The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday on a Black reparations proposal for the city.
Damon Brown, special assistant of the Attorney General, left, and Parliamentarian Doreathea Johnson listen during a meeting by the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.Critics of reparations payouts in San Francisco note that neither the city nor the state of California enslaved Black people.
"In this context, reparations are being demanded by members of the Black/African American communities 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," it says.
across cities and universities. San Francisco could even fund reparations before the state of California, which in 2020 became the first state in the U.S. to form a reparations task force. The idea has not been taken up at the federal level. "If you're going to try to say you're sorry, you have to speak in the language that people understand, and money is that language," he said.
John Dennis, chair of the San Francisco Republican Party, does not support reparations although he says he'd support a serious conversation on the topic. He doesn't consider the board's discussion of $5 million payments to be one. "We are the harmed," he said."If the judge ruled in our favor, the judge would not turn to us and say, 'Help them figure out how to make this work.'"
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