San Francisco is ringing in the New Year by pushing for reparations for the city's black residents, to the tune of $5 million per person.
How will they pay for it? Well, the ordinance creates a fund of both private and public monies to cover the payments. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance into law on December 23. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed the bill in early December.
Supervisor Shamann Walton, who authored the bill, said the ordinance will "provide restitution, compensation, and rehabilitation to individuals who are black and/or descendants of a chattel enslaved person and have experienced a proven harm in San Francisco."
Walton attempted this in 2023, but then-Mayor London Breed rejected that.
According to The New York Post, Lurie also admitted his city is "too broke" to pay it.
"We're not allocating money to this fund," Lurie said. "With a historic $1 billion deficit, we are going to spend our money making the city safer and cleaner."
Andrew Quinio, an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, said the program is unconstitutional because of its racial preferences. "The ordinance has a very explicit racially discriminatory purpose," Quinio said.
In addition to the $5 million payment, the ordinance includes debt forgiveness, 250 years of tax abatement, and income subsidies.
But even that's not enough. The San Francisco African-American Reparations Committee is demanding even more, in addition to the cash payments.
NEW: DEMANDS by the San Francisco African-American Reparations Committee, beyond cash payouts.
— Richie Greenberg (@greenbergnation) January 2, 2026
The reparations committee also created a 100+ point plan which includes: pic.twitter.com/5nisXP5mNS
Some of those demands include the committee being "independent of the government of San Francisco," "exclusively Black credit scores," Black banks, a Black land and building acquisition trust, city-paid Black condo fees, and Black-run community centers.
It also wants Blacks to be prioritized for homes that have been vacant for more than three months, a repeal of CA Article 34 (voter approval for public housing), as well as funding for Black churches and the creation of "Black campuses," including business hubs and manufacturing.
The plan also alleges "genetic trauma" and "current policy of white supremacy" in San Francisco, as well as "stress and anxiety" caused by "financial insecurity."
The total plan includes more than 100 points.
"This is the woke mind virus in its most aggressive form," wrote Governor Ron DeSantis
This is the woke mind virus in its most aggressive form… https://t.co/wMgwzEhlFX
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) January 2, 2026
Jesse Franklin-Murdock, an attorney, describes the demands as "apartheid."
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, which some now say is "moderate," voted unanimously to endorse this Committee's recommendation of $5 million reparations for every black person, apparently along with the apartheid regime described below. https://t.co/je6ZCGOXoF
— Jesse Franklin-Murdock (@MurdockJDF) January 3, 2026
"San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, which some now say is "moderate," voted unanimously to endorse this Committee's recommendation of $5 million reparations for every black person, apparently along with the apartheid regime described below," Franklin-Murdock wrote.
Another social media user pointed out that this is why you never give the Left an inch.
"This is why you never give Marxists any concessions. There is no appeasement. Anything you give is assumed as stolen to begin with," he wrote. "Marxists are automata with your subservience in death as their primary goal."
This is why you never give Marxists any concessions. There is no appeasement. Anything you give is assumed as stolen to begin with.
— Bitcoin Anon (@14g23h34) January 3, 2026
Marxists are automata with your subservience in death as their primary goal. https://t.co/QDNN492LAR
It's never enough, and the Left will keep demanding more and more.
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