From: fedora@fea.st
On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 09:33:18 -0500, Wilson
wrote:
>On 2/6/2026 9:11 PM, Dude wrote:
>> On 2/6/2026 1:46 PM, Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>> "An ordinance creating a reparations fund for Black residents in San
>>> Francisco has finally been signed into law, but the program lacks an
>>> identified source of funding. Mayor Daniel Lurie has stated that no
>>> city funds will be used, (even though he signed the law!) emphasizing
>>> the fund's reliance on private donations...none of which have been
>>> received.
>>>
>> You just can't make this stuff up!
>>
>> San Francisco has formally established a reparations fund for Black
>> residents. Except the City has a $1 billion budget deficit.
>>
>> The ordinance was passed, but no immediate cash payouts for initiatives
>> like $5 million per person!
>>
>> Wait! What?
>
>It's fine! There's no problem! Just create a board of directors and pay
>them a stipend to have a few meetings. There's no need to actually do
>anything.
>
>Progressive government programs are dysfunctional ideas living in a
>fantasy land of virtue so they can say, "We did the thing!"
As it this were a new idea or not equally practiced by r's.
>
>>> In other words, no one who pushed this preposterous idea forward has
>>> pledged a penny toward its practical implementation. I refer
>>> specifically to the philanthropists on The San Francisco Board of
>>> Supervisors: The 11-member star chamber who unanimously approved the
>>> legislation on December 16, 2025. More specifically, I refer to
>>> Supervisors Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar,
>>> Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, and Wong.
>>>
>>> The San Francisco Human Rights Commission is now tasked with
>>> overseeing this fund, which is intended to accept private donations to
>>> support recommendations from the African American Reparations Advisory
>>> Committee. Again - no many has been contributed. Not a penny. But the
>>> city has already spent approximately $217,000 on stipends for the
>>> reparations committee members who developed the proposal.
>>>
>>> If you think the whole thing sounds merely crazy, consider the math.
>>> The major cost component of the proposal is the $5 million payment for
>>> each black citizen who is 18 years or older. The Census Bureau
>>> estimates there are 35,445 individuals who are 18 years or older,
>>> given the age distribution of the African American population.
>>> Eligibility for the $5 million payments is very broad so we can assume
>>> that all African Americans 18 years and older currently living in the
>>> city will be eligible for these payments. Paying $5 million to 35,455
>>> individuals totals about $175 billion. To put this in perspective, the
>>> city’s budget for the current fiscal year is $14 billion, while this
>>> proposed sum exceeds the current state budgets of all US states except
>>> for California, New York, and Texas.
>>>
>>> Again, I’m not sharing this to start a conversation about the wisdom
>>> or the folly of reparations. I’m sharing this to further illustrate
>>> the rank hypocrisy of our elected officials, and their endless desire
>>> to be celebrated by the people who voted them in. Today, those people
>>> are congratulating themselves for establishing a fund that absolutely
>>> no one is funding - including them."
>>>
>>> - Mike Rowe
>>
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