San Francisco recently announced a plan that seeks to provide reparations for the Black community. Under this proposal, every eligible Black adult in San Francisco would receive payments of $5 million, elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, a guaranteed annual income of at least $97,000 for 250 years, and the ability to purchase a home in San Francisco for only $1.
The cost for this plan would be $600,000 per non-Black family or roughly $250 billion dollars in total to taxpayers.
This is not a parody; this is an actual proposal.
SAN FRANCISCO’S REPARATIONS PLAN RIPPED FOR SUGGESTING BLACK RESIDENTS RECEIVE 97K FOR 250 YEARS: ‘HILARIOUS’
The city-appointed “Reparations Committee” would have you believe that their goal is equity and equality, but whether their intentions are genuine or not, the results of such a measure would only deepen a racial divide and stoke flames of resentment. It’s irrational, it’s financially implausible, and it is politically insane, and that’s why San Francisco Democrats are trying to make it law.
I say this as the great-great-grandson of a slave: if there were ever a political slippery slope, this is it.
Providing reparations to a group of people hundreds of years removed from the sin of slavery does not right the wrongs of history. It serves only to create a perpetual sense of victimhood, victim entitlement and promotes resentment amongst the people.
Perhaps this is exactly what the left wants, which is even more of a reason to reject an idea as disastrous as this one.
Providing reparations to a group of people hundreds of years removed from the sin of slavery does not right the wrongs of history. It serves only to create a perpetual sense of victimhood, victim entitlement and promotes resentment amongst the people.
The issue of reparations for slavery has long been a controversial topic in the United States. While some argue that it is necessary to rectify the wrongs of the past, others believe that reparations…
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