, it establishes the legal framework to do so in the future.

The reparations fund can be financed by private donations and foundations, with taxpayer-funded payouts requiring separate legislation, a funding source that’s identified, and the approval of the mayor. Lurie emphasized that no taxpayer money will be used at this time, with the city currently running a $1 billion budget deficit.

“I was elected to drive San Francisco’s recovery, and that’s what I’m focused on every day,” the Democrat leader told Fox News Digital in a statement. “We are not allocating money to this fund — with a historic $1 billion budget deficit, we are going to spend our money on making the city safer and cleaner.”

“The Reparations Plan outlines a variety of methods to provide restitution, compensation and rehabilitation to individuals who are Black and/or descendants of a chattel enslaved person and have experienced a proven harm in San Francisco,” according to the ordinance, which cites a 2023 policy recommendation from the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee.

Not only do reparations unjustly force those who have never owned slaves to financially compensate those who never actually suffered from human bondage, but California was never a slave state to begin with, an inconvenient fact pointed out by Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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“California didn’t even have slaves! Why is it right for someone who escaped tyranny in other countries and happens to live in SF to pay “reparations” for something they had nothing to do with? This is deeply morally wrong,” the former Californian wrote in a post to X on New Year’s Day.

Other X users also shared their takes on the latest madness from the City by the Bay.

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Among the AARAC report recommendations to address the alleged harms visited upon non-slaves is the $5 million payment. It called for the city to “[p]rovide a one-time, lump sum payment of $5 million to each eligible person.” According to U.S. Census data, around 46,000 blacks live in San Francisco.

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“The City and County of San Francisco and its agencies should issue a formal apology for past harms and commit to making substantial ongoing, systemic and programmatic investments in Black communities to address historical harms,” the report’s executive summary states.

“I think it is horrendously unlawful. The ordinance has a very explicit racially discriminatory purpose,” said Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Andrew Quinio, according to the New York Post.

The existence of the reparations fund shows that celebrations over the demise of “woke” politics are premature and that the racially discriminatory ideology will be back with a vengeance once Democrats regain the upper hand, with the shaking down of whitey at the top of their agenda.

Chris Donaldson
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