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A former Black Lives Matter activist has blasted San Francisco’s
“unrealistic” reparations plan, saying it’s a way to “gaslight” black
Americans — and accused lawmakers of being “more focused on slavery” than
the homelessness plaguing the city.
Xaviaer DuRousseau, a one-time BLM supporter who now works for PragerU, an advocacy group that creates videos that promote conservative ideas, said Tuesday that the costly handouts perpetuate “fraudulent narratives
surrounding systemic racism.”
“This is 111 ways to gaslight black Americans into thinking that we need
to be dependent on a system of handouts in order to be successful,” said DuRousseau, who is black, in an appearance on Fox News‘ “The Ingraham
Angle.”
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday wholeheartedly embraced
111 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee,
including lump-sum payments of $5 million to every eligible black citizen, guaranteed incomes of $97,000 per year for 250 years, elimination of
personal debt and tax burdens, and homes for just $1.
The sweeping proposal, which was put forward without a cost analysis, is
aimed at redressing centuries of slavery and systemic racism, which
supporters of the plan say have deprived generations of black citizens of opportunities in most spheres of life.
One estimate figured the reparations scheme could cost the city, which has
a 2022-2023 budget of just $14 billion, approximately $50 billion.
According to a calculation from Stanford University’s conservative-leaning Hoover Institution, that would require each non-black family in the city
to pony up at least $600,000 to make the reparations a reality.
“It is so unrealistic to think that the average family in San Francisco is going to be able to pay $600,000 extra apiece,” DuRousseau told Ingraham.
DuRousseau suggested that what the reparations committee is proposing was “never actually going to happen,” because San Francisco is already facing
a major deficit and does not have the necessary funds to give out billions
of dollars.
But beyond the issue of the plan’s economic feasibility, DuRousseau bashed
San Francisco’s liberal politicians for being more concerned with historic injustices than with a present-day crisis unfolding in their city.
“It’s disgusting to me that we are more focused on slavery, which ended in 1865, than we’re focused on veterans who are on the streets of San
Francisco, homeless and begging for spare change in 2023,” he said.
“That’s where they need to start sending their money.”
The Board of Supervisors will not make any decisions regarding reparations until it releases its final report in June. The board can then vote to
change, adopt or reject any or all the 111 recommendations.
The exact number of black San Franciscans who would qualify for the
reparations is not yet known.
In San Francisco, black residents account for less than 6% of the city’s population — that’s fewer than 50,000 people.
To be eligible, applicants must be at least 18 and have identified as
black on public documents for at least a decade.
They must also prove that they meet two out of eight additional standards
— including being born in or having migrated to San Francisco between 1940
and 1996, and having proof of residency for at least 13 years, being
personally or a direct descendant of someone jailed in the “failed War on Drugs,” or being a descendant of someone enslaved before 1865.
John Dennis, chair of the San Francisco Republican Party, said the
conversation surrounding reparations is “unserious.”
“They just threw a number up, there’s no analysis,” he said. “It seems ridiculous, and it also seems that this is the one city where it could
possibly pass.”
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