That reparations suggestion

That leaves plenty of room to negotiate downwards and still leave with a good deal. Can’t fault the tactics.

*Charlton Heston cry-laughing at the Statue of Liberty*

Btw, anybody know why Americans stopped worshipping God, and started worshipping black people instead?

At least we in Britain worship a higher power (the NHS)

Thank heavens for a notional Republican Congress otherwise a multi-trillion dollar bill would be railroaded through (if you want to know what’s in the bill you have to pass the bill) with the funds used to bail-out state and city except this time would make the previous union handouts look like chicken feed.

Despite living here, I’m with Grikath.
If that’s what they want, let ’em have it good and hard.
With the exception that it must be a state by state thing, not a federal thing. Then I’d have a chance to put my few groats somewhere where they could survive and keep me alive.

Will applicants be given DNA tests (i) to rule out make-believe blacks, and (ii) to base the reparations on their %age black descent?

What if you identify as black?

If you’re going to San Francisco

Be sure to wear some cornrows in your hair

If you’re going to San Francisco

You’re gonna meet some dusky people there

The phrase i heard was:
Paid by people who never owned slaves, to people who never were slaves.

“Drug Barons will do very well out of this.”

Precisely as Messrs. Cloward and Piven intended.

People who’ve never owned slaves are expected to pay big time to people who’ve never been slaves.

They’ve probably missed their shot for a money grab. Last year was the time to do it before the market declined, downtown SF emptied out, and California tax receipts plummeted. . This is a bit of Hail Mary, though when it fails I expect we’ll hear griping for years about how they were cheated out of their $5 million.

Sam Vara – genuinely LOLed at that

PJF – Austin is the Brighton of Texas, but yeah.

The AP article, BTW, is absolutely mental and is like reading something from the Soviet Union, or an old friend who went insane during Lockdown.

Today, fewer than 6% of San Francisco residents are Black yet they make up nearly 40% of the city’s homeless population.

This is a damning statistic, but not for the reason the AP thinks.

Recommendations in education include establishing an Afrocentric K-12 school in San Francisco

First period is breakdancing on a cardboard box, followed by rapping and then Double Black Panther.

calculations for five harms experienced by Black people, including government taking of property, housing discrimination and homelessness and mass incarceration.

Black people should be paid money by white people to compensate for black people committing crimes.

HOW WILL SAN FRANCISCO PAY FOR THIS?

It’s not clear. The advisory committee that made the recommendations says it is not its job to figure out how to finance San Francisco’s atonement and repair.

SIR, THAT’S NOT MY JOB.

Truly, America is blessed to host such productive and grateful citizens.

Canada, New Zealand and Australia are going down the same route with adoption of UNDRIP
Canada in particular has already agreed to spend billions on direct cash compensation, though at least that’s for relatively recent issues.
Wonder if this will end up like a class action lawsuit where the only people who really get rich are the lawyers and others paid to administer it

I’m guessing 5 actual payouts, for the optics. Then “reinvestment in the community” for the rest of the budget.

@MC

We’ve paid reparations possibly a few times over at this point. Keep in mind, the vast majority of ancestors of today’s Americans weren’t even in the country during either slavery or Jim Crow in the South. My great-grandparents were in the Russian Empire until 1913, and they settled in New York City. I’m sure they didn’t have the same progressive attitudes people have today, but they were too worried about their own shit as poor immigrants who didn’t speak the language, to have any issues with African-Americans. Mass immigration began in the 1870s, and we’ve had exponentially more of it annually since then. We’ve had more people being born and living in the U.S. in the past 20 years, than we ever had during or before Jim Crow or slavery.

Most of the Afro-Caribbean people in America today are from more recent immigrants, and also have little to no connection with slavery, unless you’re talking about Columbus or some other individual from before the colonial era. In fact, most of these people in the U.S. today are coming from persecution in their own native countries, like Somalia or Haiti.

And to add another layer of confusion, many Afro-Caribbean Americans are not 100% African descent. Over the past couple hundred years, there has been mixing with everyone from white people (even slave owners slept with slaves) to Native Americans, to Asians and Latinos. It was recently reported that one of the most militant members of the “black power” and Communist movements in the 1970s, Angela Davis, is a descendant of some people who came to America on the Mayflower in 1620. By her own logic, she is more responsible for colonialism, racism and slavery than I am. We should expect her to pay for reparations before anyone remotely related to me.

There’s simply no reason to be dwelling on reparations now. Crime reduction, economic liberation and cultural reforms in still-struggling communities, sure, but not reparations.

Don’t forget to also create safe city’s where only POC are allowed to live to prevent toxic white privilege from bringing disharmony to the communities.

Once we’ve created these new safe spaces populated by the newly enriched previously marginalised, we could set up cameras around the city to broadcast 24 hours a day (like The Truman Show) to see the rebirth of these cocs (communities of colour).

If this gets passed, I’m going to relocate to San Francisco and start a dealership selling Mercs and tacky jewellery…

Sorry, living black within the US. Africa, a rather different story.

Re. Mark, Candace Owens, Larry Elder for a start.

“Fewer than 6% of the population is black”. Say half of those can claim descent from American slaves. Population is 815,000. So 3% is 25,000 roughly, times 5 million is 125 billion. Add another 2 million each to fund a 97,000 p/a annuity, and I get to 175 billion. Current SF city budget is 14 billion. This is performance art, not politics.

And suddenly all the oligarchs in the USA will find they have *some* black slave blood in their ancestry and so should be excused any taxes for reparations.

Since the human race was supposed to have originated in Africa, surely every man, woman and child, black, white, pink, brown, yellow, green and purple is owed reparations.

I suppose the little blue men will pay them.