The moral grandstanding behind San Francisco's reparations plan
Reaction13:00 by Joel Kotkin From a California Reparations Task Force meeting in September. Credit: Getty San Francisco, long a bastion of extremis...
Reaction13:00 by Joel Kotkin From a California Reparations Task Force meeting in September. Credit: Getty San Francisco, long a bastion of extremist progressivism, is currently outdoing itself. The city's reparations committee has just adopted a proposal to give $5 million — and grant debt forgiveness — to all long-time black residents who can prove descent from slaves. It is a gesture, and one that is unlikely to be adopted at a time when the state is under severe fiscal stress. The city isn't in much better shape either; San Francisco now stands as among the least recovered of America's core cities after the pandemic.