San Francisco Reparations Committee Member Recommends $500 Million Payment Per Person – By Susannah Luthi (Washington Free Beacon) / Mar 3, 2023
A member of San Francisco’s race reparations task force suggested Friday that the city should pay $500 million per person to black residents, 100 times more than the $5 million figure his committee originally proposed.
“As a member of that advisory committee in San Francisco, people keep asking us, ‘Why $5 million?'” Daniel Landry, the policy subcommittee lead for the city’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee, said at a Friday meeting of the state’s reparations task force.
“Well, why not $500 million?” Landry asked. “Because you can never repay the damage that’s been done to black people in America.”
San Francisco’s reparations committee proposed late last year that the city should pay $5 million in reparations to almost every black resident over 18 who can prove residency. The committee also proposed that the city fund universal debt clearance and free therapy for black residents, as well as 250 years of $97,000 annual payments for low-income black residents.
