Payments of $US5 million ($7.4 million) to every eligible Black adult, the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens, guaranteed annual incomes of at least $US97,000 ($145,000) for 250 years and homes in San Francisco for just $US1 ($1.50) a family.These are just some of the recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with a thorny question: what would it take to atone for the centuries of US slavery and generations of systemic racism that continue to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless populations?A first hearing underway before the city’s Board of Supervisors today could offer a glimpse of the board’s appetite for advancing a reparations plan that would be unmatched nationwide in specificity and breadth.
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