Posted on 12/16/2023 8:53:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
San Francisco’s first-ever Office of Reparations is among the programs gutted by Mayor London Breed’s budget cuts.
Funding for the office, which was set to launch this year, was erased as part of Breed’s $75 million cuts to the The City budget in preparation for a major deficit in 2024.
Though it’s just one of several planned programs that will no longer be funded, the Office of Reparations is noteworthy because its establishment came after a widely followed, yearslong process that ended in accepting a reparations plan.
The decision to pull back funding comes after Supervisor Shamann Walton fought to secure money in the budget for the office earlier this year.
Though he called the cuts “disheartening” in a statement to The Examiner, Walton didn’t dispute the mayor’s logic behind the reductions as The City faces a prolonged economic reckoning.
“I understand the importance of no cuts to existing programs, but the Black community will continue to pursue justice and equity through reparations here in San Francisco,” Walton said. “My hope is that the city’s deficit is eliminated quickly so that we can fund the Office of Reparations and fulfill the commitment made to address the historical injustices and inequities that have persisted for generations for Black San Franciscans.”
Sheryl Davis, executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, told The Examiner that despite the cuts to the office of reparations, The City continues to work on several of the reparations plan’s recommendations.
Those efforts include locating a satellite campus of one of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities in San Francisco and collaborating with The City’s economic development staffers to utilize vacant storefronts.
“A lot of the work, it’ll be tight but we’ll leverage some of the funding we had in our budget,” Davis said.
The Office of Reparations was viewed as a key step in implementing the reparations plan, which was drafted by the African American Reparations Advisory Committee and accepted by the Board of Supervisors earlier this year. The $2 million would be used to hire staff who would begin to form and fund programs enumerated in the plan.
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Maybe they should start with baby steps, like cleaning the poop off the sidewalks.
Guess they weren’t too serious about reparations, lol.
Lol.
Shouldn’t this be the no.1 priority for the city?
Oh no...
The short-lived Office of Reparations accomplished its goal — rile up the natives.
As if they were really going to have the money anyway, unless they hit up the feds (i.e., taxpayers outside of San Francisco) for it.
It’s a shame! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRQQudHLi0A
“on hold”, does that mean until after the next election?
Why do I get the feeling that Gavin is NOT spending a lot of time in California these days.
I never know where is and I doubt that the MEDIA know where he is.
He is just wandering around the country, looking and praying for reporters to see him so they can get a good BUMPER STICKER words of wisdom.
What Motel is he sleeping in tonight?
It is a gas-tight certainty that reparations will be paid by productive people - no one else can create the wealth.
The only things to be determined is exactly how and when the monies will be transferred. And how much money can be transferred before the whole thing collapses.
What happened to priorities and hierarchies?
Also, yayyyyyyyyyy.🤸♂️🤸♂️
Yes, they probably found reparations are as popular with voters as high costs due to inflation, illegals using homeowners’ front lawns as bathrooms and infected ingrown toenails.
Wait until the election is over.
He's soft-campaigning, biding his time waiting for Trump to be the official GOP nominee and then the Democrats are going to pull a switcheroo and slide Newsom right in.
He doesn't even need to win a single primary. The Dems will put him over the top at their 2024 Convention just like they did with Hubert Humphrey in '68.
Can they do that???
i called this when it was first proposed , floated.
they would promise
then renig
just to agravate racial tension and divison.
its what progs do
incite.
divide
conquer..
San Francisco up in flames film at 11:00.
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