What will be the next repairs in San Francisco and California

The fate of San Francisco’s reparations proposal is unclear, but the city’s board of supervisors met Tuesday to discuss the prospect and expressed “unanimous” support for the move.

It’s unclear whether all council members would support the envisioned $5 million lump sum payments for every eligible black adult in the city.

The state of California has become the first in the nation to develop a reparations task force to consider statewide reparations, a move that gained popularity after the killing of George Floyd while he was was in police custody in 2020, sparking protests across the country.

The City of San Francisco has offered some of the most drastic repair recommendations in the state that would give $5 million to each eligible black resident, in addition to other recommendations such as free mental health, prenatal care, and rehabilitation treatment for the city’s low-income black residents, victims of violent crime, and those who were previously incarcerated.

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“A lump sum payment would compensate the affected population for the decades of harm they have suffered and repair the economic and opportunity losses that Black San Franciscans have endured, collectively, as a result of intentional decisions and unintended harms perpetuated by city ​​politics,” the proposal reads.

Supporters of the reparations include San Francisco’s NAACP, but the organization said the council should reject the $5 million payouts and instead focus on education, jobs, housing and health care reparations. health in addition to a black cultural center based in San Francisco. The city also recommended creating an Afrocentric K-12 school, focusing on hiring and retaining black teachers, mandating a core black history and culture curriculum, rewarding at-risk students reaching educational benchmarks with cash, prioritizing black residents for job opportunities and training. , as well as finding ways to incubate black businesses.

Proponents of the move believe it is a necessary attempt to offset slavery and racist policies implemented throughout American history, but the city’s advisory committee did not say how repairs would be funded.

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Critics of the reparations don’t believe California residents today should pay the price for history’s racist actions and argue that today’s municipal taxpayers, including immigrants, shouldn’t have to pay. for past discriminatory government policy. Stanford University’s Hoover Institution calculated the cost of the proposal and estimated that non-black families in San Francisco would pay at least $600,000 each for the $5 million per person payment, a guaranteed income of $97,000. $ per year for 250 years, personal debt elimination and conversion. public housing in condos for sale for $1.

Vernon AME Church pastor Robert Turner holds up a sign of redress after leading a protest from City Hall to his church in the Greenwood neighborhood on November 18, 2020 in Tulsa, Okla. (Photo by Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

There is no deadline for San Francisco supervisors to agree on a plan, but the next discussion of the reparations proposals is scheduled for September after the release of the African-American Reparations Advisory Committee’s final report. from San Francisco expected in June.

Across the state, California’s reparations task force has yet to make many key decisions nearly two years after the start of its commission, which was tasked with reviewing reparations proposals “with a special consideration for” descendants of enslaved black people living in the state, according to the legislation passed. in 2020.

The task force has until July 1 to submit a final report of its recommendations on reparations, which could be written into legislation for consideration by lawmakers. In 2022, the group voted to limit reparations to descendants of enslaved or free black people living in the United States in the 19th century.

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Slave Cabin, Barbour County near Eufaula, Alabama, USA, from Federal Writer’s Project, ‘Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives’, United States Work Projects Administration, 1936. ((Photo by: History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))

Nearly 70% of Americans oppose reparations, while 30% indicated they support such a move, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey. Nearly 80% of black people polled supported reparations.

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Proposals for reparations were considered across the country, including cities in Massachusetts and Illinois. A bill in Congress that was first introduced in 1989 that would allow the federal government to study reparations has not come close to passing a vote since it was first introduced in 1989.