Source: Fox News
“The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is meeting Tuesday to review a proposal to dole out $5 million each to qualifying [b]lack residents in reparations as a way to make amends for slavery. At the board meeting, the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee will present the controversial idea, along with dozens of other recommendations from its draft reparations plan released in December. The other recommendations range from offering grants to buy and maintain homes to exempting [b]lack businesses from paying taxes. But the $5 million lump-sum payment has garnered the most attention — and controversy. The Board of Supervisors can vote to adopt all, none or some of the committee’s recommendations and even change them. Tuesday’s hearing was originally scheduled for last month but was postponed.” (03/14/23)