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  • 2023-01-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Is San Francisco Considering Plan To Give $5M to Each Eligible Black Person for Reparations? (en)
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  • California was never a slave state, but for generations, cities like San Francisco perpetuated segregation, racial discrimination, and systemic oppression, something that the city's African American Reparations Advisory Committee's (AARAC) reparations proposal is hoping to address. Created by the city's Board of Supervisors in December 2020 amidst a global reckoning on racism, AARAC was assigned the task of comprehensively finding solutions to the inequalities that exist in the city's Black communities. And one proposal in particular has many people talking. After two years of research, the draft proposal came up with a number of financial recommendations, which included giving eligible Black people a lump sum payment of $5 million each. According to the draft, which was released in December 2022, the city would: They also propose supplementing incomes in Black, low-income households, providing fairer banking options and access to loans, as well as a comprehensive debt-forgiveness program that clears all educational, personal, credit card, payday loans, etc. In order to qualify for these reparations, residents must be 18 at the time the proposal is enacted, identify as Black/African American on public documents for at least 10 years, and meet (and have documentation supporting) at least two of the following criteria: The state of California has also put together its own reparations task force, which is scheduled to release its report in 2023. The city of Oakland in California also experimented with its own guaranteed income program that gave monthly payments through a lottery that randomly selected low-income families. San Francisco was a Ku Klux Klan stronghold in the 20th century, and barred Black people from getting city jobs, kept them out of living in certain areas, and demolished Black neighborhoods and commercial areas. The city has thousands of homeless people of which a disproportionate number are Black. The report noted: The San Francisco task force recommendations appear to be part of a draft proposal only. The group will submit a final proposal to the city in June 2023, at which point the city will decide whether to accept it. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which created AARAC, is also able to outright ignore the proposal. Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin told the San Francisco Chronicle that he hoped his colleagues would approve the proposal. There are so many efforts that result in incredible reports that just end up gathering dust on a shelf. We cannot let this be one of them, he said. AARAC clarified that its role is purely advisory: We have reached out to AARAC and will update this post if we get more information. This is still a proposal at the moment, and it has not been approved and implemented yet. We rate this claim as True. (en)
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