SF Approves Reparations Ordinance, Providing Race-Based Education Benefits
mindingthecampus.orgWould you also accept a city providing benefits to only white residents?
You could provide benefits on a criteria like poverty, which is intrinsically race-blind and agreeable but happens to include a higher ratio of black people. Like you could provide a scholarship based on test scores, which is intrinsically race-blind but happens to include more Asians. But this is objectively racist, and I believe unlikely to benefit even black people in the long run due to the underlying message.
This is the type of thing that sends certain people emotionally of the rails, but I suppose I can't say a city shouldn't do whatever they think is right just because some bad-faith actors will try to use it as a rallying-cry.
California never had slavery. Reparations for what?
To be purposely pedantic, it did. It was however mainly the Spanish mission system[1] who enslaved indigenous people.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Californ...
Before red lining San Francisco's zoning laws restricted what neighborhoods black people (and Asians and Hispanics) were allowed to live.
I never said the word reparations… just that it’s a topic that makes a certain group really emotional