Multiple San Francisco reparations board members are involved with left-wing activism in California and have made controversial statements that include blaming the United States for September 11 while also cozying up to a pastor who repeatedly praised antisemite Louis Farrakhan. Others have supported defunding the police and said they had “love” for an individual involved in a bank robbery that resulted in multiple murders.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering recommendations from the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee to make amends for slavery, including paying qualifying Black residents a one-time lump sum of $5 million, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, and guaranteeing annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years.
The 14-person reparations committee feeding proposals to the board is supervisors is chock-full of left-wing activists and individuals who have condemned America.
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Rev. Dr. Amos Brown
One controversial member of the San Francisco reparations board is Rev. Amos Brown of Third Baptist Church, the president of the San Francisco NAACP, and a member of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors. Last year, he hosted an event at his church called “Solidarity for Reparations,” which included a pastor who has repeatedly praised antisemite Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
During the event, Brown introduced Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III as a “son of Third Baptist” and the “right man to come and to inspire us, inform us, and make sure that we have the map to implement in all that we might make reparations a reality not in the sweet by-and-by, but right down here in the here and now.”
“America, you owe us. What you done to us has been immoral. It’s been evil. It’s been unjust. It’s been downright wrong and the only way to bring salvation to America – you gotta pay us what you owe us,” Haynes said.
Haynes, who has…
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