Current Events > San Francisco to have first public hearing on reparations for black residents.

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Lmaooooo

Does this apply to those who have African ancestry discovered through one of those DNA sights?

Would something like that cause a great migration of black folks to California?

DirkDiggles posted...

Hey, I got Irish ancestry. Do I qualify for reparations?

Take your grievance up with the Brits.

OpenlyGator posted...

Would something like that cause a great migration of black folks to California?

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-black-reparations-5- million-per-person-proposal-sf-african-american-advisory-committee/12952919/

Under San Francisco's draft recommendation, a person must be at least 18 years old and identified as "Black/African American" in public documents for at least 10 years. Eligible people must also meet two of eight other criteria, though the list may change.

Those criteria include being born in or migrating to San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and living in the city for least 13 years; being displaced from San Francisco by urban renewal between 1954 and 1973, or the descendant of someone who was; being a person incarcerated by the war on drugs, or their descendant; or being a descendant of an enslaved U.S. person before 1865.

Lol yes

this has been a pipe dream for years, dont lose sleep over it
people honestly waiting for this to happen are foolin themselves

ClockworkHare posted...

I'm Native American. And gay. I'm sure as fuck not getting coaxed into paying grievances for what dead people did. None of the living should.

Many NA groups got reparations, and still get them now. Do you see black people in larges numbers saying your people should not have gotten that ?

cjsdowg posted...

Many NA groups got reparations, and still get them now.

You want free barren land and no taxes for life too?

DirkDiggles posted...

You want free barren land and no taxes for life too?

Better than the fuck you the government gave black people.

cjsdowg posted...

Better than the fuck you the government gave black people.

There are more black millionaires in the US than in any other country. That leads me to believe there are more opportunities here than anywhere else.

People always get so weird about this

Monolith1676 posted...

There are more black millionaires in the US than in any other country. That leads me to believe there are more opportunities here than anywhere else.

Madame C.J. Walker became the first American self made female millionaire as a black woman from her hair business in the late 1800s until her death in 1919. That didn't mean that there weren't lynchings being held on the regular against black men, women and children. Or that they weren't subjected to the full weight of subjugation at the hands of the local, state and Federal governments. Or that at the time of Walker's death in 1919 it was known as the Red Summer, where black people were systematically targeted across the country, where black neighborhoods and towns were often burned to the ground. That event was the catalyst for The Great Migration, people fleeing by the millions to the North and West as refugees in their own country.

Some people think that because some Black people make it and become millionaires, then it negates the huge obstacles put in place by the government for the majority of the time descendants of American chattel slavery have been here.

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/09/23/916022472/
cost-of-racism-u-s-economy-lost-16-trillion-because-of-discrimination-bank-says

Nationwide protests have cast a spotlight on racism and inequality in the United States. Now a major bank has put a price tag on how much the economy has lost as a result of discrimination against African Americans: $16 trillion.

• $13 trillion lost in potential business revenue because of discriminatory lending to African American entrepreneurs, with an estimated 6.1 million jobs not generated as a result
• $2.7 trillion in income lost because of disparities in wages suffered by African Americans
• $218 billion lost over the past two decades because of discrimination in providing housing credit
• And $90 billion to $113 billion in lifetime income lost from discrimination in accessing higher education

Racism and bigotry screwed over basically anyone that wasn't a white male. Things are better now but that doesn't change the fact that minority families have less wealth because their ancestors weren't afforded the same opportunities white people did. I'm not smart enough to say how this should be fixed, but I'm not ignorant enough to pretend like there isn't a problem that needs to be addressed

Gotta be honest.

This seems like an unintentional set up.

I feel like just tossing money so late after the fact will only make racial tensions worse. For the average person, they are gonna go with the slavery ended years ago! narrative and think black folk are getting a hand out.

I, personally, dont think this is a priority either. While Id love money, I feel like there are more pressing matters to deal with. Like, lets make sure schools even teach the history right before anything else.

I dont need money. And I never really understood the point of reparations if most folk didnt even agree. So bringing it up just for it to fail is just alley ooping talking point for the opposition.

cjsdowg posted...

Have you ever complained about any other group getting reparations. BTW black people fought in the Civil War too. You want to talk about not caring about sacifice..let me tell you about the treatment black vets for most of US history. Also the union soldiers got paid.

To be fair, USA loves to treat most of their vets badly, no matter what skin color they got.