Reparations: how to apply for yours

per googlebot

1. Baseline Requirements:
Be at least 18 years old.Identify as "Black/African American" on public documents for a minimum of 10 years.
Prove residency in San Francisco by being born in the city or moving to the city prior to 2006.
2. Additional Qualifying Criteria:In addition to the baseline requirements, applicants must demonstrate harm from past city policies or lineage.

Proposed criteria include:
Direct descent from someone enslaved in the U.S. before 1865.Being born in or migrating to San Francisco between 1940 and 1996 and living in the city for at least 13 years.Being displaced (or directly descended from someone displaced) from San Francisco by Urban Renewal between 1954 and 1973.Being incarcerated or a direct descendant of someone incarcerated by the War on Drugs.Having experienced lending discrimination (redlining) in San Francisco.
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if you were descended from someone enslaved in 1865 go pound sand?
Bonanza for ex-drug dealers?

will Chinese people get a piece of the action? Alas only for Black people it seems. That can be fixed!!

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Yes, Chinese individuals were subjected to forced labor, human trafficking, and sexual enslavement in the United States ... The reality of their enslavement and exploitation took several distinct forms

I thought this was about Trump's slush fund.

Should slaves have received reparations in 1865 when freed?

I am of the opinion that they should have. They were unjustly enslaved, and used for forced labor in horrendous conditions. I can't think of somebody who deserves reparations more.

How do you prove who is a descendant of a freed slave in the U.S. in 1865? I do not know. But, ideally in 1865 they would have been well compensated.



Reparations are not inherently bad. For example the Federal Government also issued reparations to survivors and families of U.S. internment camps in WWII (primarily Japanese, but some others as well.) This was far easier because there were detailed logs of which families were rounded up and how long, and many of the people were still alive at the time (early 90s I believe the process started.). But, I don't know a single person who disagreed with these reparations.

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Should slaves have received reparations in 1865 when freed?

40 acres and a mule, buddy!

Quote: odiousgambit

40 acres and a mule, buddy!

I know how that goes. Lots of acres in Death Valley available. Plus you can eat the mule when it dies of heat stroke.

per googlebot, "Virtually 0% of freedmen permanently received "40 acres and a mule," as the federal government overwhelmingly revoked the land titles shortly after issuing them. While roughly 1% of the 4 million freed slaves briefly settled on temporary plots, the policy was rapidly overturned, leaving the vast majority with nothing"

San Fran hopefuls take heart, white people were meaner back then. I have no doubt the San Fran fund has millions and millions of dollars to distribute, even though the googlebot says "philanthropic contributions ... have not been publicly quantified"

Quote: odiousgambit

per googlebot, "Virtually 0% of freedmen permanently received "40 acres and a mule," as the federal government overwhelmingly revoked the land titles shortly after issuing them. While roughly 1% of the 4 million freed slaves briefly settled on temporary plots, the policy was rapidly overturned, leaving the vast majority with nothing"

San Fran hopefuls take heart, white people were meaner back then. I have no doubt the San Fran fund has millions and millions of dollars to distribute, even though the googlebot says "philanthropic contributions ... have not been publicly quantified"

So they were enslaved, freed? Promised reperations, kind of issues such (at least partially,) and had the payment seized within a few months? Reperations for slavery seem pretty justified. 150 years later, how do you prove which heirs from back then deserve what?

Quote: Gandler

So they were enslaved, freed? Promised reperations, kind of issues such (at least partially,) and had the payment seized within a few months? Reperations for slavery seem pretty justified. 150 years later, how do you prove which heirs from back then deserve what?

They could probably do a lot more now with DNA. If Gandler were .01% slave related, you would get whatever that is divided by other costs. Or you could take what's behind door #3.

Also, if your ancestor was only enslaved 1 year, vs someone else 40 years, you should get less.