Oakland, California is falling apart. The city has a high crime rate and parts of town look like something out of a Mad Max movie, but they are forming a slavery reparations committee.
There was never slavery in California, but that’s not the most ridiculous aspect of the story. The craziest thing is that the committee wants $5 million in taxpayer funds just to create a compensation plan.
Where do they think the money is coming from? The city is losing profitable businesses left and right as total lawlessness becomes the new normal.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Auckland reparations board wants $5m from taxpayers – just to develop a plan
A commission appointed to devise racist reparations for black residents in California’s Bay Area needs two years and $5 million to write a plan.
Alameda County’s largest city is Oakland, and the county’s reparations panel made the request late last month, ahead of a looming July deadline to outline local tax payments, according to the San Francisco NPR affiliate. How one should make amends. The committee was established in March 2023 with a budget of $51,000 and did not meet until last November.
The committee is chaired by Debra Gore-Mann, president of the Greenlines Institute, a left-wing Oakland group that lobbies the California Legislature to subsidize utilities and low-carbon energy, and promote “racial consciousness” and “racial awareness.”
Months ago, California’s most ambitious reparations plan collapsed and went up in flames amid state and local budget woes.
this is the truth. There is no money for this.
Oakland reparations commission wants $5 million from taxpayers — just to come up with a plan: A California Bay Area commission appointed to design racist reparations for black residents needs two years and $5 million to come up with a plan.
Compensation… https://t.co/Fhhuix1tTD pic.twitter.com/Kd9HUfEuy2
— Binturong (@NWMNBint) June 14, 2024
You can’t hand out millions of dollars to residents when you can’t even stop businesses from fleeing the city.
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