San Francisco Reparations Committee: $5 Million for Each Black Resident

A San Francisco committee to study the idea of paying reparations for slavery has proposed that each long-term black resident of the city receive $5 million, though California entered the Union as a free state in 1850. The city created a reparations committee in 2020, amid nationwide protests and riots fueled by outrage over the murder of Geoge Floyd in Minneapolis, which in turn triggered a moral panic about “systemic racism.” The State of California also established its own, separate reparations commission, which is due to report later this year...