黑人代表都表示不支持。這是表面功夫。 他們要的是
investing in housing, education, healthcare, economic empowerment and cultural centers for San Francisco's dwindling Black community. "This Black community does not need to be set up for trickery and for failure. Their hopes should not be raised up by just words, words, words," Rev. Amos Brown told NPR a day after the meeting.
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How can California provide reparations? A new report suggests several ways In addition to being a lead pastor at Third Baptist San Francisco, the city's oldest Black church, Brown is president of the San Francisco NAACP. He said he's "been in the civil rights struggle for 68 years" and learned from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Frustrated and fuming, Brown noted that he had urged the board to reject the $5 million payment proposal ahead of the meeting. To be clear, Brown said he expects monetary restitution to be part of any reparations package by the city, the state and the federal government. But first, he said, officials must focus on the future and the best path forward toward equality and justice. For Brown, that means investing in housing, education, healthcare, economic empowerment and cultural centers for San Francisco's dwindling Black community.
At its peak in the 1970s, African Americans made up about 13.5% of the city's population. As of 2022, the number dropped to 5.7%. That makes it one of the biggest cities in the nation with one of the lowest shares of black residents. "There should be deliberate action to stop the hemorrhaging of this black population if we want to have any Black people left to give reparations to," Brown said. Brown also noted the city's budget deficit. "They know there's no money to pay for it," Brown said. "So all they did was just give lip service. It's not fair. It's not honest."