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Originally Posted by aussenseiter
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Hold up...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
- Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult
- the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens
- guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years
- homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family.
These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with the thorny question of how to atone for centuries of slavery and systemic racism. And the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing the report for the first time Tuesday voiced enthusiastic support for the ideas listed, with some saying money should not stop the city from doing the right thing.
Several supervisors said they were surprised to hear pushback from politically liberal San Franciscans apparently unaware that the legacy of slavery and racist policies continues to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless populations.
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Where are they finding those homes? Going to do some Zimbabwe/South African style redistribution? Won't that affect more Asian Americans than anyone in SF?
If you're a small/medium business can you pay those wages? If you're a large business are you still employing your current black workers?
Slavery still exists in some of the world (some might say the minimum wage or restaurant jobs relying on tips in the USA is slavery).
Subscribed to see how this would play out in the real world. I get the union approach of asking beyond what you really expect to get but the committee doesn't have any economists involved, does it?
PS - I'm not black and don't live in San Francisco...I'm just an outsider observing
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