A city official from San Francisco
, California, said the draft plan for black residents to receive $5 million in reparations is not enough for proper compensation.
Supervisor Shamann Walton told National Review Tuesday the 5 million number, which the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee said would remedy previous discrimination against black city residents, is “much less than a lot of the projections that people say black people should receive for reparations here in the United States.”
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“You can Google a lot of the reparations work that has been done and look at the monetary formulas that people have put together, and most certainly, the 5 million is a very minuscule number compared to a lot of research that has been done over the past couple of decades, quite frankly,” Walton said to the outlet.
Walton, who introduced the resolution to explore reparations in February 2020, defended the potential payments, saying that past discrimination by the city and state has put black families at a disadvantage.
“In San Francisco, black families were not allowed to be taught, but we still had to pay taxes for the education of white children. I would say that black neighborhoods and communities were created here in San Francisco without the benefit of representation. I would say that there were racial restrictions indoctrinated in city policy that said black people couldn’t buy or lease property,” Walton said.
California was not a slave state when slavery was legal in the United States before the ratification of the 13th Amendment.
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Critics have railed against San Francisco’s proposed reparations. Talk show host and former California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder called the proposal “the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to people who were never slaves” during an appearance on Fox News.
The committee proposing reparations has said eligible people would have to be black adults who follow certain criteria. Requirements include having been born in or migrated to the city between 1940 and 1996, proof of residency for 13 years, and being a descendant of a slave in the U.S. before 1865.
