1 FEBRUARY 2024/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) In a move that coincides with the beginning of Black History Month, members of the California Legislative Black Caucus introduced 14 bills addressing reparations for the harms of slavery and historical racism, though cash payments are not among the proposals. Last year’s San Francisco… Continue reading
By KARL VON WEISSENBECK October 29, 2023 (dcreport.org) President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo has called for reparations from the U.S. and Europe as a result of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Credit: UNESCO Headquarters Paris, Flickr, Creative Commons License. SHARE Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo Has Gained Support in Calling for Reparations From… Continue reading
More than half of registered voters in the Bay Area oppose cash payments to descendants of enslaved Black people as reparations, according to a statewide poll published this week. The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies on Sunday published poll results indicating that 59% of California voters, and 52% in the… Continue reading
Mayor London Breed and city legislators believe they’ve found a way to help dislodge thousands of unbuilt, already-approved homes currently stuck in housing purgatory. By easing the fees and affordable housing requirements The City imposes on housing developers, city leaders hope to kickstart long-stalled projects and spark new construction at a… Continue reading
7 MAY 2023/SF NEWS/HOLLY SECON (SFist.com) The California Reparations Task Force has officially adopted a report that proposes sweeping policy changes, formal apologies, and cash payments to some black Californians to address historic racial inequities in the state. The recommendations include a rough estimate of the financial damage caused by… Continue reading
Alec Regimbal, SFGATE April 13, 2023 (SFGate.com) State and local officials throughout California are busy drafting proposals for reparations packages, seen as a way to make amends to the state’s Black residents whose families were impacted by slavery and the decades of racial discrimination that followed. The state’s reparations task force has spent… Continue reading
Left: This photo is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. Right: Yesica Prado/San Francisco Public Press The destruction of large swaths of the Fillmore District under the guise of redevelopment is a frequently-cited harm in San Francisco’s draft reparations plan. Lee’s Liquor Store was one of many businesses torn… Continue reading
“The idea of reparations is a ridiculous idea. If my great-grandfather picked cotton for 50 years, then he may deserve some money, but he’s dead and gone and nobody owes me anything.” –Bayard Rustin Cambridge Union Streamed on November 10th 2022 at 20:00 in the Debating Chamber Debate Results: Prop:… Continue reading
Plus: Should remote comment be abolished? And what about planning for flooding? That’s The Agenda for Feb. 5-12 ByTIM REDMOND FEBRUARY 5, 2023 (48hills.org) UPDATE: Walton’s office just announced that the hearing will be moved to March 14. I would expect Fox News go ballistic over the entire concept of reparations, and super ballistic… Continue reading
