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San Francisco is ready to apologize to Black residents. Reparations advocates want more
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:13 am
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:13 am
San Francisco is ready to apologize to Black residents. Reparations advocates want more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the resolution apologizing to African Americans and their descendants. All 11 members have signed on as sponsors, guaranteeing its passage. It would be one of the first major U.S. cities to do so.
The resolution calls on San Francisco to not repeat the harmful policies and practices, and to commit “to making substantial ongoing, systemic, and programmatic investments” in Black communities. There are about 46,000 Black residents in San Francisco.
“An apology from this city is very concrete and is not just symbolic, as admitting fault is a major step in making amends,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, the only Black member of the board and chief proponent of reparations, said at a committee hearing on the resolution earlier this month.
Others say the apology is insufficient on its own for true atonement.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city, a long-awaited first step as it considers providing reparations.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the resolution apologizing to African Americans and their descendants. All 11 members have signed on as sponsors, guaranteeing its passage. It would be one of the first major U.S. cities to do so.
The resolution calls on San Francisco to not repeat the harmful policies and practices, and to commit “to making substantial ongoing, systemic, and programmatic investments” in Black communities. There are about 46,000 Black residents in San Francisco.
“An apology from this city is very concrete and is not just symbolic, as admitting fault is a major step in making amends,” Supervisor Shamann Walton, the only Black member of the board and chief proponent of reparations, said at a committee hearing on the resolution earlier this month.
Others say the apology is insufficient on its own for true atonement.
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Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:16 am to djmed
Apologize for what? Geez. California wasn't a slave state and nobody alive today had anything to do with it. They should tell blacks to get the frick over it.
Slavery isn't a thing anymore, let it go.
Slavery isn't a thing anymore, let it go.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:17 am to djmed
A state that never had slaves, which means that its residents never owned slaves.
It's like being responsible for a child that you didn't have with a woman you didn't sleep with.
It's like being responsible for a child that you didn't have with a woman you didn't sleep with.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:19 am to Will Cover
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state that never had slaves, which means that its residents never owned slaves.
It's like being responsible for a child that you didn't have with a woman you didn't sleep with.
Yeah but its worth it end racism
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:22 am to Will Cover
Chinese immigrants were treated much worse than any blacks in SF
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:22 am to lake chuck fan
Dumb azz frickers just want to burn the country to the ground.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:24 am to djmed
Just when you thought San Fran can’t get any dumber I give you this.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:24 am to djmed
Apology admits fault, which opens the door to law suits especially if there's no official declaration of reparations.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:26 am to djmed
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the apology is insufficient on its own for true atonement.
What would qualify as true atonement?
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:32 am to Chimlim
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What would qualify as true atonement?
$$$$
Posted on 2/27/24 at 11:53 am to djmed
They owe more to the Chinese who were abused and basically slaved on railroads and mining
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:13 pm to djmed
I know what they could do to make reparations. Simply say that all the merchandise in SF stores is free to black people!
Oh wait, they already did that.
Oh wait, they already did that.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:13 pm to djmed
I remember my grandfather telling stories of picking cotton in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge…
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:13 pm to djmed
Of course they want more. It will never be enough. It's all they have to guilt white liberals into giving them free stuff.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:17 pm to Chimlim
No amount of reparations will ever move the needle. I've rarely heard the black community say how much it would take for them to quit committing felonies and trying to take what isn't theirs.
Even when a ridiculous amount is thrown out, they come in with something even more ridiculous. Reparations are a meaningless concept. It's the concept of giving a man a fish vs. teaching a man to fish. They don't want to learn to fish.
Even when a ridiculous amount is thrown out, they come in with something even more ridiculous. Reparations are a meaningless concept. It's the concept of giving a man a fish vs. teaching a man to fish. They don't want to learn to fish.
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:20 pm to lake chuck fan
quote:Lets be honest, this is an apology for being white, since no one on thst board has ever owned a slave. No person of any shade should ever have to apologize fore their melanin content.
Apologize for what?
This post was edited on 2/27/24 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:21 pm to djmed
Are they going to apologize to the Chinese immigrants used as practically slaves?
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:25 pm to djmed
It...will...never...be...enough
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:26 pm to djmed
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San Francisco is ready to apologize to Black residents. Reparations advocates want more
california should be required to pay every black person in that state no less than $5 billion dollars each, even if they just crossed the border yesterday.
and no federal bailouts from our tax money
Posted on 2/27/24 at 12:30 pm to keakar
it's no different then covid payouts
go ahead and stimulate the economy
I was exiled from Nova Scotia, I demand payments for my hardships in life.
Next, the Vietnamese deserve something as well.
Might as well get ready to pay the illegals who crossed the border too, they had to endure severe hardships at the border.
go ahead and stimulate the economy
I was exiled from Nova Scotia, I demand payments for my hardships in life.
Next, the Vietnamese deserve something as well.
Might as well get ready to pay the illegals who crossed the border too, they had to endure severe hardships at the border.
This post was edited on 2/27/24 at 12:34 pm
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