{"id":28662,"date":"2023-09-21T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28662"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:37:58","slug":"sf-supervisors-on-board-with-reparations-plan-but-those-5-million-payments-are-looking-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/21\/sf-supervisors-on-board-with-reparations-plan-but-those-5-million-payments-are-looking-unlikely\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Supervisors on Board With Reparations Plan, But Those $5 Million Payments Are Looking Unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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20 SEPTEMBER 2023\/SF NEWS<\/a>\/JOE KUKURA<\/a> (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SF Board of Supervisors looked ready to approve the recommendations of the local reparations committee for Black San Franciscans on Tuesday, but this seems to be going more in the direction of cultural districts and educational efforts rather than cash payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a four-hour long discussion of the idea of reparations to Black San Franciscans<\/a> during Tuesday\u2019s SF Board of Supervisors meeting, many public commenters, including Rev. Amos Brown<\/a>, implored the supervisors to \u201cDo the right thing.\u201d But in reality, there was no \u201cthing\u201d for them to do, or vote on \u2014 it was just scheduled as an informational session for the board to review the recommendations of the SF African American Reparations Advisory Committee<\/a> (AARAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, something actionable came out of that four hours, as Mission Local reports Supervisor Shamann Walton introduced a resolution to accept the AARAC recommendations<\/a>, and that recommendation vote could come next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not merely a cry for help, but a demand to repair harm and create equity, which is the San Francisco way,\u201d Walton said Tuesday. \u201cWe need to step up and provide reparations for Black people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there was almost no discussion whatsoever of those highly contentious $5 million lump-sum payments<\/a> for eligible Black San Franciscans, either during the AARAC presentation, or the supervisors\u2019 comments. That seems to indicate that those cash payments are not going to be part of any reparations package.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was only one brief mention of the $5 million payments, from AARAC vice chair Tinisch Hollins, who also hedged on that topic a little bit. \u201cWe fully expect that we would see financial reparations,\u201d Hollins told the board. \u201cA priority would be a lump-sum payment to each eligible individual. Our assessment was that\u2019s $5 million, but we continue to look and figure out what financial compensation can look like for Black San Franciscans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also mentioned the notion of \u201cspatial justice,\u201d or what she described as \u201cmaking sure that we have thriving Black spaces in not just one neighborhood, or pockets of San Francisco, but all over San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reparations are not intended to make up for slavery, but instead to correct historical injustices of the urban renewal push of the 1950s<\/a> and disinvestment in Black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe practices of this city continue in the form of redlining that created conditions that historically suppressed Black home ownership and wealth building opportunities,\u201d AARAC chair Eric McDonnell said to the board, calling the reparations proposal a \u201conce-in-a-generation opportunity to close the racial wealth gap.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many of these recommendations are just policy matters, not cash, so they seem more doable as the city is running a deficit<\/a>. These include issuing a formal apology, creating an Office of Reparations, and creating a \u201ccommittee of community stakeholders\u201d to ensure the policies are implemented. In other  words, the supervisors can pass this, while kicking the can of actual policy-making to offices and committees that haven\u2019t even been created yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some ideas floated include establishing a historically Black college and university (HBCU) satellite school here, creation of Black cultural districts, supporting Black entrepreneurs, or making city-owned properties available for such efforts. Again, the board can, and probably will, merely pass a vote to create this office and these programs, and leave the actual crafting of policies to those bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One building that could become a piece of a reparations package is the Fillmore Heritage Center, which has sat vacant for several years and which is now the subject of an RFP (request for proposals) process<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday’s reparations discussion is separate from the state-level California Reparations Task Force<\/a>, which issued its own recommendations report in June. But the state Assembly is still crafting actual legislation<\/a> based on that report, as NBC News noted last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related:<\/strong> San Francisco Supervisors Discuss Reparations Proposals and That $5M Lump Sum Idea [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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