San Fran Board apologizes to Black residents for ‘systemic discrimination’ over decades
OAN’s Abril Elfi
5:36 PM – Wednesday, February 28, 2024
San Francisco has officially apologized to its Black residents and their ancestors for years of systematic discrimination.
On Tuesday, the city’s Board of Supervision unanimously voted to apologize to San Francisco’s Black residents and commit to rectifying past policies and wrongdoings.
“The resolution apologizes on behalf of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to African Americans and their descendants for systemic and structural discrimination, targeted acts of violence, and atrocities,” according to San Francisco’s legislation.
Supervisor Shamann Walton expressed gratitude towards the African American Reparations Advisory Committee (AARAC), which provides recommendations for addressing challenges in Black communities, stating “We have much more work to do but this apology most certainly is an important step.”
Supervisor Hillary Ronen acknowledged the widespread protests following George Floyd’s death and the national demand for reform as catalysts for the official apology.
“People in the United States were everywhere all across the country out in the streets and saying enough is enough,” Ronen said. “It was one of the most exciting moments that I’ve ever gotten to live through because it felt like there was a real fundamental change and reckoning happening.”
One of the recent reparations campaigns for Black Americans was approved by a progressive California state reparations task force in May 2023.
Task force chair Kamilah Moore stated that the group recommended granting qualified Californians atonement under the five categories of reparations recognized by international law: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantees of non-repetition.
However, California Governor Gavin Newsom chose not to support the monetary payments suggested by his reparations task committee, which could have amounted to $1.2 million for a single recipient.
“The Reparations Task Force’s independent findings and recommendations are a milestone in our bipartisan effort to advance justice and promote healing. This has been an important process, and we should continue to work as a nation to reconcile our original sin of slavery and understand how that history has shaped our country,” Newsom said in a statement in 2023.
The task force’s work was commended by the Democrat governor, who pledged to “advance systemic changes that ensure an inclusive and equitable future for all Californians.”
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