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There are about 4.7 million people in San Francisco, 5.5% of whom are black (about 258,500 people). To pay out $5 million to each black resident would cost about $1.3 trillion (A cost of $275,000 per resident, or about 3x the average San Franciscan's annual revenue of $96,677). I'm sure San Franciscans would happily give up three year's salary in the interest of equity.
I'm not for reparations, but you have to be some kind of stupid to believe there are 4.7 million people, and 258,500 black people, in SF. Geez.
I'm not for reparations, but you have to be some kind of stupid to believe there are 4.7 million people, and 258,500 black people, in SF. Geez.
Sorry, bing kicked out the metro population, not the city population. Population of San Francisco is 815,201 and is 7% black (approximately 57,000 residents). For $5 million per black resident, the tab would come to $285 billion. They have a $13-$14 billion annual budget. So in order to achieve this pie in the sky equity agenda, they would require more than 20x their annual budget.
I'm not for reparations, but you have to be some kind of stupid to believe there are 4.7 million people, and 258,500 black people, in SF. Geez.
Sorry, bing kicked out the metro population, not the city population. Population of San Francisco is 815,201 and is 7% black (approximately 57,000 residents). For $5 million per black resident, the tab would come to $285 billion. They have a $13-$14 billion annual budget. So in order to achieve this pie in the sky equity agenda, they would require more than 20x their annual budget.
This highlights the point that everyone who always rips on California cities actually know nothing about them. A basic level of familiarity would’ve caused realization that your first figures were not just the city population.
“I didn’t recognize that I got a wrong answer when I searched Bing for the population of the city I was trying to rip” is not the strong argument it sounds like.
as someone who lives nearby, this will never happen. Most people who live in SF see the “reparations committee” as a farce so Belize so many other ideas, lots of noise will be made and then nothing. Maybe an extremely stripped down pilot project of like $10k to 50 families or something.
Blacks don't deserve any more reparations, they've already been paid for through welfare programs. The idea of reparations is only something that greedy, race-baiting grifters and self-righteous white liberals mentally masturbate to - it will never come to fruition in any meaningful way, nor would it move the needle long-term as far as social mobility goes.
This topic is inflammatory. Please do not post anything racist. To cut down on the number of posts we have to delete, we are making this a "you must be registered to post" thread. Also please keep posts on topic. This is a thread about potential reprations in San Franciso. This isn't a thread about Frankism.