The reparations are meant to \u201cprovide restitution, compensation, and rehabilitation to individuals
who are Black and\/or descendants of a chattel enslaved person and have experienced a proven harm in
San Francisco,\u201d according to the bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is horrendously unlawful. The ordinance has a very explicit racially discriminatory purpose,\u201d said Andrew Quinio, attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation.<\/p>\n
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Sheryl Evans Davis speaks at a podium during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing about reparations. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ordinance has a very explicit racially discriminatory purpose,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Quinio said under laws like the 14th Amendment of the Constitution and California\u2019s Prop. 209, governments can\u2019t discriminate on the basis of race or other protected characteristics \u2014 even if private funds are used. <\/p>\n
The reparations fund would be run by San Francisco\u2019s Human Rights Commission, which fell into scandal last year after a top official was accused of skimming funds from a similar initiative\u00a0to pay for\u00a0a spa retreat, parties, her podcast \u2014 and even her son\u2019s UCLA tuition.<\/p>\n
A reparations panel in 2023 issued a report making dozens of recommendations, ranging from $5 million cash payouts and affordable housing to income subsidies and tax abatements for 250 years. <\/p>\n
That report will be \u201ccentral\u201d to the reparations fund, according to a Human Rights Commission spokesperson. <\/p>\n
Local conservative activist Richie Greenberg blasted the reparations plan as the product of \u201cshoddy research.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a result, they rubber-stamped a horrendous, unworkable and unlawful mess,\u201d he raged.<\/p>\n
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Supervisor Shamann Walton speaks at a reparations rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco. AP<\/p>\n
Advocates argue the city\u2019s history of redlining and razing homes owned by black families during redevelopment decades ago have caused long-term damage to the community, which has shrunk considerably to some 5% of the city population. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not the end-all, be-all of what we have to do in San Francisco,\u201d said Supervisor Shamann Walton, who wrote the reparations bill, at a Dec.1. committee meeting. <\/p>\n
Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s office did not respond to The Post about whether he plans to sign the bill.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t San Francisco\u2019s first foray into reparations. <\/p>\n
In 2023, Walton asked for $50 million from the city\u2019s shrinking budget to create an Office of Reparations \u2014 but was rebuffed by former mayor London Breed. <\/p>\n
Breed instead pushed resources to the Dream Keeper Initiative, an ill-fated, $120 million program to support the city\u2019s black community, which has struggled with high rates of homelessness, drug abuse, and poverty.<\/p>\n
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The program was tainted by scandal and accusations of self-dealing after its head, former Human Rights Commission Director Sheryl Davis, allegedly steered city funds to her roommate\u2019s nonprofit and used government funds for personal expenses, including her son\u2019s tuition.<\/p>\n
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