No mathematical calculations justify a San Francisco committee’s recent proposal to provide $5 million in reparations to long-term black residents of the city, according to a report.
last month, the committee, formed in 2020 amid the Black Lives Matter movement, “proposed that each long-term black resident of the city receive $5 million, though California entered the Union as a free state in 1850.”
The proposal came despite the fact that the city is facing a staggering budget deficit as businesses and residents have fled., “conservatives” are questioning the price tag, which was largely invented out of thin air: “There wasn’t a math formula,” said Eric McDonnell, chair of the reparations committee and the principal of Peacock Partnerships, a San Francisco-based consulting firm. “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.
Separately, the State of California has its own reparations committee, which recently considered a more modest proposal tonotes that San Francisco is only one of several Democrat-run governments — most in former “free” states — to be considering reparations policies. Boston, MA – February 7: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, second from right, poses for a photo with members of her new reparations task force at the Museum of African American History. Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host ofon Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the new biography,
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