Boebert claims California ‘never had slavery’ in attack on San Francisco’s $5 million reparations
Lauren Boebert claims California ‘never had slavery’ in attack on San Francisco’s plan to give $5 million in reparations to every black resident, claims it will make ‘racial divide’ worse
- While the Golden State was admitted to the union as a free state, of course there were enslaved people brought there before and after it became a state.
- A city-appointed reparations committee recently put forward a series of noble proposals on how to atone for the past enslavement of African-Americans.
- Payments of $5 million to every eligible black adult, elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual income were some of them.
Rep. Lauren Boebert stormed into San Francisco’s proposal to award some $5 million in reparations to black residents, arguing that California never had slavery.
While the Golden State was admitted to the union as a free state, of course there were enslaved people brought there both before and after it became a state.
“The fact that supposedly serious people in San Francisco are considering a plan that would give $5,000,000 in reparations to every Black resident in their city in a state that never had slavery is a joke,” Boebert wrote on Twitter.
Rep. Lauren Boebert stormed into San Francisco’s proposal to give some $5 million in reparations to black residents, arguing that California never had slavery.
‘If they want to make the racial divide in this country worse than ever, they will certainly achieve that goal!’
A city-appointed reparations committee recently put forward a series of noble proposals on how to atone for the past slavery of African-Americans: $5 million payments to every eligible black adult, elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual income from at least $97,000 for 250 years and houses in San Francisco for just $1 per family were among them.
Critics have blasted the plan as financially and politically impossible. An estimate by the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution of Stanford University has said that it would cost each non-black family in the city at least $600,000 to provide $5 million in repairs.
Reparations are being considered in several Democratic cities across the United States as a means to compensate the descendants of enslaved African-Americans.
Many say they are owed not just for the time their ancestors were enslaved, but for generations after, because African-Americans have been incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates than white Americans.
The proposals presented in San Francisco last night are among some of the most generous heard to date.
Sergeant Yulanda Williams, president of the Officials for Justice police association, told the board: ‘My dad always taught me never to beg. And I’m not begging you today. It’s time for you to do the right thing and provide us with amends: make us whole’
The Board of Supervisors that heard the suggestions last night may vote to adopt some or all of the recommendations.
Of the 11 people on the board, one, Board Chairman Shamann Walton, is African American.
The board won’t decide whether or not to adopt the recommendations until later this year, after the committee that drafted the plan has submitted a final report.
Another meeting is scheduled for September.
The board, however, signaled its enthusiasm for the plan last night.
“If you look at the (draft) report, you’ll see a lot of examples of how black people were wronged here in San Francisco, and all of that really goes back to the negative effects of slavery,” Walton said last. evening.