San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has signed an ordinance establishing a legal framework for a “Reparations Fund” to address historic discrimination and displacement affecting Black residents.
The plan could eventually allow payments of up to $5 million per eligible resident, but the measure does not allocate city funds or guarantee payments.
Lurie says no taxpayer money will go into the fund due to the city’s $1 billion budget deficit, and that it may instead rely on private donations and foundations.
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I need to know if illegal immigrants to the United States will be required to share the reparations payment burden. My family came here from Russia in 1892. We were not at all involved in the slave trade. If Senor Illegalo Immigrante will be excused from paying reparations, then I must be excused also.
I have no Black African ancestors. Suppose I cannot afford to pay my share of the horrific damages and indignities imposed on the Black victims of the slave trade. Will I be given the choice of working as a slave (indentured servant) to Black people to pay off my share of the reparations bill? I can sweep floors, do dishes, cook, sew, do minor repairs, and yes, I do windows. I can also provide tutoring in various subjects from the elementary school level through the graduate school level.
Approximately 50% of the ancestors of Barack Hussein Obama were Black Africans. If he would choose to “work off his reparations debt,” which half of his body would be indentured? Top half? Bottom half? Left half? Right half? Perhaps half of his body could be indentured to the other half. Perhaps he already wears dentures.
Before we leave this topic, I expect to assert my claim for financial reparations to compensate me for the hundreds of years my family suffered horrific damages and indignities at the hands of the Egyptians about 3200 years ago. If some will argue that I owe reparations to contemporary Black citizens of the United States, then certainly the contemporary Black citizens of the United States owe reparations to me, a Jew whose ancestors were enslaved by residents of the African continent. Any argument they use against me I can and will use against them.
By the way, EACH DOLLAR awarded to me for my ancestors’ work building pyramids and store cities such as Pithom and Raamses with 4% compound interest accruing across 3200 years would be worth about 5×10^55 dollars. How much money is that? Consider that the value of all liquid assets + real estate + everything else in the world today is estimated to be only about 5 x 10^14 dollars.