A proposed
reparations
payment that would give longtime black residents of
San Francisco
$5 million is facing opposition, with several critics calling it “racist.”
The program
, pitched by the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, claims the $5 million payment would remedy any economic and opportunity losses that black San Francisco residents have endured over the years. It would also supplement the income of lower-income black households to reflect the Area Median Income every year for at least 250 years, according to
the pitched program
.
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“I will be the first lawyer to fight against this,” civil rights attorney Leo Terrell, who is black, said in a Monday night appearance on Fox News. “This is outrageous, it’s unlawful, it’s unconstitutional, it’s racist, but it’s not surprising it came from California.”
Terrell also mentioned that the state of
California
was always a free state, later saying in the interview that the United States does not have a race issue, but rather a “race card” issue.
Talk show host and former California gubernatorial candidate
Larry Elder
, who is also black, defined reparations as “the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to people who were never slaves” during his appearance on the network. He was also confused by the suggested supplementation of income for 250 years, noting how the U.S. was not a country until 1789 and that slavery in the U.S. ended in 1865.
“That’s 76 years, so that’s kinda fuzzy math,” Elder said.
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Eligibility for this suggested program would require applicants to be at least 18 years old and to be an individual who has identified as “Black/African American” on public documents for at least 10 years. Other requirements for this program are that applicants meet at least two additional criteria, such as having been born or migrated to San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 with proof of residency in the city for at least 13 years, and being a descendant of someone enslaved through U.S. chattel slavery before 1865, according to the pitched program.
The Washington Examiner has contacted the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee for comment.
