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San Francisco residents band together to shut down reparations fund
Posted on 2/14/26 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 2/14/26 at 11:21 pm
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Richie Greenberg, one of the plaintiffs suing San Francisco over its reparations fund, claimed the measure is divisive because it solely favors Black residents.
Greenberg formerly identified as a Republican and currently identifies as a centrist-conservative Democrat.
The city was sued over its reparations fund on grounds its taxpayer money is being "unlawfully" used for a policy that allegedly violates the equal protection clause.
According to the Pacific Legal Foundation, several San Francisco residents and Californians for Equal Rights Foundation sued San Francisco Thursday, challenging an ordinance that establishes a fund for Black residents.
The lawsuit alleges that the ordinance is discriminating on the basis of race because it allows taxpayer money to be funneled into the fund. The plaintiffs said a win would protect taxpayers from supporting a government-based racially motivated program and establish boundaries for other cities implementing similar policies.
"Acknowledging past injustice does not give the government license to spend public resources on programs that sort people by race and ancestry today," said Andrew Quinio, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
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Posted on 2/14/26 at 11:55 pm to LSUDVM1999
I wish them the best of luck, but it is SF.
The same city that just did this.
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According to the Pacific Legal Foundation, several San Francisco residents
The same city that just did this.
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Posted on 2/15/26 at 12:29 am to LSUDVM1999
Greenberg argued, we built the pyramids we want our reparations first!
Posted on 2/15/26 at 12:39 am to LSUDVM1999
What confuses me about reparations. Is it about being black or about being descended from slavery? Because being creole in Louisiana would entitle me to reparations if it is because of slavery. Despite not identifying as "black". I hope they win their lawsuit because reparations are bs. 60 years of Government assistance was your reparations.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 12:47 am to BoomerandSooner
I guess the Asian woman driver (Lau) who killed four didn't speak English. From the SF Chronicle article:
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Lau dabbed her eyes with a tissue as Morris and a court Cantonese interpreter advised Lau on her rights and entered the no-contest plea.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 12:47 am to Neutral Underground
Indentured servitude - I'm in line for my reparations for my disenfranchised family members who toiled for years in South Georgia.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 1:53 am to LSUDVM1999
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Pacific Legal Foundation.
Caleb Trotter, Tulane Alum and failed libertarian candidate for Congress for Nola area circa like 2012, works there.
Good buddy of mine and a friend to freedom.
Caleb trotter bio
Posted on 2/15/26 at 5:34 am to LSUDVM1999
Example #232,743 liberals love to be liberals until it actual hits their own personal pockebook.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 5:35 am to LSUDVM1999
While we all agree this is nonsense....
There was no slavery in San Francisco. So how can you make descendants of people who had no slavery in the state.....pay blacks who live there. If they did have ancestors who were slaves, they were slaves in another state, go back and sue that state.
Course the logical thing would be to sue the blacks in Africa who captured their ancestors and then traded them to slavers. But they dont have standing to sue in those countries, and the people have no money.
There was no slavery in San Francisco. So how can you make descendants of people who had no slavery in the state.....pay blacks who live there. If they did have ancestors who were slaves, they were slaves in another state, go back and sue that state.
Course the logical thing would be to sue the blacks in Africa who captured their ancestors and then traded them to slavers. But they dont have standing to sue in those countries, and the people have no money.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 5:39 am to LSUDVM1999
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centrist-conservative Democrat
No such thing
Posted on 2/15/26 at 5:52 am to LSUDVM1999
Posted on 2/15/26 at 6:25 am to LSUDVM1999
When these leftist governments are allowed to spend tax dollars like drunken sailors for so long, it becomes commonplace. Most people just accept it as the "way things are". Once the machine is in place, it's hard to shut it down. So, anyone living under this dictatorship rule, this is how it always ends up.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 6:44 am to trinidadtiger
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Course the logical thing would be to sue the blacks in Africa who captured their ancestors and then traded them to slavers.
Add to that: The biggest transatlantic slaver nations were Portugal, Spain, Britain, US. And the US was the smallest % of this group by far. The vast majority of reparations should come from Europe.
But wait there's more:
The correct way to calculate reparations is to compare what would have happened to the average black person if they had stayed unmolested in Africa, and slavery had never touched them, vs. their current state of economic prosperity in America.
You know what the problem is, right? A credible reparations comparison produces a negative number.
Had slavery never happened their descendants would be in Africa averaging only $2000 a year. Here in the U.S. they average $50,000 per year.
So it's only fair to get a credit back for the $50,000 U.S. average less the $2000 African average.
Reparations is a negative number. Where do a pick up my check?
Posted on 2/15/26 at 6:58 am to TrueTiger
While I’m guessing you mean just black slaves you are still wrong. The biggest black slavers were actually blacks themselves in Africa. Outside of the black slaves then Asians by far were the biggest slavers of all going back to times when Egypt hadn’t built pyramids yet. US was last to come on board with slaves just because it’s wasn’t around as a country but the natives that lived here prior had actually bigger in numbers of slaves because of the lengthy period of their history before white settlers
Posted on 2/15/26 at 7:09 am to Nosevens
Notice the word, "transatlantic".
Posted on 2/15/26 at 7:13 am to TrueTiger
Nope I didn’t pick it out. It wasn’t an undercut but rather a comparison in the stupidity of the whole argument. At one point everyone’s history has been slaves
Posted on 2/15/26 at 8:27 am to LSUDVM1999
Reparations should be 100% funded solely by those registered as Democrat and who voted Democrat.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 8:42 am to Neutral Underground
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What confuses me about reparations. Is it about being black or about being descended from slavery? Because being creole in Louisiana would entitle me to reparations if it is because of slavery.
At this point it's about claiming to be descended from slavery. What I mean by that is a reference to the Don Cheadle's family history exposed on the PBS series African American Lives 2 where he found out that his ancestors were indeed slaves... of American Indians.
Unless someone is a major buff on US slavery history (and we know politicians are rarely deeply interested and knowledgeable on anything pertinent to legislation they author/co-author/support), there's a lot more to the slavery which happened in the US than "blacks were enslaved by whites" while the entire philosophy of reparations is centered solely on that.
Along that line, there's been no discussion of how much slavery needs to be in one's history to qualify. Do you even qualify as Creole? If I have 2% African genealogy from an ancestor 300 years ago who was a black slave - and that's the only bit I have - does that qualify me for reparations?
What if they are 100% black but one of their ancestors was owned by another of their ancestors (because there were black slave owners as with the case of Jason Casor, the first legal slave in the US)?
What about indentured servants who were never released from their servitude? Essentially, that's slavery as well but does it qualify for reparations?
The bottom line on reparations is that it's really just this amorphous attempt at grabbing "free" money from the government while LARPing as an endeavor of justice.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 8:43 am to trinidadtiger
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There was no slavery in San Francisco. So how can you make descendants of people who had no slavery in the state.....pay blacks who live there. If they did have ancestors who were slaves, they were slaves in another state, go back and sue that state.
Bc it has nothing to do with slavery and has everything to do with just paying blacks for being black. The end.
Posted on 2/15/26 at 8:46 am to LSUDVM1999
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San Francisco residents band together to shut down reparations fund
Small islands of sanity continue to exist in the vast ocean of Leftist insanity that is California politics.
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