San Francisco Democrats are just crazy for reparations and despite serious financial issues, some want to plow $50 million into a new city office tasked with overseeing the distribution of the proposed $5 million reparations payments, although that stunning number has at least temporarily been put on hold.
On Wednesday, the cash-strapped city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee indefinitely deferred the $50 million proposal from Board of Supervisors member Shamann Walton to establish the “Office of Reparations” inside of the city’s Human Rights Commission, according to the San Francisco Examiner.
While city lawmakers have generally been supportive of the reparations grift to give free money to people who have never been slaves in a state that never participated in slavery, the $50 million was an unrealistic expectation. However, a smaller amount for the office is more likely, with a meager $2 million included in a list of proposed additions to the city’s draft budget.
The $50 million figure was proposed by board member Shamann Walton who is spearheading the effort for the $5 million payouts to those who qualify for the racial lottery.
“Today I am here asking again for my colleagues to support a supplemental appropriation for $50 million in order to establish the Office of Reparations and to implement approved recommendations in this fiscal year,” he said during a March meeting of the Board of Supervisors, an obscene number that San Francisco Mayor London Breed balked at.
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“We’re in a positive space now because we’re having conversations about what resources will look like through the budget process,” Walton told the San Francisco Examiner. “In terms of disappointment — definitely disappointed we didn’t get $50 million, definitely disappointed we didn’t get $10 million, but most certainly positive and optimistic that we’re moving forward and there will be a positive outcome.”
The creation of the new reparations office was a top recommendation of the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee that was included in a draft report issued last December.
The draft report states that the city “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,” and that it shall “establish an independent Office of Reparations within the City to execute this plan. This agency must be charged with tracking and ensuring the continued success of programs that come out of these recommendations.”
“I don’t have an amount in my head,” Walton said of what the minimum would be to launch the new reparations office. “I do know that we want to do the work to make sure that when the office is set up, that they have the resources to be able to be successful.”
Earlier this month, reparations committee chair Eric McDonnell warned city supervisors to not “pathologize the Black community,” and that the $50 million number is “intended to anchor the commitment that each of you made verbally … through the establishment of an Office of Reparations and staffing that will allow us to operationalize the eligibility process and recommendations that have been made.”
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