{"id":27283,"date":"2023-07-09T21:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27283"},"modified":"2023-07-09T21:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:31:42","slug":"were-going-to-wake-up-the-world-san-franciscos-bold-reparations-plan-has-a-revolutionary-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/09\/were-going-to-wake-up-the-world-san-franciscos-bold-reparations-plan-has-a-revolutionary-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re going to wake up the world\u2019: San Francisco\u2019s bold reparations plan has a revolutionary spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BAY AREA<\/a>\/\/JUSTIN PHILLIPS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco\u2019s reparations plan aims to provide Black San Franciscans with long-overdue economic mobility, and should serve as a blueprint for other cities around the country to follow.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Justin Phillips<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 9, 2023 (SFChronicle.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Attendees
Attendees raise their fists in support of reparations while listening to April Y. Silas, executive director of Homeless Children\u2019s Network, speak during public comment at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors public hearing about a committee\u2019s draft reparations plan on March 14. The final version of the plan was published Friday and will be discussed at a Board of Supervisors meeting in September.Salgu Wissmath\/The Chronicle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s rare to hear University of San Francisco political science Professor James Taylor at a loss for words. Taylor is an expert on the Black experience in America, particularly regarding the injustices perpetrated against our people since the first Africans were brought to this land in chains over 400 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, when we spoke last week about the final report from the local reparations committee on which he sits, Taylor wasn\u2019t sure how to describe what he was feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think as a committee, myself included, we\u2019re too close to it to really respect the, I guess the word is maybe magnanimity, of what we\u2019ve done,\u201d Taylor told me. \u201cThis is historic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco has never had a document like the one its African American Reparations Advisory Committee spent the last two years creating<\/a>. Published Friday, the report, with its bold recommendations, embodies the revolutionary fight for Black reparations in America and serves as a blueprint for other cities to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nearly 400-page report<\/a> dedicates chapters to how mass incarceration, discriminatory housing policies and unequal access to education made it difficult or outright impossible for Black San Franciscans to lead the lives their largely more affluent white neighbors lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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