According to the New York Post, the reparations committee, a 15-member panel established by San Francisco supervisors in May 2021, proposed wiping debts associated with educational, personal, credit card, and payday loans for black households along with the $5 million payout in a report on Monday (January 17).
“Reparation must be adequate, effective, prompt, and should be proportional to the gravity of the violations and the harm suffered,” Monday’s report states. The intention behind reparations is “not to remedy enslavement” but to “address the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”
While neither California, which has formed a separate task force…
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