The San Francisco chapter of the NAACP is calling on the city’s board of supervisors to adopt the recommendations of the city’s Reparations Advisory Committee.
Among the recommendations is a $5 million lump sum payment to any eligible Black resident of the city.
The committee has been working on its recommendations since June 2021 and the latest draft report is 60 pages and includes a history of Black people in the U.S. and California. It also outlines a legacy of mistreatment over the last two centuries starting with enslavement,and continuing with modern day institutional racism, like redlining and the targeting of Black people by police.
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